[112] The Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem by the Year of 1798 under the Revealed Prince and Prophet (Lond. 1794). A letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott with an Address to the Members of His Britannic Majesty's Council (Lond. 1798). The Curious Trial of Mr. Brothers ... on a Statute of Lunacy (Lond. 1795).
[113] Mr. Halhed's Speech in the House of Commons ... on Monday, May the 4th, 1795 (Lond. 1795).
[114] Law Reports: 4 De Gex & Smale, 467.
[115] For details see infra, pp. 104-106.
[116] Finn: op. cit., i. 106. The passage is worth quoting: "In 1839, Lord Palmerston's direction to his first Consul in Jerusalem was 'to afford protection to the Jews generally.' The words were simply those, broad and general, as under the circumstances they ought to be, leaving after events to work out their own modifications. The instruction, however, seemed to bear on its face a recognition that the Jews are a nation by themselves and that contingencies might possibly arise in which their relations to Mohammedans should become difficult, though it was impossible to foresee the shape that future transactions might assume upon the impending expulsion of the Egyptians from Syria."
[117] See text of Firman in Loewe: Diaries of Sir M. Montefiore, i. 278-279.
[118] Infra, pp. 119-124.
[119] Memoir of Laurence Oliphant, ii. 179. As late as January 1888 Mr. Oscar Straus, the United States Minister in Constantinople and himself a Jew, assured the Grand Vizier, with regard to the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine, "that no such purpose actuated the Jews throughout the world" (Foreign Relations of U.S., 1888, p. 1559).
[120] Anabaptisticum et Enthusiasticum Pantheon (1702), Novus in Belgio Judaeorum Rex, p. 25.
[121] Graetz: Geschichte, x. 207.