Lord Melbourne also sends a letter which he has received from Lord Lansdowne.
Lord Melbourne would beg your Majesty to return them both.
Footnote 34: Prince Metternich.
Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria.
Downing Street, 1st October 1840.
Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty. We have had the Cabinet and it has passed over quietly. We have agreed to make a proposition to France founded upon the communication of Prince Metternich to the King of the Belgians.35 Palmerston will propose to-morrow to Neumann,36 the Prussian Minister, and Brunnow,37 that he should write to Granville, authorising him to acquaint Thiers that if France will concur in respecting the principle of the treaty, we, without expecting her to adopt coercive measures, will concert with her the further course to be adopted for the purpose of carrying the principle into effect. This is so far so good. Lord Melbourne trusts that it will get over the present entanglement, but of course we must expect that in a matter so complicated and which we have not the power of immediately terminating, further difficulties will arise.
Footnote 35: See p. [231.]
Footnote 36: Austrian Minister.
Footnote 37: Russian Minister.