Perhaps Lord Palmerston will discuss this suggestion with his colleagues to-night.
Viscount Palmerston to Queen Victoria.
Piccadilly, 27th February 1856.
Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and begs to state that as the result of the deliberations of the Cabinet this evening, the accompanying telegraphic message is proposed to be sent to-morrow morning to Lord Clarendon. It is founded upon the substance of your Majesty's memorandum of this afternoon. Viscount Palmerston has taken another copy of this draft.
Telegram to the Earl of Clarendon.
28th February 1856.
[Enclosure.]
Your letter has been considered by the Cabinet.
Russia should be told that she cannot recede from the conditions which she deliberately agreed to by a pur et simple acceptance at Petersburg, which she afterwards formally recorded in a protocol at Vienna, and which she has within a few days solemnly converted into preliminaries of peace.