[102] Louis Philippe, it must be stated in justice to Napoleon III., also claimed for the Latin Church the right of repairing the dome of the Holy Sepulchre in the Latin instead of the Byzantine form, a claim which was indescribably offensive to the Greek priests.—North British Quarterly Review, February, 1851.
[103] Dip. Stud. Crimean War, Vol. I., p. 134.
[104] Spencer Walpole’s History of England, Vol. V., p. 79.
[105] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. XI.
[106] Russian Ambassador in London.
[107] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. I., pp. 402, 403.
[108] Mr. Disraeli’s Speech at Manchester, April 3, 1872.
[109] See Count Nesselrode’s Memorandum embodying the views which, according to the Czar, were agreed on in the conversations he held with the Tory Ministers in 1844.—Eastern Papers, 1854, Part VI. This document, probably the one referred to by Lord Malmesbury, was transmitted to England on the Czar’s return to St. Petersburg, and deposited unchallenged in the secret archives of the Foreign Office.
[110] Eastern Papers, 1852, Part VI. pp. 10, 11.
[111] Afterwards Lord Strathnairn.