[47] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 184.
[48] Ashley’s Life of Lord Palmerston, Vol. II., p. 160.
[49] The surrender of Lombardy and the Duchies to Sardinia was one.
[50] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., pp. 200, 201.
[51] Ashley’s Life of Lord Palmerston, Vol. II.
[52] The Queen apparently did not know that, owing to the use which Napoleon had made of Palmerston’s indiscreet approval of Persigny’s proposals, the Emperor of Austria was under the impression that we had been willing to act as extortioners. On the 12th of July, a day before the Queen wrote her letter to Lord John Russell, the Austrian Emperor wrote to Napoleon III., thanking him for informing him that England supported Persigny’s terms. Lord John Russell, in a despatch (July 27), found it necessary to undeceive the Austrian Government on this point.
[53] It was raised from 5d. to 9d.
[54] Palmerston contended in the end of August that these plans came within the decision of the Cabinet not to meddle with the Italian question till after the Treaty of Zurich had been signed. The Queen held that they did not, and on a Cabinet meeting being hastily summoned to settle the point, the decision went for the view of the Queen.
[55] Greville Memoirs, Third Part, Vol. II., p. 270.
[56] Ashley’s Life of Palmerston, Vol. II., p. 174.