[50] Mémoires d'Odilon Barrot, iv. 56, 57.
[51] See Lord Palmerston's statements on this subject in Ashley's Life of Palmerston, ii. 200-211. Tocqueville, however, utterly denies that the majority of the Assembly had any sympathy with these views (Tocqueville's Memoirs (Eng. trans.), ii. 177). Maupas, in his Mémoires, gives a very detailed account of the conspiracy on the Bonapartist side. It appears that the 'homme de confiance' of Changarnier was in his pay.
[52] Tocqueville's Memoirs, ii.
[53] Ashley's Life of Palmerston, ii. 208.
[54] Newman.
[55] See Ollivier, L'Empire Libéral, i. 510-512.
[56] Second Report of the Select Committee on British South Africa (July, 1897).
[57] Parliamentary Debates, July 26, 1897, 1169, 1170.