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London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

No. 16,967. LONDON, THURSDAY E I N G

BROCKEDON'S PATENT PURE PLUM-
BAGO for ARTISTS, and ENGINEERS' BLACK LEAD
PE N CILS.

The perfection to which this article is now brought, in Colour, firm-
ness, entire Purity from Grit, and ready Erasure, is fully shown in the
accompanying Testimonials from Painters and Engravers, Archi-
tects, Engineers, and other Draughtsmen, who are at once the most
competent judges, and men of the greatest eminence in their several
professions. Nothiug is required to be added to this mass of evi-
denee, but to point out to rencil Manufacturers the peculiar advan-
tages presented by the form of the blocks of this Patent Plumbago,
fer ready application and the avoidance of waste.

Each of the blocks weighs about seven ounces, and they are to be
used by the pencil-makers for such different qualities of pencils as
are known by the centre letters stamped on the blocks. These
blocks being already tempered for such degrees of hardness and
colour as the letters indicate, cannot be made harder, or treated in
any way to make them harder, without injury to their quality. The
blocks are thus ready for immediate ass, of all degrees of colour and
hardness, and possess great advantages, in the uniform quality in
the letter, and in the size of the block, which, being two inches and a
quarter square, and about one inch thick, enables the maker to have
bat one joint in each pencil.

TESTIMONIALS.
From C. L. Eastlake, Esq., ILA., Secretary of the Fine Arts
Commission, &.c.
7, Fitzroy-square, December 4, 1845.
My dear Brockodon,--I have tried all the pencils which you have
sent me. I think I may safely say that I have never used any that
work so well. Though perfectly free from grit, the substance is
compact, and the varieties of hardness and tint are as abundan• as
any artist can wish. A perfect lead pencil may be said to be at las'
produced.

I am, dear Brockedon, very faithfully yours,
W. Brockedon, Esq. C. L. EASTLAKE.
From Copley Fielding, Esq., President of the Water•Colour Society
Cuckfleld, Monday.

_ .
My dear Sir.—lt is only vary lately that I have been able to try
the pencils which you were so kind as to send me. I have been
sketching with them several times. lam delighted with the purity
of the lead, which allows of so much freedom in handling. Your
invention seems perfect, and must insure you the thanks of the
public as soon as its great value is understood. That its importance
may be speedily appreciated is the sineere wish of,
My dear Sir, yours very truly,
William Brockedon, Esq. COPLEY FIELDING.

From E. T, Parris, Esq.

17, Grafton-street,Bond-street, Dec. 15,0845._

My dear Sir—l have tried your blacklead pencils, and find the
drawings made with them are of a beautiful colour, do not smudge,
by common friction, but are entirely removed by Indian rudder ;
they also work smoothly and without fear of the limes drawn with
them being cheetked by grit, or breaking. In every way 1 tonsidar
31esn Most astietestory and very superior to any pencils I have ever
used, and shall take every opportunity of making their qualities
known to my friends and brother artists, that the same advantages
of your valuable production may be enjoyed Ay others, as by, my
dear Sir, yours very truly,
To W. Brockedon, Esq. EDMUND THOMAS PERRIS.
From Philip Hardwick, Esq., R.A, F.R.S., F,S.A.
Russell-square, Dec. 15, 1845.

My dear Sir—HaVing tried the pencils made with lead prepared
by your patent process, I have great pleasure in saying, they appear
to me very superior to any I have lately used, and likely to be a
great acquisition to artists.—l remain, my dear Sir, yours uery truly.
PHILIP HARDWICK.
From I. K. Brunel, Esq , Civil Engineer, F.R.S.
December 15, 1845.

My dear Sir,—l am very much obliged to you for the case of pen-
cils. I had, however, already become their advocate, and ordered a
supply, from a specimen Mr. Fronde had given me.
Yours very truly,
Brockedon, Esq. I. K. lIRTINEL.
From George Barnard, Esq., Landscape Drawing-Master, Rugby

School,

85, Great Portland street, December 17, 1845.
My dear Sir,—l have tried the pencils you sent me, manufactured
from your patent purified lead, and find' them excellent in every re.
spect ; in fact, just the same as the best Cumberland lead used to be
formerly, but which is no ,longer obtainable from the- mines. The
quality of ready erasure is very desirable at Rugby and elsewhere, as
the principles we teach cannot all be put in force at once, and India
rubber is still more in demand than I could wish. I shall send at
once for a gross more of BE and B.—Yours very sincerely,
William Brockedon, Req. GEORGE BARNARD.
From Samuel Prout, Esq., F.S.A.
5, De Crespigny Terrace, Denmark Hill, Dec. 17, 1845.
.11,1 y dear Brockedon,—l have much pleasure In subscribing to
the fact that you have perfected a material which will obtain the
grateful acknowledgments of every artist. Indeed, Ido not hesi-
tate to pronounce the pencils made with your Patent Pure Plumbago
perfect. They are remarkably even in trial, free from grit, or dust,
firm in texture, and possess every degree of colour, from the archi-
tect's outline to the broad and deepest shadows of a finished pencil
drawing.
The following is the result of my having tested them separately,
HHH and MI ere degrees of a clear tint, each sustaining the firmest
pressure. F and HE, a beautiful pencil for a free outline, capable of
expressing the most delicate and minute forms, as well as broader and
bolder features by yielding colour when required. With the B, BE,
or BRB, the last especially, a drawing may be completed from a
faint indication to the greatest Intensity of colour of which blackiead
is capable.—l remain, my dear Brockedon, faithfully yours,
SAMUEL PROUT.

W. Breckedon, Esq , F.R.S.
From David Roberts, Esq., R.A.
Fitzroy-stret, December 22, 1845.
My dear Brockedon,—l am so delighted with the blacklead pencils
which yon sent to me for trial, that I shall feel obliged by your let-
ting me know, without delay, where I can get a few more of them,
particularly the BB's, to go on with.
Having tried them on some of the architectural subjects of my
forthcoming work on Egypt and Nubia, and finding them so superior
to everything of the kind I have hitherto been in the habit of using,
I am convinced that whoever gives them a trial will immediately
adopt them in preference to all others. The best wish I can offer to
you is, that the inventor may come in for a fair share of the profit
which must arise from their becoming universal.
With my sincere thanks for this discovery, and best wishes for the
success it so justly merits, believe me,
.Faithfully and truly yours.
W. Brockedon, Esq. DAVID ROBERTS.
From Richard Westmacott, Esq., F.R.S., A.R.A.
Wilton-place, December 22, 1845.
My dear Brockedon,—l am desirous to offer you my sincere ac-
knowledgments, in addition to the numerous compliments and
thanks you doubtless have received, for the service you have done
artists in producing such a perfect quality of lead pencil as is shown
in the specimens you were so kind as to give me. My practice is
confined, sod, therefore, I have little occasion in any drawing for the
extreme " Timis," or for the double or treble B. But I most grate-
fully acknowledge an excellence in B, 118, and F, which work freely
without grit or scratching, are of good colour, and rub out clean.
Yours, very sincerely,
RICHARD WESTMACOTT, Jux.
From G. Wellwyn Shepherd, Esq.
34, Great James-street, December 23, 1845.
Dear am very sorry that I have lost the opportunity, from
being oat when you ealled, of congratulating you in viva voce on the
pencils you so kindly sent to me. I have carefully tried them, and
in truth, they aro excellent ; for they are perfectly free from grit,
and will resist pressure. I am deeply in'ereeted in the success of
your valuable discovery.—Believe me, dear sir, truly yours,
W. Brockedon, Beg. G. WELLWYN SHEPHERD.
From J. B. Papworth, Esq., Vice-President Institute of British
Architects.
10, Caroline-street, Bedford-square, January 6, 1840.
My Dear Sir.— Many thanks for the case of pencils, which possess
exactly thore qualities which have been so long required for archi-
tectural and engineering purposes, and by every artist. Their easy
working without grit from their pure and equable lead, and unifor-
mity of colour in long use, render them so desirable that I beg to
suggest that thinner pencils should be made of ILHH and RH for the
supply of compasses.—l am my dear, sir, yours ever,
W. Brockedon, Esq. J. B. PAPWORTH.
From John Martin, FAN.
30, Ailsop-terrace, New-read, January 7, 1846.
My dear Brockenden,—lt affords me groat pleasure to give my
unqualified approbation of your new compressed lead pencils. I
have now tried all the various qualities, both in architectural draw-
ing and sketching, and can confidently say that I have never had
better, or, indeed, such good leads for my purpose.
I remain, my dear Brockedon, ever faithfully yours,
Wm. Brockeden, Esq. JOHN MARTIN.
From James Bridges, Esq., First Master for Landscape-drawing
Royal Military Academy Woolwich.
Woolwich Common, January le, 1846.
Dear Mr. Brokedon.—l beg to apologise for not having earlier ac-
knowledged the receipt of the pencils prepared with your patent
plumbago, Which you were kind enough to forward to me ; but I
was anxious to test them thoroughly before giving you any opinion.
I have found them truly excellent, possessing all the best qualities
of the finest plumbago in its native state without any of its defects,
and the respective degrees of hardness are uniform In quality
throughout. Wishing you all the success which the importance of
your discovery deserves, believe me,
Dear Brockedon, faithfully yours,
To William Brockedon. JAMES BRIDGES.
From William Wyon, Esq., 8.A., Chief Engraver to her Majesty's
Mint.
Her Majesty's Mint, December 10, 1845.
My Dear feel extremely obliged for the specimen of black-
lead pencils you have sent me, of which the lead is manufactured by
your patent process.
I have tried them, and I have no hesitation in saying that they
are the best pencils I ever used. They have all the degrees of hard-
ness, and every variety and shade of colour, that can be required by
an artist. The lead is perfectly free fern grit ; and I can point these
pencils much more easily, and when pointed they do not break, as
other pencils generally do.
I am so entirely satisfied with these pencils, that I have pur-
chased a supply of them for my own use; and I cannot but think
them a valuable acquisition not only to artists, but to every one re-
quiring the use of pencils, With many thanks for them, I remain,
my dear Sir, yours faithfully,

WILLIAM WYON.

William BrocketlOn, Esq,, &c.
From T. L. Donaldson, Esq., Istitute of British Architects, Professor
of Architecture to University College, London, &c.
Dear Brockedon,—Many thanks for your elegant present of pen-
ells. Those which I have already tried are excellent, and I
doubt not that your invention will prove a valuable one. Most
faithfully yours,
W. Brookedon, Esq.

THOS. L. DONALDSON.

From Joseph Bonomi, Esq.
Dear Sir,—lf you will allow me to bear testimony to the excel-
lence of a set of pencils you left at Mr. Martin's, I can do so with
great truth and much pleasure.
I remain, dear Sir, ever faithfully yours,
W. Brockedon, Esq. JOSEPH BONOMI.
From Henry Warrior, Esq., President of the New Water-Colour
Society.
17, Robert-terrace. Chelsea, Jan. 12, 1812.
My dear Sir,—Pray forgive me for not having acknowledged your
letter earlier. I have delayed writing from time to time that I
might give myself the opportunity of trying fairly your preparation
of plumbago. This I have new done, and can report with confl-
denim upen the pencils ; nor do I think there is anything wanting to
their excellence. The chief beauty of them lies in the evenness ef
quality in the lead and absence of gritty particles. They are, in;
deed, most pleasant to draw with, and yield freely to that little
accent in touch which the artist delights in. I have tried them in
simple line on wood-block, and I have tried them in landscape and
foliage, on several sorts of paper, and each trial has proved them
Satisfactorily.—Believe me, dear Sir, yours ever truly,
W. Brockedon, Esq. HENRY WARREN.
From Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A.
48, Morningtoh place, Jan. 12. 1846.
My dear Brockedon,--I have tried your pencils, and, as far as
my experience goes in such matters, I think them excell',Tit, I must
Particularise the 888, which, for the several Purno;,es of drawing,
I think admirable. It cuts without breaking, and it is free from grit,
that abominable nuisance in sketching. I shall certainly lay in a
stock of them.—l am, dear Brockedon, you very truly,
CLARKSON STANFIELD.
Pr", C. Wilson, Esq. Director Of the Government School of
you my opinion of the e
Design, Somerset House.
send me ; they are excgliceiciiis which
Dear Sir,—l hasten to r
satisfaction ; and it is Somerset House, Feb. 9, 1846.
eply to your request that I w
t elilarly gratifying would give
pencil which, like yoursnhgavtoe
bbeeaebnlesotog
par it. I have never used pencils with more
its point so well, and yei willall. bear pressure without breaking, keep
opordocumretao
me to answer in every res tw of
marking firmly. They seem to
achrdre the ingenious pr pec your description of them, and I greatly
the lead.—l remain very faitany which
you succeeded in preparing
W. Broekedon, Esq. —3' yours,
From Charles Barry, Es C. H. WILSON.
cl., RA., F.R.A.. &c.
My dear Sir, —Having now had the Westminster, Feb. 27, 1846.
pieta trial ef the lead made of
your e opportunity of making a com-
were so good as to send to me a short
repared Plurnbago which you
sure to announce to you that they are time since, I have the plea-
sew all the requisites for architecture of excellent quality, and pos-
I remain, my dear Sir, most truly yourr well as artistic drawings.—
From Thomas Creewick, CHARLES BARRY.
Esq., R.A.

Aril ,1846.
My dear Sir,—l am quite ashamed that I have only inp the last few
days had an opportunity of trying as I wished the pencils you were
are especially suited for drawing upon wood, the compact-
ood enough to send me. 1 think them by far the best I have ever
n used,e
ss
andthey q
quality of the lead making a clearer and more distinct lino
titan any pencils I have before used.—Belleve me, my dear Sir, ever
truly yours, TIIO3IAS CRESWICK,
W. Brockedon, Esq.
Esq., the Eminent Draftsman and Engraver
on Wood.
.
...al a pencil in my
From William narveYt
29, Portland-termce, Regent's Park, Fe,- - •
My dear Sir,—To a man v-
no lives as I do. ‘'''
...-. 12,1846.
it is impossible to estimate the ^..„;
relyiptatton of. __ mfort of having It of the
vid friendship, low prices, or do-
quelt recommet-Jsel.._, ~
ou eau rcr lead me to au acknowledgment of
!ts virtu'?
...".., T •1:1--,- flit, te,ted. it b.:- rry nvm .n.rut-i.tictt Your
boat quality
allty ; and nn
'il'l'.., ef„,lie 1`..., I:.ti e•i 's. ,''',:!',l ..7-i.,,, y •;,:tti.,:c h?:1 )..en f, to
":iatisted by things which were getting daily worse, and I set to
Work on thorn at once; the result has been highly satisfactory ; they
are everything I could wish them to be. The softer numbers are
what I have not met with for years, stud the harder sorts carry with
them a depth of colour which no other pencils, that I know of, can

approach ; and this is without the risk of mapping off the point, which
is the torment, of all others, the most vexatious : this has never once
happened tome with yours, andel have us at one of the HHII nearlya
month. There is no affectation in declaring that I ant deeply:grateful
foryour discovery, and though latein mal thug this acknowledgment to
you, I have lost no opportunity meanwi die in endeavouring to make
the great qualities cf your pencils as popular as they deserve to be.—
I am, my dear Sir, yours always truly,
W. Brookedon, Esq. WILLIAM HARVEY.
From Professor Brande, F.P;.S &c. Sto. &c.
ltoyal Mint, Feb. 13, 1846.

tify dear Sir—My opinion respecting your Patent Piambago
amounts to this ; that by much ingenuity you have overcome nume-
rous diffieulties, in the way of compress 'rig comminuted plumbago
into a solid mass of an extraordinary, N >m9geneOus, and uniform
character ; that the fracture and texture tof that-which you have so
consolidated se closely resembles the fib ti at natiVe specinsens as to
render it extremely difficult, if not hill iiussible, todikinguish be-
tween your artificial product and that of ;the finest quality obtained
from the mines ; that the pencils from yor,,r manufacture are, as far
as my judgmcat enables me to determlnv , equal to those made of
the best Borrodale plumbago ; and, lastly., that you have succeeded
in giving to them those different degrees .of hardness which are re-
quired by the artist, without rendering then brittle on the one hand,
or pulverulent en the other.—Yours alwa:ra _very sincerely,

Wm. Brockedon, Esq. W M. THOS. BRANDE.
From Francis Ronalds, Esq., F.R.S., &c. , ,of the Kew Observatory,
" Kew Observatory, Monday.
_ _ .

My dear beg your pardon for It:caving so long delayed to
express my opinion of your patent lead it. pencils ; but I do not
regret very much the omission, because It has given me time to test
the specimens fairly whilst making my die wings for the report con-
cerning this Observatory to the British A sst)ciation.
I may conscientously say that I never used a pencil—l speak of
the HH at this moment—with more sat i9faction. It was smooth,
equally bard throughout, and possessed a. quality which 'the harder
sort of pencils hitherto used are deficient is., viz., blackness.
Before I had tried them all, Baron de Walterhausen and Professor
Kriel, of Prague, came here, and were fm enamoured of them that
they not only took them per force, but almost abused me for not
being able to give them a nearer address 'than Cheapside or the City-
road, for procuring a stock to take home., I will thank you to put
me in the way of giving better directions IS future.
'Yours very sincerely, FRANCIS RONALDS.
William Brockedon Esq. _ _

From Major-General Colby, RE., &c„ &c., &c., of the

Ordnance Snrv®s

Ordnance Map-office, Bette! iampton, Jan 24, 1846.
My dear reply to your letter c yesterday's date, I have
much pleasure in being able to state that the specimens of pencils
which accompany it are of a very good ckWelity and quite free from
grit, —Yours very truly, - THOS. COLBY.
Prom Charles O.Lewis, Zsq.,:Engraver.
My dear Sir,—l have only just now core menced using the pencils
you were so kind to send to me ; they are the s beet I have ever used,
so very free from grit ; they are just the 'Wing for the use I am now
making of them, viz., reducing. The Hll is quite delightful to draw
with, and a great relief after the many gril.t y pencils I have been in
the habit of using, and which break incesstst itly. I regret that I had
non earlier an opportunity of giving them se fiiir trial.
Believe me, dear Sir, yeedrs very faithfully,
Wm. Brockedon, Esq. CHAS. G. LEWIS.
From Mr. Roberson, Artists' Colourt nan, Long Acre.
51, Lon g Acre, Jan. 10, 1846.
Dear Sir,—All who have had to contes d with the faultiness of
genuine Cumberland lead for some years pai st, in the manufacture of
lead pencils, ought, as well as the artist who uses them, to be obliged
to you for the riddance of those faults by your new method of pre-
paring lead. The samples that I have tried fhlly warrant me in say-
ing that the Arts are now independent o the natural production,
Cumberland lead.—l remain, my dear Kir„ yours very sincerely,
CUIARLES ROBERSON.

W. Brockedon, Esq
From J. T. Willimort, A.E.
23, Polygon, Jan. 1846.
My dear Sir,—l have tried your pencils bvtli for tracing and reduc-
ing, and find them every thing that can be required ; they work
freely, and, what is very desirable, they seem quite from grit, which
is not the ease with pencils generally; they also leave a clear and
excellent transfer upon the Melling groand.—l remain, dear Sir,
yours faithfully,
JAS. T. WILLMORE.

To W. Brockedon, Esq.
From Mr. Edward Dtmcan.
2, Mornington-place, May 11, 1846.
My dear Sir,—l have great pleasure in. adding mine to the many
favourable testimonials you have received of the great superiority of
the black lead manufactured by your pal ent process. I have tried
the specimens of pencils you were so kind as to send me, and I have
no hesitation in stating that, in my opinion, they possess every
quality, in a superior degree, that the artist can require.
Believe me, my dear sir, yours ♦ery truly,
To William Brockedon, Esq., F.R.B. E. DITNCAN.
Extract from " Elements of Art," by 3. D. Harding, Esq., p. 94.

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THE SPANISH MARRIAGES.

The following is a copy of M. Guizot's last dispatch
to the French Ambassador in London :
M. GUIZOT TO COUNT ST. AUL AIRE.

Paris, Jan. 25, 1847.
Monsieur le COmte,--Lord Normanby came and com-
municated to me, on the 10th instant, a new dispatch
from Lord Palmerston, dated the Bth, in answer to that
which I addressed, on the 22d November last, to Count
de Jarnac, and which was by him communicated to Lord
Palmerston on the 26th. That answer has, then, reached
me forty-five days after mine had been communicated to
Lord Palmerston, and the very day before the opening
of our Chambers. I expressed, at the end. of my
dispatch of Nov. 22, an earnest desire for the termina-
tion of a controversy which was no longer necessary to
throw a light upon facts, and which " might interfere
with the restoration of that policy of good understand-
ing and mutual good-will to which no one, I have some
right to say so, has been, or remains, more faithful than
.1 do." Animated now by the same feeling, and con-
formably to the orders of the King in Council, I abstain
from entering into a full and minute reply to the new
dispatch which Lord Normanby has communicated to
me, and shall confine myself to a few observations upon
certain passages in that dispatch, which it has seemed to
me impossible to leave entirely without correction. I
trust that, by keeping within those limits, I shall contri-
bute, as far as lies in my power, in bringiag at last this
debate to an effective close.
I. Lord Palmer6ton, after adverting to my expressing
some surprise that so much knowledge should be pro-
fessed of the engagements taken at the Chateau d'Eu, of
which engagements, however, no official proof is pro-
-1
duced, while at the same the absence of official record
is made the ground for repudiating facts and documents
which are found to' be iaconvenient, And'especially the
L. memorandum of Februatrtge-Thh, 1846, goes on to
say, in the third paragraph of his new dispatch:—
" Now, in answer to this, it is sufficient to say that
the facts are such as were stated in my former dispatch;
that her Majesty's Government had a knowledge of the
engagements at Eu • but had not, until after the mar-
riages • were declared, any knowledge of the memoran-
dum of the 27th of February ; and if M. Geizot will
only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the
engagements of the Chateau d' En, he will easily see that
her Majesty's Government might acquire a Itn OhlC ge of
those engagements without the aid of any record iu the
Foreign-office."

I am obliged to repeat that the engagements of the
Chateau d'Eu were not officially recorded in the Foreign.
office, any more than the memorandum of the 27th of
February, 1846; that that memorandum was communi-
cated on the 4th of March to Lord Aberdeen,
whom the conversations and engagements of the
Chateau d'Eu had taken place ; and that, therefore,
Lord Palmerston, who declares himself to haw bc( n
acquainted with the engagements, may and must have
known in the same manner the memorandum. The
communications made to a preceding government are
not, upon every change, repeated to the new G,tvern-
ment ; they are, in the same way as the affair,: tht m-
selves, transmitted from one Ministry to the next
Ministry. What is there, besides, essential in the me
morandum of the 27th of Feb.? It is the declaration
that, in case the marriage of the Queen of Spain or the
Infanta with any Prince not being a descendant of
Philip V., and especially with Prince Leopold of Co-
bourg, should become probable and imminent, the King's
Government would consider itself released from every
engagement, and at liberty to ask for the Duke de
Montpensier the hand either of the Queen or of the
Infanta.
Now, that same declaration was made and repeated
more than once, in the most positive terms, to Lord
Cowley, at that time ambassador of Great Britain at
Paris, who certainly did not fail to inform his Govern-
ment of it.*

11. "But, if her Majesty's present Government,"
says Lord Palmerston (4th and sth paragraphs), "repu-
diates the memorandum of the 27th of February, and
do not acknowledge it to be a document of which they
are bound to take any account, it is not, as M. Guizot
asserts, because that document is found by thorn to be
inconvenient.

" Her Majesty's Government repudiate that memo-
randum as in any degree binding upon them, for two
reasons : first, because it assumes rights and puts for-
ward pretensions in which her Majesty's Government
could not have acquiesced, whatever might have been
the time at which that memorandum might have been
communicated to them; and secondly, because, even if
it had contained nothing to which, in principle, her
Majesty's Government could have objected, it was
neither produced nor mentioned to them until after the
event had happened with respect to which it had pro-
fessed to be a warning; and I must observe that no jus-
tification is even attempted in M. Guizot's dispatch for
the endeavour which has been made to fasten, retrospec-
tively, upon her Majesty's present Government, an obli-
gation arising out of a memorandum of which no know-
ledge was given to them at the proper time by those who
had it in their possession."
The memorandum of the 27th of February assumes no
rights or pretensions of any sort. It declares plainly
beforehand the conduct which the King's Govern-
ment will hold in a certain contingency. The right
of making such a declaration is most assuredly an
incontrovertible right, which requires nobody's as-
sent. We never maintained that that memo-
randum was binding upon the British Govern-
ment; we merely desired that it should be made known
to them. It was a manifestation of our intentions,
made from a sense of good faith, in order that the
British Government, being aware of the course which
we meant to follow in that contingency, might in their
turn take an account of that warning with regard to
their own conduct. There are in such a proefectiug no
pretensions put forward u hich it may be necessary for
Lord Palmerston either to repudiate or to acquiesce in ;
it is merely a determination of the French Government,
made known at several time.: and through several chan-
nels, especially on the 4th of Match, 1846. to the British
Government, represented at that time by Lord Aberdeen
and now by Lord Palmerston. Is that communication
certain, incontrovertible? that is the only question which
can be raised, and when facts say "yes," no one can
repudiate that answer.
111. "If the French Government," says Lord P timer-
ston (paragraph 6th), " meant to plead that na, morandum
as a justification for any steps w bich -they intended to
take, they ought surely to have made it known to the
British Government before these steps were taken. But
that memorandum could not have been produced with-
out raising a discussion about the intended marriage of
the Duke de Montpeusier, and it suited better the views
of the French Government to keep that marriage en-
tirely in the back ground, till they could announce it as
a settled arrangement."
The King's Government have not in any WILY
sought
to evade a discussion about the intended marrisge, of
the Duke de Montpensier; neither had they any motiveto
to provoke such a discussion, as they did not mean
been distinctly manifested, and must have
alter in any way their former intentions, which had
Lord Pal-
known to the British Government. It was . f
duties o
merston's province, who was assuming the
and
office, to provoke upon that subject conversationsben under
explanations, for it was he who must have e
n to us, and
the necessity of making his views know
Now,
making himself thoroughly acquainted with ours.hemoment
been ll
from the time of his coming into o
when the two marriages were annou
address a
stop did not put a single question to us, nor
one cosier.
single word to us, on that of the Duke de Di° p
de Jarnac, be
Had he mentioned the subject to Count
tions and
would have received from him all the explana
B t h
hed for. u e
informations which he might have wishe
most absolute
uniformly maintained in that respect t
motive of such a
effieceed,teLot rd Palmer-
silence. I will not inquire into t
the French Government
Government," says Lord Pal_
IV. " Her Majesty's
7), "do not repudiate the memo-
randummerston (paragraph
that
lontpen-
-1846, because they
conduct, but the fact should not be laeid to the charge of
of the 27th of February, I
have
contingency which was specified in
already shown, the
case which would
release the
that memorandum, as the .
from their previous engagement
French Government
opinion, justify the •
and which would, in their
fthe Duke
k de in in ask-
ingfind it inconvenient. For, on the contrary, as
had actually
ur
dangerengeru e
sier (that is to say, an imminent the Queen
Prince not descended from Philip V.),
might marry a
and, moreover, as I stated in my for-
mernever happened ;
become
impossible at the time when Count Bresson asked the
the hand of the Infanta
the Duke, because, at that time
hand of the Infanta for
of the Queen with a descendant of Philip
the marriage
V. had already been settled.
There is in that paragraph
b a strange confusion. Al-
though the official and pulic demand, by Count Bees-
son, of the hand of the Infanta for the Duke do l'ont-
pensier was posterior to the official and public decla-
ration of the Queen's marriage with the Duke of Cadiz,
it is notorious that both marriages had been setticel at
the same time, and were associated together in such a
manner that, if the latter had not been agreed upon,
neither would the former have been so. It is by the
settlement of the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier
with the Infanta that the contingency mentioned by
Lord Palmerstone--natnelY, the chance that the Queen
might marry a Prince not descended from Philip T.--
was removed. If, at the time when Connt Bre son
asked publicly the hand of the Inlantt for the Duke de
Montpensier, the Queen's marriage with a descendant
of a") V, had akeacly been settled, it is because the

momentßi receivedtis
G o:tehr
ne
in"
eel:: rfeo srponci-es of thct Queen and Int'anttt
Ber, find (page 8) an
* P.S. I haVe this
ahrriag
ence relating to the re
wh. C TUIIS TIM :-
of Spain," printed b3' t•• 43 dI th
com-
munication to Parliament,
1,,,rd Cowley to L,,r(l Pal-
extract of a dispatch from . ~; h
" The intelligence of a proposai
occa-
sioned been made for
merston, dated July 23, 1646,
sainonajer
the
eo
gwrietahteas t
consternation Princeof thellhoeurbe:: of Coburg
M. Guizot told
me that, if the project was persisted in, be
should re-
.• Wilt-
commend tee King to put forward the Due (K.
pensier as a candidate for the Queen's hand."
Thus, to late as the 13th July, Lord Palmerston duo
receive from the British ambassador at Paris the poei-
tivp declaration of the intentionn of thp Kir,,, G,,,,,r„.
mem, in case the Coburg („•tAu;)ittatiott bhouicthe pot iir-
ward, and, on the 19th of July, he wrote leis dispatch to
Mr. Bulwer, which was putting forward the chance of
Prince Leopold itt Coburg.