I shall be back in England before October, and we could then have a Cabinet upon it.

Of course the war may flag before that.
"I quite agree with you that a proposal for an armistice should be the first step; but we must be prepared to answer the question on what basis are we to negotiate[733] ?" The next movement to put an end to the war in America was to come, not from Napoleon III, nor from the British friends of the South, but from the British Ministry itself.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 654: Bancroft, _Seward_, II, p.

204.] [Footnote 655: _De Bow's Review_, Dec., 1857, p.

592.] [Footnote 656: Cited in Adams, _Trans-Atlantic Historical Solidarity_, p.

66.] [Footnote 657: _Ibid._, p.