1698.) Gortchakoff promptly transmitted this to Stoeckl, together with a letter from Brunow, dated Bristol, Oct.

1, 1862 (N.S.), in which Brunow expressed the opinion that one object of the British Government was to introduce at Washington a topic which would serve to accentuate the differences that were understood to exist in Lincoln's Cabinet.

(This seems very far-fetched.) Gortchakoff's comment in sending all this to Stoeckl was that Russia had no intention of changing her policy of extreme friendship to the United States (_Ibid._, F.O.to Stoeckl, Oct.
3, 1862 (O.S.).)] [Footnote 771: Thouvenel, _Le Secret de l'Empereur_, II, pp.

438-9.] [Footnote 772: Russell Papers.

Cowley to Russell, Sept.