to the Declaration of Paris so far as concerns Gt.Britain.

Answer immediately by telegraph[304]." Cowley replied on the sixteenth that Thouvenel could not object, but thought it a wrong move[305].

Cowley in a private letter of the same day thought that unless there were "very cogent reasons for signing a Convention at once with Adams," it would be better to wait until France could be brought in, and he expressed again his fear of the danger involved in Adams' proposal[306].

The same objection was promptly made by Palmerston when shown the draft of a reply to Adams.

Palmerston suggested the insertion of a statement that while ready to sign a convention Great Britain would do so only at the same time with France[307].