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IX, Footnote 33)] [Footnote 36: Austrian Minister.] [Footnote 37: Russian Minister.] [Pageheading: MEHEMET ALI] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ DOWNING STREET, _2nd October 1840._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty.

We have just had another Cabinet,[38] which was rendered necessary by Brunnow and the Prussian Minister refusing to concur in what we determined yesterday without reference to their Courts and authority from them.

This makes it impossible for us to take the step in the way we proposed, but we have now settled that Palmerston should direct Granville to submit the proposition to Thiers, and ask him how he would be disposed to receive it if it were formally made to him.

This, so far as we are concerned, will have all the effect which could have been attained in the other way.
Very important despatches of the 14th inst.