Lord Melbourne will come down on Sunday if he possibly can, and unless he should be still disabled from moving.
[Footnote 45: Dr (afterwards Sir) Henry Holland, Physician-in-Ordinary to the Queen, 1850-1873, father of Lord Knutsford.] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ SOUTH STREET, _10th October 1840._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty.

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All the question at the Cabinet to-day as to whether we should write a communication to France was fortunately put an end to by Guizot desiring to see Palmerston in the morning and making a communication to him.

This communication is very much in substance what Mr.Bulwer's note had led us to expect.

It is a strong condemnation of the act of the Porte depriving Mehemet Ali of the Government of Egypt, an expression of satisfaction at having already learned from Lord Palmerston and Count Apponyi[46] that Austria and England are not prepared to consider this act as irrevocable, and a threat on the part of France that he considers the power of Mehemet Ali in Egypt a constituent part of the balance of Europe, and that he cannot permit him to be deprived of that province without interfering.