Upon all these grounds Viscount Palmerston deems it his duty to your Majesty to express his strong conviction that the appeals made to your Majesty's good feelings by the King of the French, upon the score of the danger of revolution in France, unless concessions are made to the French Government, have no foundation in truth, and are only exertions of skilful diplomacy.
Viscount Palmerston has to apologise to your Majesty for having inadvertently written a part of this memorandum upon a half-sheet of paper.

And he would be glad if, without inconvenience to your Majesty, he could be enabled to read to the Cabinet to-morrow the accompanying despatches from Lord Granville.
[Pageheading: THE STATE OF FRANCE] _Queen Victoria to Viscount Palmerston._[55] WINDSOR CASTLE, _11th November 1840._ The Queen has to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Palmerston's letter of this morning, which she has read with great attention.

The Queen will just make a few observations upon various points in it, to which she would wish to draw Lord Palmerston's attention.

The Queen does so with strict impartiality, having had ample opportunities of hearing both sides of this intricate and highly-important question.
First of all, it strikes the Queen that, even if M.Thiers _did_ raise the cry, which was so loud, for war in France (but which the Queen cannot believe he _did_ to the extent Lord Palmerston does), that such an excitement _once_ raised in a country like France, where the people are more excitable than almost any other nation, it cannot be so easily controuled and stopped again, and the Queen thinks this will be seen in time.
Secondly, the Queen cannot either quite agree in Lord Palmerston's observation, that the French Government state the danger of internal revolution, if not supported, merely to extract further concessions for Mehemet Ali.

The Queen does not pretend to say that this danger is not exaggerated, but depend upon it, a _certain_ degree of danger does exist, and that the situation of the King of the French and the present French Government is not an easy one.