it. And they could hardly, as men of average rationality, expect that sending a deputation to the Emperor Nicholas was a likely way to lead to peace.
Mr. Kinglake says the Peace party—
"Went on and on, and still on, until their foremost thinker reached the conclusion that, in the event of an attack upon our shores, the invaders ought to be received with such an effusion of hospitality and brotherly love as could not fail to disarm them of their enmity and convert the once dangerous Zouave into the valued friend of the family."[1]
In a note to this passage, Mr. Kinglake says:—
"I have no copy of this curious pamphlet before me, but it has been quoted (I believe by Lord Palmerston) in the House of Commons, and therefore the passage alluded to in the text might no doubt be found in Hansard. The writer, I remember, went farther than is above stated. He argued that the French people would be so shamed by the kindness shown to their troops that they would never rest until they had paid us a large pecuniary indemnity for any losses or inconvenience which the invasion may have caused."
I have not seen the pamphlet referred to by Mr. Kinglake, but I think it may probably be a work advertised at the end of a Library edition of Mr. Cobden's three letters, published under the
- ↑ Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea, i., 415, 5th edition. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1874.
