346 COURSE TAKEN BY LOUIS NAPOLEON. chap. ' the successful interview you had with the Em- XII
- : peror. The plan has been made much more
' simple and less objectionable. . . . We ' shall, however, deliberate and decide to-day ' upon the propositions of your Government. It ' is the highest satisfaction to me that we have ' agreed, and, I trust, shall continue to agree, ' on the great principles upon which the future ' system of Europe is to be established.' * Pronounced There was now therefore rife a clearly pro- difference in n . . . . „ _ _ TT the counsels nounced division in the counsels ot the VV estern of the West- . empowers. Powers ; tor, excepting its powerful member new- ly come from Vienna, the whole of Lord Palmer- ston's Cabinet was still as before keenly anxious to abstain from further negotiations, and firmly go on with the war; whilst — intent on an op- posite policy — not only the French Emperor him- self, but also his Minister for Foreign Affairs, and with them Lord John Eussell, were, all three, desiring to accept the Austrian proposal, and make it the basis of peace. The French After having matured the proposal in the way and P Lord we observed, the French Emperor intimated his CowIgv wish to see the English ambassador. Lord Cowley found the Emperor smoking in the garden, and was asked by him to ' walk up and down with ' him, and talk the matter over.' ' I think,' the Emperor said, ' that it is a good ' arrangement. What think you ? ' Desiring of course to support the opposite •4th May 1855.
