...Philippe had sent an army into Belgium to expel the Dutch. On August 17th, Lord Palmerston writes : ' One thing is ' certain, the French must go out of...general ' war, and war in a given number of days.' On August 28rd, he writes : ' There never was certainly a more difficult task than that which we '...

...perfect, and evidently written that ho may read them to me. What else he writes I cannot tell, but 1 am not so sure that what he reads to me is all he...same tone. One thing is certain — the French must <jo out of Belgium, or '« have a yeneral war, and war in a given number of days. tint, say the French,...

...would tell him that I would never put my hand to such a treaty, even if the Government agreed to it." " One thing is certain, — the French must go out of...a general war, and war in a given number of days." " I told him we never would agree to mix up the two questions, the departure of the French troops,...

...expected to fit its policy to the protestor whims of the Paris mob. In fine, 'the French Palmerst ° n must go out of Belgium, or we have a general war, and a war within a given number of days.' 1 This very decided language had its effect. The French troops...

...your despatches, nor those which Talleyrand read me to day by desire of Sebastiani. The despatches which Talleyrand himself writes to Sebastiani are...go out of Belgium or we have a general war, and war iu a given number of days. ,l3ut", say the French, ,we mean to go out, but we must choose our own time...

...100. as a free port.1 Palmerston gauged the public temper aright when he wrote (August 17, 1831) ' one thing is certain — the French must go out of...a general war, and war in a given number of days.' 2 ' Let us stave off all these nibblings,' he wrote a few days later ; ' if once these Great Powers...

...the guarantee of the Powers. Henry Phillpotts Bishop of Bath and Wells. Palmerston declares that ' the French must go out of Belgium or we have a general war ' (Aug. 1 7). Coronation of William IV. (Sept. 9). The Reform Bill is rejected in the House of Lords...

...the British Foreign Secretary was once more forced to resort to threats, and to say ominously that ' the French must go out of Belgium or we have a general war and war in a given number of days'.2 Once again, however, 1 Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer and the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, The Life of Henry...

...French did not budge. Britain's foreign minister, Viscount Henry Temple Palmerston, wrote to Granville, "One thing is certain, the French must go out of Belgium, or we shall have a general war, and war in a few days." Prussia threatened to move into the Rhine Provinces,...

...Perhaps coercing would be the more accurate expression. When we find him writing to Lord Granville, " One thing is certain, the French must go out of Belgium, or we have a general war, a war in a given number of days," and when we know that these words, or the purport of them, were repeated...