So RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



The account of all the meetings, beginning with 

 that at Liverpool on April 29th to that at London on 

 June 24th, was published in English, and it was 

 dedicated to the members of the Houses of Parliament 

 in the following terms : 



" I dedicate to you individually, and I submit to 

 your illustrious assemblies, the following pages, which 

 embody the resolutions and deliberations of the prin- 

 cipal towns in the United Kingdom, the commercial 

 and municipal corporations of which have formally 

 expressed their opinion upon the interests of the 

 trade, the navy, and the colonies of Great Britain, as 

 they would be affected by the opening of the canal 

 through the isthmus of Suez. 



" Eeassured as I no warn as to the competent opinion 

 of the traders, the manufacturers, and the shipowners 

 of Great Britain, and being about to pursue the exe- 

 cution of the work upon behalf of which I do not ask 

 for the protection or the exclusive help of any govern- 

 ment, I appeal in all confidence, in order to put an end 

 to the opposition of the British Ambassador at Con- 

 stantinople, to the political bodies of a free country 

 which, in other circumstances, have already had the 

 glory of placing above every consideration of private 

 interests or national rivalry the great principles of 

 civilisation and free trade. This pamphlet, addressed 

 to politicians, would be regarded by them as incom- 

 plete unless I passed in review the elements of the 

 political questions which have been raised in connec- 



