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The undersigned has the honour to renew to M. Guizot the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. Signé: PALMERSTON. Foreign Office, 9th sept. 1840.
"Ce prince," says Brantôme, "qui s'appelloit Jacques de Clèves, bien qu'il fût de faible habitude, si promettoit-il beaucoup de soi, car il avoit en lui beaucoup de vertu." He died in 1564. Francis of Vendôme, Vidame of Chartres, Prince of Chabanois, was one of the most distinguished courtiers of his time.
The progress of the British army in Asia has been marked by a scrupulous reference to justice, an inviolable respect for property, an abstinence from anything which could tend to wound the feelings and prejudices of the people; and the result is this that I saw, not many weeks ago, a distinguished military officer who had just returned from the center of Afghanistan, from a place called Candahar which many of you perhaps never heard of, and told me that he, accompanied by half a dozen attendants, but without any military escort, had ridden on horseback many thousand miles, through a country inhabited by wild and semibarbarous tribes who, but two years ago, were arrayed in fierce hostility against the approach of British arms, but that he had ridden through them all with as much safety as he could have ridden from Tiverton to John Great's house, his name as a British officer being a passport through them all, because the English had respected their rights, and afforded them protection, and treated them with justice.
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