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Her Majesty's Government was convinced, even before the undersigned had the honour of showing these papers to M. Guizot, that the message intended to be conveyed to the Porte by M. de Pontois, must have been much altered by the person who delivered it, or else that M. de Pontois must have made such a communication entirely without instructions or authority from his own Government, and indeed in direct opposition to the spirit of the instructions which he had received; because the language used upon this occasion by M. Pontois was directly at variance with the language which has been held by the French Government to Her Majesty's ambassador at Paris, by M. Guizot to Her Majesty's Government in London, and, as far as Her Majesty's Government are informed, by the French agents at Alexandria to Méhémet Ali.
I at that time informed the French ambassador that my conviction of the sincerity and zeal of M. Guizot for the abolition of the slave trade would induce me to receive any suggestions from him on the subject, and to submit them for the consideration of Her Majesty's government.
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