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Sitting upstairs after this dinner I had a curious conversation with Brunnow and Lord Granville on the causes of the Crimean War. They agreed that had either Aberdeen or Palmerston been in power alone, the war would have been prevented; but that the combination of the two rendered it inevitable.
I replied that they were now disputing about nothing at all i.e. the application of a surplus which will not exist for many years. Brunnow said he was of the same opinion. Lord Clanwilliam and I had a great deal of talk. He had been with Lord Castlereagh at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818. Spoke a good deal of Metternich, justly.
Several of the Ambassadors spoke to him on the recent reports respecting the state of the Jews in Russia. June 1st, 1844. The Emperor of Russia arrived in London. June 6th. The entry states: "I have been looking with deep anxiety from morning till evening for a letter from Baron Brunnow. I wrote this week to Lord Aberdeen, soliciting an interview to-morrow.
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