[112] _The Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem by the Year of 1798 under the Revealed Prince and Prophet_ (Lond. 1794). _A letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott with an Address to the Members of His Britannic Majesty's Council_ (Lond. 1798). _The Curious Trial of Mr. Brothers... on a Statute of Lunacy_ (Lond. 1795). [113] _Mr. Halhed's Speech in the House of Commons... on Monday, May the 4th, 1795_ (Lond. 1795). [114] Law Reports: 4 De Gex & Smale, 467. [115] For details see _infra_, pp. 104-106. [116] Finn: _op. cit._, i. 106. The passage is worth quoting: "In 1839, Lord Palmerston's direction to his first Consul in Jerusalem was 'to afford protection to the Jews generally.' The words were simply those, broad and general, as under the circumstances they ought to be, leaving after events to work out their own modifications. The instruction, however, seemed to bear on its face a recognition that the Jews are a nation by themselves and that contingencies might possibly arise in which their relations to Mohammedans should become difficult, though it was impossible to foresee the shape that future transactions might assume upon the impending expulsion of the Egyptians from Syria." [117] See text of Firman in Loewe: _Diaries of Sir M. Montefiore_, i. 278-279. [118] _Infra_, pp. 119-124. [119] _Memoir of Laurence Oliphant_, ii. 179. As late as January 1888 Mr. Oscar Straus, the United States Minister in Constantinople and himself a Jew, assured the Grand Vizier, with regard to the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine, "that no such purpose actuated the Jews throughout the world" (_Foreign Relations of U.S._, 1888, p. 1559). [120] _Anabaptisticum et Enthusiasticum Pantheon_ (1702), _Novus in Belgio Judaeorum Rex_, p. 25. [121] Graetz: _Geschichte_, x. 207. [122] "Re-establishment of the Jewish Government, with a letter from a Jew to his Brethren; copied from the _Courier_, June 10, 1798." [123] Lemoine: _Napoléon et les Juifs_ (Paris, 1900), p. 72. [124] _Infra_, p. 107. There is no trace of this scheme in the Foreign Office papers except in the reference here quoted from the Russian Memorandum, but Tatistcheff, who saw the Russian set of these papers in the Petrograd Foreign Office, describes a scheme submitted by Guizot to Palmerston and Metternich which seems to be the one referred to here. (Kamarowsky: "La Question d'Orient," in _Revue Générale de Droit International Public_, iii. 423.) [125] _Infra_, pp. 107-109. [126] _Infra_, pp. 111-113. [127] _Infra_, p. 113. [128] _Infra_, pp. 114-116. [129] Covering despatch from Baron Bülow, _infra_, p. 116. [130] Despatch from Lord Beauvale and draft of reply by Palmerston, _infra_, pp. 116-117. [131] Kamarowsky, _op. cit._, p. 423. [132] _Memoirs of Bunsen_ (London, 1868), i. 593 _et seq._ [133] Memorandum of July 15, 1841, presented to Palmerston by Bunsen (F.O. 64/235 Prussia). [134] Letter from Bunsen to his Wife (_Memoirs_, i. 608-609).