40.] [Footnote 765: Adams, _A Crisis in Dooming Street_, p.

393, giving the exact text paraphrased by Morley.] [Footnote 766: Fitzmaurice, _Granville_, I, pp.

442-44, gives the entire letter.Sept.27, 1862.] [Footnote 767: _Ibid._, p.442.Oct.1, 1862.

Fitzmaurice attributes much influence to Granville in the final decision and presumes that the Queen, also, was opposed to the plan.

There is no evidence to show that she otherwise expressed herself than as in the acquiescent suggestion to Russell.