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Excerpt: ...I chose the site I afterwards purchased. 8th.-The King of the Belgians presided at the Literary Fund dinner. Disraeli made a capital speech. 18th.-Visit to Mrs. Grote at Sheire. Called at Albury. Many London dinners. The Bennett case was heard at this time by the Judicial Committee. Long deliberation on the judgement at the Chancellor's on June 1st. It was delivered on June 8th. Footnote: See 'The Bennett Judgement' in Edinburgh Review, October 1872. From Lord Westbury June 1st, -I am going to Oxford, and fear I may be late at the committee. There are very important subjects in which we wish to examine you; especially the danger, if not the illegality, of attempting by new legislation to create a new Appellate Jurisdiction for the Colonies. From Mr. E. Twisleton 3 Rutland Gate, June 6th Dear Reeve, -I send you herewith Francis's translation of Pinto on Credit, together with the original French work of Pinto. The attack on Pombal is in Francis's concluding observations. Some of the notes are very interesting, as illustrating the feeling of national superiority among the English, and of national depression among the French, between 1763 and the American War of Independence-see pp. 52, 66, 166. My impression is that the French felt more humiliated during that period than during an equal number of years after 1814. The loss of Canada and their expulsion from America wounded their national feelings of pride then nearly as much as the loss of Alsace and part of Lorraine wounds those feelings now. A hundred years ago there were very exaggerated ideas, both in England and in France, as to the strength which a nation derived from colonies. Yours very truly, EDWARD TWISLETON. P.S.-In Francis's Fragment of Autobiography he speaks of this translation as his own; and says that upon accepting his appointment to India he surrendered all his papers to Stephen Baggs, 'in whose name the translation had been published.' See 'Memoir of Sir P.F.' vol. i. p....

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