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“1 hope your health has derived sll the benefit you de- 186
Sired from the milder winter climate of Algeria. You have Zr&7.
a all events escaped the severest English winter upon
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To this Cobden made the reply that might have been,
“0d probably was, anticipated :—

“« Algiers, 13th April, 1861.
“My prar Lorn Paiuzrsron,—I beg to acknowledge the
*eceipt of your letter of the 26th March, which reached me
Yesterday only, on my return after an absence of ten days
from Algiers, Whilst entertaining the same sentiment of
8ratitude towards the Queen which I could have felt if I
had accepted the offer you have been so good as to make
We in her name, I must beg permission most respectfully
to deny myself the honour which her Majesty has graciously
Proposed to confer on me. An indisposition to accept a
litle being in my case rather an affair of feeling than of
Teagon, I will not dwell further on the subject.
“With respect, however, to the particular occasion for
Which it is proposed to confer on me this distinction, I may
%8y that it would not be agreeable to me to accept a re-®Ompense
 in any form for my recent labours in Paris. The
Only reward I desire is to live to witness an improvement
1 the relations of the two great neighbouring nations which
have heen brought into more intimate connexion by the
Treaty of Commerce.
“T remain, my dear Lord Palmerston,
“Yours sincerely,
“ R. Corpen.

“In reply to your kind inquiry, I may say that my health
hag dorived munch benefit from the beautiful summer
Weather which IT have had the good fortune to experience