PP/GC/PO/473 Letter from Lord Ponsonby to Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, stating that the Porte is discussing the propositions about the loan; asking for instructions about a house; Rechid’s answer about M.Deschamp and the Journal de Smyrna; the conversation between M.Cor and Rechid about Mehemet Ali and the intentions of the Porte with regard to him; reasons for not believing that Rechid wanted to make some overture to France; the evacuation of Aleppo and reasons for not leaving Mehemet Ali in Egypt as a concession to France, 18 November 1840
