DIARIES OF
SIR MOSES
AND LADY MONTEFIORE
COMPRISING THEIR LIFE AND WORK AS RECORDED
IN THEIR DIARIES FROM 1812 TO 1883.
WITH THE ADDRESSES AND SPEECHES OF SIR MOSES; HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH
MINISTERS, AMBASSADORS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF PUBLIC BODIES;
PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF HIS MISSIONS IN THE CAUSE OF HUMANITY;
FIRMANS AND EDICTS OF EASTERN MONARCHS; HIS OPINIONS ON
FINANCIAL, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, AND
ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS REFERRING TO MEN
OF HIS TIME, AS RELATED BY HIMSELF.
EDITED BY
Dr L. LOEWE,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; OF THE SOCIETE
ASIATIQUE OF PARIS; OF THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY OF LONDON, ETC. (ONE OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE MISSION TO DAMASCUS AND CONSTANTINOPLE UNDER
THE LATE SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE, BART., IN THE YEAR 1840).
ASSISTED BY HIS SON.
In Two Volumes
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
VOL. II.
CHICAGO:
BELFORD-CLARKE CO.
1890.
(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.)
Copyright—Belford-Clarke Co., Chicago.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGE |
|---|---|
| Sir Moses presented to the Queen on being made a Baronet—Ukase | |
| of the Czar—The affair of Deir-el-Kámár—Sir Moses' Interviews | |
| with Louis-Philippe, M. Guizot, and Lord Normanby—Satisfactory | |
| Measures of the French Government | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Polish and Russian Jews and the Question of Agriculture—The | |
| Jewish Disabilities in Parliament again—The Chartist Riots—Sir | |
| Moses and Lady Montefiore depart for the Holy Land—Absurd | |
| Charge brought against them—Their Return to England | 9 |