I, for my part, look with the deepest interest upon the share that I had in concluding—I will not say so much in concluding, but in conducting on this side of the water, and within the walls of parliament as well as in administration—the proceedings which led to the memorable French treaty of 1860.
Morley expresses his personal involvement and interest in the negotiations leading to the French treaty of 1860.
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