Mulgrave, Lord, on the Copenhagen

affair, and Lord Eldon's comment, i.
34; difficulties with the King on the
appointment of Major Stanhope,
240, 241 n; explanation of O'Con-
nell's invitation to the Castle, 249;
made Viceroy of Ireland, 262; his
Irish policy denounced, 275, 276;
sounds Dr. Murray on the tithe
question, 298; supports Mr. Drum-
mond's views on the tithe-rent
charge, 298; on the weakness of the
Ministry, 303; (now Lord Nor-
manby) made Colonial Secretary,
314; inefficiency in the Colonial
Office, 335

Munro, Captain, i. 21, 22
Muntz, Mr. appointed magistrate at
Birmingham, i. 341
Murat, Joachim, i. 77

Murdoch, Mr., inventor of gas, i. 35 n
Mure, Miss, her marriage with Lord
Ribblesdale, ii. 174

Murray, Dr., Roman Catholic Arch-
bishop of Dublin, i. 298

Musgrave, Dr., made Archbishop of
York, i. 476; ii. 116

Mussulman outrages in Roumelia, ii.

193
Musurus Pacha, ii. 185

NIC

Napoleon, Louis, President, at war
with the Chamber, ii. 132; his
assumption of the imperial title,
176; his marriage, 177; acquiesces
in Turkey's concessions to Russia,
192; views relating to Sweden, 218;
refuses to accept the Austrian propo-
sitions regarding the Black Sea, 261;
motives which may have swayed
him, 263; attempt on his life, 294;
irritated at the precipitation of events
in Italy, 314; offers to mediate be-
tween the Northern and Southern
States, 352; proposes a congress of
the sovereigns of Europe, 381; his
communication relative to French
action in favour of Denmark, 390,
391

Narvaez, Señor, ii. 42
'Nashville,' the, ii. 344
National Society, i. 328
Navarino, battle of, i. 151
Navigation Acts, suspension of the, i.
441; Bill for repealing, ii. 93, 99,

100

Nesselrode, Count, on the occupation
of the Principalities, ii. 188
Newcastle, Duke of, offered the Irish
Viceroyalty, ii. 130 n; 143, 155; sug-
gests that the term Whig should be
dropped, 156; favours Lord Aber-
deen for Prime Minister, 157; medi-
ates with Mr. Monsell after Lord
John's speech on the Irish Church,
173; 201; at the War Office, 219,
220; 229, 230, 231, 233, 236; suc-
ceeds Lord John as Minister in atten-
dance on the Queen, 349n; thinks
the offer premature of English me-
diation between the Northern and
Southern States, 352
Newgate, i. 331

Newman, Mr., i. 218; secession to the
Church of Rome, 475, 477; Cardinal,
ii. 116

Newport, Sir John, i. 308, 312, 335
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, i. 152,
153; demands from Turkey pro-
tection for the Greek Church, ii 179;
contemplates the partition of the
Turkish Empire, 180; pretence for
interference with Turkey, 187; un-
conditional acceptance of the Vienna
Note, 188; refuses to accept the
Turkish modification of the Note,
188; wishes to evacuate the Princi-
palities, 188; attaches a different
meaning to the Vienna Note from
that of the allies who drew it up,
189; death of, 247

NIC
Nicholls, Mr. (Poor Law Commis-
sioner), i. 272

Norbury, Lord, murder of, i. 315
Norfolk, Duke of, i. 434
Normanby, Lord, i. 133, 314, 335,
336; communication from M. Guizot
on Spanish marriages, ii. 6; his
quarrel with M. Guizot, 8; conver-
sation with Lamartine, 37; his
Italian sympathies, 47; on the in-
adequacy of the legislative machinery
to deal with the business of the country
and remedial proposals, 96; 132;
instructions on the Coup d'état, 138;
receives despatch from Palmerston
approving of the Coup d'état, 139;
142; see Mulgrave, Lord
Northbrook, Lord, i. 3 n
Northcote, Sir Stafford (afterwards
Lord Iddesleigh), ii. 361

Nottingham Castle, burnt by rioters, i.
172

Novara, defeat of the Piedmontese at,
ii. 45, 50 n

O'Connell, Daniel, agitating on Roman

Catholic Emancipation in Ireland, i.
139; elected for Clare in place of
Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, 145, 146;
urges the adoption of triennial
Parliaments, universal suffrage, and
vote by ballot, 154; repudiates
smooth words, 182; refused office by
the Whigs, 183; has no patience
with the base, brutal, and bloody
Whigs, and demands an Irish Legis-
lature, 185, 186; on Mr. Stanley's
measure of Irish Church Reform,
193; denounces Mr. Littleton's tithe
proposals, 198; on the surplus
revenues of the Irish Church, 2c2;
reveals the arrangement between
himself and Mr. Littleton on the
Irish Coercion Bill, 204, 205; letter
on the judicial appointments, 206,
207; in concert with Lord John on
the vote of the Irish party, 219–224;
claims on the Melbourne Ministry,
233, 234; on tour in Scotland,
demands the abolition of the House
of Lords, 248; invited to the Castle

PAL

by the Viceroy, 248; the King's
alarm thereat, 248, 249; scheme for
' reforming the Lords, 251; on the
introduction of tithes to Ireland,
257; his political progress viewed
with alarm, 262; letter to Mr.
Warburton on Irish matters, 273;
desires to thrust the Municipal Bill
in the forefront, 295; letter from
Lord John thanking him for aid in
his Irish policy, 321; arrest of, 394;
estimate of the price at which Irish
friendship might have been purchased,
396; his opinion of Lord John, 395;
gratitude to Lord John for his speech
on Irish affairs, 397; 457, 464
O'Ferrall, More, i. 452, 463
Ollivant, Dr., ii. 16
O'Loghlen, Serjeant, i. 206
Oporto, revolt in, ii. 8-12
Orangeism, i. 220; official,

262;

Orange lodges in the United King-
dom and Canada, 263, 264; Mr.
Hume's motion against, and Lord
John's amendment, 264; Orange-
men of Down attacked by Riband-
men at Dolly's Brae, ii. 84
Oranmore, Lord, quoted, ii. 210
'Oreto,' the (afterwards the 'Florida'),
ii. 352

O'Rourke, Father, i. 440

Osborne, Mr., i. 29

Owen, Professor, on Lord John as a
lecturer, ii. 275

Oxford, Bishop of (1847), i. 479

PACIFICO, Don, his claims on the Greek
Government, ii. 56-58

Page, Mr. (Westminster Master), i. 6
Palmer (actor), i. 7

Palmer, Mr. (of Luckley), marriage to
Lady M. Sinclair, i, 15, 16
Palmer, Sir Roundell, on the Ala-
bama' case, ii. 354

Palmerston, Lady, i. 155; thinks her
husband's dismissal from the Foreign
Office the result of a conspiracy, ii.
141; 201, 433, 434 n
Palmerston, Lord, i. 29; votes for the
disfranchisement of East Retford,
145; made Foreign Secretary in the
Grey Ministry, 160; defeated in the
Hampshire election, 211; Foreign
Secretary in the Melbourne Ministry,
233; vote on the Irish Municipal
Bill, 327; supported by Lord John
in urging the acceptance of the
Treaty of July 1840, 346; strengthens
the Mediterranean fleet, 347; in-

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fluence as Lord Melbourne's brother-
in-law, 349; policy towards France
and the Four Powers in the Egypto-
Turkish war, 351-353; attacks Lord
John in the Chronicle,' 354; does
not believe in the French threats of
war, 356; is considered a dangerous
man at the Foreign Office, 357; urges
the reinstatement of the Pacha of
Egypt, 358; rejects a conference
of the Four Powers, 359; letter to
Lord John defending Lord Pon-
sonby's action at the Porte, 361; tri-
umph of his foreign policy, 362, 363;
consequences of his high-handed
method, 365; supports the Ten Hours
clause in the Factories Bill, 399;
objections to his return to the Foreign
Office, 414-417; 420; approves of
admitting Cobden to the Cabinet,
425; offers Mr. Charles Villiers a
post at Rio, 426n; despatch to Mr.
Bulwer on the Spanish marriages,
&c., ii. 2; effects of that despatch
at the French and Spanish Courts,
2, 3; note to the Spanish Govern-
ment on its decision to hasten the
marriages, 3; Mr. Wood's letter on
his irritating foreign policy, 4; com-
plaints from the French Government
thereon, 5; protest to the Spanish
Government against the Montpen-
sier marriage, 7 ; action in the quarrel
between Lord Normanby and M.
Guizot, 8; distrusted by the Court,
8; letter from Lord John on the
Oporto revolt, 9; Sir H. Seymour
refuses to forward his claim to the
Portuguese Government on behalf of
Mr. Croft, In; threatens resigna-
tion thereon, II; his epigrammatic
phrase, that steamers have bridged
the Channel, 15; urges the forma
tion of the Militia, 15, 17; protests
against delay in the scheme of national
defence, 16; his objections to Mr. Fox
Maule's scheme thereon, 18; private
communication from the Russian
Minister on the Schleswig-Holstein
question, 43; unauthorised despatch
on Spanish affairs, 43; his proposed
measures against Spain rejected by
the Cabinet, 45; his irritating de-
spatch to Portugal, 45; amicable re-
lations with the French ambassador,
M. de Beaumont, 46; letter of re-
monstrance from Lord John, 46;
complains of the Queen giving too
ready credence to persons hostile to
her Government, 47; permits an

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English contractor to furnish the
Sicilian insurgents with arms, 51; apo-
logises to the Neapolitan Government
for this inadvertence,' 52; on ill
terms with Lord Ponsonby, 53;
assents to the passing through Lord
John of all despatches submitted to
the Queen, 53; letter to Lord John
on the refugee Hungarians in Turkey,
54; squaring at Russia,' 56; in-
structs Admiral Parker to enforce
claims on the Greek Government,
56; his unaltered despatch to Mr.
Wyse, 57; letter from Lord John and
his reply in the matter, 57, 58;
assents to a compromise on the
Greek imbroglio with M. Drouyn de
Lhuys, 59; is informed by Lord
John of an intended change in the
Foreign Department, 60; speech
in the House in defence of his
foreign policy, 62; receives a memo.
randum from the Queen on the rela-
tions of a Foreign Minister to his
sovereign, 63; agrees with Lord
John in the abolition of the Irish
Viceroyalty, 88; mainly concerns
himself with the business of his
department, 90; secures support for
his policy by subsidising a news-
paper, 97; thinks Lord John's new
Reform Bill premature, 102; con-
gratulates Lord John on his speech
on the slave trade, 107; on Lord
John's Reform Bill, 130; advises
him to postpone his visit to Paris,
132; sends an unauthorised de-
spatch to Baron Koller, and is
forced to withdraw it, 132; letter
from Lord John urging him not to
receive Kossuth, and his reply, 133;
abandons his intention of seeing
Kossuth, 136; receives addresses
vilifying the Emperors of Austria and
Russia, 136; correspondence with
Lord John on this subject, 136, 137;
justifies his approval of the Coup
d'état, 138, 139; dismissal from the
Foreign Office, 139; declines an
offer of the Lord-Lieutenancy, 140;
the true grounds of his dismissal
from office, 141, 142; his 'tit for
tat with John Russell,' on the Militia
scheme, 144; declares he will never
again serve under Lord John, 152;
157; his account of his conversation
with the Duke of Bedford, 158; ad-
vice on the Russo-Turkish difficulty,
182; Lord John's memorandum laid
before him, 186; pun on Reshid

PAL

Pacha, 187 n; against Lord John's
scheme of Parliamentary Reform,
195; communicates his objections
to Lord Aberdeen, 197; is in-
formed by Lord Aberdeen that no
material alterations can be made in
the Bill, 198; resignation, 199; with-
draws his resignation, 201; public
opinion of the causes of his resigna-
tion, 202; tries to postpone the
introduction of Lord John's Reform
Bill, 204; will resign if it is proceeded
with, 207; letter to Lord John on
the subject, 208; his beau idéal of
the results of the Crimean war, 214;
approves of the subsidising of Sweden
in the war with Russia, 218; bent on
sending an expedition to the Crimea,
223; proposed by Lord John as the
head of the War Department, 229;
doubts the expediency of abolishing
the office of Secretary-at-War, 231;
sent for by the Queen to form a Govern-
ment, 241; succeeds in reconstruct-
ing the old Administration, 241; his
letters to Lord John relative to
the Vienna Conference, 243; invites
him to take office on reconstruction
of Cabinet, 245; his pleasure on the
acceptance of office by Lord John,
247; personally entreats Lord John
to remain in the Government, 263;
his letter on the latter's resigna-
tion of office, 267; defeats a mo-
tion for the reduction of county
franchise, 285; defeated on Mr.
Cobden's resolution on the conduct
of his Government in the 'Arrow'
affair, 288; announces the intention
of dissolving Parliament, 288; his
opinion of Lord John's speech in
to Mr. Disraeli, 293; is
defeated on the Bill for the altera-
tion of the Conspiracy Laws, 295;
his letter to Lord Granville on the
Liberal leadership, 305; assents to
the Queen's suggestion to serve
under Lord Granville, 306; sent for
again by the Queen to form a Govern-
ment, 308; seeks the assistance of
Lord John, and gives the latter the
Foreign Office, 309; agrees with
Lord John's policy of Italy for the
Italians,' 312; informs the Queen
that the non-adoption of his Italian
policy may lead to resignation, 312;
his apprehensions regarding Reform,
330; his remark on the Emperor
Napoleon's desire for a simultaneous
declaration in England and France

answer

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of the Commercial Treaty, 333";
receives a communication from Lord
Derby relative to Conservative sup-
port, 334; thinks that in the civil
war in America our best and true
policy is to go on as we have begun
and keep clear of the conflict,' 344;
letters to and from Lord Russell on
the state of affairs in America, 349,
350; his action in the Schleswig-
Holstein affair in 1850, 374, and #;
letter to Lord Russell on the sepa-
ration of the two questions, 388;
his opinion of the Prussians as sol-
diers, 388; not prepared to go to
war in favour of Denmark without

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substantial alliance, 389; his
answer to Lord John's memo-
randum relative to the united action of
France and Great Britain, 390"; he
and Lord Russell in favour of stronger
measures than their colleagues, 391;
his death, 406

Panizzi, Signor, on Lord John as a
lecturer, ii. 274

Parga, ceded to the Turks, i. 109 n
Paris, coup d'état in, ii. 138
Parker, Admiral Sir W., ii. 55, 56
Parker, Mr., defeats Lord John in the
election for Devonshire, i. 234
Parkes, Joseph, ii. 157
Parr, Dr., i. 55
Pasolini, Count, ii. 422

Patten, Rt. Hon. J. Wilson (Lord
Winmarleigh), i. 168, 169

Pattison, Mr., elected for London, i.
457 n

Peel, Archibald (third son of General
Peel), marries Lord John's eldest
daughter, ii. 430

Peel, General, i. 270; ii. 174 n
Peel, Lady, declines a public funeral
for her husband and a peerage for
herself, ii. 110

Peel, Lady Georgiana (Lord John's
eldest daughter), ii. 276, 433
Peel, Sir Robert, his abilities contrasted
with those of Lord John, i. 104;
opposed to Reform, 128; retires
from the Canning Ministry, 133; in
the Wellington administration, 138;
defeated by Lord John on the Re-
ligious Disabilities question, 142;
annoyance at the vote of his col-
leagues on East Retford, 145; anger
of the extreme Tories against him for
his part in Roman Catholic emanci
pation, 148; 153; action on Lord
John's first Reform Bill, 166;
opposition to the third Reform Bill,

PEE

177; compliment from Lord John,
178; on the Church in Ireland,
202; his Ministry in 1834, 211;
issue of the Tamworth Manifesto,
211; cannot command a majority
in the Commons, 214; responsible,
by accepting office, for the policy of
his sovereign, 217; defeated on
Lord Morpeth's amendment to the
Address, 218; Liberals prepared
to give his Ministry a fair trial, 225;
resignation, 228; breadth of his
policy and skill in administration,
228; moderation on the Municipal
Corporations Bill, 245; proposal
to deal with the tithe system, 257;
thinks that marriage with Dissen-
ters should be a civil contract, 259;
action in the Canadian difficulty,
296; Lord John seeks a compromise
with him on the Tithes Bill, 299;
his ministerial policy paralleled by
Lord John, 301; takes no pains to
win the goodwill of his followers,
304; urged to moderation in opposi-
tion in the debate on Irish affairs,
315 sent for by the Queen to form
a Ministry, insists on the removal of
the ladies of the household, 320;
communication from Mr. Aber-
cromby on his resignation of the
Speakership, 322; reforms in the
Criminal Code, 331; supports Lord
John on the question of Privilege,
343; moves a vote of want of con-
fidence in the Melbourne Ministry,
374; decides on Mr. Lefevre's re-
election as Speaker, 381; measures
introduced by him in 1842, 385;
accused of coquetting with Free
Trade, 388; introduces an Arms
Act, 388; dealing with the sugar
question, 398; his Budget of 1845,
400; his Irish measures, 400; action
on the failure of the potato crop,
406; 409; resignation, 411; resusci-
tates his old Ministry, 420; propo-
sition for arbitration in the American
dispute, 421; defeated on Coercion,
and resigns, 422; 430; his practice of
conferring peerages for merit only,
457, 458; gives support to the
Whig Ministry, 459; basis of his
Coercion Act, 465; contrast be-
tween his and Lord John's co-
ercive measures, 471, 472; his policy
towards France, ii. 13; Duke of
Wellington's memorandum to, on
England's relations with France and
the United States, 14; influenced

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by the Duke to adopt a scheme
of national defence, 14-16; his
draft Bill for reviving the Militia,
16; his last debate in the House, 62;
weakening of his distrust of Lord
John, 98; interchange of views with
Lord John on Horace's Odes, 108;
death of, 109; his monument in
Westminster Abbey, 110; 124, 144,
146, 163; Lord Shaftesbury's opinion
of him, 275
Peirce, Mr., i. 5
Pelham, Mr., i. 160
Pellico, Silvio, ii. 48
Pembroke, Lady, i. 449
Pennefather, Mr., i. 184
Penryn, bribery at, i. 119, 143, 144
Pepys, Sir C. (Master of the Rolls),
made Chancellor, i. 252, 253
Perceval, Spencer, i. 28, 30; attempts
to conquer France by depriving it
of bark,' 35 n; satirised by Lord
John, 48 n; confers a restricted
Regency on the Prince of Wales, 49;
his Ministry's return to power cele-
brated by Lord John in a parody,
50n; murder of, 57
Perrin, Judge, i. 463

6

Perry, Mr. (editor of the Morning
Chronicle'), i. 123

Persigny, Count (French ambassador
in London), ii 310, 311, 321
Peterloo, the affair at, i. 115
Petty, Lord H. (afterwards Lord
Lansdowne), Chancellor of the
Exchequer, i. 17, 18, 26; defeated
in the contest for Cambridge Uni-
versity, 29, 30; see Lansdowne,
Lord

Peyton (Westminster scholar), i. 7
Philipps, Sir R. B., made a peer, i.
457, 458

Piedmont, her part in the Italian revolt
against Austria, ii. 39

Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, i. 12, 17, 84,
458

Playfair, Professor, i. 43-45, 54-57,
60, 78; ii. III, 279
Plunket, Lord, i. 117, 463
Pocklington, Mr., i. 31
Polhill, Mr., i. 155 n
Polignac, Prince de, i. 156, 157
Ponsonby, Captain, i. 24
Ponsonby, Colonel, i. 30
Ponsonby, Frederick, i. 132
Ponsonby, Lady Emily, quoted, i. 451 n
Ponsonby, Lady Fanny, i. 5
Ponsonby, Lord, bet with Lord John,
i. 54; advises the Sultan to reject
Mehemet Ali's propositions, 352;