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ABERCORN, Duchess of (half-sister to
Lord John), i. 61 n
Abercorn, Duke of (Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland), ii. 445

Abercromby, Lady Mary, i. 448; ii.
165, 284

Abercromby, Mr. (Master of the
Mint), i. 215, 216; declines the
Speakership, 224; becomes Speaker,
226; O'Connell's support of, 229;
resignation of the Speakership, 335;
made Lord Dunfermline, 336;
death of, ii. 449
Abercromby, Sir R. (afterwards 2nd
Lord Dunfermline), British minister
at the Hague, ii. 241

Aberdeen, Lady, letter to Lord John,

i. 159

Aberdeen, Lord, brings the dispute
with America in 1846 to a peaceful
issue, i. 438; disapproves of Prince
Leopold's selection as husband for
the Queen of Spain, ii. 2; memo-
randum from M. Guizot on the
Spanish marriages, 6n; his con-
ciliatory policy towards France, 14;
letter from Lord John on the Austro-
Italian conflict, 45; enjoined by the
Queen to submit all important drafts
to her before the despatches leave
the office, 49 n; negotiations with
Lord John on formation of a Ministry,
124; reply to Lord John's memo-
randum, 124; Lord John's answer,
126; declines further negotiation,
127; asked to form a Ministry and
declines, 128; letter from Lord John,
156; his reply, 157; sent for by the
Queen to form a Ministry, 161;
accepts office, 161; proposes ulti-
mately to retire from the Premiership

in Lord John's favour, 164; corre-
spondence with the Duke of Bedford
thereon, 164; completes his Ministry,
165; difficulties because of the jeal-
ousies of Whigs and Peelites, 166;
misunderstanding with Lord John,
166; letters to and from Lord John
on the latter's tenure of office, 167-
170; letters from and to Lord John
on the latter's speech on the Irish
Church, 174, 175; letter to Mr. Mon-
sell assuring him that Lord John's
opinions on the Irish Church are not
shared by many members of the
Government, 175; on the necessity
of circumspect instructions to Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe on his mission
to Constantinople, 179; does not
credit the Czar's alleged hostile in-
tentions towards Turkey, 181; con-
flict of views with Lord John on the
Russian difficulty, 181, 182, 183;
labours for peace, 184; hopes that
Russia will accept the Porte's modi-
fications of the Vienna Note, 187;
Lord John's memorandum on the
Eastern question laid before him,
188; letter to Lord John on the
situation, 190; desires to draw up a
new Note to be submitted to the
Porte by the four Powers, 196; ob-
jections to his handing over the
Premiership to Lord John, 196;
agreement with Lord John on Reformi
and the Eastern question, 200, 201;
explains and defends Prince Albert's
action in public affairs, 205; against
the postponement of Lord John's
Reform Bill, 207; uneasy at the pros-
pects of war, 207n; on the further
postponement of the Reform Bill,

209; asks Lord John to postpone
same, 210; congratulates Lord John
on his speech on the postponement
of his Reform Bill, 213; Punch's
cartoon of him and Lord John, 2142;
divergence of policy between him
and Lord John in the Crimean War,
215; his treatment of the offer of an
Austrian alliance, 216; his dilatori-
ness in the execution of the plan for
the division of the War and Colonial
departments, 220; against subsidis-
ing Sweden, 220; prefers to subsidise
Austria, 220, 221; letters to and from
Lord John on changes in the Minis-
try, 223; concurs in Lord John's
acceptance of the Presidency of the
Council, 223; reasons for avoiding
the introduction of Sir George Grey
into the Cabinet, 225; agrees gene-
rally to Lord John's proposed Minis-
terial changes, 226; letter to Lord
John in reply to the latter's proposed
resignation, 229; declines to advise
the Queen to appoint Palmerston as
War Minister, 234; disclaims any
want of confidence in Lord John as
leader of the House of Commons,
236; declines to concert with the
French a new plan of campaign, 240;
letter in answer to Lord John's re-
signation, 242; interview with Lord
John respecting the latter being
asked to form a government, 295
Acheson, Lord, i. 475

Acland, Sir Thomas, i. 4n, 176, 312n,
318 n

Adair, Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert), i. 52
Adam, Captain (afterwards Admiral
Sir C.), i. 75

Adam, Rt. Hon. William (Duke of
Bedford's agent), i. 21, 28
Adams, Mr. (astronomer), pension to,
ii. 146

Adams, Mr. (American minister to
England), his correspondence with
Lord John regarding the Alabama,
ii. 365; asks redress for the injuries
inflicted by that vessel, 368
Adams, President, i. 437
Adams, Serjeant, i. 295
Adrianople, Treaty of, ii. 194
Adye, Captain, i. 78

Aïdé, Hamilton, his poetical tribute to
the character of Lord John, ii, 411
Alabama case, the, ii. 365
Albemarle, Lord, his doggerel Latin
lines on the Masters of Westminster
School, i. 7 n

Albert, Prince, on vastly good terms
with Lord John,' i. 450; interest in
the Cracow matter, ii. 8; distrust of
Lord Palmerston, 9; on the action of
the King of Piedmont in the Italian
revolt against Austria, 34; attitude
in the Austro-Italian conflict, 41;
objects to the wording of a despatch
to the Porte on the Hungarian re-
fugees, 50; letter to Lord John on
Palmerston's conduct in the Greek
dispute, 55; criticism of Lord John's
scheme of Reform, 129; differs with
Lord Palmerston on the Schleswig-
Holstein question, 132; charged
with interfering unconstitutionally in
foreign and domestic affairs, 205,
357; death of, 359

Ali Pacha, Turkish Plenipotentiary at
the Vienna Conference, ii. 263
Alice, Princess, visits the Russells, ii.
454

Alien Acts, the, i. 76

Allen, Mr., i. 44, 45, 117, 118; letter
to Lord John, 121
Althorp, Lord, undertakes conduct of
Lord John's Bribery Bill, i. 135, 137;
proposals for suppression of bribery,
139; his rumoured 'falling off,' 143;
discourages Lord John's project of
a Central Association, 153; becomes
leader of the Whig party, 160;
letter to Lord John, 160n; wishes
to settle the new civil list, 161; offers
office to Lord John, 166; not on the
Reform committee, 172; aids Lord
John in passing a Reform Bill, 178;
coincides in coercive Irish legisla-
tion, 194; introduces Bill for Irish
Church reform, 196, 201; hoped, on
Lord Grey's resignation, that the
King would send for Sir Robert
Peel, 213; succeeds to the peerage,
216; letter to Lord John, 219; his
principle in respect to Church rates,
290 n; ii. 198
Amberley, Lady, death of, ii. 466
Amberley, Lord (eldest son of Lord
John), i. 403, 418; Landseer's sketch
of, ii. 112; in private theatricals at
Woburn, 114; writes to his father
as to his future education, 287; his
marriage, 418; defeated at Leeds in
the general election, 420; birth of a
son, 420; begins his Parliamentary
career, 445; death of, 467
American Civil War, causes of, ii. 349,
350

Ampthill, Lord; see Russell, Lord Odo

Anglesey, Lord (Viceroy of Ireland), i. | Azeglio, Signor, ii. 284

191, 192, 206

Anti-Corn Law League, the, i. 381,
403; ii. 199

Antonelli, Cardinal, sends the Pope's
blessing to the young King of Naples,
ii. 333

Antwerp, bombardment of, ii. 190
Apponyi, Count (Austrian minister to
England), ii. 331, 405-407
Appropriation Clause, i. 256, 289, 310,
312, 314, 448

Arguelles, Señor, ii. 43

Argyll, Duke of, i. 37; ii. 176, 203;
quoted, 248; letter to Lord John re-
specting the detention of the Ala-
bama, 366 n

Armagh, Archbishop of, consulted by
Lord John on reforms in the Irish
Church, 312

Arms Bill, the, i. 404, 447, 485, 486
Arnould, Sir J., quoted, i. 497
Arrouca, convent of, i. 63
Arrow question, the, ii. 294
Ashley, Lord (afterwards Shaftesbury,
Earl of), his diary quoted, i. 415;
letter to Lord John, 473
Ashley, Mr. E., his publication of Lord
Palmerston's letters, ii. 158
Atherton, Sir William, his advice soli-
cited on the Alabama question, ii.
366

Atkin, Mr., i. 5
Attwood, Mr., i. 181 n
Auckland, Lord, i. 427; ii. 17; his
measures of national defence, 22;
letter from Lord John on the naval
estimates, 29; death of, 77, 96 、
Augustenburg, Prince, his claim to the
Duchy of Holstein, ii. 399
Australia, i. 352; French plan for in-
vading and holding, ii. 177
Austria, loses Milan, ii. 33-35; sug-
gested transfer of Ionian Islands to,
36; seeks a compromise with the
Italians, 40; refuses a conference on
Italian affairs, 44; suppresses the
Hungarian rebellion and demands
the extradition of Hungarian re-
fugees from Turkey, 49; action in
the Montenegrin difficulty, 178; pro-
position to subsidise, in the Russian
War, 220, 222

Austria, Emperor of, his abdication, ii.
26; a fugitive, 44

Austrian alliance with England, pro-
posals of an, in the Russian War, i.
216, 222

Aylmer, Lord, i. 279 n, 280

BALACLAVA, ii. 232

Ball, Mr. John, quoted, i. 243, 244
Ballot, the, i. 299, 308, 339
Bandon Bridge, borough of, i. 138
Bank of England charter revised, i.
202; in the crisis of 1847, 476
Bank Restriction Act of 1797, i. 86
Bannister (actor), i. 8

Barillon, M., despatches of, i. 107, 119
Baring, Sir Francis, i. 185; in the
Cabinet, 349; at the Exchequer, 380;
Budget proposals of, 383, 384; asks
for a committee on the sugar duties,
389; succeeds Lord Auckland in the
Cabinet, ii. 77; relationship to Sir
Charles Wood and the Greys, 77;
a stern economist, 77; accepts the
Admiralty, 97; votes for the Militia
Bill, 150 n; protests against Lord
John's supersession in the leader-
ship, 160; quoted, 213; consulted
by Lord John on a Ministerial crisis,
295

Barker, Mr. Russell, quoted, i. 11
Barnes, Mr. (editor of the Times), i.
246

Barnstaple, writ suspended, i. 125
Barrymore (actor), i. 9
Bath, Lady, i. 28

Bath, Lord (uncle by marriage of Lord
John), i. 28

Bathurst, Lord, i. 139
Baxter, Sir David, ii. 416
Baynes, Sir Christopher, i. 31
Beaumont, M. de (French minister in
London), ii. 41

Beauvale, Lord, i. 441
Bedford, Duchess of (Georgiana,
mother of Lord John), letters of, i.
3, 4; chronic ill-health, 3; death of, 4
Bedford, Duchess of (Georgiana, step-
mother of Lord John), i. 5, 11, 119;
ii. 112; death, 175
Bedford, Duchess of (Lord Tavistock's
wife); see under Stanhope, Lady
A. M.

Bedford, fourth Duke of, i. 2
Bedford, Francis, fifth Duke of, i. 2, 3
Bedford, Francis, seventh Duke of;
see under Tavistock, Lord
Bedford, John, sixth Duke of, i. 2;
death of his wife (a daughter of Lord
Torrington), 4; second marriage to
a daughter of the Duke of Gordon,
5; made Viceroy of Ireland, 19; his
part in the fall of the Talents Ad-
ministration, 29; retirement from the

Viceroyalty, 29; on tour in Eng-|
land, 31; visits Sir Walter Scott in
Selkirkshire, 32; opinion of English
universities, 46; pleasure at Lord
John's début at the Speculative
Society, 50; encourages him to con-
tinue the Whig Register, 51; sug-
gests to Lord John a tour through
the English manufacturing towns,
57; discourages Lord John's going
to Cambridge University, 59; on the
riots and discontent in 1816, 92; con-
tinental trips of, 119; opposes the
Canning Ministry of 1827, 140; re-
nounces a political career, 141; illness
of, 170 n; on Triennial Parliaments,
203; deprecates Lord John's assump-
tion of the Opposition leadership,
223; approves of Lord John's mar-
riage to Lady Ribblesdale, 241;
paralytic seizure, 261; death of, 254
Bedford citizens' contribution to Lord
John's expenses at the Devonshire
election, i. 244

Belcher, Young (pugilist) i. 10
Belgium, fears of its incorporation in
the French Empire, ii. 37; revolt
of, from Holland, 43; letter of the
King of, to Lord John, 457
Bennet, Mr., i. 5

Bennett, Mr., ii. 118

Bentinck, Lord Frederick, i. 75
Bentinck, Lord George, i. 386, 439,
459; scheme for Irish railways, 460,
461; ii. 13; proposal on the in-
come-tax, 28, 76; obtains a com-
mittee on the sugar colonies, 92
Beresford, Marshal, i. 64
Berkeley, ii. 30

Berlin, on the eve of a revolution, ii.
44

Bernal Osborne, Mr., ridicules the
idea of Lord John waiting for a
breeze,' ii. 102
Bernstorff, Count (German minister to
England), thanks Lord John for his
sympathies in the Franco-German
War, ii. 458

Berry, Miss, her introduction to Lord
John, i. 57; quoted, 100 n
Bessborough, Lord (Irish Viceroy), i.
438, 447; on the employment of
Irish poor in the potato famine,
452, 454, 457, 464; dying advice to
Lord John, 468, 469; death of, 470
Betty, Master (actor), i. 19
Bexley, Lord, i. 139,

Bickersteth, Mr. (afterwards Lord
Langdale, Master of the Rolls), i. 263

Birmingham, i. 142; great Reform
meeting at, 180; Political Union,
180, 181; Chartist riots in the Bull-
ring, 346; constabulary for, 347
Bismarck, Count, willing to accept the
mediation of Great Britain in the
Danish question, ii, 396; supports
the claim of the Prince of Augusten-
burg to the Duchy of Holstein, 399;
instructs the German Emperor's
thanks to be given to Lord John for
his sympathies in the Franco-German
War, 458

Blackburne (Attorney-General), i. 215.
Blackfeet and Whitefeet, i. 193
Blake, General, i. 41
Blake, Mr. (Remembrancer), i. 229 n
Blakeney, Sir E., i. 346 n, 347, 477,
486
Blandford, Lord, scheme for disfran-
chisement of rotten boroughs, i. 161
Blennerhasset, Sir R., on Orangeism,
i. 275 n

Bloomfield, Dr. (Bishop of London), i.
344

Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 133 n
Bonaparte, Joseph, made King of
Spain, i. 39

Bourbon dynasty expelled from Sicily,
ii. 333

Bourqueney, M. (French ambassador
at Vienna), ii. 216; proposes the
neutralisation of the Black Sea, 258,

259

Bowring, Sir John (British consul at
Canton), ii. 294

Bowyer, Sir J., remonstrates with Lord
John on his action in the religious
struggle between the Pope and the
German Emperor, ii. 462, 463
Boyne, battle of the, anniversary of, in
1849, and its results, ii. 82
Bradford, Lord (uncle by marriage to
Lord John), i. 24, 28, 37
Brand, Mr., i. 89

Breadalbane, Lord, ii. 112
Brent (Westminster scholar), i. 8
Bribery Bill, i. 125, 130, 134, 150
Bridgeman, George (afterwards Earl
of Bradford), i. 4 n, 28, 61, 62 n, 63,
69, 70, 72, 73, 74
Bridgeman, Lady Lucy, i. 78
Bright, Rt. Hon. J., i. 425; condemns

Lord John's speech on the Irish.
Church, ii. 174; the Cave of Adul-
lam, 426; his letter to Lady Russell
on the death of her husband, 470
Bristol, riots in, on the Lords' rejection
of the Reform Bill, i. 179; testimo→

nial of the Reformers of; to Lord | Bulwer, Sir E. Lytton, his motion that
John, 261

British and Foreign School Society, i.

342

British North America, i. 353

Broome, Mr., i. 37

Brougham, Lord, views on Parliamen-
tary Reform, i. 122; his sneer at
Lord John's phrase, New lamps for
old,' 125 ; one of a little faction
at Brooks's,' 141; motion for Par-
liamentary Reform, 165; 'stands
between Lord Grey and rest,' 167;
excluded from the Melbourne Cabi-
net, 243; made chairman of the
Commission on eaucational endow-
ments, 263; on the ballot, 299;
attacks Lord Melbourne for not
giving him the Chancellorship, 303;
defends Lord John's attitude towards
Reform, 304; his measure of indem-
nification to Lord Durham, 320; pro-
cures a grant for the National and
British and Foreign School Societies,
342; urges Lord John to write on
the constitution of England, 401;
opposes the Bill for repealing the
Navigation Acts, ii. 97
Brown, Dr. Thomas, i. 47
Brown, Mrs., i. 41
Browning, J. F., i. 233

Bruce, John (Professor of Logic), i. 26, 48
Brunnow, Baron, i. 369; recalled, ii.
206; his description of Lord John's
famous despatch on Italian affairs,
337

Brunswick Clubs, i. 153

Buccleuch, Duchess of, i. 358, 394 n
Buchanan, Mr. (President of the
United States), his declaration on
the question of secession, ii. 351
Buchanan, Sir A., ii. 433 n
Buller, Charles, i. 297, 302, 402, 411;
death of, ii. 96

Buller, Sir John (afterwards Lord
Churston), i. 191, 222, 355
Bulteel, John Croker (Lord Grey's son-
in-law), i. 191 n, 213, 222
Bulwer, Mr. (afterwards Sir H.),
British minister at the Court of
Madrid, connives at the selection
of Prince Leopold for the hand of
the Queen of Spain, ii. 1-3; des-
patches from Lord Palmerston, 6,
8 n; instructions in the Portuguese
rebellion, 10; his procedure in
Spanish affairs, 37-39; requested
to quit Spain, 39; sent o Washing-
ton, 40, 439 n

Lord John's conduct at Vienna has
shaken the confidence of the House
in the Ministry, ii. 273

Buol, Count, interviewed by Lord John
in Vienna, ii. 255; declares the Black
Sea neutralisation beyond the scope
of the Vienna Conference, 259; his
scheme regarding the Black Sea,
264; his version of interviews with
English and French ministers re-
garding the termination of the war,
271

Burdett, Sir Francis, on Lord John's
speech against the suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act, i. 95; motion
on Parliamentary Reform, 114, 115;
one of a little faction at Brooks's,'
141; motion for the relief of Roman
Catholics, 145; ii. 477

Burge, Mr. (agent for Jamaica), i. 352
Burgoyne, Sir John, letter to, from the
Duke of Wellington, on invasion, ii.

19

Burke, Mr., i. 167; ii. 199
Butler, Lady Mary, i. 5 n
Butler, Richard (afterwards Lord
Cahir), i. 13, 37

Byng, George (afterwards Lord Straf-
ford), and his five wishes, i. 379; ii.
206, 305

Byron, Lord, i. 14, 97, 119, 142, 409

CAMELFORD, writ suspended, i. 125
Camp, Miss de (actress), i. 8
Campbell, Sir J. (afterwards Lord;
Attorney-General), i. 262, 263; his
analysis of Lord John's character,
449; proposal for dealing with dis-
turbances in Ireland, 490; ii. 63, 70
Canada, origin of the rebellion in, i.
306; Lord Durham's mission and
line of action, 319, 320; proposed
loan to, for railway building, ii. 75;
proposed removal of the differential
duties on timber in, 76
Canning, Lord, ii. 225
Canning, Rt. Hon. G., speech against

Lord John's proposals on Parliamen-
tary Reform, i. 133; forms a Minis-
try, 139; death of, 140, 141, 142;
references to, ii. 135; quoted, 443
Canning, Sir Stratford (afterwards
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, minister
at the Porte), urges the Porte not to
give up the Hungarian refugees, ii.
50; further action therein, 135;
returns to Constantinople, 179;
settles the Holy Places dispute, 180,

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