O'Rourke, Father, i. 457
Osborne, Mr., i. 30

Owen, Professor, on Lord John as a
lecturer, ii. 282

Oxford, Bishop of (1847), i. 497

PACIFICO, Don, his claims on the Greek
Government, ii. 51-54

Page, Mr. (Westminster Master), i. 7
Palmer (actor), i. 8

Palmer, Mr. (of Luckley), marriage to
Lady M. Sinclair, i. 16

Palmer, Sir Roundell, on the Ala-
bama case, ii. 366
Palmerston, Lady, i. 162; thinks her
husband's dismissal from the Foreign
Office the result of a conspiracy, ii.

141; 204, 449, 450 n
Palmerston, Lord, i. 31; votes for the
disfranchisement of East Retford,
151; made Foreign Secretary in the
Grey Ministry, 167; defeated in the
Hampshire election, 220; Foreign
Secretary in the Melbourne Ministry,
243; vote on the Irish Municipal
Bill, 340 n; supported by Lord John
in urging the acceptance of the Treaty
of July 1840, 360; strengthens the
Mediterranean fleet, 361; influence
as Lord Melbourne's brother-in-law,
364; policy towards France and
the Four Powers in the Egypto-
Turkish war, 365-367; attacks Lord
John in the Chronicle, 369; does
not believe in the French threats of
war, 370; is considered a dangerous
man at the Foreign Office, 372; urges
the reinstatement of the Pacha of
Egypt, 372; rejects a conference
of the Four Powers, 373; letter to
Lord John defending Lord Pon-
sonby's action at the Porte, 375; tri-
umph of his foreign policy, 377, 378;
consequences of his high-handed
method, 386; supports the Ten Hours
clause in the Factories Bill, 415; ob-
jections to his return to the Foreign
Office, 430-433, 436; approves of
admitting Cobden to the Cabinet,
441; offers Mr. Charles Villiers a
post at Rio, 443 n; 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, 8; action in the quarrel
between Lord Normanby and M.
Guizot, 9; distrusted by the Court,
9 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, 1In; threatens resigna-
tion thereon, II; his epigrammatic
phrase, that steam has bridged
the Channel, 15; urges the forma-
tion of the Militia, 16, 18; protests
against delay in the scheme of national
defence, 17; his objections to Mr. Fox
Maule's scheme thereon, 18; private
communication from the Russian
minister on the Schleswig-Holstein
question, 38; unauthorised despatch
on Spanish affairs, 38; his proposed
measures against Spain rejected by
the Cabinet, 40; his irritating des-
patch to Portugal, 40; amicable re-
lations with the French ambassador,
M. de Beaumont, 41; letter of re-
monstrance from Lord John, 42;
complains of the Queen giving too
ready_credence to persons hostile to
her Government, 43; permits an
English contractor to furnish the
Sicilian insurgents with arms, 47; apo-
logises to the Neapolitan Government
for this inadvertence,' 48; on ill
terms with Lord Ponsonby, 48;
assents to the passing through Lord
John of all despatches submitted to
the Queen, 49; letter to Lord John
on the refugee Hungarians in Turkey,
50; squaring at Russia,' 51; in-
structs Admiral Parker to enforce
claims on the Greek Government,
51; his unaltered despatch to Mr.
Wyse, 53; letter from Lord John
and his reply in the matter, 53, 54;
assents to a compromise on the
Greek imbroglio with M. Drouyn de
Lhuys, 55; is informed by Lord
John of an intended change in the
Foreign Department, 56; speech
in the House in defence of his
foreign policy, 58; receives a memo-
randum from the Queen on the rela-
tions of a Foreign Minister to his
sovereign, 59; agrees with Lord
John in the abolition of the Irish
Viceroyalty, 85 n; mainly concerns
himself with the business of his
department, 88; secures support for

his policy by subsidising a news-
paper, 95; thinks Lord John's new
Reform Bill premature, IoI; con-
gratulates Lord John on his speech
on the slave trade, 106; on Lord
John's Reform Bill, 129; advises
him to postpone his visit to Paris,
131; sends an unauthorised des-
patch to Baron Koller, and is
forced to withdraw it, 132; letter
from Lord John urging him not to
receive Kossuth, and his reply, 132;
abandons his intention of seeing
Kossuth, 135; 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,
158; his account of his conversation
with the Duke of Bedford, 158; ad-
vice on the Russo-Turkish difficulty,
184; Lord John's memorandum laid
before him, 188; against Lord John's
scheme of Parliamentary Reform,
198; communicates his objections
to Lord Aberdeen, 200; is in-
formed by Lord Aberdeen that no
material alterations can be made in
the Bill, 201; resignation, 201; with-
draws his resignation, 204; public
opinion of the causes of his resigna-
tion, 205; tries to postpone the
introduction of Lord John's Reform
Bill, 207; will resign if it is proceeded
with, 210; letter to Lord John on
the subject, 211; his beau ideal of
the results of the Crimean War, 217;
approves of the subsidising of Sweden
in the war with Russia, 221; bent on
sending an expedition to the Crimea,
227; proposed by Lord John as the
head of the War Department, 233;
doubts the expediency of abolishing
the office of Secretary-at-War, 235;
sent for by the Queen'to form a Govern-
ment, 246; succeeds in reconstruct-
ing the old administration, 246; his
letters to Lord John relative to
the Vienna Conference, 248; invites
him to take office on reconstruction
of Cabinet, 250; his pleasure on the

serve

acceptance of office by Lord John,
252; personally entreats Lord John
to remain in the Government, 269;
his letter on the latter's resigna-
tion of office, 274; defeats a mo-
tion for the reduction of county
franchise, 293; defeated on Mr.
Cobden's resolution on the conduct
of his Government in the Arrow
affair, 295; announces the intention
of dissolving Parliament, 295; his
opinion of Lord John's speech in
answer to Mr. Disraeli, 301; is
defeated on the Bill for the altera-
tion of the Conspiracy Laws, 303;
his letter to Lord Granville on the
Liberal leadership, 314; assents to
the Queen's suggestion to
under Lord Granville, 315; sent for
again by the Queen to form a Govern-
nient, 317; seeks the assistance of
Lord John, and gives the latter the
Foreign Office, 317; agrees with
Lord John's policy of Italy for the
Italians,' 321; informs the Queen
that the non-adoption of his Italian
policy may lead to resignation, 321;
his apprehensions regarding Reform,
340; his remark on the Emperor
Napoleon's desire for a simultaneous
declaration in England and France
of the Commercial Treaty, 343n;
receives a communication from Lord
Derby relative to Conservative sup-
port, 344; 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,' 356;
letters to and from Lord Russell on
the state of affairs in America, 360,
361; his action in the Schleswig-
Holstein affair in 1850, 387 and n;
letter to Lord Russell on the sepa-
ration of the two questions, 401;
his opinion of the Prussians as sol-
diers, 401 ; not prepared to go
to war in favour of Denmark with-
out a substantial alliance, 402; his
answer to Lord John's memoran-
dum relative to the united action of
France and Great Britain, 402 n; he
and Lord Russell in favour of stronger
measures than their colleagues, 404;
his death, 421

Panizzi, Signor, on Lord John as a
lecturer, ii. 282

Parga, ceded to the Turks, i. 114 n
Paris, coup d'état in, ii. 138
Parker, Admiral Sir W., ii. 51, 52

Parker, Mr., defeats Lord John in the
election for Devonshire, i. 244
Parkes, Joseph, ii. 158
Parr, Dr., i. 58

Pasolini, Count, ii. 437

Patten, Rt. Hon. J. Wilson (Lord
Winmarleigh), i. 176

Pattison, Mr., elected for London, i.
474n

Peel, Archibald (third son of General
Peel), marries Lord John's eldest
daughter, ii. 445

Peel, General, i. 281; ii. 175 n
Peel, Lady, declines a public funeral
for her husband and a peerage for
herself, ii. 109, 110

Peel, Lady Georgiana (Lord John's
eldest daughter), ii. 283; married to
Mr. Archibald Peel, 445; 449
Peel, Sir Robert, his abilities contrasted
with those of Lord John, i. 109;
opposed to Reform, 133; retires
from the Canning Ministry, 139; in
the Wellington administration, 144;
defeated by Lord John on the Re-
ligious Disabilities question, 148;
annoyance at the vote of his col-
leagues on East Retford, 151; anger
of the extreme Tories against him for
his part in Roman Catholic Emanci-
pation, 155, 160; action on Lord
John's first Reform Bill, 173; op-
position to the third Reform Bill,
185; compliment from Lord John,
185 n; on the Church in Ireland,
211; his Ministry in 1834, 220;
issue of the Tamworth Manifesto,
220; cannot command a majority
in the Commons, 223; responsible,
by accepting office, for the policy of
his sovereign, 226; defeated on Lord
Morpeth's amendment to the Ad-
dress, 228; Liberals prepared to
give his Ministry a fair trial, 235;
resignation, 238; breadth of his
policy and skill in administration,
238; moderation on the Municipal
Corporations Bill, 255; proposal to
deal with the tithe system, 268;
thinks that marriage with Dissen-
ters should be a civil contract, 269;
action in the Canadian difficulty,
309; Lord John seeks a compromise
with him on the Tithes Bill, 312;
his Ministerial policy paralleled by
Lord John, 314; takes no pains to
win the goodwill of his followers,
317; urged to moderation in oppo-
sition in the debate on Irish affairs,

329; sent for by the Queen to form
a Ministry, insists on the removal of
the ladies of the household, 333;
communication from Mr. Aber-
cromby on his resignation of the
Speakership, 335; reforms in the
Criminal Code, 345; supports Lord
John on the question of Privilege,
357; moves a vote of want of con-
fidence in the Melbourne Ministry,
390; decides on Mr. Lefevre's re-
election as Speaker, 396; measures
introduced by him in 1842, 400;
accused of coquetting with Free
Trade, 403; introduces an Arms
Act, 404; dealing with the sugar
question, 414; his Budget of 1845,
415; his Irish measures, 416; action
on the failure of the potato crop,
422, 425; resignation, 426; resusci-
tates his old Ministry, 436; propo-
sition for arbitration in the American
dispute, 437; defeated on Coercion,
and resigns, 438, 447; his practice
of conferring peerages for merit only,
475, 476; gives support to the
Whig Ministry, 476; basis of his
Coercion Act, 482; contrast be-
tween his and Lord John's coer
cive measures, 489, 490; his policy
towards France, ii. 14; Duke of
Wellington's memorandum to, on
England's relations with France and
the United States, 14; influenced
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, 58;
weakening of his distrust of Lord
John, 97; interchange of views with
Lord John on Horace's Odes, 107;
death of, 109; his monument in
Westminster Abbey, 110, 123, 144,
146, 164; Lord Shaftesbury's opinion
of him, 282
Peirce, Mr., i. 5
Pelham, Mr., i. 167
Pellico, Silvio, ii. 43
Pembroke, Lady, i. 466
Pennefather, Mr., i. 192
Penryn, bribery at, i. 125, 150, 151
Pepys, Sir C. (Master of the Rolls),

made Chancellor, i. 263, 264
Perceval, Spencer, i. 29, 31; attempts
to conquer France by depriving it
of bark,' 36 n; satirised by Lord
John, 50 n; confers a restricted
Regency on the Prince of Wales, 51;
his Ministry's return to power cele-

:

brated by Lord John in a parody,
52 n; murder of, 60
Perrin, Judge, i. 480
Perry, Mr. (editor of the Morning
Chronicle), i. 129

Persigny, Count (French ambassador
in London), ii. 319, 320, 331
Peterloo, the affair at, i. 120
Petty, Lord H. (afterwards Lord
Lansdowne), Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, i. 18, 19, 27; defeated in
the contest for Cambridge Uni-
versity, 31; see Lansdowne, Lord
Peyton (Westminster scholar), i. 8
Philipps, Sir R. B., made a peer, i.
474, 475

Piedmont, her part in the Italian revolt
against Austria, ii. 34

Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, i. 13, 16, 18,
88, 476

Playfair, Professor, i. 45-47, 57-60, 63,
83; ii. 110, 286

Plunket, Lord, i. 123, 480
Pocklington, Mr., i. 32
Polhill, Mr., i. 163 n

Polignac, Prince de, i. 163, 164
Ponsonby, Captain, i. 25
Ponsonby, Colonel, i. 31
Ponsonby, Frederick, i. 138
Ponsonby, Lady Emily, quoted, i.
468 n

Ponsonby, Lady Fanny, i. 5
Ponsonby, Lord, bet with Lord John,
i. 56 n; advises the Sultan to reject
Mehemet Ali's propositions, 366;
proposes the deposition of Mehemet
Ali, 370; extends the blockade of
Alexandria, 374; conduct defended
by Lord Palmerston, 375, 376; ten-
sion between him and Palmerston,

ii. 48
Ponsonby, Mr., i. 5, 110
Pope (actor), i. 9
Pope, General, ii. 360

Pope, the, forced to quit Rome, ii. 26,
75; issues a Bull dividing England
into twelve sees, 118; his remark to
Mr. Odo Russell, 339 n
Porchester, Lord, motion for an inquiry
into the Walcheren expedition, i. 50 n
Porte, the, and the Montenegrin in-
surrection, ii. 178; the Russian de-
mands from, for protection of the
Greek Church, 181; urged by Sir
Stratford de Redcliffe to reject them,
181; alterations in the Vienna Note,
187; advised to make concessions
to Russia, 194; outrages by its
Mussulman on its Christian sub-

jects, 195; destruction of fleet at
Sinope, 201

Portland, Duke of, i. 29
Portugal, England's hereditary ally,
i. 38; partition of, by Napoleon, 39
the convention of Cintra, 39; again
occupied by the French, 42; insur
rection in, ii. 9-13; affairs in, 37
Portugal, Maria, Queen of, her rela-
tions with the English Court, ii. 9;
unpopularity of her husband, 9; ap-
peals for intervention by the Powers
on the rebellion of her subjects, 9;
arbitrary measures of her advisers,
IO, II

Potato famine in Ireland, i. 422, 448,
451, 454; ii. 72
Poyntz, Mr., i. 142 n

Presbyterians, the, in Ulster, ii. 73
Preston, Lord, i. 6, 9; see Ludlow,
Lord

Prince Regent, birthday of, i. 25; re-
strictions on his appointment, 51;
see George IV.

Privy Council, judgment in the Gorham
case, ii. 116, 117

Prudhoe, Lord, i. 475

Prussia, King of, ii. 253

Prussia, Prince of (Emperor William),
ii. 253
Pusey, Mr., ii. 115
Pym, Mr., i. 30

QUAADE, M., his opinion on the
Danish question, ii. 398 n
Quadruple Treaty, the, ii, 10, 11

RADETZKY, Marshal, ii. 33; defeats
the Piedmontese at Novara, 40, 41
Radical party, action of the, in Parlia-
ment, i. 121, 127, 277; nickname
Lord John Finality Jack,' 303
Raglan, Lord, i. 35; ii. 239
Railways in Ireland, i. 460
Rancliffe, Lord, i. 163

Rattazzi, Signor, visited by Lord
John, ii. 284; his Cabinet, 327
Rawdon, Colonel, i. 96
Rawdon, Miss, marriage to Lord
William Russell, i. 96; Byron's
encomium on her beauty, 97; see
Russell, Lady William
Rawdon, Mrs., i. 240 n
Rechberg, Count (Austrian Foreign
Minister), ii. 319, 325, 331
Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de; see Can-
ning, Sir Stratford
Redington, Sir T., i. 469 n; illness of,
ii. 67; consulted by Lord John on

lic clergy, 73; his scheme for bring-

ing this about, 74
Reeve, Mr. H., i. 478; quoted, ii. 9
Reform Bill, the first, rejected in the
Commons, i. 174; the second,
carried in the Commons, 176;
thrown out by the Lords, 179; the
third, passed in the Commons, 183;
defeated in the Lords, 185; passed
and receives the royal assent, 186,
187; pamphlet on the principles of
the, 331; ii. 101, 129, 143, 206, 207,
304, 424
Registration of births, marriages, and
deaths, established, i. 270
Reshid Pacha (Prime Minister to the
Sultan), ii. 189; Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe's warning to, 195

410; emancipation of, 145, 153, 191;
endowment of their clergy, in Ire-
land, proposed, ii. 61, 74

Rome, occupied by the French, ii. 48
Romilly, Lady G. (Lord John's half-
sister), i. 61

Romilly, Sir Samuel, i. 113, 480
Roscoe, Mr., i. 31

Rose, Colonel (chargé d'affaires at the
Porte), summons the British fleet, ii.

180

Rose, Right Hon. George, i. 50 n, 129
Ross, Mr., ii. 100 n
Rossi, M., ii. 33

Rothschild, Baron, i. 474, 475; ii. 91,
151 n; acknowledges Lord John's
services on behalf of the Jews, 307
Rouher, M., ii. 408

152

Rianzares, Señor, ii. 3
Ribblesdale, Lady, her children by her
first husband, i. 239; married to
Lord John, 241; death of, 323
Ribblesdale, Thomas (third Lord), i.
239, 401, 418; ii. 130; reply to Lord
John's remonstrance on his purchase
of General Peel's race-horses, 175 n;
marriage with Miss Mure, 175; hires
Lord John's estate of Rodborough
manor, 283; death of, 467
Rich, Mr., ii. 220
Richmond, Duke of, i. 172, 185, 209,
210, 213

Ripon, Lord, i. 209, 213

Roden, Lord, moves for a committee
on Irish affairs, i. 328; visit from
Orangemen on the anniversary of
the battle of the Boyne, and its
results, ii. 82; his name struck
out of the commission of the peace,
82

Roe, Mr., i. 480

Roebuck, Mr., i. 456; his motion ap-
proving Palmerston's policy in the
Greek dispute, ii. 58; his criticism
of the Irish policy of the Whig ad-
ministration in 1849, 81; motion ap-
proving Palmerston's foreign policy,
106; motion on the conduct of the
Crimean War, 241; motion in oppo-
sition to Government carried, 246;
gives notice of motion based on re-
port of the Sebastopol committee,
275

Rogers, Rev. William, ii. 480 n.
Rogers, Samuel, i. 137 n; anecdote of,
́143 n, 184 n, 288, 300, 301
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195

Rowan, Colonel (Commissioner of
Police), ii. 64

Royal Society, the, ii. 145
Russell, Lady Agatha (Lord John's
daughter), ii. 175

Russell, Francis Albert Rollo (Lord
John's youngest son), ii. 100, 283
Russell, Francis (Lord John's uncle
William's eldest son), i. 37

Russell, Lady Georgiana A. (daughter
of Lord John), i. 281; see Peel
Russell, Gertrude (Lord John's uncle
William's eldest daughter), i. 38, 60,
163

Russell, Lady John (Lord John's first
wife); see Ribblesdale, Lady
Russell, Lady John (Lady Fanny
Elliot), second wife of Lord John, i.
393; birth of a son (John), 402;
attacked by fever, 405; lines on her
husband's fifty-first birthday, 406;
verses to Lord John and his reply,
417, 418; illness at Edinburgh, 418;
urges him to accept the Premiership,
426; reminiscences of him, 449,
450; recovery from serious illness,
465; account of her life at Pembroke
Lodge, Richmond, 466; her diary
quoted, 478; quoted on Irish affairs,
490; reading to her husband at St.
Leonard's, ii. 27; on Lord Palmer-
ston, 41; quoted, 66; birth of her
second son, 66; on a tour in Ireland
with her husband, 71; her husband's
dog-Latin letter to her, 92 n; on the
interview between Lord John and
Sir James Graham touching the offer
of the Admiralty, 99; birth of a

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