third son, 96, 105; lines on her hus-
band, III; on the Scotch tour, 112;
account of her husband's home life
and social gifts, 110; description of
a tour with him in Wales, 131; ill-
ness of, 156; on the effect of office
on her husband's health, 164; on
his acceptance of office in the Aber-
deen Ministry, 165; note on his
tenure of the Foreign Office, 168,
170; birth of her only daughter, 175;
story of Palmerston, 189 n; quoted,
214; visits her sick sister Harriet at
Paris, 241; opinion of her husband's
mode of resignation, 242; her lines
on the marriage of her step-daughter,
346; joy at the termination of her
husband's official career, 436; on
his failing health, 461; letters of
condolence from the Queen and Lord
Beaconsfield on the death of her
husband, 468

Russell, Lady Rachel, letters of, i. 107
Russell, Lady Victoria (daughter of

Lord John), i. 323, 357 n, 425 n;
her marriage to Mr. Viiliers, ii. 345;
her mother's lines on the event,
345

Russell, Lady William (daughter of
the fourth Earl of Jersey), death of,

i. 37
Russell, Lady William (Lord John's
sister-in-law), her marriage, i. 97;
illness of, 157; letter to Lord John
in answer to an offer of his official
residence at Whitehail, 171
Russell, Lord Arthur, i. 2
Russell, Lord Charles (Serjeant-at-
arms), ii. 206

Russell, Lord Edward, private secre-
tary to Lord John, i. 337
Russell, Lord John, at the age of
eleven, 1; inherited bad health, 3;
early days at Stratton Park, 3; at
school at Sunbury, 4; his mother's
letter to the best of all good boys,'
4; death of his mother, 4; his father
becomes Duke of Bedford, 4; ex-
tracts from his journal, 5; accident
when out shooting, 6; at Westmin-
ster School, 6; first school flogging,
7 plays Tom Thumb at West-
minster, 8; record of a week's holi-
day from school, 8; 'fagged' by his
brother, Lord Tavistock, 9; his
views on public school' life, 9, 10;
at a prize fight in Tothill Fields, 10;
leaves Westminster, and has for
private tutor Dr. Cartwright, II;

his tutor's method of instruction, 12;
early essays at dramatic composition,
II, 12; starts a commonplace book,
II; his first volume of poetry dedi-
cated to Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, 13; his
later opinion of Pitt's policy, 13 n;
with Mr. Smith, Vicar of Woodnes-
boro', 13; friendships formed at
Woodnesboro', 13; starts a diary,
14; order of life at the new school,
14; dinners as a boy of twelve, 14;
at the theatre at Sandwich, 14;
betting at school, 15; juvenile satire
on Lord Melville, 15; physical char-
acteristics at the age of thirteen,
16 n; recess at Woburn, 16; in
private theatricals at Kimbolton, 16;
poem on the marriage of Lady
Madalina Sinclair, 16; letter from
his father, enclosing money, with in-
structions for its disbursement, 17;
account-book entry of said disburse-
ment, 17; playing in private thea-
tricals at Woburn, 17; a prologue
written at thirteen, 17; parody on
the dagger scene in ' Macbeth,' based
on Lord Hawkesbury's proposed
successorship to Pitt, 18; epigram
on Lord H. Petty, 19; poem on the
fall of the Tories, 19; five nights out
of eight at theatre in London, 19;
shooting and horsemanship, 20; his-
tory of Mrs. Witty' (his dog), 20;
cost of her keep, 21; suspicious
death of Mrs. W.,' 21; backward
in his studies, 22; translations of
Virgil and Horace, 22; holiday-
making, 22; hard on Lord Melville,
23; at the sheep-shearing at Wo-
burn, 24; in Ireland at the Viceregal
Lodge, 24; costume at a fancy ball,
24; physical characteristics at four-
teen, 25; his new journal and account
book, 25; at Woodnesboro', 25;
journal entry on Fox's death, 25;
remarks on Jones's 'Letters from a
Tutor,' 26; on Yeates's 'Conversa-
tions on Chemistry' and Lord Hol-
land's 'Lope de Vega,' 26; too bad
a shot to keep a game-book, 26 n;
references to the general election and
to Napoleon, 27; attractions of the
playhouse, 27; at Holland House,
considers Sydney Smith 'very amus-
ing, Charles Fox 'a very clever
boy,' 27; again in Ireland, 27;
writes a prologue for theatricals, and
appears as an old woman at the ball
at the Royal Hospital, 28; back at

at

Woodnesboro,' 28; keen interest in
the general election of 1807, 30;
letter on the Bedfordshire election
from Dr. Cartwright, 31 n; on tour
in England and Scotland with his
parents, 31; in the Lake Country,
31; his criticism of Dr. Watson, 31;
encounters a Yorkshire utilitarian on
the banks of Derwentwater, 32;
meets Sir Walter Scott, 32; cost
of his journey from Ayton to Wood-
nesboro', 35; his political opinion
of the Duke of Gloucester, 35; on
the Copenhagen expedition, 36 n;
rook-shooting, 37 and n;
Woburn, 37; at Lord Tavistock's
wedding, 37; course of his studies
at Woodnesboro', 37 n; Lord and
Lady Holland's proposition of a tour
in Spain, 38; his sympathy with
Spain and hatred of Napoleon, 40;
at Coruña, 41; abandonment of the
line of tour in consequence of the
French advance, 41; arrives at Lis-
bon, 41; description of the caval-
cade en route, 41; at Seville, 41; de-
tained by fever at Badajoz, 43; re-
turn to England, 43; dissatisfaction
with Whig Opposition on the subject
of Spain, 44; course of his studies
while on the Spanish tour, 44; ac-
quisition of languages, 45; at Edin-
burgh with Professor Playfair, 46;
his estimate of the Professor, 46;
course of study at Edinburgh, 47;
elected a member of the Speculative
Society, 48; interference with his
studies through sickliness of consti-
tution, 48; debates and work in the
Speculative Society, 49; his article
in the Whig Register (?) on Par-
liamentary Reform, 50; parody of
'Lochiel's Warning, 50 n; con-
trast of his early and later views on
the conduct of reform, 51; political
parody on the Witches' Chorus in

Macbeth,' 52 n; second visit to
the Peninsula, 54; at Gibraltar, 54;
disapproves of proclamations offer-
ing rewards for deserters from the
French, 54; at Cadiz, his letter to
his father on Spanish affairs, and
his brother William's postscript, 54
and n; interview with Sir Arthur
Wellesley at headquarters in the
lines of Torres Vedras, 55; reads a
paper on the proceedings of the
Spanish Cortes at the Speculative
Society, 56; on tour through the

manufacturing towns of England
with Professor Playfair, 58; opinion
of Dr. Parr, 58; views on English
manufactures and manufacturers, 58,
59; his return to Edinburgh Univer-
sity, 59; lines on Dugald Stewart,
60; drilling with Militia in Bedford-
shire, 60; another foreign tour, 61;
unexpectedly meets his brother
William at Portsmouth, 61 n; his
twentieth birthday at sea, 62; a new
diary of his fifth tour, 62; in Portu-
gal, 63; on the battlefield of Sala-
manca, 65; mixed up with the re-
treating British army, 66; on the
battlefield of Barrosa, 68; an even-
ing adventure, 68, 70; reaches his
brother at headquarters, 71; illness
en route, 71; engages a servant,
71; their travelling aspect, 71; the
priest's Latin syllogism at Plasencia,
71 n; member for Tavistock, 74; at
Saragossa, 75; at Wellington's head-
quarters at Vera, 75; his song on
Spanish women, 76 n; return to
England, 76; opposes in Parliament
the forced union of Norway and
Sweden, and the renewal of the Alien
Acts, 76; becomes a member of
Grillion's Club, 77; tour in Italy,
78; interview with Napoleon at Elba,
79; views on Italian art, 807; reports
the popular feeling in Italy to be in
favour of Napoleon, 81; at Bologna
and Modena, where fighting prevails,
81; notes the sharp contrast be-
tween the German and Italian races,
82; protests in Parliament against a
new war, 82; summary of his career
from boyhood to manhood, 83, 84;
lines from an essay on Vanity, 84;
denounces the bloated national ex-
penditure, 89; opposes income-tax
successfully, 90, 91, and army esti-
mates unsuccessfully, 91; infrequent
appearance in the House, 91; speech
against suspension of Habeas Corpus
Act, 94; withdrawal from Parlia-
mentary life, 95; Mr. Moore's

Remonstrance,' 95; attractions of
society on the Continent, 96; medi-
tates abandoning politics for travel
and letters, 96; works published by
him from 1819 to 1829, 98; 'The
Nun of Arrouca,' 99, 129; success
of his Essays and Sketches,' 99;
illustration of his literary style, 100;
rank as an essayist and as a poet,
101; his tragedy Don Carlos,' 101,

102; translation of Fifth Book of the
Odyssey, 103, 104; historical works,
105:- English Government and
Constitution,' 105; 'Life of William,
Lord Russell,' 106; 'Causes of the
French Revolution,' 106; his stand-
ing as an historian, 107; 'Affairs of
Europe,' 108; Turks in Europe,'
108; qualified appreciation of his
historical works by the public, 109;
appreciation by his friends, 109;
poem suggested by the early reviews
of his works, 110-112; again elected
for Tavistock, 113; Parliamentary
speeches in 1819, 114; on the ces-
sion of Parga, 114; on Parliamen-
tary Reform, 114; letter to Lord
Holland on foreign politics, 115;
political advice from his father, 116;
letter from Lord Dudley on 'Doulo-
cracy' at Cassiobury, 116 n; an-
other foreign tour, 116; offer of
pecuniary help to Moore, 117; ac-
companied by Moore to the Continent,
118; sonnet to Madame Durazzo on
leaving Genoa, 119 n; recall by
his party to Parliament, 121; his
resolutions for the disfranchisement
of Grampound, 123, 124; is for
moderate against radical Reform,
124 n; his Bill for suspending the
issue of writs to Penryn, Camelford,
Grampound, and Barnstaple, 125:
sits for Huntingdonshire in
Parliament of 1820, 125; petition
to the King on the introduction of
the Bill of Pains and Penalties,
127; independence of Court favour,
127 ; taciturnity in society, 128;
parody on William Spencer's 'The
Year 1806, 129, 130; reintroduces
the Grampound Bill, 130; met by
Stuart Wortley's amendment, 130;
resolutions on bribery and the direct
representation of populous places,
131; his Bill for the suppression of
bribery, 134; defeated in his canvass
of Huntingdonshire, 135; commits
his Bribery Bill to the charge of Lord
Althorp, 135; letter to Lord Althorp
on bribery, 136; another Continen-
tal tour, 137; translates Fifth Book
of Odyssey at Geneva, 137; offered
the Irish borough of Bandon Bridge
by the Duke of Devonshire and
elected, 139; Moore dedicates his
'Epicurean' to him, 139; writes a
smart'
'prologue for private theatri-
cals in Florence, 139 n; supports

the

the Canning Ministry of 1827, 140;
letter to Moore on Canning's death,
141; his anecdote of Rogers, 142 n;
the champion of religious liberty,
145; motion supporting the de-
mands of Dissenters and Roman
Catholics, 146-148; passage in the
Commons of his Bill for disfranchis-
ing Penryn and enfranchising Man-
chester, 150, 151; the same rejected
by the Lords, 151; addresses the
King for the settlement of the
Roman Catholic emancipation ques-
tion, 152; proposal of a Central As-
sociation for organising the country
and for petitioning Parliament in
favour of religious liberty, 153;
letter to Lord Lansdowne on the
Catholic question, 154; asked by
an extreme Tory to reintroduce
his Reform Bill, 155; writes The
Captive of Alhama,' 155; extract
from his The Bee and the Fly,'
156, 157n; letter from Madame Dur-
azzo on his rumoured intended mar-
riage, 156; letters from his brother
William on the same subject, 157;
at Geneva, 157; his opinion of the
battle of Navarino, 158; letter from
Lord Holland on Russian ascen-
dency, 159; his motion on behalf of
Greece, 160; rejection of his Bill
to allow Manchester, Leeds, and
Birmingham to return members, 161;
fails in general election of 1830, 162;
in Paris, 162; efforts on behalf of the
Prince de Polignac, 163, 164; offered
the Paymaster-generalship by Lord
Grey, 165; address to the electors
of Tavistock, 167; his only official
act of importance in the four years
of the Paymaster-generalship, 169;
salary attached thereto, 169; his
London and country residences, 170;
time spent on the Continent, 170 n;
his first dinner-party and the guests
thereat, 171 and n; letter from Lady
William Russell declining the offer
of his official residence, 171; invited
by Lord Durham to frame a plan
of Parliamentary Reform, 172; his
plan of Reform, 172; his speech and
its reception on the introduction of
the first Reform Bill, 173; sanguine
letter to Moore on its chances of pass-
ing, 175; elected for Devon, 176;
introduces his second Reform Bill,
which is carried through the Com-
mons, 176, 177; admitted to the Cabi-

net, 176; demonstration of Liberals
on his handing the Bill to the Lord
Chancellor, 178; banquet at the
Thatched House Tavern, 179; the
Bill is thrown out by the Lords, 179;
letter to the Birmingham meeting,
180; letter to William IV. apologis-
ing for calling the majority of the
House of Lords a faction, and the
King's reply, 181; introduces and
carries the third Reform Bill, 182;
criticism of House of Lords on their
treatment of his Reform Bill, 186;
Lord Lyttelton's verses to him, 187;
offer to Sir Walter Scott, 187; again
elected for Devonshire on the dissolu-
tion of the Grey administration, 189;
on carrying Reform, 189; letter to
Moore on liberal measures to the Irish,
190; publication of 'Causes of the
French Revolution,' 191 ; views on
Irish policy, 191-193; favours coer-
cive legislation in Ireland, 194; letter
to Moore in answer to his' Paddy's
Metamorphosis,' 195; letters to Lord
Grey on the insufficiency of the pro-
posed Bill for Irish Church Reform,
and offering to resign, 196, 197;
letter from Lord Grey submitting the
matter to Lord Holland, 198; Lord
Holland's letter of advice on his
proposed resignation, 199; opposes
triennial Parliaments, 202, 203; letter
from his father on that subject, 202;
visits Ireland, 204; letters to Moore
from Ireland, 203, 204; entertained at
a public dinner at Belfast, 205; con-
clusions formed on his Irish tour,
206, 207 n; opinions on the Church
in Ireland, 207 n, 208; 'upsets
the coach,' 208, 209; declares Irish
Church Reform to be the principle of
the Government's existence, 210; on
coercion, 211; speech on his own
position towards the policy of the
Government, 212; Moore's letter on
the subject and his reply, 212; letter
to Lord Melbourne on the assem-
bling of Parliament, on Lord Grey's
resignation, and the policy of the
Government, 214; his appointment
as leader of the House opposed by
the King, 217; letter from Lord
Tavistock, 217; letter from the King
and from the Chelsea College esta-
blishment on his leaving office, 218;
letter to Moore, 219; re-elected for
the southern division of Devonshire,
220; his speech at Totnes, 221, 222;

leader of the Opposition in the Peel
Ministry, 223; difficulties of his new
position, 223; speech on the Speaker-
ship, 224, 225; his speech on the
amendment to the Address, 226, 227;
letter in reply to his circular from
O'Connell promising the co-operation
of the Irish party, 229; draft reply
to O'Connell, 230, 231; Lord Duncan-
non's letter on the same subject, 231;
letter from Lord Grey on the concert
of the Whigs with the Irish party
and the Radicals, 233; refuses Hume's
proposition to limit supplies, and
desires to give the Peel Ministry a
fair trial, 234; raises the question of
the Irish Church as an experimentum
crucis, 235-237; forces Sir Robert
Peel to resign, 235; marriage to
Lady Ribblesdale, 239, 241; letter
from Lord Melbourne, 242; made
Home Secretary, 243; proposes that
O'Connell should take office, 243;
defeated in his canvass for Devon-
shire, 245; elected for Stroud, 245;
letter to Moore offering a pension to
his sons, 245; his part in the London-
derry ambassadorship incident, 246;
letter from Moore, 247; procures a
pension for Moore, 248; disliked by
William IV., 249; communication
from the King on the proposed
reduction of the Militia staff, 251 n;
refuses to undertake the question of
Church rates, 252; introduces the
Corporation Bill, 253; affection for
Lord Stanley, 254 n; the Lords'
amendments to his Corporation Bill,
255; the Bill passed, 255; failure of
his health, 257; goes to Endsleigh,
257; his explanation to the King
of O'Connell's invitation to the
Castle, 260; speech at Plymouth
on the conduct of the Lords, 260;
testimonial from the Reformers of
Bristol, 251; approval by the King
of his Plymouth and Bristol ad-
dresses, 261; advocates the appoint-
ment of a permanent judge in equity,
poor opinion of equity lawyers, 263;
attacked with fever, 264; Disraeli's
attacks upon him in the 'Runny-
mede Letters,' 265; Disraeli's opinion
later on, 266; on committees to
'consider the whole case of the Dis-
senters' and the English tithe sys-
tem, 267; carries the Tithes Com-
mutation Bill. 268, 269; carries the
Registration Bill, 270; his Marriage

Bill, 270; letter from Lord Mel-
bourne on his proposal for the ad-
mission of Dissenters to the Univer-
sities, 271 n; legislation on behalf of
the Church, 271; on the assistance
of military and police in tithe-col-
lecting in Ireland, 274; his amend-
ment to Mr. Hume's motion against
Orangeism, 274; paper on the atti-
tude of the Peers, 277; proposes the
creation of Liberal peers, 278, 279;
death of his wife's mother, 280;
birth of a daughter, Georgiana Ade-
laide, 281; sketch of his life at
home, 281; education of his children,
281; introduces the Irish Municipal
Bill, 287; speech on Irish policy,
288, 289; agreement with Lord Mel-
bourne on abandoning the Appro-
priation Clause, 289; introduces a
measure on Irish Poor Law, 289; his
Irish Municipal Bill, 289; views on
the Church Rate Bill, 290; illness,
291; vacillation on the Municipal
Bill, 293; returned for Stroud, 295;
speech on Reform, 295, 296; Lord
Melbourne's letter on the Queen's
private secretary, 297 n; letters to
Lord Melbourne on the Ministerial
position, 297, 298; advocates the
ballot, 298; letter from Sydney
Smith, 300 n; dines with the Queen
at Brighton, 301; speeches advo-
cating moderate action in Reform,
302, 303; named Finality Jack
by the Radicals, 303; his atti-
tude on Reform defended by Lord
Brougham, 303; memorandum to
the Cabinet on election petitions,
304; letter from Lord Melbourne on
Irish legislation, 305; introduces the
Poor Law and Municipal Bills, 306;
resolutions on the Canadian griev-
ances, 307; at Windsor with the
Queen, 307; announces the suspen-
sion of the Canadian constitution,
308; opposes the ballot, 308; letter
from Lord Spencer on the division
on Mr. Grote's motion for the Ballot,
308; rumour of his resignation, 309;
propositions on the tithe question,
311; consults the Primate of Ireland,
311; compromise with the Opposi-
tion on the Tithe Bill and Municipal
Reform, 312, 313; parallel lines of
his policy with that of Sir Robert
Peel, 314; high opinion of contem-
poraries of his paramount ability in
the Melbourne Ministry, 316; be-

haviour to his followers in question,
317, 318; letter from his father, 317;
Lord Lytton's lines on him, 318;
at Grillion's, 318; warm friendship
with Lord Stanley, 318 n; speech on
the Durham Bill of Indemnity, 320;
letter to Lord Melbourne on the
reconstruction of the Cabinet, 321;
letter to Lord Melbourne on the
situation in Canada, 322, 323; birth
of a second daughter, Lady Victoria
Villiers; death of his first wife, 324;
sympathy and condolence on his loss,
324; letter from King Leopold,
325; urges the retirement of Lord
Glenelg from the Colonial Office,
326; assists in making changes in
the personnel of the administration,
327; his conduct of the debate on
Irish government, 330; his loss of
popularity, 330, 331; pamphlet on
the principles of the Reform Act,
331; letter from and interview with
the Queen on the resignation of the
Melbourne Ministry, 333; espouses
the Queen's view on the removal of
the ladies of the royal household,
334 n; letter to O'Connell thanking
him for his Parliamentary support,
335; resumption of office, 335;
action in county franchise and the
ballot, 338-340; memorandum on
the Irish Municipal Bill, 340, 341 n;
speech on education, 341; connection
with educational societies, 343 n; pro-
posals on behalf of educational pro-
gress and their reception, 343, 344; his
prison reforms, 344; purges the crim-
inal code of many capital offences,
345; on transportation, 346; on peni-
tentiaries and reformatories, 346;
police reforms, 346, 347; constitution
of constabulary in Manchester and
Birmingham, 347; on the govern-
ment of Ireland, 347 n; on the
loquacity of magistrates, 348 n;
vexed at the resignation of Lord
Howick, 351; at the Colonial Office,
351; letter from Sir J. Stephen on an
attack in the Quarterly, 352 n; con-
temporary compliments on his man-
agement of the Colonial Office, 352,
353; speech on the colonial empire,
353; death of his father, 354; at
Buckhurst with his children, 355, 356;
accused of having encouraged Chart-
ism, 355; supports Sir E. Wilmot's
motion regarding juvenile offenders,
356; on privilege, 357; his 'Bell-