man Rhymes,' 358; on a visit to Lord Minto, 358; thoughts of Lady Fanny Elliot, 359; confers with the Duke of Wellington on the military force in the Mediterranean, 361; letters sent to him on the French war crisis, 361; his memorandum to Lord Melbourne with propositions on the situation, 363; Lord Spencer's letters deprecating his resignation, 364,365; appeal from Mr. Hume against a war, 365 urges the acceptance of Mehe- met Ali's proposition by the Sultan, 366; appeal from Lord Melbourne not to bring on a Ministerial crisis, 367; interview with the Queen and adoption of a compromise with Lord Melbourne, 368; letter of remon- strance to Lord Melbourne, 369-371; letter from and to Lord Palmerston on the subject, 370, 371; urges conciliation and open dealing with France, 372; his sorrow at the death of Lord Holland, 372; letters to Lord Melbourne on Lord Pal- merston's high-handed proceedings, 373; defence of Lord Holland's memory, 373; advocates the removal of Lord Ponsonby from the Porte, 374; letter from Lord Palmerston defending Lord Ponsonby, 375, 376; on the late delivery of despatches, 377; deals with the customs tariff, 380, 381; memorandum for his col- leagues on the Corn Laws, 383; moves for a committee on the Corn Laws, 384; letters of approval of his speech, 385-388; letter from Lord Spencer foretelling defeat, 388; urged to pro- ceed with the Sugar Bill, 388; advises dissolution, 389; invitation from the Liberals of London to contest the City, 390; returned for London, 391; address on his past and future policy, 391; marriage to Lady Fanny Elliot, 393; receipt of a Border Ballad' from his wife's mother, 394; pre- sented with the freedom of the borough at Selkirk, 396; letter from the Queen on his resignation, 396; Lord Sydenham's dying words and legacy to him, 397; difficulties in Opposition, 399, 400; literary work at Endsleigh, 401; birth of his eldest son, John, 402; opposes an Arms Act, 404; lines from his wife on his fifty-first birthday, 406; translation of Dante's Inferno, 407-409; O'Con- nell's opinion of his Irish policy,
410; motion on Irish Reform, 412; proposal to endow the Irish Roman Catholic clergy, 412; thanked by O'Connell for his speech, 413; action on the sugar question, 414; supports the Maynooth Bill, 416; illness of his wife, 417; nonsense verses from his wife, 417; his rhymed reply, 417; illness of his wife at Edinburgh, 418; receives freedom of the city of Edinburgh, 419; writes an article for the Edinburgh Review on Lord Spencer and Lord Grey, 419; grief at the death of Lady Holland, 420; Lady Holland's legacy to him, 420; address to his constituents of the City, 422; summoned by the Queen, 425; encouragement from his wife to undertake the post of Prime Minister, 426; letters from Lord Grey on the subject, 428- 432; his opinion of Palmerston's fitness for the Foreign Office, 432; letter to her Majesty on his failure to form an administration, 433; indig- nation with Lord Grey, 433, 434; supports Sir Robert Peel on Free Trade, 436; letter to Mr. Everett on the American controversy, 437; op- poses the Coercion Bill, 438; becomes Prime Minister, 439; declines alliance with the Protectionists, 440; offers office to late members of Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, 440; endeavour to secure Mr. Cobden's services, 441; Mr. Cobden's answer declining office, 441; offers Lord Grey office, 444; letters from Mr. Charles Wood on the subject of Lord Grey, 443; ad- dress to his London constituency, 444; deals with the sugar question, 446; introduces an Arms Bill (Ire- land), 447; relief of distress in Ireland, 448; death of his brother William, 448; his character and abilities sketched by Lord Campbell, 449; his second wife's reminiscences of him, 450; at Chorley Wood, 451; his wife's illness, 451; organisation of public works in Irish potato famine, 452, 453; speech on the Government's obligation to supply the Irish with food, 453; accusations of his failure to meet the famine by adequate measures, 457, 458; proposes the suspen- sion of the Navigation Acts, 457; blamed for not employing the Irish on productive works, 459, 460; opposes Lord George Bentinck's Irish railway
scheme, 460, 461; defends the Irish relief works, 462, 463; makes land sup- port the poor, 463 n; last letter from Moore and his answer, 464, 465; pre- sented by the Queen with Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, 466; letters from Lord Bessborough on Irish affairs, 468, 469; on the Lord-Lieutenancy, 469; efforts in the improvement of State education, 471; his attack on Hume, 471; supports the Ten Hours clause, 473; letter from Lord Ashley, 473; amendment of the Poor Law Commission, 473; is again returned for the City on the dissolution of Par- liament, 474; letter from the Duke of Westminster on the creation of peers and his reply, 475, 476; letters from Lord Clarendon with proposition for dealing with disorder in Ireland, 477, 478; letter to Lord Clarendon on the causes of social disorder in Ireland, 479-481; discourages Lord Claren- don's proposal for an Arms Bill, 482; suggests a Landlord and Tenant Bill, 483; reluctantly assents to mild coer- cive measures, 487-491; passes the Encumbered Estates Act, 491; intro- duces a measure for compensating tenants for improvements, 491; pro- posal for increasing the episcopate, 492; appoints Dr. Hampden Bishop of Hereford, 493; his other ecclesias- tical appointments, 493, 494; letter from and to the Primate, on the Hampden appointment, 494, 495; re- ceives a memorial from the bishops on that subject, 496; his reply thereto, 497; appoints Dr. Sumner Archbishop of Canterbury, 498; receipt of Lord Palmerston's despatch on the Spanish marriages, &c., ii. 2; note to the Spanish Government on the mar riages, 3; letter from Mr. Wood on Palmerston's irritating foreign policy, 4; his supervision of all Government departments, 5 n; his reply to the French Government's complaints of Lord Palmerston and his policy, 5-7; objection to a passage in Lord Pal- merston's protest to the Spanish Government, 7; growing difficul- ties with Lord Palmerston at the Foreign Office, 8; memorandum on the demand for the fulfilment of the Quadruple Treaty against the Oporto Junta, 10; agreement with France for forcibly terminating the Portuguese insurrection, 12; his
policy in this condemned by Con- servatives and Radicals alike, 12; on friendly terms with the Duke of Wellington, 15; receives memoranda from the Duke on the national de- fence, 15, 16; urged by Lord Palmer- ston to embody the Militia, 16; his memorandum on a Militia force, 17; letter from the Duke of Wellington on an indiscreet publication of his letter to Sir John Burgoyne, 19; his elaborate memorandum on na- tional defence, 20-24; his speech on the Budget of the year, including a large increase in the income-tax, 25; illness of, 25, 27; resists Mr. Hors- man's proposal of exemptions from the full weight of the income-tax, 27; with Lady John at St. Leonard's, 28; speech on Mr. Hume's motion on the income-tax, 28; letter to Lord Auck- land on a reduction of the naval estimates, 29; letters to the Duke of Wellington on a reduction in the army, 30, 31; declaration of neu- trality in the French crisis, after the flight of Louis Philippe, 32; criticism of Lamartine's policy and views, 33; his devotion to the cause of Italian freedom, 33; sends Lord Minto on a mission to Italy, 34; his memorandum on affairs in Europe, with recommen- dations, 35-37; checks Lord Palmer- ston's foreign policy, 38; sent for by the Queen on the subject of foreign affairs, 39; letter from Lord Grey on Lord Palmerston's conduct of the Foreign Office, 39; and from Sir Charles Wood on the same subject, 40; letter of remonstrance to Lord Palmerston, 42; another memoran- dum on foreign affairs, 43, 44; at Windsor in consultation with the Queen, 44; letter to Palmerston on the Austro-Italian conflict, 45; letter to Lord Aberdeen on a compromise between Austria and Italy, 45 n; letter from and to Palmerston on the supply of arms to the Sicilian insur- gents by an English contractor, 46, 47; project of removing Palmerston to Ireland, 47; persuades Palmerston to offer Naples an apology, 48; mediates in the Ponsonby-Palmerston fracas, 48; all despatches submitted to the Queen to pass through his hands, 49; letter from Lord Palmer- ston on the Hungarian refugees in Turkey, 50; letter to Lord Minto,
51; repudiates interference with the Greek Government, 52; letters to and from Lord Palmerston on the unaltered despatch to Mr. Wyse, 53, 54; letter from Prince Albert on the termination of the Greek dispute, 55; letter to Palmerston notifying an intended change in the Foreign De- partment, 56; speech in the House in defence of Palmerston's foreign policy, 58; his position between the Court and the Foreign Office, 58; me- morandum on the state of Ireland, 60; reply to Lord Jocelyn's speech on Irish rebellion, 62; letter from the Duke of Wellington on the Chartist procession, 64; and from Sir George Grey on the same subject, 65; letter from his brother, the Duke of Bed- ford, on the safe issue from the Chartist procession, 66; birth of his second son, 66; suspends the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, 69; alarm at false news of the Irish rebellion, 70; visits Ireland, 71; reception at Dub- lin, 71; his brother, the Duke of Bedford, makes over Lord Ludlow's bequest to him, 71; served with a subpoena by Smith O'Brien, 72; travelling in Scotland, 72; proposes to endow the Roman Catholic clergy and promote emigration from Ireland, 73; his memorandum for submission to the Pope on the matter, 74; his scheme of Irish emigration, 75-77; his emigration scheme rejected by the Cabinet, 78; threatens to throw up the government, 78; passes a poor- rate for Ireland, 79; and the Irish Poor Law Bill, 80; its rating clause struck out in the Lords, 81; induces the House to acquiesce in the amendment, 81; Mr. Roebuck's at- tack, 81; justifies his Irish policy, 81; passes an Irish Loan Bill, 83; extends Irish franchise, 84; endeavours to ob- tain the abolition of the Viceroyalty and the institution of a fourth Secre- tary of State, 84, 85; fluctuates in his view of the substitute for a Viceroy, 85n; withdraws his proposals on the Lord-Lieutenancy, 86; weak health in 1848, 88; his feeble support. in the House of Commons, 88; offers Macaulay Lord Zetland's borough of Richmond, 89; letter in dog-Latin to his wife, 92n; his Bills for pro- moting the health of towns and removing Jewish disabilities, 91;
abandonment of Bill for repealing the Navigation Acts, 92; compromise on the sugar question, 92, 93; in- discreet attack on Lord George Bentinck, 92; points out the reason for the failure of the Ministerial measures, 93; letter from Lord Nor- manby on the failure of the legislative machinery to compete with the coun- try's business, and remedial proposal, 94; his answer to Mr. Disraeli's obituary notice of the session, 95; de- clines to buy the press in his interest, 95; enlarges the basis of his adminis- tration, 96; offers Sir James Grahanı the Admiralty, 96; on his refusal gives it to Sir Francis Baring, 97; lessening of the distrust between him and Sir Robert Peel, 97; stakes the existence of the Ministry on the pass- ing of the Bill for repealing the Navi- gation Acts, 97; his remarks on Lord Brougham's opposition to this Bill, 98; letter from a shipowner on the Bill, 98 n; entertains the idea of a peerage, 99; birth of a third son, 99; at Balmoral with the Queen, 100; kills the first deer ever shot by a Prime Minister in office, 100; verse to his wife, 100; last interview with Moore, 100; brings the proposal of a new Reform Bill before the Cabinet, 101; his proposal discountenanced, IOI; answer to Mr. Hume's Reform measure, 101; his colonial measures, 103; speech on the suppression of the slave traffic, 105; interchange of views with Sir Robert Peel on Horace's Odes, 107, 108; speech on the death of Sir Robert Peel, 109; offers Lady Peel a public funeral for her husband and a peerage for her- self, 109; carries a motion for the erection of a monument to Sir Robert in Westminster Abbey, 110; holiday- making at Manchester, 111; at home at Pembroke Lodge, 111; on a holi- day tour in Scotland, 112; the big- gest man in the kingdom,' 112n; reception in Inverness-shire, 113; love of sport, 113; the Highland gillie's estimate of his sporting capacity, 113; at Woburn seeing the old year out and the new year in, 113; interest in the Church of England, 116; his clerical appointments, 116, 117; letter to the Bishop of London on the Privy Council's judgment in the Gor- ham case, 117; letter to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury on the subject, 117; letter to the Bishop of London on the Pope's Bull dividing England into sees, 118; the notorious Durham Letter, 119-122; introduces a Bill to resist the Pope's action, 121; under- takes to deal with the equalisation of county and borough franchise, 122; defeated on Mr. Locke King's motion on the franchise, 122; letter to the Queen, 122; Lord Minto's letter on the matter, 123; resignation, 123; advises the Queen to send for Lord Stanley, 123; memorandum of re- construction of Ministry based on a combination of the Whigs and the followers of Sir Robert Peel, 123; Lord Aberdeen's and Sir James Gra- ham's answer thereto, 124; his reply thereon, 126; they decline further negotiations, 128; letter to his col- leagues on his failure, 128; is reluc- tantly induced to resume office, 128; endeavours to get Sir James Graham in the Cabinet, 128, 129; memo- randum on Reform, 129; offers the Duke of Newcastle the Irish Vice- royalty, 130 n; threatens to retire if Lord Lansdowne resigns, 130n; de- parture of his first wife's children for Italy, 130; tour in Wales, 131; pro- jected visit to Paris postponed, 132; urges Palmerston not to receive Kos- suth, 132; Palmerston's reply, 133; further letter to Palmerston and con- sultation with the Cabinet on the matter, 133, 134; letters to and from Palmerston on the latter's reception of addresses disrespectful to the Em- perors of Russia and Austria, 136, 137; letter from the Queen on the coup d'état, 138; letter to Lord Palmerston dismissing him from the Foreign Office for his action on the coup d'état, 138; offers him the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, 139; letter of explanation to Lady Pal- merston, 141; a defence of his action in, and his own later judgment on, the dismissal of Palmerston, 142; denies that he himself expressed approval of the coup d'état to Count Walewski, 142 n; answer to Mrs. Maurice Drummond's new-year con- gratulations, 143; speech in the House on his difference with Pal- merston, 143; on Lord Clarendon's defence, 143, 144; defeat on the Militia scheme and resignation, 144;
review of his five years and eight months' administration, 144; never in debt till he became First Lord of the Treasury, 145 n; encouragement of letters, science, and art, 145; makes Tennyson Poet Laureate, 145; declines Lord Rectorship of Glasgow in favour of Wordsworth, 145; dis- crimination in conferring pensions, 145, 146; letters of application and thanks from Charles Dickens in be- half of a Mr. P., 146, 147; redeems an old promise and edits Moore's letters and papers, 149; simulta- neously prepares the Fox correspon- dence for publication, 150; re-elec- tion for the City of London, 151; conflicting forces in opposition to him, 151; Punch's satire on him, 152; at The Gart,' near Callander, 152; letter from Lord Clarendon on the suggestion of an intrigue against his leadership, 153; Sir James Gra- ham's testimony to his endeavour to check corrupt election practices, 154; sympathetic letter from Sir James, 154; letters to and from Lord Aber- deen, 155-157; letter to Lord Lans- downe on his correspondence with Lord Aberdeen, 157; Duke of Bed- ford's letter on his conversation with Palmerston, 158; presented with the freedom of the boroughs of Stirling and Perth, 159 n; speech on the memory of the Duke of Wellington, 159n; is willing to serve under Lord Lansdowne, 159; protest from Sir F. Baring against this course, 160; at Woburn with Lords Lansdowne and Aberdeen, 161; letter from the Queen asking his aid in the Aberdeen Ministry, 162; Mr. Macaulay's advo- cacy in that behalf, 162; offers to lead in the House and sit in the Cabinet without office, 163; takes the Foreign Office, 164; misunder- standings in office with Lord Aber- deen, 166; letters to and from Lord Aberdeen on his relief from the Foreign Office and position in the Government, 167-170; resigns the Foreign Office, 171; introduces a .measure to enable municipalities to rate themselves for the support of voluntary schools, 171; his opinion of Mr. Gladstone's Budget speech, 171n; testimony to his qualities as a leader, 171; speech on the Irish Church and its effects, 172, 173;
offers to resign rather than that Lord Aberdeen should lose the services of the Roman Catholic members of the Government, 174; letter from Lord Aberdeen on the subject, 174; birth of his only daughter by his second wife, 175; in Scotland, 176; paper in his possession containing questions issued by Napoleon III. on the possi- bility of invading and holding Austra- lia, 177; correspondence with Lord Mount-Edgcumbe on French aggres- sive preparations, 178; despatches on the Montenegrin and Holy Places questions, 178; persuades Lord Strat- ford de Redcliffe to return to Constan- tincple, 179; privately informed by Sir George Seymour that the Czar does not seriously meditate an attack on the Porte, 181; conflict between his and Lord Aberdeen's views on treating Russian pretensions, 182; memorandum on the political out- look in 1853 with regard to Russia, 183; letter from Palmerston on the subject, 184; is of opinion that the Turks should be forced to sign the Vienna Note, 185; letters to Lord Clarendon, 185, 186; at Roseneath with his family, 186; letters from and to Lord Aberdeen and Lord Clarendon, 186, 187; on the en- tanglements of the Eastern question, 188; correspondence with Sir A. Gordon, 188 n; is for the Turk against the Ru-sian,' 188; memoran- dum on the Eastern question, 188, 189; letter from Lord Aberdeen on the situation, 190; letters to Lords Clarendon and Aberdeen, 191, 192; speech at Greenock on the crisis, 192; letter to Lord Clarendon, 193; memorandum on Russia and Turkey, 193-196; thinks Lord Aberdeen's peace policy calculated to ensure war, and that he should resign, 197; his scheme of Parliamentary Reform, 197; letter to Lord Palmerston de- fending his action in pushing Reform, 198; agreement with Lord Aberdeen on Reform and the Eastern question, 200; asked to take the Home Office on Lord Palmerston's resignation, 201; letter to and from Lord Lans- downe on the Cabinet meeting, 202; annoyance at the dissensions in the Cabinet on the Eastern question, 203; letter of reproach to Sir James Graham, 203; receives the assurance
from Sir James that a despatch (that the allied fleet should enter the Black Sea) had been forwarded to the French Government in deference to his views, 203; compromise with Lord Lans- downe on Reform, 204; defends Prince Albert's action in affairs, 205; admits the imminence of war, 206; postpones his Reform Bill, 206; replies to Sir John Shelley's and Mr. Disraeli's remarks on that post- ponement, 207; speculates on its further postponement and the Bill's chances of success, 208-210; resigns, but is persuaded to withdraw his resignation, 210; letter from Pal- merston, 211; also from Sidney Herbert, 212; gives the House his reasons for the postponement, 212; encomiums on his speech, 213; private troubles, 214; Punch's car- toon of him and Lord Aberdeen, 2142; divergence between his policy and that of Lord Aberdeen in the preliminaries to the Crimean War, 215; his treatment of the offer of an Austrian Alliance, 216; draft ad- dresses to the Crown assuring it of support in the war against Russia, 217; former proposal to constitute a Board responsible for all the mili- tary departments, 218; reverts to this scheme, 218; further military arrangements, 219; would subsidise Sweden, 219; thinks the time has arrived when he should take office or cease to be a member of the Government, 220; letters to Lord Clarendon, 220; proposes to the Cabinet the separation of the War Department from the Colonial Office and the subsidising of Sweden, 221; letter to Lord Lansdowne, 221; suggests to Lord Aberdeen three ways of carrying on the Government, 222, 223; letters to and from Lord Aberdeen on ministerial changes, 223-225; Sir George Grey suggests the Colonial Secretaryship or the Presidency of the Council to him, 224; Lord Aberdeen's letter to him concurring in same, 224; declines the Colonial Office on grounds of ill-health, 225; appointed President of the Council, 226; his account of the sleeping Cabinet, 226; his reply to Mr. Disraeli on the Aberdeen Ministry, 227, 228; letter to and from the Queen on his proposed
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