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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;

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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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