proposes the deposition of Mehemet Ali, 355; extends the blockade of Alexandria, 359; conduct defended by Lord Palmerston, 360, 361; ten- sion between him and Palmerston, ii. 53
Ponsonby, Mr., i. 5, 108 Pope (actor), i. 8
Pope, General, ii. 348
Pope, the, forced to quit Rome, ii. 25, 78; issues a Bull dividing England into twelve sees, 119; quoted, 329 n Porchester, Lord, motion for an inquiry into the Walcheren expedition, i. 48n
Porte, the, and the Montenegrin insurrection, ii. 177; the Rus- sian demands from, for protec- tion of the Greek Church, 179; urged by Sir Stratford de Redcliffe to reject them, 179; alterations in the Vienna Note, 185; advised to make concessions to Russia, 192; outrages by its Mussulman on its Christian subjects, 193; destruction of fleet at Sinope, 199 Portland, Duke of, i. 28 Portugal, England's hereditary ally,'
i. 37; partition of, by Napoleon, 37; the convention of Cintra, 38; again occupied by the French, 40; insur- rection in, ii. 8-12; affairs in, 42 Portugal, Maria, Queen of, her relations
with the English Court, ii. 8; un- popularity of her husband, 8; appeals for intervention by the Powers on the rebellion of her subjects, 9; arbitrary measures of her advisers, 10, II
Potato famine in Ireland, i. 406, 431, 435, 437; ii. 76 Poyntz, Mr., i. 136 n
Presbyterians, the, in Ulster, ii. 76 Preston, Lord, i. 5, 8; see Ludlow, Lord
Prince Regent, birthday of, i. 23; re- strictions on his appointment, 49; see George IV.
Privy Council, judgment in the Gorham case, ii. 117, 118 Prudhoe, Lord, i. 458 Prussia, King of, ii. 247
Prussia, Prince of (Emperor William),
ii. 247 Pusey, Mr., ii. 216 Pym, Mr., i. 29
QUAADE, M., his opinion on the Danish question, ii. 385 n Quadruple Treaty, the, ii. 9–11
Raglan, Lord, i. 35; ii. 235 Railways in Ireland, i. 443 Rancliffe, Lord, i. 156
Rattazzi, Signor, visited by Lord John, ii. 277; his Cabinet, 317 Rawdon, Colonel, i. 92
Rawdon, Miss, marriage to Lord William Russell, i. 92; Byron's encomium on her beauty, 92; see Russell, Lady William Rawdon, Mrs., i. 230 n
Rechberg, Count (Austrian Foreign Minister), ii. 312, 316, 321 Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de; see Can- ning, Sir Stratford
Redington, Sir T., 451 # ; illness of, ii. 70; consulted by Lord John on the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy, 76; his scheme for bringing this about, 77
Reeve, Mr. H., i. 461; quoted, ii. 8 Reform Bill, the first, rejected in the Commons, i. 166; the second, carried in the Commons, 169: thrown out by the Lords, 172; the third, passed in the Commons, 175; defeated in the Lords, 177; passed and receives the royal assent, 178, 179; pamphlet on the principles of the, 318; ii. 102, 130, 143, 204, 205, 296, 410 Registration of births, marriages, and deaths, established, i. 259
Reshid Pacha (Prime Minister to the Sultan), ii. 187; Lord Stratford de Redcliffe's warning to, 193
Retford, East, bribery at, i. 143, 144,
Rianzares, Señor, ii. 3
Ribblesdale, Lady, her children by her first husband, i. 229; married to Lord John, 231; death of, 310 Ribblesdale, Thomas, (third Lord), i. 229, 386, 402; ii. 121; reply to Lord John's remonstrance on his purchase of General Peel's race-horses, 174 #; marriage with Miss Mure, 174; hires Lord John's estate of Rodborough manor, 266; death of, 451 Rich, Mrs., ii. 217
Richmond, Duke of, i. 165, 177, 200, 201, 204
Ripon, Lord, i. 200, 204
Roden, Lord, moves for a committee
on Irish affairs, i. 315; visit from Orangemen on the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, and its results, ii. 84; his name struck out of the commission of the peace, 85 Roe, Mr., i. 463
Roebuck, Mr., i. 439; his motion approving Palmerston's policy in the Greek dispute, ii. 62; his criticism of the Irish policy of the Whig ad- ministration in 1849, 84; motion approving Palmerston's foreign policy, 107; motion on the conduct of the Crimean war, 237; motion in opposition to Government carried, 241; gives notice of motion based on report of the Sebastopol com- mittee, 268
Rogers, Rev. William, ii. 463 n Rogers, Samuel, i. 131 ; anecdote of, 137 n; 176 n, 287, 288 Roman Catholics, disabilities of, i. 129, 394; emancipation of, 139, 146, 183; endowment of their clergy, in Ireland, proposed, ii. 65, 77 Rome, occupied by the French, ii. 53 Romilly, Lady G. (Lord John's half- sister), i. 58
Romilly, Sir Samuel, i. 108, 463 Roscoe, Mr., i. 30
Rose, Colonel (chargé d'affaires at the Porte), summons the British fleet, ii. 179
Rose, Right Hon. George, i. 48n, 123
Ross, Mr., ii. 101 n
Rossi, M., ii. 38
Rothschild, Baron, i. 456, 457; ii. 93, 150 n.; acknowledges Lord John's services on behalf of the Jews, 299 Rouher, M., ii. 394
Roumelia, Mussulman outrages in, ii. 193
Rowan, Colonel (Commissioner of Police), ii. 68
Royal Society, the, ii. 145
Russell, Agatha (Lord John's daughter),
Russell, Francis Albert Rollo (Lord John's youngest son), ii. 101, 276 Russell, Francis (Lord John's uncle William's eldest son), i. 36 Russell, Georgiana Adelaide (daughter of Lord John), i. 270; see Peel Russell, Gertrude (Lord John's uncle William's eldest daughter), i. 36, 57, 156
Russell, Lady John (Lord John's first wife); see Ribblesdale, Lady Russell, Lady John (Lady Fanny
Elliot), second wife of Lord John, i. 378; birth of a son (John), 387; attacked by fever, 390; lines on her husband's fifty-first birthday, 391; verses to Lord John and his reply, 401, 402; illness at Edinburgh, 403; urges him to accept the Premiership, 410; reminiscences of him, 433, 434; recovery from serious illness, 448; account of her life at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, 449; her diary quoted, 461; quoted on Irish affairs, 472; reading to her husband at St. Leonard's, ii. 26; on Lord Palmers- ten, 46; quoted, 69; birth of her second son, 70; on a tour in Ireland with her husband, 74; her husband's dog-Latin letter to her, 93 n; on the interview between Lord John and Sir James Graham touching the offer of the Admiralty, 98; birth of a third son, 101; 106; lines on her hus- band, 112; on the Scotch tour, 113; account of her husband's home life and social gifts, III; description of a tour with him in Wales, 131; ill- ness of, 155; on the effect of office on her husband's health, 162; on his acceptance of office in the Aber- deen Ministry, 164; note on his tenure of the Foreign Office, 167; 169; birth of her only daughter, 174; story of Palmerston, 187 ; quoted, 211; visits her sick sister Harriet at Paris, 236; opinion of her husband's mode of resignation, 237; her lines on the marriage of her step-daughter, 335; joy at the termination of her husband's official career, 421; on his failing health, 445; letters of condolence from the Queen and Lord Beaconsfield on the death of her husband, 452
Russell, Lady Rachel, letters of, i. 103 Russell, Lady Victoria (daughter of Lord
John), i. 310, 343n, 410n; her marriage to Mr. Villiers, ii. 335; her mother's lines on the event, 335 Russell, Lady William (daughter of the fourth Earl of Jersey), death of, i. 36 Russell, Lady William (Lord John's sister-in-law), her marriage, i. 92; illness of, 150; letter to Lord John in answer to an offer of his official residence at Whitehall, 164 Russell, Lord Arthur, i. 2 Russell, Lord Charles (Serjeant-at- arms), ii. 203
Russell, Lord Edward, private secre- tary to Lord John, i. 323
RUS Russell, Lord John, at the age of eleven, I; 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, 5; at Westmin- ster School, 6; first school flogging, 6; plays Tom Thumb at West- minster, 7; 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, II; early essays at dramatic composition, II, 12; starts a commonplace book, II; his first volume of poetry dedi- cated to Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, 12; his later opinion of Pitt's policy, 12 n; with Mr. Smith, vicar of Woodnes- boro', 13; friendships formed at Woodnesboro', 13; starts a diary, 13; order of life at the new school, 13; dinners as a boy of twelve, 14; at the theatre at Sandwich, 14; betting at school, 14; juvenile satire on Lord Melville, 15; physical characteristics at the age of thirteen, 15; recess at Woburn, 15; in private theatricals at Kimbolton, 15; poem on the marriage of Lady Madalina Sinclair, 15; letter from his father, inclosing money, with in- structions for its disbursement, 16; account book entry of said disburse- ment, 16; playing in private thea- tricals at Woburn, 16; a prologue written at thirteen, 17; parody on the dagger scene in Macbeth,' based on Lord Hawkesbury's proposed successorship to Pitt, 17; epigram on Lord H. Petty, 18; poem on the fall of the Tories, 18; five nights out of eight at theatre in London, 18; shooting and horsemanship, 19; his- tory of Mrs. Witty' (his dog), 19; cost of her keep, 20; suspicious death of Mrs. W.,' 20; backward in his studies, 21; translations of Virgil and Horace, 21; holiday- making, 21; hard on Lord Melville, 22; at the sheep-shearing at Woburn, 22; in Ireland at the Viceregal Lodge, 23 costume at a fancy ball, 23; physical characteristics at four-
teen, 24; his new journal and account book, 24; at Woodnesboro', 24; journal entry on Fox's death, 24; remarks on Jones's 'Letters from a Tutor,' 25; on Yeates's Conversa- tions on Chemistry' and Lord Hol- land's Lope de Vega,' 25; too bad a shot to keep a game book, 25 #; references to the general election and to Napoleon, 25; attractions of the playhouse, 26; at Holland House, considers Sydney Smith very amus- ing,' Charles Fox 'a very clever boy,' 26; again in Ireland, 26; writes a prologue for theatricals, and appears as an old woman at the ball at the Royal Hospital, 27; back at Woodnesboro', 27; keen interest in the general election of 1807, 29: letter on the Bedfordshire election from Dr. Cartwright, 29; on tour in England and Scotland with his parents, 30; in the Lake Country, 30; his criticism of Dr. Watson, 30; encounters a Yorkshire utilitarian on the banks of Derwentwater, meets Sir Walter Scott, 31; cost of his journey from Ayton to Wood- nesboro', 33; his political opinion of the Duke of Gloucester, 34; on the Copenhagen expedition, 34; rook-shooting, 35, and n; at Woburn, 35; at Lord Tavistock's wedding, 36; course of his studies at Woodnesboro', 36; Lord and Lady Holland's proposition of a tour in Spain, 36; his sympathy with Spain and hatred of Napoleon, 38; at Coruña, 39; abandonment of the line of tour in consequence of the French advance, 39; arrives at Lisbon, 39; description of the caval- cade en route, 40; at Seville, 40; de- tained by fever at Badajoz, 41; re- turn to England, 41; dissatisfaction with Whig Opposition on the subject of Spain, 42; course of his studies while on the Spanish tour, 42; ac- quisition of languages, 43; at Edin- burgh with Professor Playfair, 44; his estimate of the Professor, 44; course of study at Edinburgh, 45; elected a member of the Speculative Society, 46; interference with his studies through sickliness of consti- tution, 46; debates and work in the Speculative Society, 47; his article in the Whig Register' (?) on Par- liamentary Reform, 48; parody of 'Lochiel's Warning,' 48 n;
trast of his early and later views on the conduct of reform, 49; po- litical parody on the Witches' Chorus in Macbeth,' 50 ; second visit to the Peninsula, 51; at Gibraltar, 51; disapproves of proclamations offering rewards for deserters from the French, 51; at Cadiz, his letter to his father on Spanish affairs, and his brother William's postscript, 52 and ; interview with Sir Arthur Wellesley at head-quarters in the lines of Torres Vedras, 53; reads a paper on the proceedings of the Spanish Cortes at the Speculative Society, 54; on tour through the manufacturing towns of England with Professor Playfair, 55; opinion of Dr. Parr, 55; views on English manufactures and manufacturers, 56; his return to Edinburgh University, 57; lines on Dugald Stewart, 57; drilling with Militia in Bedford- shire, 57; another foreign tour, 58; unexpectedly meets his brother William at Portsmouth, 58 n; his twentieth birthday at sea, 59; a new diary of his fifth tour, 59; in Portu- gal, 60; on the battle-field of Sala- manca, 62; mixed up with the re- treating British army, 63; on the battle-field of Barrosa, 64; an even- ing adventure, 64; 67; reaches his brother at headquarters, 67; illness en route, 67, 68; engages a servant, 68; their travelling aspect, 68; the priest's Latin syllogism at Plasencia, 68; member for Tavistock, 70; at Saragossa, 71; at Wellington's head- quarters at Vera, 72; his song on Spanish women, 72 n; return to England, 72; opposes in Parliament the forced union of Norway and Sweden, and the renewal of the Alien Acts, 73; becomes a member of Grillion's Club, 73; tour in Italy, 74; interview with Napoleon at Elba, 74; views on Italian art, 76"; reports the popular feeling in Italy to be in favour of Napoleon, 77; at Bologna and Modena, where fighting prevails, 77; notes the sharp contrast be- tween the Gerinan and Italian races, 78; protests in Parliament against a new war, 78; summary of his career from boyhood to manhood, 78-80; lines from an essay on Vanity, 80; denounces the bloated national ex- penditure, 85; opposes income-tax
successfully, 85, 86, and army esti- mates unsuccessfully, 86; infrequent appearance in the House, 87; speech against suspension of Habeas Corpus Act, 89; withdrawal from Parlia- mentary life, 91; Mr. Moore's 'Remonstrance,' 91; attractions of society on the Continent, 92; medi- tates abandoning politics for travel and letters, 92; works published by him from 1819 to 1829, 93; rarity of his Letters written for the Post and not for the Press,' 94; 'The Nun of Arrouca,' 94, 123; success of his Essays and Sketches,' 95; illustration of his literary style, 95; rank as an essayist and as a poet, 96; his tragedy Don Carlos,' 97, 98; translation of Fifth Book of the Odyssey, 98-100; historical works, 100:- English Government and Constitution,' 100; Life of William, Lord Russell,' 101, 102; 'Causes of the French Revolution,' 102; his standing as an historian, 102; Affairs of Europe,' 103; Turks in Europe,' 103; qualified appreciation of his historical works by the public, 104; appreciation by his friends, 105; poem suggested by the early reviews of his works, 105-107; again elected for Tavistock, 108; parliamentary speeches in 1819, 109; on the cession of Parga, 109; on Parliamentary Reform, 109; letter to Lord Holland on foreign politics, 110; political advice from his father, III; letter from Lord Dudley on 'Doulocracy' at Cassiobury, III; another foreign tour, III; offer of pecuniary help to Moore, 112; ac- companied by Moore to the continent, 113; sonnet to Madame Durazzo on leaving Genoa, 114 ; recall by his party to Parliament, 116; his resolutions for the disfranchisement of Grampound, 117, 118; is for moderate against radical Reform, 118; his Bill for suspending the issue of writs to Penryn, Camelford, Grampound, and Barnstaple, 119, 120; sits for Huntingdonshire in the Parliament of 1820, 120; petition to the King on the introduction of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, 121; independence of Court favour, 121; taciturnity in society, 122; parody on William Spencer's 'The Year 1806,' 123-124; reintroduces
the Grampound Bill, 124; met by Stuart Wortley's amendment, 125; resolutions on bribery and the direct representation of populous places, 126; his Bill for the suppression of bribery, 128; defeated in his canvass of Huntingdonshire, 129; commits his Bribery Bill to the charge of Lord Althorp, 129; letter to Lord Althorp on bribery, 130; another continen- tal tour, 131; translates Fifth Book of Odyssey at Geneva, 131; of- fered the Irish borough of Bandon Bridge by the Duke of Devon- shire and elected, 132; Moore de- dicates his Epicurean' to him, 133; writes a 'smart' prologue for pri- vate theatricals in Florence, 133 n; supports the Canning Ministry of 1827, 134; letter to Moore on Can- ning's death, 136; his anecdote of Rogers, 137 n; the champion of re- ligious liberty, 139; motion support- ing the demands of Dissenters and Roman Catholics, 140-142; pas- sage in the Commons of his Bill for disfranchising Penryn and en- franchising Manchester, 144; the same rejected by the Lords, 145; addresses the King for the settle- ment of the Roman Catholic emanci- pation question, 146; proposal of a Central Association for organising the country and for petitioning Parlia- ment in favour of religious liberty, 147; letter to Lord Lansdowne on the Catholic question, 148; asked by an extreme Tory to reintroduce his Reform Bill, 148; writes Captive of Alhama,' 149; extract from his 'The Bee and the Fly,' 149; letter from Madame Durazzo on his rumoured intended marriage, 150; letters from his brother William on the same subject, 150; at Geneva, 150; his opinion of the battle of Navarino, 151; letter from Lord Holland on Russian ascendency,. 152; his motion on behalf of Greece, 153; rejection of his Bill to allow Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham to return members, 154; fails in general election of 1830, 155; in Paris, 155; efforts on behalf of the Prince de Polignac, 156-157; offered the Paymaster-generalship by Lord Grey, 158; address to the electors of Tavistock, 160; his only official act of importance in the four years of the Paymaster-generalship, 162;
salary attached thereto, 162; his Lon- don and country residences, 163; time spent on the Continent, 163 n; his first dinner-party and the guests thereat, 164 and n; letter from Lady William Russell declining the offer of his official residence, 164; invited by Lord Durham to frame a plan of Parliamentary Reform, 165; his plan of Reform, 165; his speech and its reception on the introduction of the first Reform Bill, 166; sanguine letter to Moore on its chances of pass- ing, 167; elected for Devon, 169; introduces his second Reform Bill, which is carried through the Com- mons, 169-170; admitted to the Cabi- net, 169; demonstration of Liberals on his handing the Bill to the Lord Chan- cellor, 171; banquet at the Thatched House Tavern, 171; the Bill is thrown out by the Lords, 172; letter to the Birmingham meeting, 172; letter to William IV. apologising for calling the majority of the House of Lords a faction, and the King's reply, 173; introduces and carries the third Reform Bill, 174; criticism of House of Lords on their treatment of his Reform Bill, 178; Lord Lyttelton's verses to him, 179; offer to Sir Walter Scott, 180; again elected for Devonshire on the dissolution of the Grey administration, 181; on carry- ing Reform, 181; letter to Moore on liberal measures to the Irish, 182; publication of Causes of the French Revolution,' 182 ; views on Irish policy, 183, 185; favours coercive legislation in Ireland, 186; letter to Moore in answer to his Paddy's Metamorphosis,' 187; letters to Lord Grey on the insufficiency of the pro- posed Bill for Irish Church Reform, and offering to resign, 188, 189; letter from Lord Grey submitting the matter to Lord Holland, 190; Lord Holland's letter of advice on his proposed resignation, 191; opposes triennial Parliaments, 193, 194; letter from his father on that subject, 194; visits Ireland, 195; letters to Moore from Ireland, 195; entertained at a public dinner at Belfast, 196; con- clusions formed on his Irish tour, 197 ; opinions on the Church in Ireland, 198 n, 199; 'upse's the coach,' 199, 200; declares Irish Church Reform to be the principle of the Government's existence, 201; on
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