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
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 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-
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