INDEX.
Absenteeism, Irish, deprecated, 220.
Abstract questions, opinions on them inexpedient, 474.
Acre, the capture of, the greatest deed of modern times, 460.
Affghanistan expedition, its conduct approved of, 445.
Agitation in Ireland, real meaning of, 192.
Deprecated, 260.
—— characterised, 331.
Agitation by authority, 411.
Agrarian outrages, the, of 1830, 223
—— in Ireland, caused by agitation, 385.
Agriculture and manufactures, 469.
Albocracy, the, 309.
Albuera, battle of, one of the most glorious in the war, 115.
Animosity should be forgotten when war is concluded, 58.
Anonymous letters, meanness of writing them, 118.
Army, how to avoid party spirit in, 84. Control of by the crown, 96. —— British, can bear neither success nor failure, 97. —— in Portugal, croaking spirit among officers, 106. —— British, the worst men only enter as privates, 111. —— what they want is coolness in action, not headlong bravery, 115. —— officers, as well as soldiers, require keeping in order, 118. —— its morale important to discipline, 126. —— Indian, eulogium on it, 479. —— Indian, eulogium on it, and Lord Hastings, 135.
Asiatic policy contrasted with European, 86.
Australia, 463.
Ballot, the, and universal suffrage, dangerous, 427.
Belgium, its neutrality the foundation of its independence, 409.
Beresford, Marshal, characteristic letter to, 134.
Birmingham, riots in 1839, 427.
Bishops in Ireland, objections to reducing their number, 333.
Blockade, what constitutes one, 332.
Blucher, his vandalism averted, 132, 133.
Bourbons, their re-establishment necessary to the peace of Europe, 129.
Bribe, indignant rejection of one in India, 82.
British character for faith must be preserved in India, 89.
Buonaparte, his system hollow, 103.
His disgusting tyranny, 113.
—— A general re-action predicted, 119.
Effects of his government, 128.
—— The Duke will not be his executioner, 131.
Canada, plan of operations against the United States, 125.
Conduct of the Canadian leaders, 390.
—— The rebels must be reduced, 390.
Objections to a legislative council, 392.
Canning. The Duke of Wellington felt no hostility to him, 142.
Catholic emancipation, impossible to grant it, 136, 153.
—— reasons in favour of it, 155, 156, 158, 160, 162, 163, 166,
169, 172, 173, 180, 183, 184, 186, 187, 190.
Repeal averted by it, 221, 240.
Chancellor, the Lord, his right to the patronage of his office, 268.
Charity, money in aid of labour is better than, 118.
China, reasons why the opium trade was stopped, 451.
Opium not the real cause of the war, 452.
Defence of Capt. Elliot, 452.
Real causes of the Chinese war, 479.
Church, the, should educate the people, 308, 456.
Church rate martyrs, real state of the case, 458.
Civil list, principle on which arranged, 235.
Clergy of Ireland, depressed by the Melbourne government, 357.
Colonies, importance of to the mother country, 456.
Commissariat, importance of, to troops, 82.
Corn law of 1828, principle on which founded, 143.
—— worked well, 208, 209.
Corn laws. Why imposed, 466, 468.
have improved agriculture. 414.
Repeal would raise prices, 410.
—— If repealed, foreign sovereigns would tax the export of their
corn, 417.
Cotton and corn, 469.
County meetings, their constitutional use, 138.
Currency, theory of a metallic, 193, 338.
Extended, means unlimited paper circulation, 197.
Metallic, leads to reduction of taxation, 200.
Democracy, concessions to it cannot be rescinded, 394.
Durham, Lord, his ordinance in Canada illegal, 406.
East India Company, eulogium on, 277.
Importance of preserving the authority of, 329.
Enemy's life, secret bargain for, ought not to be made by a
commander, 81.
Reward for, by proclamation, may be offered, 81.
England the best country for the poor, 473.
Enthusiasm of the people very fine in print, but not to be trusted to, 120.
Equitable adjustment, how far to carry the principle, 213.
Establishment, naval and military, necessary to the national honour, 209, 463.
European and Asiatic policy contrasted, 86.
Evans, General, strictures on his proceedings in Spain, 372.
Expediency better, in politics, than principle, 328.
Faith, British character for, must be preserved in India, 89.
Finance administration of whigs and tories compared, 257.
France, peace with, desirable, but difficult, 270.
Free labour in the colonies, difficulty of getting it, 323.
French retreats their rapidity accounted for, 97.
French revolutionary armies, causes sustained, 98. —— and English armies, their different constitution, 110. —— the, would invade England if we withdrew from Spain, 113.
Game laws, the, increase poaching, 319.
George the Fourth, eulogium on him, 215.
Grey policy, the, tends to war, 260. —— government, the, encouraged the reform agitation, 261. —— Effect of their savings, 310.
Hampden, Dr., his case, 387.
Holy alliance, all connexion with it repudiated, 328.
Imprisonment for debt, principle of, 386.
Income tax, the, justified by necessity, 476.
India, people of, philosophers about their government, 81.
We must get the upper hand there, and keep it, 84.
Residents in native courts must have military power, 85.
Foundation of our power in India, (1803) 86.
British "moderation" there, 86.
British faith, 89.
Civil government must follow on conquest, 89.
The Duke's services there neglected, 94.
Advice to a native ruler, 93.
Danger of interfering with the religion of the Hindoos, 434.
Evils of a free press there, 480.
Recall of Lord Ellenborough an act of indiscretion, 494.
Intervention, foreign, should be on a national scale, if at all, 375.
Ireland, state of the poor in, 153.
Real meaning of agitation, 192.
Absenteeism deprecated, 220.
Effect of Irish affairs on our Portuguese relations, 224.
Agitation deprecated, 260.
Its state under Lord Grey's government, 302.
Necessity of conciliating the Protestants of, 307, 377, 492.
Agitation characterised, 331.
Lord Normanby's goal deliveries, 380.
Objections to the corporation bill of 1837, 381.
Agrarian disturbances caused by agitation, 385.
Poverty of the people of, 399.
The "monster" meetings, 487.
Remedies of no use while agitation continues, 488.
Anti-English motives of foreigners in supporting the repeal agitation,
490.
The military in readiness to keep the peace, 490.
Jews, the, their right to citizenship denied, 334. —no right to civil equality, 335.
Judgment, every man's, to be mistrusted in his own case, 95.
Law-breaker, the, always in the wrong, 96.
Legion, the, was sent to Spain for stock-jobbing purposes, 369.
Uselessness of it, 371.
Its want of discipline, 373.
It was a failure, 403.
Leopold, king, (of Belgium) must be independent of foreign powers, 259.
Londonderry, marquis, his appointment to St. Petersburgh, 351.
Lords, house of, should disregard popular clamour, 481.
Magistrates, the, should be appointed by lords lieutenant, 222.
—legal redress against them, 429.
—(Ireland) reasons, for their dismissals, 483.
Malta, a free press there deprecated, 396, 419.
Its riches, 421.
Manufacturing distress, causes of it, 201.
Exaggerated, 201, 202, 204.
Market, the home is the best, 211.
Melbourne administration, causes of dismissal in 1834, 347.
—treated with moderation by the opposition in the lords, 359.
Hostile to the church, 396.
Their impotent colonial government, 437.
They were not a government, 437.
Causes of their weakness, 439, 470, 472.
Carried on war with a peace establishment, 478.
Melbourne (Viscount), his services to the queen, 473.
Military operations, importance of time in, 81. —law the will of the general, 103.
Ministers require large private fortunes, 239.
"Moderation," British, in India, very like ambition, 86.
Monster meetings, the, 487.
Municipal bill, (Ireland) dangerous to the church, 309.
Objections to the bill, 381.
Napier, Sir Charles, eulogium on him, 491.
National system of education in Ireland, 264.
National credit, how to establish it, 123.
Navarino, battle of, an untoward event, 139.
Navy, the, as a constitutional force, controllable by the legislature,
96.
—inadequacy of our, (1838) 407.
—compliment to it, 448.
Negotiating parties, a good understanding necessary between them, 99.
Negro emancipation will encourage foreign slave grown sugar, 243.
Newspapers, the Duke's indifference to, 109.
Non-interference, doctrine of, 141, 375.
Normanby, lord, his goal deliveries in Ireland, 380.
Oath, the Catholic, in a principle, 319.
Oaths are necessary, 457.
Their abolition considered, 475.
O'Connel, Mr., ought not to have had a patent of precedence, 264.
His proceedings, 490.
Officers, British, require keeping in order as well as the men, 118.
Their fearlessness arises from their obedience, 126.
Open questions a sign of weakness in a government, 427.
Opinion, a war of, the worst of wars, 242.
Opposition, the, should aid the government where war is inevitable, 405.
Otho, king, the Duke of Wellington's government opposed to his
appointment as King of Greece, 308.
Parliamentary reform, declaration against, 218.
—arguments against, 225, 227, 232, 240, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251,
272, 273, 290.
Party spirit, in the army, must be avoided, 84.
Peninsular governments, the, must not mind unpopularity, 114.
Their disorganised state, 116.
Pledges from members unconstitutional, 245.
Police, a preventive, checks crime, 241.
Poor, principle of relief to, in India, 90.
Poor, difficulty of legislating for, 211.
Poor-law amendment bill, the Duke's reasons for supporting it, 340. —act has surpassed expectation, 365. —commissioners must be made to do their duty, 464.
Poor-law, has worked well, 477.
—— his reasons for supporting it, 495.
—— (Ireland) reasons for supporting it, 486.
Popular assemblies unmanageable, 99, 124, 392.
Porte, the, our ancient ally, 138.
Portugal must be a military country, 101.
Advantage of having the people armed on our side in the war, 101.
Letter to a nobleman in, 104.
Conduct of the people to our troops, 108.
Apathy of the people of, 108, 110.
Portuguese troops better than Spanish, 115, 122.
As a frontier country, difficult to defend, 122.
Ingratitude of the Portuguese to the British army, 124.
Its importance to England, 241, 320.
Policy of the Wellington government, 313.
The civil war in, fomented by the Grey government, 316.
Don Miguel, king de facto, 318.
Postage bill, penny, reasons for supporting it, 430.
Protection, not free trade, the principle of our commercial law, 267.
Protestants of Ireland, necessity of conciliating the, 307, 319, 329, 330.
Predatory troops, tactics to be pursued against them, 91.
Printed papers' question, opinion on, 449.
Private considerations must be laid aside by public men, 88.
Public men must lay aside private considerations, 88.
Public works, principle of advances for, 217.
—— meetings, numbers at, may render them illegal, 400.
Quadruple treaty, the, 362.
Condemned, 367.
Effect of the additional articles, 368.
Railway acts ought to be subject to subsequent revision, 358.
Reduction in the public service, principle on which made, 208.
Reform, see parliamentary reform.
Reformation, the, a blow at it, 462.
All interested in maintaining it, 492.
Religion should not exclude men from serving the state, 95.
Repeal of the union averted by the emancipation act, 221.
Accelerated by reform, 240.
Responsibility, military and civil, doctrine of, 97.
Romana, the Marquis de, his character, 111.
Roman Catholics, the, are interested in maintaining the established church, 354.
Seaton, Lord, eulogium on him, 448.
Secrecy, its importance in public affairs, 93.
Sense better than abilities, 125.
Services, the Duke's, in India neglected, 94.
Shipping interest, the, has not been neglected, 215.
Slave trade, French feelings about it, 126.
Slavery, fiscal regulations for its extinction not defensible, 290.
West India property not to be sacrificed to the fancies of
abolitionists, 291.
The emancipation act of 1833 a premature measure, 320.
Socialism, danger of it, 446.
Sovereign, the, political influence of the personal attendants of, 422.
Sovereigns, foreign, libels on, should not be permitted, 450.
Spain, its distracted state, 100.
National disease of, 108.
—— the real power is in the clergy, 127.
Effects of our intervention under the quadruple treaty, 362.
Intervention condemned, 375, 401, 402.
Spaniards, the, cry "viva," but don't act, 123.
Jealous of foreigners, 125.
Spanish officers, their inefficiency, 98.
And troops, 99.
Spanish leaders, their imbecility, 123.
Sussex, the Duke of, his character, 482.
Talavera, the hardest fought battle of modern days, 102.
Test and corporation acts, reason for repealing them, 148, 151.
Tests are no security to religion, 342. —— university, rendered necessary by toleration, 356.
Thirty-nine articles, the, defended, 354.
Time, its importance in military operations, 81.
Tithes, the most sacred kind of property, 260.
Treaties, their ambiguity accounted for, 85.
Troops, their subsistence must be certain, 82.
Union, the, must be maintained, 480.
Universal suffrage and the ballot dangerous, 427.
Universities, the, their educational system the admiration of the world, 366.
Victoria, H.M. Queen, speech on her majesty's marriage, 442.
Vimiero, battle of, fought without mistakes, 96.
War, when concluded, animosity should be forgotten, 88.
—French predatory system, of 121.
—A great country cannot wage a little war, 390.
—cannot be carried on with a peace establishment, 412.
Waterloo, battle of, its effects, 130.
His disgust at them, 131.
—described to a soldier, 131.
A "pounding match," 132.
Wellington, the Duke of, memoir, 1-79.
His Indian services neglected, 94.
His reason for being prime minister, 141.
Speech on introducing the emancipation bill, 155-190.
Would sacrifice his life to prevent one month of civil war, 186.
His declaration against reform, 218.
Reasons for resigning in 1880, 233.
Speech on attempting to resume office, May 1882, 292-302.
Explanation of his "dictatorship," in 1834, 349.
As a public man, stands on public grounds, 419.
His indifference to reports, 422.
Never said one thing and meant another, 435.
Not a war minister, 459.
West Indian colonists, their short-sighted conduct, 394.
William the Fourth, eulogium on, 384.