Macaulay, Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington, return of, from India, i. [112];
on the state of parties, [112];
talents of, [121];
elected at Edinburgh, [215];
‘Grote and his wife,’ [215];
speech of, [215];
a saying of Lord Brougham’s, [240];
conversational powers of, [367];
Mr. Henry Taylor’s remark on, [367];
anecdotes of, [368];
collected ballads, ii. 60;
at Bowood, 69, 70;
‘Lays of Ancient Rome,’ 116;
meets Ranke, 203;
Maynooth speech of, 279;
attack on the Irish Church, 282;
repartee of, 339;
on Junius, 416;
History of England, iii. 252;
elected at Edinburgh, 460
MacDougal, Mr., Chartist meeting, iii. 193
MacGregor, Mr., and Lord Ripon, on Free Trade, ii. 53
Melbourne, Rt. Hon. Lord, adviser of the Queen, i. [22];
attack of, on Lord Brougham, [33];
position of the Government, [62];
and Lord Lyndhurst, [69];
and the Queen, [130];
at Windsor, [147];
resigns, [199];
the Bedchamber difficulty, [201-209];
resumes the Government, [207];
declines to make Radical concessions, [213];
effect of speech, [214];
on Mr. Creevey’s Journal, [275];
alarmed at affairs in the East, [303], [307];
indecision of, [312];
asleep at the Cabinet, [321];
remarks on Lord Palmerston, [363];
advice to the Queen, ii. 23;
advice to Sir R. Peel on behaviour to the Queen, 39;
attack of palsy, 116;
failing health of, 214;
and the Court of Rome, 217;
on O’Connell’s trial, 233;
on the Post-Office affairs, 289;
nervous condition of, 292;
breaks out on the Corn Laws at Windsor, 351;
visit to, at Brocket, iii. 119;
anecdote of, 121;
death of, 240;
character of, 241;
devotion of, to the Queen, 244;
compared to Sallustius Crispus, 246;
conversations and opinions, 247;
declaration in regard to the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 253;
manuscript books of, 376
Melrose, visit to, iii. 291
Metcalfe, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, on Afghanistan, ii. 99;
Governor-General of Canada, 117
Metternich, Prince, on the Eastern Question, i. [306];
suggestion of, [325];
flight of, iii. 155;
fall of, 158
Milman, Very Rev. Dean, dinner at the house of, ii. 60
Minto, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 405;
mission of, to Italy, iii. 108
Miraflores, mission of, to Paris, iii. 20
Mirasol, mission of, to London, iii. 183
Mitchell, John, affray at Limerick, iii. 172;
conviction of, 182
Molé, M., opinion of affairs, iii. 20;
attempts to form a government, 139, 143
Molesworth, Right Hon. Sir William,
moves vote of censure on Lord Glenelg, i. [72]
Monmouth, visit to, i. [219];
historical interest of, [219]
Montgomery, Mr. Alfred, hoax of Lord Brougham’s death, i. [243]
Montpensier, H.R.H. Duchesse de, Infanta of Spain, marriage of the, ii. 418;
at the Tuileries, iii. 35 (see[Spanish Marriages])
‘Morning Chronicle,’ the, conduct of, i. [179];
ill-timed hostility of, to France, [326], [327];
violent article on M. Guizot, iii. 42;
attacks on Lord Aberdeen, 52;
purchased by the Peelites, 128
Naples, insurrection at, iii. 216;
Lord Palmerston’s breach of neutrality, 261, 271;
Lord Palmerston’s claims on, 419
Napoleon, Louis, Prince (afterwards Emperor of the French),
at Gore House, i. [167];
success of, iii. 239;
elected President of the French Republic, 253;
position of, 329;
coup d’état, 1851, 420;
M. Thiers’ account of, 443;
and Lord Normanby, 441
Narvaez, intrigues of, iii. 194
Navigation Laws, the, iii. 283, 287
Netherlands, King of the, at Goodwood, ii. 287
Newcastle, fourth Duke of,
dismissed from the Lord-Lieutenancy of Nottinghamshire, i. [194];
letter of the, to the Lord Chancellor, [195];
interview of the, with the Duke of Wellington, [195]
Normanby, Right Hon. Marquis of, the,
succeeds Lord Glenelg at the Colonial Office, i. [161], [164];
Irish administration of, [176];
at a Greenwich dinner, [237];
despatches relating to the Spanish marriages, iii. 17;
indiscretion of, 30, 34;
relations of, with M. Thiers, 35;
communications of, with M. Thiers, 40;
bad terms of, with M. Guizot, 43, 46;
condition of the Embassy, 49;
perplexity of, 58;
further misunderstanding, 59, 60;
the quarrel made up, 66;
more blunders, 69;
results in Europe of the squabble, 72;
proposed as Ambassador to Rome, 108;
resigns, 441, 445;
and Louis Napoleon, 442
O’Brien, Smith, return of, to Ireland, iii. 167;
affair at Limerick, 172;
search for, 213;
capture of, 215
O’Connell, Daniel, speech of,
at the ‘Crown and Anchor’ Tavern, i. [66], [67];
declines the Mastership of the Irish Rolls, [101];
speech of, [279];
conduct of, on Irish measures, ii. 132;
proclamation of, prohibiting Repeal meeting, 204;
arrest of, 205;
trial of, 210, 218;
popularity of, 214;
advice of, on Ireland, 220, 221;
result of the trial of, 228;
release of, 255;
death of, iii. 82;
career of, 85
O’Connor, Feargus, at the Chartist meeting (1848), iii. 166
Odilon Barrot, conduct of, in the French Revolution, iii. 140, 144
Oxford, Bishop of, anti-slavery speech of, ii. 411;
want of tact of, 411;
correspondence with Dr. Hampden, iii. 115
Pacifico, Don, the case of, iii. 308, 311;
debate on, in the House of Lords, 341
Pakington, Right Hon. Sir John, Colonial Secretary in Lord Derby’s Administration, iii. 451
Palace, the, dinner at, i. [77];
balls at, [9], [109]
Palmerston, Right Hon. Viscount,
and Mr. Urquhart. i. [117], [119];
and the ‘Portfolio,’ [159];
policy in the East (1840), [297-304];
objections to policy of, [301];
coolness of, [304];
conduct of, at the outset of the Eastern Question, [308];
offers to resign, [308];
independence of, at the Foreign Office, [309];
the Eastern Question, [312-314];
at the Cabinet on the Eastern Question, [321];
hostility of, to France, [326];
article in the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ [326];
triumph of, [330];
note from the French Government, [335];
ignores his colleagues, [345];
defends Lord Ponsonby, [347];
hostility to France, [347], [353];
and the Tories, [363];
position of, [364];
settlement of the Eastern Question, [377-383];
jobbing at the Foreign Office, ii. 48;
attack on, in a Berlin newspaper, 75;
and consequent misunderstanding, 75;
abuses the treaty of Washington, 104, 109;
attacks on the Government, 105, 106;
and the press, 130;
commencement of coalition with M. Thiers, 267;
consternation in France at possible return of, to the Foreign Office, 345;
visit of, to Paris, 383;
letter to King Louis Philippe, 388;
Foreign Secretary, 405;
incipient disputes with France, 409;
Spanish marriages, 418, iii. 6;
despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, ii. 424;
conversation with, on the Spanish marriages, iii. 15;
conduct discussed by M. Guizot, 20, 26;
effect of despatch, 25;
M. Guizot’s complaints of, 30;
mismanagement of, 40;
and the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ 52;
threatens a rupture with France, 62;
consequences in Europe, 72;
anecdote of, 121;
dinner to M. Guizot, 157;
despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, 169;
conduct of, attacked in the House of Lords, 173;
omission of, 178;
and the Duc de Broglie, 185;
Sicilian arms affair, 261, 271, 276;
attacks on, 261;
and Count Colloredo, 282, 283;
suppression of a despatch, 288;
the Greek dispute, 308, 311;
quarrels with France, 330;
Baron Brunnow complains, 332;
able speech of, 346;
Radical dinner to, 362;
conversation with, 374;
and Kossuth, 413, 416;
Finsbury and Islington deputation, 415;
claims on Naples, 419;
dismissal of, from the Foreign Office, 426;
own version of the affair, 428;
succeeded by Earl Granville, 433;
complete account of the affair, 434;
further details, 444;
explanations in Parliament, 446
Palmerston, Lady, conversation with, on Eastern affairs, i. [330]
Panic in the money market, iii, 99;
proposed measures of the Government, 101
Panshanger, party at, ii. 415
Papal aggression, iii. 366
Paris, visit to (1847), iii. 16-50;
Mrs. Austin’s salon, 38;
ball at the Hôtel de Ville, 42;
ball at Mme. Pozzo di Borgo’s, 42;
visit to M. Cousin, 44;
the Hôtel Lambert, 44;
Mme. de Circourt’s salon, 45;
Mme. de Girardin’s salon, 45;
farewell visits, 48;
Revolution (1848), 132;
state of, 149, 284;
fighting in the streets of, 199;
details of fighting, 202;
the Archbishop of, killed on a barricade, 200, 203;
the coup d’état of Louis Napoleon, 420
Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert, informed of the moderation of Lord J. Russell, i. [188];
caution of, [193];
sent for by the Queen, [200];
the Bedchamber difficulty, [201-209];
coldness of, to Lord J. Russell, [259];
thrown over on the Canada Bill, by the Duke of Wellington, [294];
vote of censure on the Government, ii. 10;
sent for to Windsor, 33;
forms an administration (1841), 37;
conversation with the Queen, 41;
Corn Bill (1842), 83;
Budget, 87;
difficulties of, 189;
unpopularity of, 191, 247;
Maynooth Grant, 276;
resignation of, 317;
position of, 324;
conduct of, 328;
resumes office, 332;
vindication of, in Mr. Greville’s pamphlet, 350, 368;
measure for sliding-scale duties on corn, 357;
discussions on the measure, 357-366;
position of, 380;
anecdote of, 387;
conversation with, 389;
assailed by the Protectionists, 392;
behaviour to Mr. Canning, 397;
resigns office, 401;
resolution of, not to take office, 433;
position of, iii. 94;
unpopularity of, in Liverpool, 97;
correspondence with Mr. Croker, 98;
influence of, 100;
position of, 146;
on obstruction, 163;
reluctance of, to take office, 199;
anecdote of, and Huskisson, 216;
conversation with Lord Clarendon, 286;
on foreign affairs, 315;
accident to, 347;
death of, 348;
character of, 349;
career of, 350-358;
effects of death of, 358;
conduct of, on the East Retford franchise, 424
Peel, Rt. Hon. Gen. Jonathan, affronts Mr. Disraeli, ii. 388
Peel, Frederic (afterwards Rt. Hon. Sir F. Peel, K.C.M.G.), maiden speech of, iii. 288
Penryn Castle, visit to, ii. 17
Perceval, Rev. Mr., preaches before the Queen, i. [116]