The Political History of England - Vol XI / From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)

by George C. Brodrick; John Knight Fotheringham

[86] Parker, Sir Robert Peel, i., 372-75.

[87] Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 54-60.

[88] Wellington to Curtis, December 11, 1828, Wellington, Despatches, etc., v., 326.

[89] For the king's qualified assent see Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 82-85; Peel's Memoirs, i., 297, 298, 310.

[90] See Peel's Memoirs, i., 3, for his unpopularity at Westbury.

[91] Peel's Memoirs, i., 343-49; Greville, Memoirs, i., 189, 190, 201, 202.

[92] See Maxwell, Life of Wellington, ii., 231-36, for the incident.

CHAPTER XII.

PORTUGAL AND GREECE.

It is now time to turn to the general course of foreign policy during the closing years of the reign of George IV. The only foreign problems which gave serious trouble during this period were the Eastern and Portuguese questions. The influence which the former exercised on domestic policy has rendered it necessary to trace its course as far as the battle of Navarino in the last chapter. We must now take up the other question where we left it, at the recognition of the independence of Brazil and the expulsion of the Spanish troops from the mainland of America.