71-114

CHAPTER XVI

1847

England and Portugal--Peaceable policy advised--Spain and
Portugal--Sir Hamilton Seymour--Septennial Act--Church
preferments--Jenny Lind--Wellington statue--Prosperity in
India--General election--Earldom of Strafford--Mission to the
Vatican--Portugal--Crisis in the City--Lord-Lieutenancy of
Ireland--Mr Cobden--Foreign policy--Queen of Spain--Queen
of Portugal--Hampden controversy--Lord Palmerston's
despatches--Civil war in Switzerland--Letter from King of
Prussia--The Queen's reply--The Bishops and Dr Hampden 115-140

CHAPTER XVII

1848

Death of Madame Adelaide--Grief of Queen Louise--The
Queen's sympathy--England and the Porte--Improvements
at Claremont--Revolution in France--Flight of the Royal
Family--Letter from King of Prussia--Anarchy in Paris--Queen
Louise's anxiety--Revolution foreseen--England's
hospitality--New French Government--British Consul's
plan--Escape of the King and Queen--Graphic narrative--Plan
successful--Arrival in England--Reception at Claremont--Letter
of gratitude--Flight of Guizot--Royal fugitives--Orleanist
blunders--Letter to Lord Melbourne--The Czar on the
situation--State of Germany--Chartist demonstration--Prince
Albert and the unemployed--Chartist fiasco--Alarming state of
Ireland--Conduct of the Belgians--Events in France--Anxiety
in Germany--Italy--Spain--The French Royal Family--Affairs
in Lombardy--Sir Henry Bulwer--Lord Palmerston's
justification--Instructions to Sir H. Seymour--Lord
Palmerston's drafts--England and Italy--Lord Minto's
mission--Duchesse de Nemours--Commissions in the
Army--Northern Italy--Irish rebellion--Minor German states--An
ambassador to France--The Queen's displeasure--Opening the
Queen's letters--Lord Palmerston and Italy--Austria declines
mediation--Austria and Italy--In the Highlands--The Queen
and Lord Palmerston--Affairs in the Punjab--Hostility of
the Sikhs--Greece--State of Germany--Letter of the Prince
of Leiningen--Sir Harry Smith at the Cape--Governorship of
Gibraltar--Mediation in Italy--Death of Lord Melbourne--The
Orleans family--Letter from the Pope--The French
President--Relations with France--England slighted 141-207

CHAPTER XVIII

1849

Letter to the Pope--Letter from President of French
Republic--Lord Palmerston and Napl