row more gross in the very
native soil of civility and refinement. But he did not expect to live to
see the Turkish barbarian civilised by the Russian.--_Corr._ i. p. 402.

[297] To Mrs. Gladstone, Jan. 3, 1863: 'In the evenings I have leisure.
Much of it I have been spending in reading Kinglake's book, which
touches very nearly, and not agreeably or justly, the character of Lord
Aberdeen and his government. I am afraid Newcastle blabbed on what took
place, and that his blabbing was much coloured with egotism. Clarendon,
I hear, is very angry with the book, and Lewis too, but Lewis is not a
party concerned.'

[298] _Eng. Hist. Rev._ No. vi. p. 289.

[299] 'Molesworth in the cabinet,' said Lord Aberdeen later, 'was a
failure. Until the war he was a mere cipher. When the war had broken out
and was popular he became outrageously warlike.'--Mrs. Simpson's _Many
Memories_, p. 264; see also Cobden's _Speeches_, ii. p. 28.

[300] _Eng. Hist. Rev. No._ vi. p. 290.

[301] March 17, 1856.

[302] See Martens' _Recueil des Traites_, etc., published by the Russian
foreign office, 1898, vol. xii., containing many graphic particulars of
these events.

[303] Stanmore, _Earl of Aberdeen_, pp. 270-1.

[304] To Sir A. Gordon, Aug. 31, 1892.

[305] See Stanmore, p. 253.

[306] This is clearly worked out by Lord Stanmore, p. 254, etc.

[307] Ashley's _Life of Palmerston_, ii. p. 270.

[308] See Appendix.

[309] Lord Blachford in his _Letters_ says of Newcastle (p. 225): 'An
honest and honourable man, a thorough gentleman in all his feelings and
ways, and considerate of all about him. He respected other people's
position, but was sensible of his own; and his familiarity, friendly
enough, was not such as invited response. It was said of him that he did
not remember his rank unless you forgot it. In political administration
he was painstaking, clear-headed, and just. But his abilities were
moderate, and he did not see how far they were from being sufficient for
the management of great affairs, which, however, he was always ambitious
of handling.' See also Selborne's _Memorials_, ii. pp. 257-8.

[310] Martens.

[311] The equivocal honour of originality seems to belong to the French,
but they had allowed the plan to slumber.--De La Gorce, _Hist. du second
Empire_, i. pp. 231-3.

[312] It is given in _Speeches_, i. p. 529. Oct. 29, 1854.

[313] _Eng. Hist. Rev._ April 1887. This article was submitted to the
Duke of Argyll an