ntroduced by Mr. Gladstone, 328

Regent, Prince, insulted on returning from opening Parliament, 32;
and the Peterloo Massacre, 38

Revolution, French (1848), 171

Rice, Mr. Spring, 96

Richmond, Duke of, 89, 95, 124

Ripon, Lord, 95, 124

Roden, Lord, 113

Roebuck, J. A., and education, 89;
moves vote of confidence in the Russell Administration, 176;
his motion to inquire into the condition of the Army in the Crimea,
254

Rogers, Samuel, 123, 276

Rothschild, Baron, 291

Russell, Mr. G. W. E., 344

Russell, John, the first Constable of Corfe Castle, 1, 2

Russell, Sir John, Speaker of the House of Commons, 2

Russell, John, the third, and first Earl of Bedford, 2

Russell, Lord John: ancestry, 1, 2;
boyhood and education, 3-9;
schooldays at Sunbury and Westminster, 3-5;
extracts from journal kept at Westminster, 4, 5;
passion for the theatre, 4;
education under Dr. Cartwright, 5;
dedicates a manuscript book to Pitt, 6;
schooldays and schoolfellows at Woodnesborough, 6-9;
writes satirical verses and dramatic prologues, 7, 8;
opinion on the case of Lord Melville, 8;
influence of Mr. Fox upon him, 8;
at Holland House, 8, 336;
friendship with Sydney Smith, 8;
visit to the English lakes and Scotland, 9;
impressions of Sir Walter Scott, 9;
first visit to the House of Lords, 9;
visit to the Peninsula with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11;
political predilections and sympathy with Spain, 9-11;
goes to Edinburgh University, 11;
impressions of Professors Dugald Stewart and John Playfair, 12, 13;
his powers of debate at the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13;
early bias towards Parliamentary Reform, 14;
second visit to Spain, 14, 15;
first impressions of Lord Wellington, 15;
commands a company of the Bedfordshire Militia, 16;
third visit to Spain, 16-20;
on the field of Salamanca, 17;
at Wellington's head-quarters, 17;
his ride to Frenida, 18;
dines with a canon at Plasencia, 19;
at Talavera and Madrid, 20;
elected member for Tavistock, 20;
his opinion of Lord Liverpool, 21;
maiden speech in Parliament, 27;
speech on the Alien Acts, 27;
elected a member of Grillion's Club, 27;
his Italian tour of 1814-15, 28-31;
interview with Napoleon at Elba, 28-31;
speeches in Parliament against the renewal of war with Fran