Chapter XI: Palmerston and the Revolution of '48

Annexation of Cracow--Political unrest in Europe--Charles
Albert and Pius IX.--Enthusiasm in Italy--Attitude of French
government--Revival of French and British rivalry--Guizot
sends a secret agent to Vienna--Metternich realizes
the danger in Italy--The Roman plot and occupation of
Ferrara--Palmerston's despatch of September 11, 1847--Minto's
mission--Prince Consort's _Memorandum_--The situation in
Switzerland--Sympathies of the absolute Courts with the
_Sonderbund_--Palmerston's attitude--Probable reason of
Morier's recall--Palmerston's despatch of October 29, 1847--The
French proposal--Palmerston's counter-proposal--Palmerston
master of the situation--Battle of Lucerne and dissolution of
the _Sonderbund_--Crafty designs imputed to Palmerston--Policy
of the Swiss Radicals--Stratford Canning at Berne--The absolute
Courts and France present the _identic note_--Haughty reply
of the Swiss Diet--Alarm of the absolute Courts--Coloredo
and Radowitz in Paris--Revolution in Paris, Berlin and
Vienna--Charles Albert in Lombardy--_Une revolution de
mépris_--Why the rupture of "the cordial understanding"
displeased the French middle-classes--Effect of M.
Guizot's _rapprochement_ with Austria--Palmerston and
Thiers--Palmerston's policy substantially the same as
Aberdeen's--Why "the cordial understanding" failed to justify
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ENGLAND AND THE ORLEANS MONARCHY