Chapter XIX: Appendix: Memorial Address

BY FREDERIC HARRISON

After Lady Russell's death a few friends decided--unknown to her family, who were touched by this mark of respect--to put up a tablet to her memory and hold a Memorial Service in the Free Church at Richmond, Surrey. The tablet, which is of beaten copper, beautifully worked, bears the following inscription:--

In memory of Frances Anna Maria, daughter of Gilbert, second Earl of Minto, and widow of Lord John Russell, who was born November 15, 1815, and died January 17, 1898. In gratitude to God for her noble life this tablet is placed by her fellow-worshippers.

The Memorial Service was held on July 14, 1900, when the tablet was unveiled and the following address was delivered by Mr. Frederic Harrison.

Now that our gathering of to-day has given full scope to the loving
sorrow and filial piety of the children, descendants, and family of
her whom we meet to commemorate and honour--now that the minister,
whom she was accustomed to hear, and the worshippers, with whom she
was wont to join in praise and prayer, have recorded their solemn
union in the same sacred memory, I crave leave to offer my humble
tribute of devotion as representing the general circle of her
friends, and the far wider circle of the public to whom she was
known only by her life, her character, her nobility of soul, and
her benefactions.

I do not presume to speak of that beauty of nature which Frances
Countess Russell showed in the sanctity of the family, in the close
intimacy of her private friends. Others have done this far more
truly, and will continue to bear witness to her life whilst this
generation and the next shall survive. My only title to join my
voice to-day with that of her children and of this congregation
resides in the fact that my memory of her goes back over so long a
period; that I have known her under circumstances, first, of the
highest public activity, and then again, in a time of severe
retirement and private simplicity; that I have seen her in days of
happiness and in days of mourning; at the height of her influence
and dignity in the eyes of our nation and of the nations about us,
as well as in her days of grief and disappointment at the failure
of her hopes, and the break up of the causes she had at heart. And
I have known her always, in light or in gloom, in joy or in misery,
the same brave, fearless, natural, and true heart--come fair or
foul, come triumph or defeat.

Yes! it was my privilege to have known Lady Russell in the lifetime
of the eminent statesman whose name she bore, and whose life of
toil in the public service she inspired; I knew them
five-and-thirty years ago, when he was at the head of the State
Government and immersed in public cares. And I am one of those who
can bear witness to the simple dignity with which she adorned that
high station and office, and the beautiful affection and quiet
peace of the home-life she maintained, like a Roman matron, when
her husband was called to serve the State. And it so happened that
I passed part of the last summer that she lived to see, here in
Richmond, within a short walk of her house. There I saw her
constantly and held many conversations with her upon public
affairs; and perhaps those were amongst the last occasions on which
her powerful sense and heroic spirit had full play before the fatal
illness which supervened in that very autumn.

I do not hesitate to speak of her powerful sense and her heroic
spirit, for she united the statesman-like insight into political
problems with the unflinching courage to stand by the cause of
truth, humanity, and justice. She was not impulsive at all, not
hasty in forming her decisions, still less did she seek publicity
or take pleasure in heading a movement. But, with the great
experience of politicians and of political things which in her long
life and her rare opportunities she had acquired, she saw straight
to the heart of so many vexed problems of our day; and when once
convinced of the truth, she held fast to it with a noble
intrepidity of soul. In a life more or less conversant with public
men now for forty years past, I have rarely known either man or
woman who had a more sound judgment in great public questions. And
I have known none who surpassed her in courage, in directness, and
in fixity of purpose. No sense that she and her friends had to meet
overwhelming odds would ever make her faint-hearted. No desertion
by friends and old comrades ever caused her to waver. No despair
ever touched that stalwart soul, however dark the outlook might
appear; for it was her faith that no right or just cause was ever
really lost, however for the time it were defeated and contemned.

Lady Frances Elliot, as she was before marriage, came of a race of
soldiers, governors, and tried servants of the State, and she
married into a race which has long stood in the front rank of the
historic servants of the Crown and of the people. But neither the
house of Elliot nor that of Russell in so many generations ever
bred man or woman with a keener sense of public duty, a more
generous nature, and a more magnanimous soul. In the annals of that
famous house, whose traditions are part of the history of England,
there has been no finer example of the old motto, _noblesse
oblige_, if we understand it to mean--those who have high place
inherit with it heavy responsibilities. That idea was the breath of
her life to Countess Russell, as assuredly it was also to her
husband, and she whose memory we keep sacred to-day is worthy to
take her place beside that Rachel Lady Russell of old, who, more
than two centuries ago, suffered so deeply in the cause of freedom
and of conscience; she whose blood runs in the veins of the
children who to-day revere the memory of their mother.

The Italians call a man of heroic nature--a Garibaldi or a
Manin--_uomo antico_--"one of the ancient type"--one whom we
rarely see in our modern days of getting on in the world and
following the popular cry. I have never heard the phrase applied to
a lady, and, perhaps, _donna antica_ might be held to bear a
double sense. But we need some such phrase to describe the fine
quality of the spirit which lit up the whole nature of Frances
Countess Russell. She had within her that rare flame which we
attribute to the martyrs of our sacred and secular histories--that
power of inspiring those whom she impressed with the resolve to do
the right, to seek the truth, to defend the oppressed, at all cost,
and against all odds.

It has been my privilege to have listened to many men and to some
women who in various countries and in different causes have been
held to have exerted great influence, and to have forced ideas,
principles, and reforms on the men of their time. But I have
listened to none in our country or abroad who seemed to me to
inspire the spirit more purely with the desire to hold fast by the
right, to thrust aside the wrong, to be just, faithful,
considerate, and honourable, to feel for the fatherless and the
poor, and not to despise the humble and the meek. I know that all
my remaining term of life there will remain deeply engraven on my
memory all that she said, all that she felt, in the last
conversation I ever held with her at the very commencement of her
last fatal illness. Weak and suffering as she was, unable to rise
from her invalid chair, she asked me to come and tell her what I
knew, and to hear what she felt about the public crisis of that
time (I speak of the end of 1897). The storm of South Africa was
even then rising like a cloud no bigger than a man's hand out of
the southern seas. I listened to her: and her deep and thrilling
words of indignation, shame, pity, and honour sank into my mind, as
if they had been the last words of some pure and higher spirit that
was about to leave us, but would not leave us without words of
warning and exhortation to follow honour, to serve truth, to eschew
evil and to do good, to seek peace and ensue it. I knew well that I
was listening to her for the last time; for her life was visibly
ebbing away. But I listened to her as to one who was passing into a
world of greater permanence and of more spiritual meaning than our
fleeting and too material world of sense and sight. And for the
rest of my life I shall continue to bear in my heart this message
as it seemed to me of a nobler world and of a higher truth.

Yes! she has passed into a nobler world and to a higher truth--the
world of the good and just men and women whose memory survives
their mortal career, and whose inspiring influence works for good
ever in generations to come. In this Free Church I can speak
freely, for I too profoundly believe in a future life of every good
and pure soul beyond the grave, in the perpetuity of every just and
noble life in the sum of human progress and enlightenment. And in a
sense that is quite as real as yours, even if it differ from your
sense in form, I also make bold to say, this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality--Death is
swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave,
where is thy victory? Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of Humanity, for
as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in Humanity.

Surely we have before us a high example of what it is to be
steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in good work, in the memory
of Frances Elliot Countess Russell, who united in herself
principles typified in the historic mottoes of her own house and
that of her husband's--who kept her high courage under all
adversities and opposition, in the spirit of _che sarà sarà_,
"stand fast come what may"--in the spirit of that other motto of
the Elliots, _suaviter el fortiter_, "with all the gentleness
of a woman and all the fortitude of a man."

INDEX

Abbotsford
Abercromby, Lady Mary (_see also_ Dunfermline, Lady)--
Marriage
letters from Lady John Russell
letters from Lady Minto
correspondence with Lord John Russell
letter from Lord Minto
visit of Lady John Russell
_mentioned_ in the letters
Abercromby, Mr. Ralph, afterwards Lord Dunfermline
Minister at the Hague
Aberdeen, Lord--
The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill
consents to form a Ministry
and Lord John Russell
and the Eastern Question
and Reform
Lord John's resignation
Lord John's appreciation of
resignation
Abergeldie Castle
Acton, Lord, "Historical Essays and Studies"
Adams, Mr.
Adelaide, queen of William IV
Admiralty, the,
Lord Minto at
Mrs. Drummond's description
"Adullamites," the
Affirmation Bill, Gladstone's
_Alabama_, case of the
Albert Hall, foundation stone laid
Albert, Prince Consort--
and Lord John
Prussian sympathies
visit to Pembroke Lodge
and Italy
at Coburg
death
"Trent" affair
"Life of Prince Albert,"
_otherwise mentioned_
Aldworth
Allen, Grant, "Science in Arcady"
Althorp, Lord
and the Irish Coercion Bill
Amberley, Lady
death of
Amberley, Lord, _see also_ Russell, John--
Engagement
defeated at Leeds
returned for Nottingham
maiden speech
defeat in 1868
letters from Lady Russell
death of
_otherwise mentioned_
American Civil War, the--
England's position
seizure of the Southern Commissioners
Lord Russell's speech on
feeling in England
Anderson, Dr., of Richmond
Anti-Corn Law League bazaar at Manchester
Armenian refugees at Pembroke Lodge
_Arrow_, the, coasting vessel
Athanasian Creed, the
Aumale, Duc d'
Austen, Jane
"Emma,"
Austria--
Influence in Germany
unpopularity of the Government
and Denmark
Palmerston's policy towards
Conference of Vienna
proposals of, and resignation of Lord John Russell
and Italy
after Solferino
Peace of Villafranca
and the proposed Congress at Zurich
Prussian war on
cession of Venetia
cause of the Franco-German War
Azeglio, Marquis d', Piedmontese Minister

Balmoral Lord John Russell at Baring, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer tariff proposals Beaumont, Lord Bedford, (6th) Duke of Bedford, (7th) Duke of, letters from Lord Russell visit of Lord and Lady John Russell on the attacks on Lord John letter from Lady John death Bedford, (9th) Duke of Bennett, Rev. W.J.E., of St. Paul's Berlin, Lord Minto appointed Minister Bernard, Dr., acquitted Bernstorff, Count Berrys, the Miss Bessborough, Lord, Irish opinions on the Coercion Bill Birmingham, enfranchisement bombs manufactured in Bismarck, Count-- In Berlin and Palmerston declares war on Austria the Franco-German War Blyth, Miss Lilian [Mrs. Wilfred Praeger] letter from Lady Russell Blyth, Rev. F.C. Bognor, news of Reform at Boileau, Mr., letters to Lady Melgund Bonaparte, Louis Bourbons, the Napoleon's questions concerning Bowhill Bowood, Lady John Russell at Bowring, Sir John, cause of the war with China Bradlaugh Braico, Dr. Cesare Brazil, Emperor of, at Pembroke Lodge Bright, John-- Defeat of at Chesham Place speeches and Reform letter to Lady Russell _otherwise mentioned_ British and Foreign School Society Broadstairs, visit of the Russells Brooke, Rev. A. Stopford, letter to Lady Agatha Russell Brooks's, news of Lord John's acceptance of the Colonial Seals Brougham, Lord-- and Lord Melbourne's dismissal and the Corn Law and William IV Browning, Robert Brunow, Baron, Russian ambassador Bryant, W.C. Bryce, Mr. James, letter to Lady Agatha Russell Brydone, Mrs., death Buccleuch, Duke of lends Bowhill to Lord John on Disraeli Bühler, Miss letters from Lady Russell Buller, Charles Buol, Count, Austrian Minister Burdett, Sir Francis, and Lord John Russell Burnet, Bishop Burns, Robert Byron, Lady Byron, Lord "Giaour," "Childe Harold," _quoted_

Cairns, Lord, _mentioned_ Campbell, Lord, "Lives" Canada, Governorship offered to Lord Minto Lady Fanny and the Patriots Cannes, Lord and Lady Russell at Canning, Lord Granville's correspondence with Canning, Sir Stratford, British Ambassador at Constantinople Carnarvon, Lord, resignation Castlereagh, Lord Catholic Emancipation Bill Cavour-- and Napoleon III resignation the terms of unity and Garibaldi _otherwise mentioned_ Ceremonies, religious, Lady John Russell's opinion concerning Channing's, Dr., writings Charles X Chartist movement Chartres, Duc de Chelmsford, Lord, saying of Chenies, Lady Russell's funeral at Chester, Fenian attempt on the arsenal Chesterfield, Lord, "Letters" Chillon Chinese War, the Lord John Russell's speech Palmerston's policy Chorley Wood, Rickmansworth Christian, Princess, at Cannes _Chronicle_, the, and the Eastern Question Church of England the Gorham case Clarendon, Lady Clarendon, Lord-- Viceroy of Ireland at the Foreign Office letter to Lord Russell letter from Lord Russell despatch to Naples letter to Lord Granville Coalition Ministry, the results Cobden, Richard-- Oratory Lord William Russell on comments on Lord John, motion regarding the China measures defeat in 1857 Free Trade Treaty with France _otherwise mentioned_ Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice, speech Coercion (Ireland) Bill Coombe Wood, Richmond Conservative Party, the-- "Moderate Reform" split on Catholic Emancipation position in 1852 Conspiracy to Murder Bill Corn Laws, the-- Lord John Russell's proposal repeal of Macaulay on Peel's measure repeal passed Cowley, Lord Cowper, William Cranborne, Lord, resignation of (_see also_ Salisbury, (3rd) Marquis) Crimean War-- Events leading to victories Lord Malmesbury's report Bright's History _cited_ French alliance Currie, Mr. Raikes

_Daily News_, the--
and the Eastern Question
attack on Lord John
Lord Russell's letters
on Baron Stockmar, article _quoted_
Dante
Davitt, Michael, "Leaves from a Prison Diary"
Denmark, war with Schleswig-Holstein
Derby, (14th) Earl of--
Ministry, 1851
fails to form a Government, 1855
cabinet, 1858
resignation in June
denounces the Government's policy
and the franchise
resignation, 1868
illness
_otherwise mentioned_
Derby, (15th) Earl of (_see_ Stanley, Lord)
Dickens, Charles--
On the ragged schools
"David Copperfield,"
at Pembroke Lodge
congratulates Lord John Russell
letters to Lady John Russell
Lady Russell's preference for
on Lord John Russell, _quoted_
Dieppe, the Russells at
Dillon, John, on Lord John's resignation
Dillon, John, and Parnell
Disraeli, Benjamin (Earl of Beaconsfield)--
personality
Budget
and Free Trade
Lady John Russell, on
on Lord John Russell's motion
his Franchise Bill
the Duke of Buccleuch on
succeeds Lord Derby
resignation
letter to Lord Russell
Parliamentary courage
_otherwise mentioned_
Drewitt, Dr. F.D.
Drouyn, M. de L'Huys, resignation of
Drummond, Mrs. (_see also_ Lister, Adelaide)
on the Minto family, _quoted_
letter from Lady Russell
Duff, Sir Mount Stuart Grant, letter to Lady Russell
Dufferin, Lord, letter to Lady John Russell
letter from Lady John Russell
Dunfermline, Lady (_see also_ Abercromby, Lady Mary)
letters from Lady Russell
death in Rome
Dunrozel, Haslemere
Durham, Bishop of, letter from Lord John Russell
Durham, Lord, in Canada

Eastbourne Eastern Question, the, events leading to the Crimean War Lord Palmerston's policy Gladstone on Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, the Edinburgh Edinburgh University Education, Lord Russell and Education Bill Mr. Forster's Act Elba, Napoleon in, Lord John Russell's account Eliot, George "Adam Bede," Lady Russell on, Elliot, Charles [Lady Russell's brother] Elliot, George [Lady Russell's brother] Elliot, George [uncle of Lady Russell] Elliot, Gilbert [brother of Lady Russell] Elliot, Gilbert, afterwards Dean of Bristol Elliot, Henry [brother of Lady Russell] _mentioned_ in the letters goes to Australia visit of Elliot, John [uncle of Lady Russell] member of Parliament for Hawick Elliot, Lady Fanny, quotation from "Reminiscences of an Idler" description of, (_see_ Russell, Lady John) Elliot, Lady Charlotte (_see_ also Portal) _mentioned_ in the letters Sir Henry Taylor and Elliot, Lady Harriet Elliot, Miss, daughter of the Dean of Bristol, a reference to Lord Russell Emerson, R.W. Endsleigh English society, Lady Russell on Etchegoyen, Comte d' Eugénie, Empress, and the Russells at Chislehurst Eversley, Lord _Examiner, the, on Lord John Russell's resignation Exeter Hall, lecture by Lord John at meetings

Factory children, education of, Bill for Farrington, Rev. Silas, letter to Lady Agatha Russell Fawcett, Professor, speech Fazakerlie, Miss Fenians, movement of 1867 Fitzmaurice, Lord "Life of Lord Granville" _quoted_ Florence, robbers of the Russells in Foreign Exchanges, Mr. Goschen's book on Forster, W.E. the Elementary Education Act Fortescue, Chichester, Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Russell's three pamphlets Fox, Charles James-- and Lord John Russell Napoleon on foreign policy _otherwise mentioned_ Fox Club, the France-- The July revolution deposition of Louis Philippe and the Greek crisis and Denmark the _coup d'état_ of December, 1851 events leading to the Crimean War Cobden's Free Trade Treaty Franchise, Mr. Locke King's motion Franco-German War, outbreak Franklin, Sir John "Free Church," the Free Church of Scotland, establishment Free Church, Richmond, the memorial tablet Free Trade, the new principle Lady John and number of Free Traders in 1846 Froude, J.A., at Chesham Place on removal of Irish grievances "Life of Lord Beaconsfield," passage _quoted_

Garbarino, Villa
Gardiner, Dr.
Garibaldi--
Cavour and
and the Sicilian rebels
attack on Naples
at Pembroke Lodge
letter to Lord John
_otherwise mentioned_
George III
Napoleon on
George IV, death
Napoleon on
story of
Germany--
The _Zollverein_
influence of French affairs on
the Crown Princess
the Franco-German War
the Crown Prince and the war
Gibbon, historian, appearance
Gladstone, Right Hon. W.E.--
and Lord John Russell
and the Corn Laws
at the War and Colonial Office
his first great speech
his first Budget
resignation
Italian sympathies
letters regarding the Neapolitan prisoners
Budgets
defeated at Oxford
and the Franchise
introduces the Reform Bill, March, 1866
reports Government defeat to Lord John
and Disraeli's Franchise Bill
letter to Dr. Pusey _quoted_
the Irish Church question, 1868
visits to Pembroke Lodge
speech on Irish Church disestablishment
conversation on Parliamentary courage
the Affirmation Bill
letters to Lady Russell
his article on the Melbourne Ministry
and Parnell
Lady Russell on
"Gladstonian," the term
his last Cabinet
_mentioned_ in the letters
Justin McCarthy on
Gladstone, Mrs.
letter to Lady John Russell
at Pembroke Lodge
Glenelg, Lord
Godfrey, Miss Alice (_see_ Russell, Mrs. Rollo)
Gortschakoff, Prince, Russian emissary
Goschen, Mr., appointment
Graham, Sir James
resignation
Grant, General
Granville, Lord--
Letter to Lady John
correspondence with Canning
sent for by the Queen
and Italy
correspondence with Lord Clarendon
Gray, Maxwell, "The Silence of Dean Maitland"
Greece, the crisis of 1850
Russian policy
Greville, Charles--
_Cited_ on Lord John Russell
on the Greek crisis
Grey, Lady
Grey, (2nd) Earl--
Prime Minister
resignation, May, 1834
Grey, (3rd) Earl,
death
Grey, Sir George,
"Security of the Crown" Bill
and Fergus O'Connor
rumoured Irish rebellion
and the Conspiracy laws
Guizot,
and Louis Philippe
dismissal and his reply to Louis Philippe

Habeas Corpus Act, suspension Harcourt, Sir William Vernon, letter to Lady Russell Harrison, Frederic-- Friendship with Lady Russell letter to Lady Agatha Russell the Memorial address Hatton, Sir Christopher, life Hawick freedom presented to Lord John Russell Herbert, Sidney resignation on the Italian question Herzegovina, insurgents of Hill, Rowland, Penny Postage Hindhead Hodgkinson, Mr., amendment Holland House dinners at Holland, Lady, in Portugal death, 1845 Holland, Lord in Portugal Napoleon on Holmes, O.W. death of Home Rule Controversy, the Lady Russell on Hooker, Sir Joseph Hoole, Alderman Hope, James Horsman, Mr., opposition to Reform Howard, Lady Louisa Howick, Lord, motion of, thrown out (_see also_ Grey, (3rd) Earl) Hudson, Mr., mission to Italy Hudson, Sir James, letter from Turin to Lady John Huguesson, Mr. Humboldt, friend in Berlin Hume, appearance Hungary, Kossuth's revolution

Ireland--
The Viceregal Court
situation in 1843
Lady John Russell on the Irish question
state of, 1845
condition in 1846
Peel's measures for, 1846
Lady John Russell on the condition of
measures for relief
the rebellion of 1848, preparations
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
rumoured rebellion in the South
visit of the Queen, 1849
reception of Lord Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham
Lord Russell's pamphlets
the Fenian movement, 1867
the Irish Church question, 1868
Gladstone's measure
Lord Russell's sympathy towards
Lady Russell and the Irish movement
Irish University Bill
Italy--
and Austria
Lord John Russell and united Italy
Lord Granville and
federation
first Parliament
defeat at Custozza
cession of Venetia
the Russells in
visit of Lord Russell, 1869

Jamaica Bill, 1839 Jaucourt, attaché Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, letter to Lady John Russell Joachim, Dr. Joachim, Miss Gertrude (_see_ Russell, Mrs. Rollo) Josephine, Empress Jowett, Dr., letter to Lady Russell

Keats, John Kent, Duchess of King, Mr. Locke, franchise motion Kinglake, _cited_ his book Kossuth, reception in London

Lacaita, Mr. (afterwards Sir James Lacaita), mission to the Russells
Lansdowne House, Lord John Russell at
Lansdowne, Lady
Lansdowne, Lord--
and Lord Minto
Lord John Russell and
Irish views
and the suffrage
refuses office
and Lord John's resignation
letters to Vienna
Lausanne
Layard, Henry
Lecky, W.E.H., a picture of Pembroke Lodge _quoted_
Liberals--
Position in 1837
number in 1846
Lady Russell on
Lincoln, President
Lister, Adelaide (_see also_ Drummond, Mrs.)
Lister, Elizabeth (Lady Melvill)
Lister, Isabel (_see also_ Warburton, Mrs.)
Lister, Miss
letters to Lord John Russell
Lister, Tom (_see_ Ribblesdale, Lord)
Lockhart, "Life of Sir Walter Scott"
London--
Lady John Russell's life in
London society, Lady John Russell on
news of the revolution in France
Lord John Russell returned for
Italian conspirators in
Longfellow, H.W.
Lords, the House of--
On the Corn question
Peel's Irish Land Bill thrown out
vote of censure on Lord Palmerston
Lord Russell's proposition
Lady Russell on
Louis XIV
Louis XVIII, Napoleon's opinion regarding
Louis Philippe,
and the Parisians
deposition in 1848
visits Pembroke Lodge
Louis, Princess, of Hesse
Lovelace, Lord, "Astarte"
Lowe, Robert--
On Disraeli, _quoted_
opposition to Reform
his retort on Gladstone
_otherwise mentioned_
Lowell, J.R.
"Democracy"
Lyons, Lord,
on the American situation
in Paris, 226
Lyttelton, Lady, on Prince Albert
Lytton, Bulwer, "The New Timon," _quoted_

McCarthy, Justin--
Friendship with Lady Russell
correspondence with Lady Russell
"Recollections of Frances, Countess Russell"
Macaulay, letter to his sister
_otherwise mentioned_
Malakoff, Duc de, French Ambassador
Malmesbury, Lord,
accounts of the Crimea
reports fall of the Derby Government
Manchester--
Enfranchisement
Anti-Corn Law League Bazaar
attack on the prison van
Manchester, Bishop of, and education
Manning, Cardinal
Manzoni, "Carmagnola"
Martineau, Dr., writings
Maynooth College, endowment of
Mazzini
Melbourne, Lord--
Dismissal, 1834
Ministry, 1837
return to power
his famous remark
Government of 1835
defeat in 1841
at Woburn
_otherwise mentioned_
Mr. Gladstone's article on the Melbourne Ministry
Melgund, Lady (see also Minto, Lady)--
Letter from Lady John Russell
letters from Mr. Boileau
letters from Lord John Russell
Melgund, Lord
Melrose Abbey
Michelangelo
Militia Bill, the
Lord John Russell defeated on
Mill, J.S.,
"Autobiography,"
"Nature," Lady Russell's remarks
_otherwise mentioned_
Milton
"Paradise Lost"
Minto House--
Description
return to in 1831
in 1834
the home at
Lord John Russell at
visit of Lord and Lady John Russell
Minto, Lady (mother of Lady Russell)--
Home influence of
illness in Berlin
death of her mother
a description
arrival of Lord John Russell
letters to Lady Mary Abercromby
"A Border Ballad"
letters written from Endsleigh
letter to Lord John Russell
letters from Lady John Russell
illness, 1852
death
_mentioned_ in the letters
Minto, Lady (Lady Melgund)--
Letters to Lady Russell
letters from Lord Russell
Minto, Lord--
At Minto
and Reform
appointed Minister in Berlin
and the Peel Ministry
First Lord of the Admiralty
Mrs. Drummond's recollections _quoted_
and Lord John Russell
visits to Lady John Russell
in London
on Lord John Russell
death of Lady Minto
letters from Lady John Russell
on Lord John Russell's acceptance of the Colonial Seals
death
_otherwise mentioned_
Minto village
Moffatt, George, letter to Lady John Russell
Moore, Thomas--
Songs at Bowood
"Remonstrance"
lines _quoted_ by Lady John Russell
papers of, edited by Lord John Russell
_otherwise mentioned_
Morley, Lord--
"Life of Gladstone" _cited_ on Lord Russell's resignation
Mr. Rollo Russell's letter to _The Times_
_cited_ on the conduct of other Ministers
_otherwise mentioned_
Motley, J.L., on _The Times_
_Morning Advertiser_, and the Eastern Question
_Morning Herald_, and the Eastern Question
_Morning Post_, and Palmerston's Eastern policy
_Morning Star_, the

Napoleon I--
in Elba, Lord John Russell's account
story of the poisoning
letters to Josephine
Napoleon III--
and the Provisional Government
his _coup d'état_ of December, 1851
policy
Orsini outrage on
peace of Villafranca
Le Pape et le Congrès
and Cavour
Sir James Hudson on
his idea of "United" Italy
Garibaldi on
and Lord Russell
and the Franco-German War
prisoner of war
at Chislehurst
National debt, reduction
National Guard of Paris
singing the "Parisienne"
Louis Philippe and the
Neapolitan prisoners at Pembroke Lodge
Newcastle, Duke of, at the War Office
_otherwise mentioned_
Newspapers
Nice, cession to France
Nicholas, Emperor
partition of Turkey proposed
death
Nonconformist deputation to Lord Russell
Norton, Mrs., description of Rogers, _cited_
Norwich, Hinds, Bishop of
Nottingham Castle, burning of

O'Brien, Smith O'Brien, William, and Parnell O'Connell, Daniel arrest in 1843 and Lord John Russell O'Connor, Fergus, and the Chartists Orsini Osborne Owen, Sir Richard Oxford Oxford movement, the, Lord John Russell and

Pacifico, Don, compensation
Palmerston, Lady
Palmerston, Lord--
On the dismissal of Lord Melbourne, _cited_
and Grey
at the Foreign Office
the Greek crisis, 1850
his finest speech
the Queen's letter to Lord John Russell
reception of Kossuth
the Militia Bill
and the _coup d'état_
dismissal
and Lord John Russell
resignation on the Eastern Question and resumption of office
return to power, his first Cabinet
policy
Lord John in the Colonial Office
policy in the Crimea
his appeal to Lord John Russell
his reply to Lord John's offer to resign
China policy
general election of 1857
Conspiracy to Murder Bill
resignation on the Conspiracy Bill amendment
Ministry of 1859
Italian policy
the Cabinet of 1859
social legislation under
illness in 1865
death,
_otherwise mentioned_
Panmure, Lord
Papal Bull, September, 1850
Paris--
Louis Philippe and
deposition of Charles X
carnival
Wellington in
life in
visit of the Russells
horrors of the war
Paris, Comte de
"Parisienne," the
Parliament, opening in 1836, description
Parnell, C.S.
Party Government, Lady Russell on
Pasolini, Count, memoir _quoted_
Patmore, Coventry, "1867"
Paul, Herbert, on Coercion Bill
_cited_ on the Commons' debate on the Greek crisis
on Russell's resignation
Peel, Archibald
letter from Lord Russell
Peel, General
resignation
Peel, Lady Georgiana,
letter from Lord Russell
verses to
letter from Lady Russell
Peel, Sir Robert--
The Ministry of 1835
his Tamworth manifesto
resignation
his position in 1837
return from Italy
defeat
Ministry of 1841
the Corn Law
position in 1843
resignation, 1845
and Russell
influence
gives up Protection
return to power, 1846
Lady John Russell on his speech
Lord William Russell on
his measures for Ireland
revenge of the Protectionists
and the revolution in France
his last speech and death
Parliamentary courage
Gladstone on
_otherwise mentioned_
Peel, Sir Robert, Chief Secretary for Ireland
Peelites, alliance with the Whigs
Pembroke Lodge--
Offered by the Queen to Lord John
the "Wishing Tree"
the home at
visit of Louis Philippe
other French visitors
literary visitors
a few recollections
Windsor summer-house
visit of Garibaldi
a Cabinet dinner
verses written for the summer-house
visit of Queen Victoria
children at
a picture by Lecky
Armenian refugees at
_otherwise mentioned_
People's Charter, the, 1837
Persigny, M.
memoirs
Petersham,
church at
school at
Petersham Park
Phillips, Wendell
Pitt, William
Plombières
secret treaty of
Poerio
Poor Laws, Lady John Russell on
Pope, Napoleon's designs concerning the
Portal, Lady Charlotte,
letters from Lady John
letter to Lady Russell
Walpole's "Life of Lord John Russell"
Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Protectionists,
abandoned by Peel
and the Coercion Bill
and the Peelites
Prussia
and Denmark
Napoleon and
war on Austria
Prussia, Crown Prince of
Prussia, Crown Princess of
_Punch_, ballad on Lord John Russell
Pusey, Dr., letter from Gladstone, _quoted_
Puseyites, the
Putney House, Lady Russell's description

Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de, policy
Reform, Lord John Russell and
Reform Bill of 1831
1832
Lord John Russell's Bill
1854
Disraeli's Bill,
1866
Reid, Stuart, _cited_
Renens-sur-Roche
the Russells at
Revolutionary movement of 1848
Ribblesdale, Lady, 1st Lady John Russell
marriage with Lord John Russell
her death
Ribblesdale, (2nd) Lord
Ribblesdale, (3rd) Lord
Richmond, visit of Garibaldi
Richmond, Duke of (1836)
Richmond Free Church
Richmond Park
Rigby, Dr.
Ripon, Lord
Robertson, Rev. F.W.
Rodborough Manor, purchased by Lord John
Roebuck, Mr.--
Motion of confidence
motion for a Commission of Inquiry
the debate on
comments on Lord John
Roehampton House
Rogers, Samuel--
Letters to Lord and Lady John Russell
note to Lady John, written in his ninetieth year
breakfasts
Lady Russell's verses to
his reply
Roman Catholics, Lady John Russell on
the Papal Bull, September, 1850
Romilly, Colonel
on Lord John accepting the Colonial Seals
letters from Lord Russell
Romilly, Lady Elizabeth,
letters from Lady John Russell
_otherwise mentioned_
Romilly, Sir Samuel
Roseneath, Lord John Russell's stay at
Russell, Lord Arthur
Russell, Arthur, son of Mr. Rollo
Russell, Bertrand, son of Lord Amberley
Russell, Earl (Frank, son of Lord Amberley)
Russell, Lady Emily
Russell, George William Gilbert
Russell, George W.E., on his uncle, _quoted_
Russell, John (_see also_ Amberley, Lord)
Russell, Lady Agatha
_Letters from_--
Mrs. Drummond
Lady Russell
Mrs. Warburton
Mr. Farrington
the Rev. Stopford Brooke
Mr. Frederic Harrison
Mr. James Bryce
Russell, Lady Georgiana (_see also_ Peel, Lady Georgiana)
letter from Lady Russell
letter from Lord Russell
married to Mr. Archibald Peel
_otherwise mentioned_
Russell, (1st) Lady John (_see_ Ribblesdale, Lady)
Russell, Lady John--
Birth and early life at Minto
beginning of her Diaries
visit to the Continent
return to Minto
at Roehampton House
in Berlin
return to Minto, 1834
at the Admiralty
description by Mrs. Drummond
visits of Lord John
her engagement
at Endsleigh
birth of John
lines to her son
at Woburn
illness in Edinburgh
on the government of Ireland
at Chorley Wood
illness in 1847
birth of George William Gilbert
the Petersham School
birth of Francis Albert Rollo
recollections of the crisis in December, 1851
book of poems
and Samuel Rogers
birth of Mary Agatha
death, of her mother
in Vienna
Italian sympathies
visit of Mr. Lacaita
relations with her father
lines for the summer-house at Pembroke Lodge
return to Endsleigh
in Venice
on Irish Church disestablishment
Visit to Italy, 1869
her views on elementary education
in Paris
in Switzerland
at Cannes
sorrows of 1874
death of Lord Amberley
the "Life of Prince Albert"
death of Lord Russell
her subsequent life
"Family Worship"
her love of children
her religion
favourite authors
lines on Samuel Rogers
his reply
friendships
"Lines to Georgy"
sympathy for Ireland
on the home at Minto
lines written after reading "Leaves from a Prison Diary"
visit to the Queen
on Home Rule
illness in 1897
last illness and death
funeral
"Lines on Death"
"Recollections" by Justin McCarthy
memorial address by Frederic Harrison
Russell, Lady Victoria (_see also_ Villiers, Lady Victoria)
Russell, Lord Charles, letter to Lady John Russell
Russell, Lord John--
and the Oxford movement
efforts for Reform
loss of the first and introduction of the second Reform Bill
his engagement to Lady Fanny Elliot
at Minto
_mentioned_ in the earlier letters
his speech on sugar
returned for the City of London
early life and career
his account of Napoleon
the "Remonstrance" of Thomas Moore
character and personality
and the Queen
on Endsleigh, _quoted_
and the Corn Laws
speech on the Irish question
his Free Trade letter
called to office
letters from Lady Russell
the first Reform Bill
Irish views
opposes the Coercion Bill, 1846
his Ministry, 1846
measures for the relief of Ireland
the offer of Pembroke Lodge
his Irish Coercion Bill
suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
school founded at Petersham
at Balmoral
his letter to the Bishop of Durham
resignation and resumption of office
events leading to the fall of the Ministry
resignation
and the dismissal of Palmerston
foreign policy
defeated on the Militia Bill
and the Protestant Nonconformists
his attitude towards Lord Aberdeen
and Palmerston
in the Coalition Cabinet
the Reform Bill withdrawn
resignation
the attack, on
fails to form a Government
British Plenipotentiary at Vienna
in the Colonial Office
his policy at Vienna
resignation
"Life of Fox"
lecture at Exeter Hall
in Italy
his speech on the Chinese question
returned for the City
reception at Sheffield
the amendment to Lord Palmerston's Conspiracy Bill
Italian sympathies
Foreign Secretary under Palmerston
his share in the creation of Italy
determines England's Italian policy
despatch of 27th October, 1860, _quoted_
becomes Earl Russell
speech on the American War
Prime Minister
the Reform Bill
in Venice
his pamphlets on Ireland
character from the Diary
visit to Italy, 1869
the "Introduction," _quoted_
in Paris
opinion on education
at Cannes
"Essays on the History of the Christian Religion"
sorrows of 1874
the Herzegovina insurgents
his last years
Nonconformist deputation to
death
Gladstone on
recollections of Justin McCarthy
and the American Civil War
_otherwise mentioned_
_Letters to_--
Lord Melbourne
Lady Mary Abercromby
Lady Russell
Duke of Bedford
Lady Minto
the electors of London
Lord Clarendon
Lady Minto (Lady Melgund)
Lady Georgiana Russell
Archibald Peel
Colonel Romilly
Russell, Lord William, letter to Lady John,
Russell, Lord Wriothesley,
letter to Ladyl John,
on the attacks on Lord John,
Russell, Odo (afterwards Lord Ampthill),
letter to Lord John,
Russell, Rollo--
his letter to The Times,
letters from Lady Russell,
marriage,
letter from Mrs. Sinclair,
otherwise mentioned,
Russell, Mrs. Rollo (Miss Alice Godfrey), death of,
Russell, Mrs. Rollo (Miss Gertrude Joachim),
letter from Lady Russell,
Russell, Rachel, daughter of Lord Amberley,
Russell, Rachel, Lady,
Russell, Sir Charles, and Parnell,
Russell, William, Lord,
Russia--
Napoleon and,
and England,
Napoleon on,
and the Greek Crisis,
Baron Brunow's wish for,
Palmerston's policy towards,
events leading to the Crimean War,
Lord John's negotiations,

St. Fillans, the Russells at, Salisbury, (2nd) Marquis of-- On Disraeli's Franchise Bill, _quoted_, and Reform, Salisbury, (3rd) Marquis of, San Remo, portrait of Lord John at, the Russells at, Sardinia, the King of, and Garibaldi, Lord John's speech on, Savoy, Napoleon's designs, cession of, Schleswig-Holstein, war with Denmark, negotiations, Scotland, Lady Russell's love for, Scott, Sir Walter-- "Lay of the Last Minstrel," Minto, "Ivanhoe," "Heart of Midlothian," _otherwise mentioned_, Scottish Church, the, secession from, Security of the Crown Bill, Sedan, Sedition Bill, Ireland, Selborne, Lord, Sévigné, Mme. de, story related by, Shakespeare, Sheffield, reception given to Lord John Russell, Shelley, Sherman, General, Shooting, Lady Russell on, Simpson, Sir James, letter to Lady John Russell, Sinclair, Mrs., letter to Rollo Russell, Slave question, the, the Jamaica Bill, Smith, John Abel-- Letter from Lord John, letters to Lady Russell, his fears for Lord John's seat, Smith, Sydney, "Life and Letters," Soult, Marshal, at the coronation, South Africa, Spain-- Napoleon on, Napoleon's policy towards, Prince Leopold's candidature, Spaventa, in England, Speculative Society of Edinburgh University, Spencer, Herbert, "The Bias of Patriotism," Spencer, (2nd) Earl, death, Spencer, (4th) Earl, Letter to Lady John, Spencer, (5th) Earl, Stanley, Dean, pamphlet, letter to Lady Russell, Stanley, Lady Augusta, Stanley, Lord, afterwards 15th Lord Derby, and the franchise, Stockmar, Baron, Gladstone's estimation, Sugar question, Lord John Russell's speech Sumner, Charles Swanwick, Miss Anna Swift, Dean, on lies, _quoted_ Switzerland visits of the Russells Sydenham, Lord, on Lord John Russell's sugar speech

Talleyrand, Napoleon and
Tavistock
Taylor, Jeremy
Taylor, Sir Henry--
Visit to Pembroke Lodge
"Philip van Artevelde"
a picture of Lady Russell
letter from Lady Russell
Tennyson, Alfred
Aldworth taken by Lord Russell
death of
"Life of Tennyson" his son
Test and Corporation Acts, repeal
Thackeray, "Sterne" and "Goldsmith"
_Times, The_--
Lord Melbourne's dismissal
and Palmerston
Rollo Russell's letter
on the state of America
Lord Russell's letter
publication of the secret document
Tory Party--
Breaking up of
position in 1843
influence of Lord Derby on
Tractarianism
_Trent_, the, Confederate emissaries seized
Trevelyan, Mr., and the Chartists
Trevelyan, Sir George, "Life of Macaulay," _cited_
Tuileries, the clock incident
a dinner at
Turin, the Parliament of 1860
Turkey--
Events leading to the Crimean War
the Herzegovina insurgents
Lady Russell on
Tyndall, Mrs.
Tyndall, Professor

Unionists, Lady Russell on the United States, European policy towards Unsted Wood, 70

Vattel, jurist, _quoted_
Venetia, and the Federation
cession to Italy
Vestris, Mme.
Victor Emmanuel--
Policy
and the Peace of Villafranca
and Garibaldi
King of Italy
entry into Venice
Victoria, Queen--
First Parliament
coronation
and Peel
Court balls
and Lord John Russell
on events in France
the Chartist movement
letter to Lord John Russell regarding the public prayer
at Balmoral
visit to Ireland, 1849
and Palmerston, the letter to Lord John Russell
conversation with Lady John Russell on Palmerston
visits to Pembroke Lodge
sends for Lords Aberdeen and Lansdowne
letter to Lord John Russell asking him to serve under Lord Aberdeen
Palmerston's return to power
Lord Derby's Cabinet, 1858
sends for Granville and afterwards for Palmerston
and Italy
visit to Coburg
death of the Prince Consort
letter to Lord Russell on Palmerston's illness
refuses Lord Russell's resignation, 1866
lays foundation stone of the Albert Hall
letter to Lady Russell at Cannes
invitation to Lord Russell
letter to Lady Russell on death of Lady Amberley
character
letter to Lady Russell on death of Lord Amberley
letter to Lady Russell on death of Lord Russell
requests Lady Russell to remain at Pembroke Lodge
letter to Lady Russell on marriage of her son
visit of Lady Russell to Vienna
Conference of
"Vienna Note," the
Villafranca, peace of
Villiers, Lady Victoria--
Letter to Lady Russell
letter from Lady Russell
marriage
death of
_otherwise mentioned_
Villiers, Montagu, Bishop of Durham,
vote of thanks to Lord John Russell
Villiers, Mrs. E.
Voysey, Mr.

Wales, Prince of, illness, 1871
Wales, Princess of
Walpole, Sir Spencer
_cited_ on Lord John's resignation
"Life of Lord John Russell"
"The History," _quoted_
Walton, Isaac
War Office incompetence
Warburton, Mrs. (_see also_ Lister, Isabel)--
Letter from Lady Russell
letter to Lady Agatha Russell
Waterloo,
Lady John Russell's impressions,
George IV and
Wellington, Duke of--
Policy
resignation in 1830
Waterloo
the temporary Cabinet
personality from the letters
despatches
Napoleon on
and George IV
Westcott, Dr.
Westminster Abbey, coronation of Queen Victoria
Westminster School
Whigs, the--
Position in 1841
and the Corn Laws
and Peel's Sedition Bill
alliance with the Peelites
and Russell
Wicksteed, Rev. Philip H., speech of
William IV--
Dismisses Melbourne
opening of Parliament, February, 1836
death
and Brougham
Windsor Castle
Lady John Russell at
Wiseman, pastoral letters (1850)
Woburn Abbey
War, Lady John Russell on
Woman, Lady John Russell on her position
Wood, Lady Mary
Wood, Sir Charles
retirement
Wyhoff, Chevalier, "Reminiscences of an Idler"

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