England and the Orléans Monarchy

Whilst France and England had been quarrelling over the Spanish marriages, events of greater importance had been taking place in Central Europe. The Polish nationalists had plan...

The accession to power of Lord Grey was an event justly calculated to raise the hopes of those who wished to see more cordial relations established between France and England. T...

It will be remembered that, in the autumn of 1833, both France and Great Britain ineffectually protested against the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi. But so long as Russia and Austria...

Henry Bulwer,[578] who during the absence of Lord Granville from Paris was in charge of the embassy, was agreeably surprised at the calmness with which M. Thiers received the ne...

Lord Aberdeen, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, had held the same office in the government of the Duke of Wellington. He had had to deal, as will...

The growing power of Mehemet Ali, and the increasing decrepitude of the Ottoman Empire were not the only subjects which, in the year 1833, engaged the serious attention of the E...

The Cabinets of Lord Grey and of M. Casimir Périer had always regarded the execution of the separation treaty as a measure which must necessarily follow its ratification by the...

In 1830 England was still suffering acutely from the financial crisis of five years before. The losses of the capitalists entailed distress upon the working classes in the shape...

Scarcely had the withdrawal of the French troops from Belgium been effected, than grave news was received from the east. At Konieh, in Asia Minor, on December 21, 1832, Ibrahim...

At the close of the year 1845, when Peel had resigned office on account of the dissensions in his Cabinet on the question of the Corn Laws, Lord John Russell had in vain attempt...

The spontaneous rising of the French people to expel their King, Charles X., who had ventured to infringe the Constitution, aroused the enthusiasm of Liberals all over Europe. B...

Efforts to prevent a renewal of the struggle between the Sultan and the Pasha--Strained relations between Great Britain and Russia--Wellington and the Dardanelles--Ponsonby at C...

Dom Miguel usurps the throne of Portugal--Dom Pedro prepares to reconquer his daughter's kingdom--Ferdinand VII. marries Maria Christina--The Salic Law of Spain repealed--Birth...

Language of M. Thiers and Louis Philippe on learning of the conclusion of the treaty--Warlike declamations of the French press--Attitude of different parties in England--Thiers'...

The Whigs in office--Talleyrand insists upon the necessity of establishing a good understanding with England--Palmerston's distrust of the French Liberals--State of Europe--Revo...

Aberdeen and Palmerston contrasted--Why Guizot would not conclude the right of search treaty with Palmerston--The Chamber refuses to ratify the slave trade treaty of November 20...

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...

Lord Palmerston in Paris--Louis Philippe and M. Guizot disconcerted by Christina's proposal to the Coburgs--Palmerston's despatch of July 19, 1846--Bresson's letter to Guizot of...

The Reform Bill and the House of Lords--Death of Casimir Périer--A Republican insurrection in Paris and a Royalist rebellion in La Vendée--Death of the Duc de Reichstadt--The Be...

The Sultan Mahmud II.--The Greek insurrection--Sultan invokes the aid of Mehemet Ali--Intervention of the Christian Powers--Navarino--Russo-Turkish War--Mehemet Ali--Ibrahim Pas...

Effect of the Revolution of July in England--Character and system of Metternich--The _chiffon de Carlsbad_--Metternich's policy towards the Germanic Confederation and Prussia--H...