Part 34

Manufacturing distress, causes of it, 201. Exaggerated, 201, 202, 204.

Market, the home is the best, 211.

Melbourne administration, causes of dismissal in 1834, 347. --treated with moderation by the opposition in the lords, 359. Hostile to the church, 396. Their impotent colonial government, 437. They were not a government, 437. Causes of their weakness, 439, 470, 472. Carried on war with a peace establishment, 478.

Melbourne (Viscount), his services to the queen, 473.

Military operations, importance of time in, 81. --law the will of the general, 103.

Ministers require large private fortunes, 239.

"Moderation," British, in India, very like ambition, 86.

Monster meetings, the, 487.

Municipal bill, (Ireland) dangerous to the church, 309. Objections to the bill, 381.

Napier, Sir Charles, eulogium on him, 491.

National system of education in Ireland, 264.

National credit, how to establish it, 123.

Navarino, battle of, an untoward event, 139.

Navy, the, as a constitutional force, controllable by the legislature, 96. --inadequacy of our, (1838) 407. --compliment to it, 448.

Negotiating parties, a good understanding necessary between them, 99.

Negro emancipation will encourage foreign slave grown sugar, 243.

Newspapers, the Duke's indifference to, 109.

Non-interference, doctrine of, 141, 375.

Normanby, lord, his goal deliveries in Ireland, 380.

Oath, the Catholic, in a principle, 319.

Oaths are necessary, 457. Their abolition considered, 475.

O'Connel, Mr., ought not to have had a patent of precedence, 264. His proceedings, 490.

Officers, British, require keeping in order as well as the men, 118. Their fearlessness arises from their obedience, 126.

Open questions a sign of weakness in a government, 427.

Opinion, a war of, the worst of wars, 242.

Opposition, the, should aid the government where war is inevitable, 405.

Otho, king, the Duke of Wellington's government opposed to his appointment as King of Greece, 308.

Parliamentary reform, declaration against, 218. --arguments against, 225, 227, 232, 240, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 272, 273, 290.

Party spirit, in the army, must be avoided, 84.

Peninsular governments, the, must not mind unpopularity, 114. Their disorganised state, 116.

Pledges from members unconstitutional, 245.

Police, a preventive, checks crime, 241.

Poor, principle of relief to, in India, 90.

Poor, difficulty of legislating for, 211.

Poor-law amendment bill, the Duke's reasons for supporting it, 340. --act has surpassed expectation, 365. --commissioners must be made to do their duty, 464.

Poor-law, has worked well, 477. ---- his reasons for supporting it, 495. ---- (Ireland) reasons for supporting it, 486.

Popular assemblies unmanageable, 99, 124, 392.

Porte, the, our ancient ally, 138.

Portugal must be a military country, 101. Advantage of having the people armed on our side in the war, 101. Letter to a nobleman in, 104. Conduct of the people to our troops, 108. Apathy of the people of, 108, 110. Portuguese troops better than Spanish, 115, 122. As a frontier country, difficult to defend, 122. Ingratitude of the Portuguese to the British army, 124. Its importance to England, 241, 320. Policy of the Wellington government, 313. The civil war in, fomented by the Grey government, 316. Don Miguel, king _de facto_, 318.

Postage bill, penny, reasons for supporting it, 430.

Protection, not free trade, the principle of our commercial law, 267.

Protestants of Ireland, necessity of conciliating the, 307, 319, 329, 330.

Predatory troops, tactics to be pursued against them, 91.

Printed papers' question, opinion on, 449.

Private considerations must be laid aside by public men, 88.

Public men must lay aside private considerations, 88.

Public works, principle of advances for, 217. ---- meetings, numbers at, may render them illegal, 400.

Quadruple treaty, the, 362. Condemned, 367. Effect of the additional articles, 368.

Railway acts ought to be subject to subsequent revision, 358.

Reduction in the public service, principle on which made, 208.

Reform, see parliamentary reform.

Reformation, the, a blow at it, 462. All interested in maintaining it, 492.

Religion should not exclude men from serving the state, 95.

Repeal of the union averted by the emancipation act, 221. Accelerated by reform, 240.

Responsibility, military and civil, doctrine of, 97.

Romana, the Marquis de, his character, 111.

Roman Catholics, the, are interested in maintaining the established church, 354.

Seaton, Lord, eulogium on him, 448.

Secrecy, its importance in public affairs, 93.

Sense better than abilities, 125.

Services, the Duke's, in India neglected, 94.

Shipping interest, the, has not been neglected, 215.

Slave trade, French feelings about it, 126.

Slavery, fiscal regulations for its extinction not defensible, 290. West India property not to be sacrificed to the fancies of abolitionists, 291. The emancipation act of 1833 a premature measure, 320.

Socialism, danger of it, 446.

Sovereign, the, political influence of the personal attendants of, 422.

Sovereigns, foreign, libels on, should not be permitted, 450.

Spain, its distracted state, 100. National disease of, 108. ---- the real power is in the clergy, 127. Effects of our intervention under the quadruple treaty, 362. Intervention condemned, 375, 401, 402.

Spaniards, the, cry "viva," but don't act, 123. Jealous of foreigners, 125.

Spanish officers, their inefficiency, 98. And troops, 99.

Spanish leaders, their imbecility, 123.

Sussex, the Duke of, his character, 482.

Talavera, the hardest fought battle of modern days, 102.

Test and corporation acts, reason for repealing them, 148, 151.

Tests are no security to religion, 342. ---- university, rendered necessary by toleration, 356.

Thirty-nine articles, the, defended, 354.

Time, its importance in military operations, 81.

Tithes, the most sacred kind of property, 260.

Treaties, their ambiguity accounted for, 85.

Troops, their subsistence must be certain, 82.

Union, the, must be maintained, 480.

Universal suffrage and the ballot dangerous, 427.

Universities, the, their educational system the admiration of the world, 366.

Victoria, H.M. Queen, speech on her majesty's marriage, 442.

Vimiero, battle of, fought without mistakes, 96.

War, when concluded, animosity should be forgotten, 88. --French predatory system, of 121. --A great country cannot wage a little war, 390. --cannot be carried on with a peace establishment, 412.

Waterloo, battle of, its effects, 130. His disgust at them, 131. --described to a soldier, 131. A "pounding match," 132.

Wellington, the Duke of, memoir, 1-79. His Indian services neglected, 94. His reason for being prime minister, 141. Speech on introducing the emancipation bill, 155-190. Would sacrifice his life to prevent one month of civil war, 186. His declaration against reform, 218. Reasons for resigning in 1880, 233. Speech on attempting to resume office, May 1882, 292-302. Explanation of his "dictatorship," in 1834, 349. As a public man, stands on public grounds, 419. His indifference to reports, 422. Never said one thing and meant another, 435. Not a war minister, 459.

West Indian colonists, their short-sighted conduct, 394.

William the Fourth, eulogium on, 384.

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