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Anthony Trollope. Lord Palmerston
Lord Palmerston
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II. PALMERSTON AS JUNIOR LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY AND SECRETARY OF WAR, APRIL, 1807, TO MAY, 1827
CHAPTER III. SECRETARY AT WAR, WITH SEAT IN THE CABINET
CHAPTER IV. PALMERSTON FOREIGN SECRETARY, NOVEMBER, 1830, TO NOVEMBER, 1834
CHAPTER V. PALMERSTON AS FOREIGN SECRETARY, APRIL, 1835, TO AUGUST, 1841
CHAPTER VI. PALMERSTON OUT OF OFFICE, AUGUST, 1841, TO JULY, 1846
CHAPTER VII. PALMERSTON FOREIGN SECRETARY, JULY, 1846, TO DECEMBER, 1850
CHAPTER VIII. THE STORY OF DON PACIFICO
CHAPTER IX. PALMERSTON AS FOREIGN SECRETARY TILL HIS DISMISSAL, IN 1851
CHAPTER X. PALMERSTON HOME SECRETARY, 1853 AND 1854
CHAPTER XI. THE CRIMEAN WAR;—PALMERSTON PRIME MINISTER, 1855
CHAPTER XII. THE INDIAN MUTINY
CHAPTER XIII. PALMERSTON AS PRIME MINISTER, FROM 1859 TO HIS DEATH
CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION
INDEX
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Anthony Trollope
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Having thus made his choice against the Cabinet, he did not enter those sacred doors till May, 1827. An apprenticeship of eighteen years was more, probably, than he had anticipated when he made his choice. But it was no doubt well for his future fame and his stability as a Government servant, that it should have been so. During these eighteen years he was thoroughly learning his duty as a Minister of the Crown;—learning, as some will say, how to exaggerate those duties, and to absorb into his own hands more of power and potentiality than had been intended by those who had appointed him. But by himself, though he thought probably but little about it while he was learning it, the lesson had to be learned; and the lesson taught seems to have been this, that he would interfere with the duties of no other office than his own, but with those duties he would put up with no interference. There may have been danger in this; but such was his theory of official life. And it can hardly be denied that as a Minister of State no Englishman has been more successful.
Than Mr. Percival, who thus offered to Lord Palmerston a seat in his Cabinet, no Englishman who has become Prime Minister, was ever a more prejudiced, more antiquated Tory. He was, especially, a determined Protestant, regarding any Catholic claims to the privileges of citizenship with all the bigotry of religious conviction. At this time the Regency began, King George III. having given place to his son, who became Prince Regent, and ten years afterwards George IV. But in Lord Palmerston’s early speeches, or in his parliamentary conduct, there is no allusion to any peculiar political bias, and apparently no thought of it. He had joined the Government, as other young men in lower ranks of life join this or the other profession, and as other young men do—or neglect to do—did the work that came to his hands. In none of his letters that are published does there appear any strong political feeling, as there would be nowadays, in the letters of young men who look to parliament for distinction. He had been brought up among Tories, and was therefore a Tory; but with no violence of predilection. He was keen rather as to the delights of the life of fashion in which he lived; but he seems to have known that such delights cease to be delightful if they be not accompanied by work, and therefore he worked, having always before his eyes the future which might possibly be open to him—and which did eventually come to him. Throughout the next twenty years he will be found constant at his office, for the most part silent in Parliament, but speaking, when he did speak, always with a mind gradually, but very gently, tending towards liberal principles.
