Just finished the
Duke of Buckingham's two volumes on the “Courts
and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria.” There is a curious note by the
Marquis of L., which says that about 1845, "in a conversation at the
drawing-room with Lord John Russell, Lord L. asked him what he seriously looked
to in the present state of parties in the opposition, if Sir Robert Peel, in
disgust, was forced to throw up the government. Lord J. replied, he looked only
to an American Constitution for England." I make another extract, as it is
one which harmonizes with my own judgment, and, coming from so stern a Tory as
Buckingham, is probably just. "No fair critic of public men can deny that
Lord Palmerston is a statesman of extraordinary resources. Indeed, his
experience, his tact, his judgment, his inexhaustible good humour, and rare
political sagacity, have maintained his party in power when blunders of every
kind have most severely tried the patience of the nation."
Monday, April 10, 2023
Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, February 22, 1861
SOURCE: George Mifflin
Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States Minister to
Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p. 437
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