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VOL. 3E Summary of Contents. Correspondence and memoranda mainly on the Eastern Question...
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/22/3E
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VOL. 3E Summary of Contents. Correspondence and memoranda mainly on the Eastern Question Foreign affairs: Egypt: Mehmet Ali, Syria and Turkey; Russia, Austria, France and England. French political strategy; danger of war; Thiers and Guizot. Acute anxiety and disagreements of British cabinet; JR threatens resignation; Melbourne begs him "for God's sake do not bring on a crisis" [fs. 113-14]. JR tells Melbourne "it is Palmerston's object to drive me out of office" [fs. 161-2]. JR assures Guizot that newspaper reports "do not express the sentiments of the government" [fs.141-3]. Syrian revolt quelled. Question of Austria as negotiator. Cabinet agrees to JR's proposals to conciliate France; success of this policy. Correspondence: JR; Lords Melbourne, Palmerston, Clarendon, Spencer, Holland, Lansdowne, William Russell; Duke of Bedford; Charles Greville; Joseph Hume; Foreign Office intelligence. Defence: history of naval arming on threat of war (1770-1793) Colonial affairs: Canada: proposed legislation for union of Upper and Lower Canada. U.S.A. boundary dispute: danger of war. Peerage for governor Poulett Thomson (Lord Sydenham). Lord Falkland's report from Nova Scotia. Colonial affairs: Australia: appointments of Advocate Gen.; governor, South Australia. Order of the Bath: JR proposes new regulations. Death of Lord Holland: question of his memorial; correspondence with subscribers. Defamatory article in Quarterly Review. Correspondence: JR.; John Allen; Col. C.R. Fox; Lady Holland; Lords Lansdowne, Wellesley, Grey, William Russell, Brougham, Aberdeen and others. Personal: question of memorial tablet to JR's mother, Lady John Russell, to be executed by Richard Westmacott (the younger). Correspondence: Lord Wriothesley Russell
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