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VOL. 5B Summary of Contents. Politics and government: J.R's address to City of London...
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/22/5B
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VOL. 5B Summary of Contents. Politics and government: J.R's address to City of London electors. Cabinet making and correspondence with colleagues: Charles Wood on Lord Grey; Peelites refusal to join. Correspondence: J.R; Lords Dalhousie, and Lincoln, andSidney Herbert (Peelites); Richard Cobden; Sir James Graham; Duke of Wellington; C. Wood and others. Appointments, various: changed, offered, accepted or declined. Correspondence: Lords Anglesey, Fortescue, Kinnaird, Stair; R. L. Sheil; G. Byng; H. Rich; B. Hawes; R. More O'Ferrall; E. Ellice; Milner Gibson; C.P. Villiers; Admirals Warren, Parker, Adam; W. Gibson Craig; D. Dundas and others. Appointments to royal household: Changed, offered, accepted or declined. Correspondence: Lords Effingham, Liverpool, Torrington, Cowper, Breadalbane, Donegal, Camperdown, Camoys; Duke of Roxburgh. Appointments: civil, legal, service, and sinecure, mainly self-requested. Appointments: colonial and diplomatic. Offices of Judge Advocate General, Solicitor General and Commander in Chief. J.R. feels he is "entitled to go to bed for three weeks" (fs.160-1). Ireland: arms bill, famine and unrest; distress in Co. Cork. Request by Presbyterians for a college of education. Irish bishoprics. Correspondence: H. Labouchere; J. Morgan; Archbishop of Dublin and others. Foreign affairs: Spain and France: the Spanish marriages. Lord Palmerston presses for Prince Leopold of Coburg as suitor. Egypt: J.R. refuses dinner invitation to meet Ibrahim Pasha. U.S.A. and Texas: Lord Palmerston offers mediation. Rome: need for reform of papal government: Lord Palmerston's views. India: Lord Hardinge invited to continue as Governor General. Case of Sir Charles Napier and Col. Outram. Correspondence: Sir John Hobhouse; Duke of Wellington and others. Defence: Navy: question of harbours and south coast. Harbour Commission report. Plan of retirement for 200 Captains. Correspondence: Lords Auckland, Minto, Lansdowne; Duke of Wellington; Adm. Byam Martin. King of Hanover's claim to `Hanoverian Jewels': Lord Chancellor's legal view. Personal: J.R. appointed governor of Charterhouse Hospital (document with seal).
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