VOL. 15C Summary of Contents. Correspondence relating mainly to Schleswig Holstein....

VOL. 15C Summary of Contents. Correspondence relating mainly to Schleswig Holstein. (J.R. continues to receive guidance and advice from Lord Palmerston. As Lord Palmerston entered the last year of his life, his energetic interest in foreign affairs continued undiminished. This volume contains 49 letters of guidance, approval and advice to his foreign secretary, J.R. The Queen is also perfuse with her advice to J.R. It is evident from the papers in this and other volumes that the Queen's intense pre-occupation with European affairs caused some harassment to her prime and foreign ministers.). Politics and government. Ireland: question of abolition of post of lord lieutenant. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston (fs. 116-17; 122-28). The Times attacks the Queen for her failure to carry out her public duties: she is "hurt and annoyed". Correspondence: Gen. Grey (fs. 248-9). Foreign affairs: Prince of Wales's wish to receive foreign office despatches direct. The Queen's refusal; she will send him a "precis of the most interesting" (Gen. Grey to J.R., fs. 9-13). The Queen's views on continental alliances through intermarriage (Gen. Grey to J.R., fs. 62-3). Foreign affairs: Schleswig Holstein, Denmark and the European powers. The Queen's pro-German sympathies. The London conference: question of the frontier line and Danish refusal to give way; conference in jeopardy; J.R's arbitration proposal (fs. 20-1). King of the Belgian's views on the frontier line and his defence of the Queen (fs. 27-31). Hostilities renewed. J.R. favours military assistance to Denmark but recognises that such assistance "will be insufficient unless France joins in it" (fs. 52-3). Reports and speculation on movement of the Austrian fleet. Foreign affairs: Italy: proposed visit of Prince Humbert: the Queen cannot receive him at Balmoral as "..... the Duke and Duchess of Coburg ..... will occupy all the best rooms". Correspondence: Gen. Grey, (fs. 99-100). Revived proposal for Austria to exchange Venetia for the Danube provinces and Italy to compensate Turkey (F.O. despatch, fs. 200-7): Lord Palmerston's views (fs. 223-4); J.R's explanation to the Queen (fs. 265-8). Foreign affairs: Mexico: Lord Palmerston's reluctance to acknowledge Maximilian as emperor "..... until (he) is fairly on his legs" and assurances from Mexico that British monetary claims will be met (fs. 101-2). Foreign affairs: Brazil and the slave trade: detention by Britain of ships in Brazilian territorial waters; question of compensation and Palmerston's objections "..... the Portuguese are ..... the lowest in the moral scale and the Brazilians are degenerate Portuguese" (fs. 157-62). Foreign affairs: Egypt: Nubar Pasha and the Suez Canal. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston (fs. 191-3; 210-12). Foreign affairs: Japan: Sir R. Alcock's negotiations. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston (fs. 195-7). Foreign affairs: France: the Tunis uprising; indignation against the French. Correspondence: Lord Palmerston, J.R. and the Queen (fs. 250-6; 265-8). Proposed visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Compiègne and Fontainebleau: the Queen's objections "..... the society and the proceedings (there) are scarcely such as a young and respectable couple should mix in"; she over rules Palmerston and J.R. and the visit is put off. Correspondence: Gen. Grey (fs. 155-6; 174-85). Personal: J.R's Life of C. J. Fox: publication of the final volume. Lord Stanhope's praise of J.R's "energy (to) find time to complete that undertaking" (fs. 187-8).

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