Revival: Castlereagh (1936)

The Political Life of Robert, Second Marquess of Londonderry

John Arthur Ransome Marriott

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781351346078
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This book represents, on the one hand , the fulfilment of a long-cherished hope; on the other, an act of tardy expiation. The crime for which expiation is offered is partly collective. The reproach which lies on historians at large is considered in the Prologue. The personal crime can be confessed only through the more intimate medium of a Preface.

More than thirty years ago I published a little book on George Canning (John Murray, 1903) in which I did less than justice to Castlereagh. The error was not peculier to me, and might perhaps be regarded as venial in a budding politician and inexperienced historian, who had spent some of the happiest evenings of his Oxford life in the famous club dedicated to Mr. Canning's memory. Yet all these years it has lain heavy on a conscience too tender perhaps for an active participant in politics. That participation combined with other circumstances to delay the expiation even now inadequately made. But, however inadequate, it cannot safely be deferred much longer.

Index

Abercromby, General Sir Ralph, 52

Aberdeen, George, 4th Earl of, 204, 240

Act, Navigation, 25

Act of VI Geo I, 23, 30

Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of, 308f

Alexander I, Czar, 122, 189 f., 200 f., 234, 245, 250, 333, 323

Alison, Sir Archibald, 4

Alsace-Lorraine, 271

Amiens, Treaty of, 96

Antwerp, 145, 206 f.

Baird, Sir David, 112

Bantry Bay, 50

Bassein, Treaty of, 87, 90

Belgium, 99, 211. Sec also Netherlands

Bentinck, Lord William, 121, 231, 272, 306

Bernadotte, Marshal, 113, 192, 235

Blücher, Marshal, 240, 251

Bonnymuir, Battle of, 294

Boulogne, Flotilla, 111

Brougham, Henry, Lord, 153, 216, 340

Buonaparte, Joseph, 131, 189

Burdett, Sir Francis, 162

Burrard, Sir H., 132 f.

Byron, George, 6th Baron, 5,152, 264, 267, 336

Cabinet, the, of, Dec. 1813, 209 f.

Camden, Charles, 1st Earl, 17, 35

Camden, John, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquis of, 47, 155 f.

Canada, 181

Canning, George, 1, 11, 18, 58, 106, 117, 123 f. 134 f., 139 f., 150 f., 298, 318, 332

Cape of Good Hope, 99, 112, 246

Caroline, Queen, 294 f.

Castlereagh, Robert, 2nd Viscount:

Castlereagh, Robert, and Byron, 5, 152, 264, 267, 336

Castlereagh, Robert, and Sidmouth, 10, 73, 105, 180, 228, 333

Castlereagh, Robert, Canning, 11, 18, 58, 106, 117, 123, 133 f. 139, 150 f., 298, 318, 332

Castlereagh, Robert, Birth, 4

Castlereagh, Robert, Descent, 15

Castlereagh, Robert, Connections, Family, 17

Castlereagh, Robert, Election for Co. Down, 19

Castlereagh, Robert, in Irish Parliament, 21 f., and Chaps. Ill-VI

Castlereagh, Robert, and Reform, 35 f.

Castlereagh, Robert, and the Catholics, 37 f., 60 f., 71f., 168f.

Castlereagh, Robert, and Pitt 37 f. 60 f. 105 f.

Castlereagh, Robert, and Commercial Proposition, 39 f.

Castlereagh and French Revolution 42

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• I Prologue—The Man and the Statesman
• II Birth, Parentage and Education
• III Castlereagh in the Irish Parliament
• IV The ‘Grattan Constitution’—Castlereagh and Reform
• V Castlereagh Chief Secretary—The French Republic and the Irish Rebellion
• VI The Legislative Union—Castlereagh, Cornwallis and Pitt
• VII At the India Office—Castlereagh and Wellesley
• VIII Secretary of State For War and the Colonies (1805–1806)
• IX At The War Office—Castlereagh and Napoleon
• X At The War Office—Castlereagh and Moore—The Walcheren Expedition
• XI Castlereagh and Canning—Perceval’s Ministry
• XII At The Foreign Office—The American War (1812–1814)
• XIII At The Foreign Office (1813–1814)—The European Coalition
• XIV Castlereagh in Parliament (1812–1813)—Leadership of the House of Commons
• XV Castlereagh On Mission—The Grand Alliance
• XVI Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna—The Hundred Days
• XVII Post-War England—Social Unrest— Castlereagh’S Work
• XVIII Castlereagh and Europe (1815–1822)—The Quadruple Alliance
• XIX The Last Years—The Eastern Question—Old and New Spain
• XX The End—Epilogue and Appreciations
• Appendix—Select Bibliography
• Index