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National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century (Volume 2)

National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century (Volume 2)

Jerdan, William

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ISBN10: 1154406571
ISBN13: 9781154406573
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... disapproving of the policy pursued by his colleague, and especially of the projected expedition to the Scheldt, communicated that sentiment to the head of the administration, with the view to the abandonment of the measures to which he objected, a change in the Cabinet, or his own retirement. Without desiring to lay the onus upon any one, it is evident that a wish to carry through the public business without interruption, and, no doubt, a sense of personal and private delicacy, induced a delay in imparting to, if not a concealment of this matter from, Lord Castlereagh; and that a no less disingenuous, and, as it turned out, dangerous resort to expediency, was permitted to keep Mr. Canning in the dark upon this momentous fact. The consequence might have been foreseen: when the inevitable discovery came, Lord Castlereagh believed he had been secretly denounced by Mr. Canning, while sitting by his side at the council-board, and sought the satisfaction of a man of wounded honour; to which the spirit of his opponent, but neither his rival nor his foe, could offer no return, but of granting the meeting which was demanded. If, throughout the whole of this transaction, the slightest blame could ever have been attached to Mr. Canning, its complete excuse was to be found in the gentle and magnanimous workings of his nature, which (no absolute necessity was apparent to justify it, as the affair was confided to the most proper hands) caused him to refrain from that blind and abrupt expression of his opinion, which must grievously have hurt the self-esteem of a nobleman, for whom, though he condemned his measures, he entertained the utmost individual regard. On the dissolution of the ministry, Mr. Canning continued to take his full share in the bustle of politics; and the go...

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