Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 459 pages of information about Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century.

Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 459 pages of information about Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century.

   Intervention, foreign, should be on a national scale, if at all, 375.

   Ireland, state of the poor in, 153. 
     Real meaning of agitation, 192. 
     Absenteeism deprecated, 220. 
     Effect of Irish affairs on our Portuguese relations, 224. 
     Agitation deprecated, 260. 
     Its state under Lord Grey’s government, 302. 
     Necessity of conciliating the Protestants of, 307, 377, 492. 
     Agitation characterised, 331. 
     Lord Normanby’s goal deliveries, 380. 
     Objections to the corporation bill of 1837, 381. 
     Agrarian disturbances caused by agitation, 385. 
     Poverty of the people of, 399. 
     The “monster” meetings, 487. 
     Remedies of no use while agitation continues, 488. 
     Anti-English motives of foreigners in supporting the repeal agitation,
     490.

     The military in readiness to keep the peace, 490.

    Jews, the, their right to citizenship denied, 334.
     —­no right to civil equality, 335.

    Judgment, every man’s, to be mistrusted in his own case, 95.

    Law-breaker, the, always in the wrong, 96.

    Legion, the, was sent to Spain for stock-jobbing purposes, 369. 
     Uselessness of it, 371. 
     Its want of discipline, 373. 
     It was a failure, 403.

    Leopold, king, (of Belgium) must be independent of foreign powers, 259.

    Londonderry, marquis, his appointment to St. Petersburgh, 351.

    Lords, house of, should disregard popular clamour, 481.

    Magistrates, the, should be appointed by lords lieutenant, 222.
     —­legal redress against them, 429. 
     —­(Ireland) reasons, for their dismissals, 483.

    Malta, a free press there deprecated, 396, 419. 
     Its riches, 421.

    Manufacturing distress, causes of it, 201. 
     Exaggerated, 201, 202, 204.

    Market, the home is the best, 211.

    Melbourne administration, causes of dismissal in 1834, 347.
     —­treated with moderation by the opposition in the lords, 359. 
     Hostile to the church, 396. 
     Their impotent colonial government, 437. 
     They were not a government, 437. 
     Causes of their weakness, 439, 470, 472. 
     Carried on war with a peace establishment, 478.

    Melbourne (Viscount), his services to the queen, 473.

    Military operations, importance of time in, 81.
     —­law the will of the general, 103.

    Ministers require large private fortunes, 239.

    “Moderation,” British, in India, very like ambition, 86.

    Monster meetings, the, 487.

   Municipal bill, (Ireland) dangerous to the church, 309. 
     Objections to the bill, 381.

   Napier, Sir Charles, eulogium on him, 491.

   National system of education in Ireland, 264.

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