Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-11-17
Miste1IanfaMs.
Death Of the British Premier.

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Henry John Temple, viscount
Palmcrston, of Palmcrston, county Dub
lin, Baron Temple. of Mount Temple.
county Sligo, in. the peerage of Ireland"
as an English genealogical record before
US names him, was born October 20, lisa
enough, it is no longer known
whether he was born in London or in the
village Of Romsey He was educated at
home, under the care OF an accomplished
Italian, Gaetano Ravizotts, who is said to
have not only instructed him in European
languages, but also to have given his mind
. bent towards European politics. He
completed his studies at the University
Of Cambridge, which he was elected to
Represent in Parliament, in the Tory
interest, in Isl /, and continued to repre-.
sent for twenty years. Since 1885 he
represented Tivcrton.
He lost his father aud mother when in
his nineteenth year ); and this early in.
dependence probably helped to form his
character. His first cabinet appointment
was in 1909, to the Secretaryship Of war;
be held this Office for nineteen years
until 1923. In 1917 an attempt was
made by Lieutenant Davis to assassinate
him. he was wounded, but not seriously.
While he was member Of the administ-
ration, and Secretary at War. some of
the most arbitrary aud unlawful acts
which an English government has ventut.
ed upon in modern times, were enforced,
amongst them the suspension Of the
hdbeas corpus, the establishment Of spy
system to ferret out malcontents.&c.
Entering Parliament in lS07-at the
age Of twenty three-Lord Palmerston
was made Secretary of War at twenty
Eye, and remained in that place, unknown
to fame, until be was forty-four. In 1860
his turn came-he became foreign
minister, and at once, BY the peculiar
character of his policy, turned the eyes
OF European politicians and rulers upon
himself. 1t was as minister OF foreign
affairs that he bcame most widely known;
and his hostility to Russia; his friendship
for whatever power ruled ia France; his
readiness to interfere in every European
quarrel his success in arranging"
several important affairs by the free use
of English influence, such as tho establish
ment Of Belgian independence his ex-
treme readiness to tske responsibility on
himself in dealings with foreign nations.
and his pertinacious adherence to his own
course, even when, to carry his point. be
had to stoop to trickery,-alI contributed
to his fame.
1t was his selEwill which in August
1850, got him into trouble with tn
Queen who wrote the following sharp
note to Lord John Russell. then Premier:
..Thc Queen requires, first, that Lord |
Palmerston will distinctly state what he
proposes in given case ia order that the
Queen may know as distinctly to what
she Is giving her royal sanction secondly
having ouce given her sanction to
measure. that it be arbitrarily altered or
modified by the minister. Such an act
she must consider as failing in sincerity
to the Crown, and justly to be visited by
the exercise Of her constitutional right of |
that minister. She expects to !.
be kept informed Of what passes between
him and the foreign Minister before i'm. !
portant decisions are taken based upon |
that intercourse to receive the foreign
dispatches in good time and to have the
drafts for her approval sent to her in
sufficient time to make herself acquainted
with their contents before they must be
sent of. The Queen thinks it best that
Lord John Russell should show this
letter. to Lord Palmerston."
Palmcrston quietly replied: a have
taken copy of this memo, andum Of the
Queen. and will not fail to attend to the
directions which it contains showing no
resentment but in December, 1851,
eighteen months later, in defiance of
Queen and Cabinet. he committed the
British government to the recognition and
acceptance Of Napoleon's coup d etat
Lord J. Russell called upon his colleague
for an explanation" says an Eagllsh
writer, "but receiving no reply,
he took no steps in the matter,
except to shrug his shoulders at his Foreign
Minister'S GOODNESS and INSTRUMENTATION.
Her Majesty also wrote for an explanation
but none was forthcoming, aud Lord
Palmerston meanwhile forwarded n
Paris despatch, entirely on his own
authority, and without consulting either
the Premier or the Queen, in which he
renewed, in modified form, his opinion
on the coup d etat, previously expressed
to Count Walewski. Lord John there.
fore advised the Queen TO dismiss her
foreign minister. asd the indignant
descendant of Queen Elizabeth, nothing
10th, followed the advice. Ere. Post.