In his speech in the Houses of Parliament on June 25, 1850, he claimed that every British subject in the world should be protected by the British Empire like a Roman citizen in the Roman Empire.
在1850年6月25日于国会大厦的演讲中他宣称世界上的每一位英籍人士应该受到大英帝国的保护，就像罗马帝国里的罗马公民一样。