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(kek end who : . id otitis tabties | of Uptemacy with tou 7a ikea of Tailey- From a tetnticg oe Late Pobice (end and Méetter- Lord Palmctston nich; a sadicct Lan any 77 48F “0h me who pernaps mort JGuy-century Englishman could prov with a handle to his times. AD fioush “pote had alvcasy $o22 wertteon on Oaimere sten, Jasper Ridley, an English !yfyer who “gave up bis practice in ords 7 t0 write, claimed fn the Foreword ofa, Paim erston” to nave eoversd “a Avicor rround 1 thought, was the #27. One Must Ardent Unfortunately, ta fruty appreciate this _ book you either h.sf to feel stout Palmsr- ston the way ticeyooppsrs usd ta Teal avout the Ecsti:£ or you have bo belisve that Enclish hiycry is like money and the moore Of 2 god tve Ihe Bever wil you are. For to Jasper/aidiey, a fact abaut Palmers ston is a f5ft “ora knowing, no matter vehether it,,cacerns his subject's love Ufe or Greek 7 ‘ependanre. it dosen't srem to matter ayvays to Rally Veatenad aoeh frets demot.r; at? gnvteme, of whether Uce fall into irértlectualiy enzegiag patios. So if you js io rrad-this bok from start to fints%, have extreme paticnca and avoid ifrewatdia%aber amone Ridles"s thousands wassrls af declarative sonmtenc.4 s lesking for, an evita ting prccare S rulicetdics society, avid ita gtrangcy ‘scli-cartradic tory imorad Viows, - wrtrats Pear enti ste and grand of Pal- mersina FURST eee Feit) yeh eather tee ee the valley of war. And thus thafsmalést Gaus bivies. . gelecuve read.nz, 04 the oisee hand, meena 2 cotarny astortilt vhs: of 1Dumtect Ty Enpiish history - oo aan et Ol £ ALMA OLY LER LEH MANN-HAUTT sight vp until his death in 1B63. m - Secretary of War ircm YAO9 to 1823 and Pooga Sircary fom 1520 to ‘1851 he was involved in guiding England's forelen affairs almost throughout the Jong peacefy interval between the Rattle of Wateo (18t5) and the outbreak of the Crymean War (654), a time in which he plvyed st brinkmanship befure the word/vas ine vented, yet never plunged Dpictand inte = Fionse vere tary from 1852 to 1553 and‘Prime Minister from 1859 until his deh, he heiped to usher in an ace of Kboval doinestic seiorts without ever complojcly betraying bjs pro- foundly conservative nature, He. surprised feople. They had expected fittle of the king’ and charming young man Known as Prd Cunld. We tumed out to be a model/of the Enslish aristocracy= arrogant, Xroud, authoritarian, moraiistic, yet enligatenes: withai--aad be ran E0zZ- and's giiairs eccattingly. Lord Pumice ctoneAAhey called hit Wen, ust ot rpened macgnilicent Ubl age and becnme “eood Pam.” Yet despite his conservatism--despice a Fails In daw and cisciziine taet ted Hine ting: in the Enelish Army—he was in private life somctain of a spencuariit ant nilenderer. And the Enplisn peosle sem ty have foved him for it. In 1563, when be was nearly 75, he was, accused by an Ira ridiea| davemsitet named O'Kane of having seduced hirs. O'Kane. Gossip ensurd, aod certain of Palmerston's fellow Liberal pacty whips were worried. But Benjamin Disraeti observed to sn associate that he feared the scandal would meke Paimerston more popular than cveét, and, .sccording to Ridley, “deliberately spread the story abroad because he was mtentins to hold a genzrat tisction.” People said, wretes Ridley “that though the lady was cortainty Unne, the question was, Was P2imerson Abelt* Liberal and Conservative + Generailoas of English school children have been taught that Palmerston was a Conservative at home ard a Liberal abread. But Ridicy, in the masterty summing EP that concludes his overdetaiied study, cone cludes dat “Sacco enntradiction behveen Palmerston's intern2t and forelzn policy, Itz believed. {ike most Englishmen of his generation, that the Dritish Contti- tutioa and socia! system, 25 it existed is 1830, was the best in tic world, and as pear to poriectica a5 any merely humsa __ tastitution could ever be... . Palmerston "wee 3 Conservative. at bome because As ag’shed to pres, ve tals system and proven any developnicits in the direction of a> _Jmocracy. Hs was 4 Liberat adroad because ke wish to ses this system replace tid - - absniutlat monarchies of the Coatinent.” 24 So Ridley’s Kiogtaphy turned out. tu te Le ee ‘s oe Jredglan far, tie Corn Por . Ca: Sede hee he are ae Tee for Instance, to dzfcud the prackce of Mics | * 4