130-1; statement of reasons for
  participation in Declaration of
  Paris, 139; suggests method
  of approach in Declaration of
  Paris negotiations, 156 note[1];
  on the object of the belligerents,
  178; on British policy and the
  cotton shortage, 199-200; on
  possible interception of Mason
  and Slidell, 207-8, 209; action
  of, in Trent affair, 226 note[2], 229,
  241; statement of, on British
  neutrality, 241; interview with
  Spence, 266; refusal to interview
  Lindsay, 295-6; letters
  to Adams on General Butler’s
  order, 302-5; reply to Hopwood
  on mediation, ii. 18; definition
  of British policy in debate on
  Lindsay’s motion, 22-3; sneers
  at the silent cotton manufacturers,
  26; views of, on mediation,
  31; participates in Russell’s
  mediation plan, 34, 36, 40-44, 46,
  51, 54, 56, 73; traditional connection
  with Lewis’ Hereford
  speech, 50 and note[1]; 51 note[2];
  on the folly of appealing to the
  belligerents, 56, 59, 73; opinion
  of Napoleon, 59; views on
    French proposals for armistice, 60-1;
    on British position in regard to slavery, 61, 78-9;
    approves Russell’s speech on Confederate shipbuilding, 131;
    defends Government procedure in Alabama case, 134-5;
    accusation of, against Forster and Bright, 135;
    attitude to seizure of Laird Rams, 145;
    on the use of Napoleon’s name in Roebuck’s motion, 174-5, 177;
    the crisis over Danish policy of, 203-4, 210, 214, 216;
    interviews with Lindsay, 206-8, 209, 210, 213;
    consents to interview Mason, 207;
    opinion of, on the ultimate result of the Civil War, 209, 215;
    attitude to resolution of Southern Societies, 211;
    interview with Mason, 214-5;
    reply to joint deputation of Southern Societies, 216;
    reply to Mason’s offer on abolition, 250;
    assurances on relations with America after Hampton Roads
      Conference, 255;
    attitude to expansion of the franchise, 276 and note[1];
    death of, 302
  Characteristics of, as politician, ii. 134
  Cobden quoted on, i. 226 note[2]
  Delane, close relations with, i. 229 note[2]
  Index:  criticism of, in the, ii. 216
  Press organ of, i, 229
    Otherwise mentioned, i. 96, 168, 194, 262;
    ii. 19, 68, 90, 112, 168, 170, 173, 185, 188, 190, 249, 263, 285, 293
Papineau, Canadian rebellion, 1837 ... i. 4
Papov, Rear-Admiral, ii. 129 note[1]
Paris, Congress of (1856), i. 139
Peabody, George, quoted, i. 227
Peacocke, G.M.W. ii. 187, 193 note
Persigny, i. 303;
  conversation with Slidell on intervention, ii. 19
Petersburg, evacuation of, ii. 248
Phinney, Patrick, and the enlistment of Irishmen in the Northern army,
  ii. 202 and note[2]