Canning, George:

Prime Ministership (1827), 399.
struggle connected with, 413-
446.

negotiations with the Whigs,
416, 426, 428, 435, 437, 439,
441-2, 524-30.
illness and death, 417, 442-6.
Internal Policy:

electoral system, 36.
middle class, 40, 42.

Parliamentary Reform, 35–6,
38.

'people' and the franchise,
37-8.

political ideas, 32-3, 35, 39.
Press, power and use of, 300-1,
305-7.

foreign, 304-5.
Indian, 40-I.
Foreign Office Reforms:
Diplomatic Service, financial
reforms, 282, 511.
comparison with the Castle-
reagh period, 286.
diplomats, relations with Brit-
ish, 287-96.

diplomatic innovations, 272-6,
511.

Secret Service funds, 269-70.
Consular reforms, 278-82, 511.
Press and public opinion, 40–1,
47-8, 153, 297–307, 314-6.
publicity, policy of, 48, 78, 80,
83, 136, 159 n, 186–9, 309–10,
327, 468.

Foreign Policy, Speeches, Princi-
pal, outside Parliament, list,
512-3.

Aug. 30/22, on Press, 305-6.
Apr. 14 and 30/23, on Spain, 75,
86-7.

Aug. 25/23, on U.S.A., 112.
Oct. 28/23 on England, 119-20.
June 15/24 on S.A. recognition,

Canning, George:
Foreign Policy, Despatches, etc.,
Principal:

on guarantee, Sept, 18/23, text,
539-40.

Oct. 3-9/23, Polignac Memo,
text, 115-117.

Feb. 13/24, notes on S. America,
text, 543-48.

June 24/24, views on Neo-Holy
Alliance, text, 535-8.

July 19/24, on Portugal, text,
203-4.

Oct. 9/24, on Brazil, 217-8.
Dec. 4/24, memo to Stratford on
general politics, text, 458.
Dec./24, memo on recognition,
text, 145-6, 550-4.

Dec. 31/24, despatch announc-
ing recognition, text, 148–
151.

Sept.-Oct./25, interpretation of
Polignac Memo, text, 549-50.
1826, despatches on Latin
America, 175-6, 178-9,
182-3.

July 11/26, despatch on Portu-
gal, 369-70.

to

Jan. 31/26, the Rhyming De-
spatch,' text, 294-6.
Feb. 10/26, instructions
Wellington re Greece, 353.
Sept. 19/26, letter to Temple
on Neo-Holy Alliance, text,
358-60.

July 13/27, last letter on Greece,
text, 402-3.

Foreign Policy, General Principles
of:

Alliance, Holy, attacks on, 164,

202, 249, 273, 352, 389, 447,
453-4.
annexation, disclaimers of Brit-
ish, 85, 108, 111, 115, 173-6,
215, 391, 400.

balance of power, 154-5, 178,
380-1, 466-8, 583-4.
Congress, Areopagus and Neo-
Holy Alliance policy, attacks
on, 43-5, 47-8, 137, 140-2,
154, 164-5, 204, 214, 218,
294, 332, 358-60, 454-7,
535-8, 543, 548.
Constitutions:

general policy, 78-9, 457-61.
Portugal, 194, 368-70, 385
and n, 459.
Naples, 457 n.

Spain, 76, 95-6, 457 n.
Spanish America, 113 n, 184.

Brazil and Buenos Aires re-

fused, 183-4.
France and Spain (1822), re-
fused, 68, 74.

Portugal and Brazil, 213-5.
Spain (1824), refused, 139.
Spanish America (1824), 165,
175.

Turkey and Greece (1825-7),
343, 359-60.

monarchy (attitude towards,
q.v.).

nationalism and nations, view

of, 37-9, 79, 90, 464-6.
non-intervention, 47, 79, 95,

182-3, 194, 196, 198, 203–4,
320, 368, 384-7, 464-5,
471.

departure from, 207-8, 459.
recognition, principles of, 85,
110, 113 and n, 116, 143–58,
159-61, 470, 497, 499-504.
smaller Powers and, 151, 353,
461-4.

treaties, obligations, view of,
452-4, 462, 466.
and Foreign Countries:

and Austria (v. under Metter-
nich).

and Brazil (q.v.).

and France (q.v.).
and Greece (q.v.).

and Monroe Doctrine (q.v.).
and Naples, Canning's attitude
towards (1820-1), 46-7 and
n, 142, 154 n, 451 n.

and Netherlands, Canning's atti-
tude, 155, 162, 294-6, 353,
463.

and Portugal (q.v.).

and Prussia (q.v.).

and Russia (q.v. and Alexander,
Nicholas, Lieven, Pozzo di
Borgo).

and Spain (q.v.).

and Spanish America (q.v. and
Buenos Aires, Chile, Colom-
bia, Guatemala, Mexico,
Peru).

and United States (q.v. and
Adams, Clay, Monroe).

Canning, George:

Foreign Policy, Commercial, 41–2,
142-5, 224.

avowed as motive for recognis-

ing S. America, 142, 535-6.
with Spanish America, 159–62,
499-504.

with Brazil, 224, 508-9.
with Portugal, 463.
with U.S.A., 496.

Canning, Mrs Joan (afterwards
Lady Canning), 233-4, 249,
273, 374.

authoress of anonymous pam-
phlet on Portugal, 315, 457,
480, 516.

Canning, Stratford (Minister to
Washington, Ambassador at
Constantinople, afterwards Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe), 33, 45.
and United States, 121, 487-8,
493.

interview with George Canning,
Dec. 4/24, 458.

sees Metternich, Dec./24, 330.
at St Petersburg, (1825), 334.
mission to Constantinople, 289,
332.
instructions (Oct. 12/25), 342-4.
on Greek independence, 393.
on Turkey, 401.

on Codrington, 404, 409.
v. also 33, 45, 287, 458.
Capodistrias (Minister of Russia,
later President of Greece), 322.
Carlisle, Lord, 442.

Carlotta, Queen of Portugal:
character of, 191.

refusal to take oath to the Con-
stitution, 197.

Carlsbad Resolutions, 7.
Caroline, Queen, 9, 12, 28.
Castlereagh (afterwards 2nd Mar-
quess of Londonderry):
character, 33, 238.

and Canning, 27, 33-5, 43-5, 316,
447-9.

illness and death, 25.
Internal:

and George IV., 242.

and Queen Caroline, etc., 28.
External:

Foreign Office organisation, 260.
and Secret Service, 269-70.
letters and despatches to British
diplomats:

to Bagot, Jan. 19/22, 104.
to E. M. Ward, Nov. 8/20,
192; Mar. 22/22, 196.
to Thornton, Nov. 15/20, 194.

Ukase of Sept. 28/21, America,
104.

and Greece, 321-4, 326.
and Countess Lieven, 242.
and Pozzo di Borgo, 62.
and Spain, 13-7.

and Spanish America, French
designs on, 103, 106.
Casus fœderis (Dec. 8/26), 379.
Cathcart, Lord, 287.

Chantrey, portrait of Canning, 231.
Charles X., King of France (1824-

30), 55-6, 209, 247, 308.
private letter of Canning to, 80.
Chateaubriand, F. R., Vicomte de:
character, 57-8, 60-1.

at Verona, 60-1, 63, 69, 71-4.
and Villèle, 59, 72.
despatches to Marcellus, Feb.
17/23, 81; Jan. 30/24, 57.
to Polignac, Oct. 11/23, 308; Jan.
26/24, Canning's notes, 543.
speeches, 81-2.

and Austria, Metternich on, 59,
91-2.

and Canning and Great Britain :
letters to Canning, 77.
judgment on Canning, 474.

on Spanish War, 63, 69, 71-4,
77-80.
repudiates

Spain, 96 n.

Constitution

for

Canning's views on, 139, 144, 150,
501.

declines to attend Congress of
Panama, 178.

Clanricarde, Marchioness of (daugh-
ter of G. Canning), 232.
Clanricarde,

Marquis of, 260,

416 n.
Clanwilliam, Lord (Under-Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs till 1822,
Minister to Berlin), 30, 260.
Clarence, Duke of (William IV.),
434, 521.

Clay, Henry, Secretary of State,
U.S.A.:

Canning, his attachment to, 451,

and Monroe Doctrine, 163-4.
and Polignac Memo, 164-6.
designs on Cuba, 172–6.

disclaimed by Bolivar, 177 n,
561.

commercial flag recognised by
Castlereagh, 106.

commercial treaty with Great
Britain ratified, Nov. 7/25, 157,
159, 161.

with United States, 161.
commercial flag recognised by
France, 503.

French policy towards, 109, 116,
184, 503, 555-6.
opposed by Canning, 184.
Bolivar on (1825-6), 556–61.
at Congress of Panama, 177-81,
506, 561.

Colombia River, 494.
Congresses (v. also Ambassadors'
Conferences, Castlereagh):
of Neo-Holy Alliance, 5, 7, 8.
Troppau, Laibach, 21-4.
results of Verona, 25, 73.
summoned for Spanish America

at Paris (1823-4), but rejected
by Canning, 124, 137, 140-2,
152, 154, 463, 514.

summoned for St Petersburg,
329-33.

Canning abstains, 334.
failure, 338-9.

Metternich's failure to assemble

over Portugal (1826), 357-8,
373-4, 454-7.

of Panama (1826), summoned by
Bolivar, 177-81, 506.
system of, Canning's attack on,
43-5, 86, 94, 142, 214, 217-8,
358-60, 453-7, 535-40.
Constantine, King of Greece, 328 n.
Constitutions (v. also Canning).

Metternich's view of, 3, 368-9,

Russo-British re N.W. frontier of
America (July 12/24), 493.
Russo-Turkish, Ackerman (Oct.

7/26), 394-5.
Slave Trade,
Mar./24, 495.

Anglo-American,

Tripartite Agreement, Franco-
Anglo American,

171-2, 175.

proposed,

Damas, Baron de (French Foreign
Minister, 1824-7), 184, 368,
503 n.

on Canning at Paris and on
Alliances, 375, 453.

on Cuba, disclaims armed inter-
vention, 170–1.

on Spain and Portuguese de-
serters, and Canning's policy,
373, 382.

on Greece, Projet, text, 595-9.

Débats, Journal des, 483, 512.
Decazes, Duc de, 299 n, 451.
De la Garde (French Ambassador
in Spain), despatch (Dec. 25/22),
68-72, 484.

Devereux, General, 313.
Devonshire, Duke of, 253, 414, 435,
443.

Diplomatic revolution, European
results of, 356-8.
Diplomatic Service :

Canning's financial reforms, 282-
287.

comparison with the Castlereagh
period, 286.

Disbrowe, E., to Canning, Apr. 20/25,
267; from Canning, Sept. 24/26,
301.

Disraeli, B., 239, 314, 441.
Divine Right, Louis XVIII., 55-6,
60.

Donzelot (French Governor of Mar-
tinique), 170.

Douglas, the Rhyming Despatch,'
295.

Du Caylas, Madame, relations with
Louis XVIII., 56, 58.

Dudley, Lord (J. W. Ward), Foreign
Secretary (1827-8):

general, 33, 258, 403, 437, 440,
442.

on Secret Service Funds, 270.
on British Press, 302.
External:

despatches to Stratford Can-

ning, June 20/27, 400; July
14/27, 518; to Wellesley, Jan.
8/28, 302.

on Mehemet Ali, 336.

on treaty of July 6/27, 519.
on Codrington at Navarino,
521.

Duncan, Capt., to Ward, July 3/21,
195 n.
Durham, Lord, 32.

Edinburgh Review, 297.

Eldon, Lord, Canning, opposition
to, 29, 31, 90, 147, 152, 235,
241, 414, 429, 434, 524.
Ellis, Charles (Lord Seaford), 233,
255, 416 m, 444.

Enghien, Duc d', execution of, 63 n.
English language, use of, in diplo-
matic communications, 274-5.
Erskine, Lord, 32, 320, 527.
Esterházy, Prince P. A. (Austrian
Ambassador at London, v. also
Metternich, Neumann) :
relations with Canning, Brazil,
223.

and Portugal, 368, 371, 383.
Spain remonstrates over speeches
of April/23, 90–1.

remonstrance to Canning on re-
cognition of South America,
272-3.

plots with George IV. and 'Coterie'

against Canning, 88, 243, 252-3.
in crisis of 1827, 434 n, 528–9.
Metternich's despatches to, 83, 88,

91, 202, 247, 254, 289, 383,
528-9.

Etoile, L', 69.