John Morley: “Catholic emancipation was won by O’Connell; the reform act of 1832 by the political unions; free trade by the league…”

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.