John Morley: “Gladstone had proclaimed that the choice lay between conciliation and coercion.”

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

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.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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