seration while at St Helena. Marshal Soult, who had fought
in many battles against the English, was received with generous
acclamation when he came here as Special Ambassador. The King of the
French, Mons. Guizot, and Prince Metternich, though all of them great
antagonists of English policy and English interests, were treated in
this country with courtesy and kindness. But General Haynau was looked
upon as a great moral criminal; and the feeling in regard to him was
of the same nature as that which was manifested towards Tawell[39] and
the Mannings,[40] with this only difference, that General Haynau's bad
deeds were committed upon a far larger scale, and upon a far larger
number of victims. But Viscount Palmerston can assure your Majesty
that those feelings of just and honourable indignation have not been
confined to England, for he had good reason to know that General
Haynau's ferocious and unmanly treatment of the unfortunate
inhabitants of Brescia and of other towns and places in Italy, his
savage proclamations to the people of Pesth, and his barbarous acts in
Hungary excited almost as much disgust in Austria as in England, and
that the nickname of "General Hyaena" was given to him at Vienna long
before it was applied to him in London.

[Footnote 36: The Austrian Ambassador.]

[Footnote 37: General Haynau had earned in the Hungarian War
an odious reputation as a flogger of women. When visiting the
brewery of Barclay & Perkins, the draymen mobbed and
assaulted him; he had to fly from them, and take refuge in a
neighbouring house. Lord Palmerston had to send an official
letter of apology to the Austrian Government, which, as
originally despatched, without waiting for the Queen's
approval, contained a paragraph offensive to Austria.]

[Footnote 38: See Lord Palmerston's letter to Sir G. Grey,
Ashley's _Life of Lord Palmerston_, vol. i. chap. vi.]

[Footnote 39: Executed for the Salt Hill murder.]

[Footnote 40: Marie Manning (an ex-lady's maid, whose career
is said to have suggested Hortense in _Bleak House_ to
Dickens) was executed with her husband, in 1849, for the
murder of a guest. She wore black satin on the scaffold, a
material which consequently became unpopular for some time.]

[Pageheading: THE DRAFT DESPATCHED]

_Queen Victoria to Lord John Russell._

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _11th October 1850._

The Queen having written to Lord