more satisfactory
result. Even so late as the spring of 1847 Mr. Gladstone was only
dissuaded by the urgent advice of Lord Lincoln and others from pursuing
the fray. It was, so far as I know, the only personal quarrel into which
he ever allowed himself to be drawn.

FOOTNOTES:

[172] Perhaps I may refer to my _Life of Cobden_, which had the great
advantage of being read before publication by Mr. Bright. Chapters xiv.
and xv.

[173] Lord Aberdeen to Senior, Sept. 1856. Mrs. Simpson's _Many
Memories_, p. 233.

[174] Sibthorp asked Peel in the H. of C. when Gladstone and Lincoln
would appear. Peel replied that if S. would take the Chiltern Hundreds,
G. should stand against him. S. retorted that the Chiltern Hundreds is a
place under government, and he would never take place from Peel; but if
P. would dissolve he would welcome Gladstone to Lincoln--or P. himself;
and added privately that he would give P. or G. best bottle of wine in
his cellar if he would come to Lincoln and fight him fairly.--_Lord
Broughton's Diaries_.

[175] _Halifax Papers._

[176] Cobden also wrote to Peel strongly urging him to hold on, and Peel
replied with an effective defence of his own view. _Life of Cobden_, i.
chap. 18.

[177] 'There is a name that ought to be associated with the success of
these measures; it is not the name of Lord John Russell, neither is it
my name. Sir, the name which ought to be, and will be, associated with
these measures is the name of a man who, acting from pure and
disinterested motives, has advocated their cause with untiring energy,
and by appeals to reason expressed by an eloquence the more to be
admired because it was unaffected and unadorned--the name which ought to
be associated with the success of these measures is the name of Richard
Cobden. Without scruple, Sir, I attribute the success of these measures
to him.'

[178] See _Life of Lord Lyndhurst_, by Lord Campbell, p. 163.

[179] Six years later (Nov. 26, 1852), Mr. Gladstone in the House of
Commons said of Cobden, with words of characteristic
qualification:--'Agree you may in his general politics, or you may not;
complain you may, if you think you have cause, of the mode and force
with which in the freedom of debate he commonly states his opinions in
this House. But it is impossible for us to deny that those benefits of
which we are now acknowledging the existence are, in no small part at
any rate, due to the labours in which he has borne so pro