onsidered
M20 The Sequel

31 "I apprehend, whether you call it a Protectorate, or a Suzerainty,
or the recognition of England as a Paramount Power, the fact is that
a certain controlling power is retained when the state which
exercises this suzerainty has a right to veto any negotiations into
which the dependent state may enter with foreign powers. Whatever
suzerainty meant in the Convention of Pretoria, the condition of
things which it implied still remains; although the word is not
actually employed, we have kept the substance. We have abstained
from using the word because it was not capable of legal definition,
and because it seemed to be a word which was likely to lead to
misconception and misunderstanding."--_Lord Derby in the House of
Lords_, March 17, 1884. I do not desire to multiply points of
controversy, but the ill-starred raising of the ghost of suzerainty
in 1897-9 calls for the twofold remark that the preamble was struck
out by Lord Derby's own hand, and that alike when Lord Knutsford and
Lord Ripon were at the colonial office, answers were given in the
House of Commons practically admitting that no claim of suzerainty
could be put forward.

_ 32 Works of T. H. Green_, iii. 382.

33 House of Commons, April 4, 1882.

34 Edinburgh, Sept. 1, 1884.

M21 Action Of The Lords

35 See vol. ii. book vi. chap. II.

36 Proceedings had been instituted in the Dublin courts against Parnell
and others for seditious conspiracy. The jury were unable to agree
on a verdict.

37 Tried by Lord Spencer in Westmeath in 1871, it had been successful,
but the area of disturbance was there comparatively insignificant.

M22 Disturbances In Ireland

38 For a plain and precise description of the Coercion Act of 1881, see
Dicey's _Law of the Constitution_, pp. 243-8.

39 See vol. ii. p. 284.

M23 Great Agrarian Law
M24 Its Reception In Ireland
M25 Arrest Of Mr. Parnell

40 At the Cloth Hall banquet, Leeds, Oct. 8, 1881.

41 Speech to the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, Oct. 8, 1881.

M26 Mr. Forster's Resignation

42 Introduced by Mr. Redmond.

M27 The Murders In The Phoenix Park

43 It had been Mr. Burke's practice to drive from the Castle to the
Park gate, then to descend and walk home, followed by two
detectives. On this occa