filled
the morning at Cliveden. At four we went to Windsor ... I had an
audience of the Queen ... I had the gratification of hearing,
through Lady A. Bruce, that it was agreeable to H. M.--(_Diary._)

_ 70 Gleanings_, i.

71 The Lancashire cotton famine.

72 See the three articles on the Life of the Prince Consort in
_Gleanings_, i. PP. 23-130.

73 On the estimates for 1862-68.

74 2 _Henry IV._, v. sc. i.

_ 75 Death of Wallenstein_, Act v. Sc. 3. In Coleridge, v. 1.

76 Denn nur der grosse Gegenstand vermag
Den tiefen Grund der Menschheit aufzuregen,
Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.
Es waechst der Mensch mit seinen groessern Zwecken.
_Prologue to Wallenstein_, stanza 5.

77 See Walpole's _Life of Russell_, ii. p. 402.

78 A memorandum of Mr. Gladstone's of March 1863 on the Roman Question
is republished in Minghetti's posthumous volume, _La Convenzione di
Settembre_, Bologna, 1899.

79 April 11, 1862. That of March 7, 1861, is also worth turning over.

M31 Reception Of Garibaldi

80 Speech at Stafford House. June 2, 1883.

81 Speech not discoverable by me.

M32 Garibaldi's Departure

_ 82 Hansard_, April 19, 1864, pp. 1277, 1290. April 21, p. 1423.

83 This was in reply to a letter from Lord Clarendon to Mr. Gladstone,
April 23, '64, asking him: "Do not you think that he ought in a
letter to some personal friends to state frankly the reasons which
have induced him to go? He alone can put a stop to all these
mischievous reports.... He ought to say that no government, English
or foreign, has to do with his departure, and that he goes solely
because the state of his health does not permit him to fulfil his
engagements."

84 The story has been told from the radical point of view by Sir James
Stansfeld in _Review of Reviews_, June 1895, p. 512. Another account
by Mr. Seely, M.P., was furnished to the _Times_ (April 21, 1864).
Lord Shaftesbury, who was a staunch Garibaldian, presumably on high
protestant grounds, also wrote to the _Times_ (April 24): "The
solid, persevering and hearty attachment of Mr. Gladstone to the
cause of Italy and General Garibaldi is as notorious as it is
generous and true, and I declare in the most solemn manner and on
the word of a gentleman, my firm belief that we were all o