s, 2; his liberal views, 3; birth, 4; enters office of
his father's firm at St. Petersburg, 5; introduced to best society
there, 5; returns to England, 6; foreign travel, 6; linguistic
acquirements, 6; returns to St. Petersburg, 7; visits central, southern,
and eastern Russia, 7; spends part of winter at Vienna, 8; his journals,
8; death of his mother, 8; yields to prevalent mania for speculation,
10, 14; adopts new economic views, 12; becomes associated with
philosophic Liberals, 13; candidate for representation of Dover in
Commons, 13; incurs heavy expenses, 14; elected, 15; votes for reduction
in duty on corn, 15; his view of politics, 16; his speech on the
Navigation Acts, 17; advocates ballot and repeal of usury laws, 18;
supports repeal of Test and Corporation Acts, 18; a believer in free
trade, 18; moderate in his views, 19; suffers from gout, 20; spends
winter in Paris and meets many able men, 20; speaks on parliamentary
reform, 21; on the national system of taxation, 22, 23; recommends
income tax, 24; made vice-president of Board of Trade, and treasurer of
navy, 25; tariff reform and vested interests, 27, 29; takes little part
in framing Reform Bill, 28; but devotes much attention to the public
accounts, 28; negotiates commercial treaty with France, 29; his
excessive labours, 30; elected both for Manchester and for Dover, 31;
elects to sit for Manchester, 31; an advocate of commercial freedom,
33-38; great dinner given to, at Manchester, 37; his views on banking,
38; on the corn duties, 39; on free trade, 41; president of Board of
Trade in reconstructed government, 43; Greville's description of, 43,
44; returns to office with Melbourne (1835), 46; re-elected (over
Gladstone) for Manchester, 48; a departmental worker rather than an
active politician, 49; description of, by Thomas Raikes, 49; makes
commercial treaty with Austria, 50; founds school of design and promotes
international copyright, 51; provides for regulation of railway
charters, 53; collects statistics, 54; Lord Melbourne's estimate of his
abilities, 56; accepts governor-generalship of Canada, in preference to
chancellorship of the exchecquer, 57-59; instructor for Canada in
principles of responsible government, 83; his tact in dealing with that
question, 104; makes important changes in draft bill for reunion of
provinces, 124; news of his appointment received in Canada, 129;
appointment not acceptable to all parties, 129-132; Reformers of Upper
Cana