Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
He appears to have suffered dreadful pain during the three days
which elapsed between his accident and his death. He was sensible,
but scarcely ever spoke. Sir Benjamin Brodie says that he never saw
any human frame so susceptible of pain, for his moral and physical
organisation was one of exquisite sensibility. He was naturally a
man of violent passions, over which he had learned to exercise an
habitual restraint by vigorous efforts of reason and self-control. He
was certainly a good, and in some respects a great, man; he had a true
English spirit, and was an ardent lover of his country.
DON PACIFICO (1850).
=Source.=—_Hansard._ Third Series, vol. cxii., col. 380.
[NOTE.—Although the resolution in the House
of Lords against Lord Palmerston’s action in regard
to the claims of Mr. Finlay and M. Pacifico upon
the Greek Government was confined to those matters,
the resolution of confidence in the Government,
which was moved in the House of Commons later as
a rejoinder to the action of the Lords, was in
general terms supporting the Government’s foreign
policy, so that Lord Palmerston was able to make
his speech a wide defence of his policy.]
The resolution of the House of Lords involves the future as well as the
past. It lays down for the future a principle of national policy which
I consider totally incompatible with the interests, with the rights,
with the honour, and with the dignity of the country, and at variance
with the practice, not only of this, but of all other civilised
countries in the world. The country is told that British subjects in
foreign lands are entitled to nothing but the protection of the laws
and tribunals of the land in which they happen to reside. The country
is told that British subjects abroad must not look to their own country
for protection, but must trust to that indifferent justice which they
may happen to receive at the hands of the Government and tribunals of
the country in which they may be.
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