Russell, Lord John: ancestry, 1, 2; boyhood and education, 3-9; schooldays at Sunbury and Westminster, 3-5; extracts from journal kept at Westminster, 4, 5; passion for the theatre, 4; education under Dr. Cartwright, 5; dedicates a manuscript book to Pitt, 6; schooldays and schoolfellows at Woodnesborough, 6-9; writes satirical verses and dramatic prologues, 7, 8; opinion on the case of Lord Melville, 8; influence of Mr. Fox upon him, 8; at Holland House, 8, 336; friendship with Sydney Smith, 8; visit to the English lakes and Scotland, 9; impressions of Sir Walter Scott, 9; first visit to the House of Lords, 9; visit to the Peninsula with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11; political predilections and sympathy with Spain, 9-11; goes to Edinburgh University, 11; impressions of Professors Dugald Stewart and John Playfair, 12, 13; his powers of debate at the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13; early bias towards Parliamentary Reform, 14; second visit to Spain, 14, 15; first impressions of Lord Wellington, 15; commands a company of the Bedfordshire Militia, 16; third visit to Spain, 16-20; on the field of Salamanca, 17; at Wellington's head-quarters, 17; his ride to Frenida, 18; dines with a canon at Plasencia, 19; at Talavera and Madrid, 20; elected member for Tavistock, 20; his opinion of Lord Liverpool, 21; maiden speech in Parliament, 27; speech on the Alien Acts, 27; elected a member of Grillion's Club, 27; his Italian tour of 1814-15, 28-31; interview with Napoleon at Elba, 28-31; speeches in Parliament against the renewal of war with France, against the income-tax and the Army Estimates, 32; on the proposal to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, 33, 34; proposes to abandon politics, 34; literary labours and travel, 34; returned again for Tavistock at the General Election of 1818, 34; first speech in the House of Commons on Parliamentary Reform, 35; growth of his influence in Parliament, 36; visit to the Continent with Thomas Moore, 36, 37; impressions of Italy, 37; brings forward in Parliament his first resolutions in favour of Reform, 40; his bill for disfranchising Penryn, Camelford, Grampound, and Barnstaple, 40; returned to Parliament for Huntingdon, 40; and the case of Grampound, 40, 41, 42, 43; takes the side of Queen Caroline, 41; writes 'The Nun of Arrouca,' 42; taciturnity in French society, 42; his resolutions for the discovery and punishment of bribery, &c., 43, 44; proposes an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43; increase of his political influence, 45, 46; unseated in Huntingdonshire, and his second visit to Italy, 48, 49; elected for Bandon Bridge, 49; on the condition of the Tory party on Canning's accession to power, 50;