certainly reasonable to suppose that this discovery had an important effect upon the decision. [Footnote 40: [The Treaty signed at Washington on August 9, 1842, by Lord Ashburton and Mr. Webster, settled the disputed question of the north-east boundary between Canada and the State of Maine, and terminated some other differences between Great Britain and the United States. It was denounced by Lord Palmerston as 'a capitulation,' but generally accepted and applauded by both nations.]] [Sidenote: THE MISSING MAP.] CHAPTER XIV. Visit to Broadlands--The American Treaty--Lord Palmerston on the American Treaty--The Stade Dues--The Withdrawal from Cabul--The Queen at Sea--Woburn--Baroness Lehzen--Lord Ponsonby--Turkey--The Grove, Lord Clarendon--Public Scandals--Bishop Blomfield's Charge--Puseyism--Mr. Thomas Grenville--Anecdote of Porson--Death of Mr. Irby--Anecdote of Lord North--Lord Melbourne ill--Macaulay's Lays of Rome--Canadian Affairs--A Council--Bad State of the Country--Mr. Grenville's Conversation--A Happy Family--The Reform Bill of 1832--End of the China War--Judge and Jury Court--Lord Ellenborough's Proclamation--Lord John Russell on the American Treaty--Madame d'Arblay's Journal--Lord Ellenborough--Manuscript of Antonio Perez--Lord Palmerston and the 'Morning Chronicle'--Moderate Whig Views--The Whigs and O'Connell--The Bedchamber Dispute--Sir David Dundas--Summary of the Year 1842.