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CHAPTER III. OF STATESMEN. LORD PALMERSTON. ONLY met Lord
Palmerston once or twice. He sent for me in 1851 to discuss the
Suez Canal, which I had just seen in partial progress. I remember
he was very furious and positive about the Canal, and said he was
advised by the best engineers that it was impracticable, for as
fast as you took out one basket of sand, three would be blown in. "
It cannot, it will not, and it shall not be built," said he; " and
if it ever is we shall have to annex Egypt, and that will involve a
war with France." When it was a question of appraising the powers
of any other country to do anything, Lord Palmerston, being an
Englishman, was at fault. When the duties and interests of England
was the question, Lord Palmerston never made a mistake. LORD JOHN
RUSSELL. I saw Lord Russell on several occasions, and I do not
agree with the doggrel bard who wrote " Yet whoe'er is no
lickspittle, Still says Little John is little." Earl Russell was a
very great man, and bore his few inches with much dignity. He was
also a thorough Liberal, in advance of the light of those days. But
he made a terrible mess of the " Alabama" matter, and deliberately
allowed that pirate to escape to her terrible work of depredation,
which cost us some years afterwards three millions of money. Never
did a Government sin with their eyes so wide open. They were
perfectly informed, and William Rathbone and I predicted, in our
various private interviews with Earl Russell, exactly what took
place afterwards. But here again Society, under London influences
of club and coterie, betrayed the nation. Earl Russell hesitated to
quarrel with the Southern States because Pall Mall and St. James
Street, " mostly fools," as Sydney Smith once said, were confident
that the South was going to...
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