But Queen Victoria had never any sympathy with Liberalism any of its aspects. Hence her attacks on Lord Palmerston when he displayed his sympathy with Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, and with the brewers' drayman in London who mobbed General Haynau, the Hungarian "'woman-flogging tyrant. Her displeasure with Palmerston was extreme and! Lord Clarendon, a Minister himself, noted that she and the Prince Consort wished that "courtiers rather than Ministers should conduct the affairs of the country," and that they "laboured ander the curious mistake that the Ploreign Office was their, peculiar denattment od that they had the right to control if not to direct, the foreign policy of England." It was at this time that Victoria condemned the House of Commons as "very unmanageable and trouble-
These revelations, which come With each new book of memoirs on Victoria's reign, must inevitably modify one's judgment of the part}. which she played in English history.
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