I suppose it would hardly be civil to send a finished proof of the group to Mr.J.
Redmond, M.P.
APPENDIX.
NOTE A.
MR.

GLADSTONE AND THE AMERICAN WAR.

(Prologue, p.

xxix.) This statement as to the action of Lord Palmerston in connection with Mr.Gladstone's Newcastle speech of October 7th, 1862, made upon the authority of a British public man whose years and position entitle him to speak with confidence on such a subject, appeared to me of so much interest, that after sending it to the printer I caused search to be made for the speech referred to as made by Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
My informant's statement was that Lord Palmerston insisted that Sir George Lewis should find or make an immediate opportunity of covering what Mr.Gladstone had said at Newcastle.

He was angry about it, and his anger was increased by an article which Mr.Delane printed in the _Times_, intimating that Mr.Gladstone's speech was considered by many people to be a betrayal of Cabinet secrets.