Jeff Allen
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584 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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When but twenty three years of age he
We find him war minister in the cabinet of the Duke of Portland.
He remained in this office until eighteen twenty eight.
During the successive administrations of Mr Percival, the Earl of Liverpool.
Canning.
Goderick.
And the Duke of Wellington.
He left his party.
The Conservatives.
When the last named premier insisted upon accepting the resignation of mister Hutchinson,
In eighteen thirty, he accepted the position of foreign secretary in the Whig Ministry of Earl Grey.
Up to this period he may have been well informed in the policy of England.
He saw Napoleon in the fullness of youth.
And he saw his fall.
He knew and approved of the measures taken after that event by the advisors of George IV.
for the conservation of legitimate interests in Europe.
and for the preservation for the Pope of the Papal States.
The balance of power, as formed by the Congress of Vienna, was considered by the wisest and most patriotic English statesman the best safeguard for British interests and influence on the continent.
While it existed, the multitude of small states in Italy and Germany could be always so manipulated by British diplomacy that
As effectually to prevent that complete isolation which England feels today so keenly.
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