. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . yer,who, in addition tothe contrast betweenPiedmont and the Pa-pal States, which hadbeen boldly drawn byMr. Hennessy, urgedthat the English sup-port of Napoleon III.\ was paralyzing allother European policy of thepresent Government,he said, had destroy-ed that prestige ofhonor and justicewhich used to attendthe British flag, sinceit encouraged nonebut the revolutionaryparty in Europe, whowere the unprincipled tools of the unbounded ambition of theFrench Emperor. The second night of the debate, Mr, Gladstone rose to speakon the ot
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . yer,who, in addition tothe contrast betweenPiedmont and the Pa-pal States, which hadbeen boldly drawn byMr. Hennessy, urgedthat the English sup-port of Napoleon III.\ was paralyzing allother European policy of thepresent Government,he said, had destroy-ed that prestige ofhonor and justicewhich used to attendthe British flag, sinceit encouraged nonebut the revolutionaryparty in Europe, whowere the unprincipled tools of the unbounded ambition of theFrench Emperor. The second night of the debate, Mr, Gladstone rose to speakon the other side. There were other speeches, of course, in thedefense of the liberator of Italy, and of Englands recognition ofhis services to the race ; but his is, as usual, reckoned the mosteloquent, the most crushing expose of the errors which his op-ponents were supporting. Had the debate been confined to criticisms of the King ofSardinia, he said, or if it concerned only the policy pursued bythe English Foreign Minister, he would have remained silent,. Garibaldi. Emancipation from Toryism. 213 confident of the wide-spread approval which that policy com-manded. He believed it to be stamped with approval through-out the great body of the people of England, from the greatestto the least. But the speakers upon the motion had called uponthe House to lament the foreign policy of the Government,which they alleged was founded upon injustice, and said that thecause which the Ministry favored in Italy was the persecutionof righteous governments. The revolution in Naples was calleda wicked conspiracy, carried on by an unprincipled king and acunning minister; and the people of Naples had been said to begoverned by benignant laws, wisely administered, and were de-voted to their king. Mr. Gladstone, in reply to this characteriza-tion, sketched the history of Naples from the accession of Fer-dinand II.; and the story was an unanswerable argument againstthe house which had been so lately dethron
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