Note 129 — Chapter IV · FIRST PART OF THE LONG EUROPEAN PEACE.

Alison, History of Europe , 1815-1852, i. 108. “We have had one of the most disagreeable sessions I ever remember; a sour, discontented temper among our friends, considerable distress throughout the country, and endless debates upon economy, whilst everything that has been done by the Prince and his Government, is either forgotten or thrown into the shade” (Lord Castlereagh to the Duke of Wellington, May 13th, 1816: Supplementary Despatches, etc. , xi. 401).