University of Warwick institutional repository: http://go.warwick.ac.uk ...

? 8.
Government; he suffered a bitter diaiiluDionment an z result
of tho t'iniatry'a policy1 - "I looked on all those proceedings
with an astonishment and disgust which I cannot describe. For
days and days I thought and hoped I was living in a dream, and
that it could not be possible that Ir. Gladstone fresh from. the
tiidlothian campaign where he had preached co gloriously# peace
and non-intervention, should now be carrying fire and sword
into a country which only wanted to be left alone to Govern
itself. ''
týý
The Peace party viewed the situation in
term of right and wrong rathor than in the context of
complicated diplomacy, an in Henry Richcrd"n cp1endidly simple
ti
maxim that foreign policy should be subjected "to the teat of
aovero Christian morality. " (2)
But moat Liberals were swayed either by loyalty to the
Government or by K lad®ton®*a appeal for the rule of law in
Egypt, Courtney and Labouchore, later to be known as two of
the =oat vociferoua anti"Iriperialiata1 voted for the Govornaont,
though John Zorloy and the two Quakers John Bright and Jooeph
Poano abstained.
But towardo the end of 1882 and in 1883 there van mounting
diaatiafaction mono Liberals, The exciuaion of rranco from the
(1) Sir Wilfred Lnwnan a Memoir, edited by ß. N. E. u ao11,
London 1909, p"1 "
(2) line, 3rd oeriaa, Vol CCLX11
t col. 1766.