France Isolated No More A Foreign Policy Critique 1840s
A detailed extract from Duvergier de Hauranne analyzes French diplomacy under Guizot Thiers and Palmerston discussing isolation the 1840s. It argues England Russia and Austria gain from France's retreat while France loses influence in Egypt and the Levant, urging a steadier policy to reclaim prestige and national greatness.
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France
Revue Des Deux Mondes
Monsieur Duvergier de
M. Duvergier de
England
East
Foreign Department
Messrs
Thiers
Guizot
Russia
Europe
Monsieur Thiers
Monsieur Dufaure
Syria
M. de Lamartine
Monsieur Guizot
Bugeaud
Monsieur Jouffroy
Councils of Europe
Levant
Alexandria
Alehemet Ali
Egypt
Pal-merston
Coalition
Ireland
Canada
Mies
Hasim
Journal
Des Debuts
Pache
Dardanelles
Unkiar Pest
Turkey
Unkiar Skelessi
Unkiar
M.de Lamartine
Juutt
Uut
Austria
Prussia
M. Thiers
Monsieur de Lamartine
Crete
European League
Paris
Monsieur de Metternich
Monsieur Wuvergier
Louis XIV
Italy
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Greece
Juste
Algiers
Toulon
Ancona
Antwerp
Switzerland
Tagus
Mehemet Ali
Africa
Court and Fashion: Privy Council at Windsor and Piccadilly Fire
The Queen held a privy council at Windsor with Prince Albert and senior ministers. A subsequent fire at No. 87 Piccadilly, owned by Mr Salmon, caused the Duke of Grafton’s mansion to burn and trapped firemen West and Weaver. West died, Weaver severely injured. The inquiry found no clear origin. damages include extensive losses and large insurance claims.
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Quren
Windsor Castle
Prince Albert
Duke of Wellington
the Treasury
George John
Earl Delawarr
Earl of Rosslyn
Lord Forester
George Lionel Dawson Damer
John Nicholl
Nichols
C.C. Greville
Viscount Sydney
Robert Otway
Wemyss
Edward Bowater
Royal
Foreign Office
Wontzsune
Duchess of Kent
Countess of
Dublin
Prince of
Leiningen
Deutsche Hoff
Amorbach
Wertheim
R. Gordon
G.C.B
Vienna
Lord Burghersh
Naples
Baron de Nieumann
Austria
Baron Maltzahn
Prussia
General Canitz
Baron Brockhausen
Count Donhoff
England
John Conroy
Kensington
Coldstream Guards
Wiesbaden
Alfred Assheton Harbord
East Indies
Tast
Lord Suffield
Georgiana, Vernon
George
Lord Vernon
Lord Saffield
Anson
George E. Anson
3D Light Dragoons
Piccadilly
Salmon
Duke of Grafton
West
Weaver
Green Park
Ferrari
William West
St. George’s Hospital
Bopy
Higgs
Westminster
Barley Mow
Mount-street
Grosvenor-square
Wm. West
St. George's
Henry Carter
George Price
George Spendelow
Price
Gerrard
Carter
William Chard
John Salmon
Abraham Salmon
J.salmon
A. Salmon
York Arms
Curzon-street
Clarges-street
Henry Gould
Mayfair
Fruiterer
Nixon
Halfmoon Street
Blake
Blake and Beaumont, Garlton-chambers
Regent-street
County Fire-Office
Toplis
St. Paul's Churchyard
Alliance Fire-office
Edmund S. Symes
Hill-street
Berkeley-square
County Fire Office
Alliance
Dreadful Loss of Life in the River Thames
A severe river disaster near Southwark Bridge on Saturday night left seven sailors dead or missing after a small boat carrying four Gravesend and Gravesend bound seamen overturned while attempting to fetch a man from the Orion steam vessel. The coroner’s inquest found the four men drowned in an accidental incident linked to a suicide threat by Joseph Thornton, who remained missing.
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George Inn
Southwark Bridge
Surrey
Clementson
Pearl
Bankside
Joseph Thornton
Greenwich
Gravesend
Thornton
S.grave
John Clementson
John Riley
Robert Clarkson
the George Public House
The
Peart
Joseph
Carter
George
Southwark
John Joseph Riley
Joseph Clementson
Peter Haslip
Richard Hutchinson
Oxley
Clarkson
London Bridge
Edward Reader
Gunn
Wheeler
Clementgon
Orion
Ipswich
Leeward
Ingram Gunn
Ireland
George Brick
Lambeth
Battersea
Barra Beach
James Walters
London
Pantconic
Higgs
Golden Lion
Dean Street
Soho
William Mitchell Baker
Ann Maria Baker
King-street
Mr. Angus
Southampton
Payne
Nottingham Castle
Angel-street
St. Martin’s-le-grand
John Newman
Marquis of Salisbury
Drowning scare near the custom-house in London
Tuesday morning a foreign gentleman named M.de Rhin nearly drowned after overbalancing in a wherry near the custom-house. Rescue by watermen saved him, and he rewarded them with Napoleon coins. Separately the National Gallery suffers worm damage to paintings like Del Tombo’s Lazarus, prompting talk of protective atmosphere, while various maritime and inquest items unfold, including the loss of the steamer President and other local incidents.
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Napoleon
National Gallery
del Tombo
Boston
Express
Liverpool
Columbia
Halifax
Shipping Gazette
Boston Atlas
Philadelphia National Gazette
St. Thomas’s Times
Barbadoes
Teeberg
New York
Norris
Roberts
Mr. Cookman
Mutilation of a Child and Supposed Infanticide
An inquest in Brighton investigated a newly born female child found in Mr Hayward's house. The head and shoulder were severed and the rest hidden in a stewpan. The servant Ann Hyham admitted childbirth after examination. medical testimony suggested the infant was not born alive. Verdict: Hyham had given birth and divided the body. no proof the child was liveborn. The prisoner was taken to the magistrates for concealment of birth.
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F. H. Gell
Sussex
Brighton
Hayward
Laceman
Silk Mercer
King’s-rodd
Frederick Austin
King’s Road
Oxford-street
London
Ann Hyham
Ann
Miss Savage
Richard Shepherd
Benjamin Wood
Baldy
Rugg
Elmes
Henry Elmes
Richard Rugg
Sam
Foreign Intelligence Discloses European Disarmament Moves
The Paris and Vienna diplomatic exchanges reveal Europe aims to disarm broadly. Austria plans a 89,000 man cut during autumn reviews, while France signals a 40,000 man reduction when others agree. Tunisian force movements, Turkish ports, and notes on ambassadors mark a tense international backdrop. Spain and Portugal report new conscription, press clashes, and suspected covert influence shaping regional unrest.
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France
Duke d'Aumale
Duke of Orleans
Vienna
Europe
Tuileries
Landwehr
Semaphore de
Palinure
Malta
Tunis
Genereux
Marseilles
Nourri Effendi
Porte
Paris
Constantinople
Bf. de St. Aulaire
London
England
M. de St Anlaire
Marquis of Dalmatia
Rome
M. Bertin
Journal
Des Débats
Algiers
Voulonnais
Foot Chasseurs
Africa
Blidah
Deiy Ibrahim
Lamoriciere
Abdel Kader
Bugeaud
Mostaganem
French note boosts King Otho government in Greece crisis
In Ger*mary Berwin Sept 3 dispatches report the French cabinet note to Greece, favoring the Otho government and showing France not committed to universal representative governments. Thiers arrives in Nuremberg. rioters sing against France’s Rhine claim. Duke of Bordeaux health updates. rail and troop mobilization across German states. Mecklenberg customs union rumor. Belgian cotton trade views. Danish royal decree limits ambassadors.
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France
Europe
M. Guizot
M. Thiers
Nuremberg
Vienna
Rhine
Bordeaux
Carlsruhe
Munich
Otho
Greece
Breslaw
Liegnitz
Kapsdorf
Silesia
Mecklenburg
Belgium
A . Bes
Enmark
Copenhagen
Brance
Hagland
Russia
Austria
Prussia
Sweden
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