The  Turk  was  eulogized  as  "our  ancient
ally,"  and  great  lamentations  were  made  that  the  Treaty  of  London
should  have  led  to  "a  collision  so  totally  unexpected."  In  the
debate  upon  the  address,  the  Earl  of  Chichester,  Lord  Strangford,
the  Duke  of  Wellington,  the  Marquis  of  Londonderry,  Lord  Eldon,
and  other  tory  lords  dwelt  urgently  on  these  points,  and  the  phrase
"  untoward  event"  was  thrown  from  one  side  of  the  House  to  the
other  in  multiplied  echoes. Lord  Holland,  on  the  other  hand,  in
a  ver}'^  able  speech,  ridiculed  the  idea  of  "our  ancient  alliance"
with   the  Porte,   defended    the    treaty,   and    maintained    that  Sir


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Edward  had  acted  in  strict  accordance  with  his  instructions. Lord
Goderich,  who  had  heen  a  party  to  the  Treaty  of  London,  Lord
Lansdowne  and  others,  defended  the  conduct  of  the  AdmiraL  In
the  House  of  Commons  a  similar  discussion  of  the  question  occurred
on  the  same  occasion,  in  which  Mr. Henry  Brougham  said —
*' Against  one  paragraph  of  that  address,  he  was  most  anxious  to
record  at  once  his  unqualified  dissent ;  having  at  the  same  time
the  fullest  and  firmest  conviction  that  that  dissent  would  be  re-
echoed from  one  end  of  the  kingdom  of  the  other. He  alluded  to
the  manner  in  which  the  late  glorious,  brilliant,  decisive,  and
immortal  achievement  at  Navarin  was  described,  as  being  a
matter  to  be  lamented. This  was  the  first  time  that  he  had  ev^er
seen  men  anxious  to  come  forward  and  refuse  credit  when  it  had
been  called  for,  and  set  at  nought  the  most  splendid  achievement
of  their  arms. 