232 DALLING AND BULWEE. 



DAVIS, GAEEET. 



DALLING AND BULWEE, WILLIAM HENRY 

 LYTTON EAELE, first Baron, G. 0. B., an Eng- 

 lish diplomatist and author, better known as 

 Sir Henry Bulwer, born in 1804, in Norfolk, 

 England; died in London, May 26, 1872. He 

 was an elder brother of the famous novelist, 

 Lord Lytton. He was educated for public life, 

 and was an attache of the British embassy at 

 Berlin as early as 1827, and in 1829 was a 

 member of the embassies at Vienna and the 

 Hague. In 1830 he was sent on a special mis- 

 sion to Brussels, to watch the course of the 

 Belgian Eevolution, and the same year he was 

 returned to the House of Commons for Wilton. 

 He sat for Coventry in 1831 and 1832, and for 

 Marylebone from 1834 till 1837. In 1835 he 

 was made secretary of legation and charge 

 d'affaires at Brussels ; in 1837, secretary of 

 embassy at Constantinople, where he nego- 

 tiated the commercial treaty between England 

 and the Porte. He was appointed secretary 

 of the embassy in Paris, in 1839, and, in the 

 course of that and the following year, was 

 thrice gazetted as interim minister at the 

 court of France, during the absence of the am- 

 bassador. In 1843 he was minister plenipo- 

 tentiary at the court of Madrid, and was in- 

 strumental in bringing about the peace be- 

 tween Spain and Morocco in the following 

 year. During the troubles in the Spanish cap- 

 ital, in 1848, Mr. Bulwer was frequently the 

 medium of the remonstrances of his Govern- 

 ment upon the arbitrary system followed by 

 Narvaez. As his firmness and candor were 

 found inconvenient, the soldier-minister deter- 

 mined upon his removal ; and, after having in 

 vain sought to discredit him with the English 

 Cabinet, pretended to have discovered his com- 

 plicity in plots laid against the Spanish Gov- 

 ernment, and upon this pretext suddenly or- 

 dered him to leave Madrid. The English Gov- 

 ernment marked its sense of this indignity by 

 declining to name his successor, and for two 

 years no English minister was accredited to 

 the court of Spain. Both parties in the House 

 of Commons approved Mr. Bulwer's conduct, 

 and the Queen made him a Knight Grand 

 Cross of the Bath. The hasty Spaniard subse- 

 quently made the amende honorable in a note 

 on the subject, the terms of which were dic- 

 tated by Lord Palmerston. In April, 1849, he 

 was sent as ambassador to the United States, 

 and the year following negotiated the Clayton- 

 Buhver treaty, providing for extending the 

 protection of both countries over any ship-ca- 

 nal which may be opened across the continent 

 in Central America, and also for the abandon- 

 ment of British territorial pretensions, and the 

 withdrawal of the British establishments on 

 the coast of Central America. Sir Henry Bul- 

 wer remained three years at Washington, and 



in 1852 was transferred to Tuscany, where lie 

 acted as envoy extraordinary until 1856. He 

 was recalled in that year, and during the en- 

 suing three was engaged in special diplomatic 

 duties in Turkey and in the Danubian states. 

 In 1858 he was appointed ambassador to Tur- 

 key, and remained there seven years. In 1868 

 he was elected to Parliament by the borough 

 of Tamworth, and acted with the Liberals. He 

 was a frequent and fluent speaker in the 

 House, and was regarded as authority upon 

 foreign questions. In 1871 he was raised to 

 the peerage as Baron Dalling and Bulwer. 

 Lord Dalling and Bulwer had achieved some 

 reputation as an author. His principal works 

 were: "An Autumn in Greece," 1824; 

 " France, Social, Literary, and Political," 2 

 vols., about 1832 ; " The Monarchy of the Mid- 

 dle Classes," 2 vols., 1834-'36 ; " A Life of Lord 

 Byron," prefixed to a Paris edition of his lord- 

 ship's works ; and, recently, a " Life of Lord 

 Palmerston," not quite completed, we believe, 

 at Lord Bulwer's death. 



DAVIS, GARRET, a Kentucky statesman and 

 Senator, born in Paris, Ky., September 10, 

 1801; died there, of gangrenous inflammation 

 of the lungs, in September, 1872. He studied 

 law in his native State of Kentucky, and was 

 admitted to the bar in. 1823. His career was 

 reckoned a successful one, and he soon became 

 engaged in politics, being active in the Whig 

 party. In 1833 he was elected to the State 

 Legislature, and was twice reflected. When 

 the convention to revise the State constitution 

 was chosen in 1839, he was one of its most 

 prominent members. In the same year he 

 was elected to the Lower House of Congress 

 and served in that capacity until 1847, con- 

 testing his district in 1845 with Hon. Thomas 

 F. Marshall, whom he defeated after one of 

 the most brilliant and hardly- fought canvasses 

 on record. At the end of his third term he 

 returned home and devoted himself to agri- 

 cultural pursuits, to which he was much at- 

 tached. He was quoted as high authority 

 throughout the State on agricultural matters. 

 In 1861 he was elected to the United States 

 Senate as an Old Line Whig opposed to seces- 

 sion, and served on the Committees on Foreign 

 Eolations, Pensions, Territories, and Claims. 

 He succeeded John C. Breckinridge. In Janu- 

 ary, 1867, he was reflected to the Senate, and 

 served on several important committees, 

 though latterly his failing health incapa- 

 citated him from much public labor. Mr. Davis 

 was of a passionate and enthusiastic tempera- 

 ment, indomitable in his purposes, and of keen 

 susceptibilities. Early in life he became a fa- 

 miliar friend of Henry Clay's, and to the day 

 of his death his proudest boast was that he 

 had been honored with the confidence and 



