State papers, despatches, memoranda, poured from him in an overwhelming stream.

Between 1853 and 1857 fifty folio volumes were filled with the comments of his pen upon the Eastern question.

Nothing would induce him to stop.

Weary ministers staggered under the load of his advice; but his advice continued, piling itself up over their writing-tables, and flowing out upon them from red box after red box.

Nor was it advice to be ignored.