[PATRONS]
After a few weeks patting themselves on the back, Sir Robert Peel's government soon came to realise that the Webster-Ashburton Treaty wasn't all they had hoped for. Worse, Palmerston's warnings seemed justified, as the United States became more confrontational, particularly over the matter of Oregon. Meanwhile, the Russian Tsar appeared in London, hoping for a settlement of the Eastern Question, and Old Pam prepared himself to enter government, only to find opposition closer to home. Peel persevered with his radical re-imagining of the British economy, whether it shattered the Conservative Party or not...