The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) / A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV

The expense of keeping this place up is immense, but the owner is very rich. He lives there during August and September, and has fifteen other country houses. All the island belongs to him, and is occupied by the palace and gardens, except some fishermen’s huts, which are held by a sort of feudal tenure. They live there as his vassals, fishing for him, rowing him about the lake, and their children and wives alone are employed in the gardens. It was built about 150 years ago by a younger son (a nephew of San Carlo), who was richer than his elder brother. He was his own architect, and planned both house and garden, but never completed his designs. The cost was enormous, but if he had lived and finished it all, he would have spent four millions more. There is a laurel in the garden, the largest in Europe, two trees growing from one stem, one nine and the other ten feet round and eighty high; under this tree Buonaparte dined, as he came into Italy, before the battle of Marengo, and with a knife he cut the word ‘Battaglia’ on the bark, which has since been stripped off, or has grown out—so the gardeners said at least. Breakfasted at Baveno, which is the best inn I have seen in Italy. The road from Baveno is exceedingly beautiful, but on the whole I am rather disappointed with the Simplon, though it is very wild and grand; but I am no longer struck with the same admiration at the sight of mountains that I was when I entered Savoy and saw them for the first time. I walked the last thirteen miles of the ascent to this place, and found one of the best dinners I ever tasted, or one which my hunger made appear such.

Geneva, June 29th, 1830

Got here last night, and found twenty letters at least. I only think of getting home as fast as I can. Left the Simplon in torrents of rain, which lasted the whole day. The descent is uncommonly grand, wild, savage, and picturesque, the Swiss side the finest. All along the valley of the Rhone fine scenery; and yesterday, in the most delightful weather I ever saw, the drive from Martigny, along the lake and under the mountains, is as beautiful as possible. The approach to Geneva is gay, but Mont Blanc looks only very white, and not very tall, which is owing to the level from which he is seen. They tell me it has never ceased raining here, while on the other side of the Alps hardly a drop has fallen. Only three rainy days while I was in Italy—one at Venice, one at Rome, and a couple of halves elsewhere.

Evening.—Passed the whole day driving about Geneva, in Bautt’s shop, and at the Panorama of Switzerland. Dined with Newton, drove round the environs by Sécheron; a great appearance of wealth and comfort, much cultivation, no beggars, and none of the houses tumbling down and deserted. Altogether I like the appearance of the place, though in a great hurry to get away from it. We had a storm of thunder and lightning in the evening, which was neither violent nor long, but I had the pleasure of hearing

Mont Blanc was hid in clouds all day, but the mountains owe me some grudge. Mont Blanc won’t show his snows, nor would Vesuvius his fires. It was dark when I crossed the Cenis, and raining when I descended the Simplon.

Paris, July 3rd, 1830

Got here last night, after a fierce journey of sixty-three hours from Geneva, only stopping two hours for breakfast; but by never touching anything but bread and coffee I was neither heated nor tired. The Jura Mountains, which they say are so tedious, were the pleasantest part of the way, for the road is beautiful all through them, not like the Alps, but like a hilly, wooded park. It rained torrents when I set out, but soon cleared up, and when I got to the top of the first mountain, I saw a mass of clouds rise like a curtain and unveil the whole landscape DEATH OF GEORGE IV. of Geneva, lake, mountains, and country—very fine sight. We heard of the King’s death in the middle of the night.

Calais, July 6th, 1830

Voilà qui est fini. Got here last night, and found the Government packet only goes out five days a week, and not to-day. I am very sorry my journey is all over, but glad to find myself in England again—that is, when I get there. I saw Lord Stuart at Paris, just breaking up his establishment and sending his wife off to the Pyrenees. Heard all the news of London and Paris, such as it was. Not a soul left in Paris, which was like a dead city. I only heard that, notwithstanding the way the elections are going against the Government, Polignac is in high spirits. The King of France was very civil about the death of our King,[14] and, without waiting, as is usual, for the announcement of the event by the English Ambassador, he ordered the Court into mourning upon the telegraphic account reaching Paris.

Here is the end of my brief but most agreeable expedition, probably the only one I shall ever make. However this may be, I have gained thus much at least—

NOTE.

Frequent references will be remarked in these volumes to the connexion of their author with the Turf, which was his favourite amusement, and to his position as an influential member of the Jockey Club. It may, therefore, be worth while to record in this place the principal incidents in his racing career; and we are tempted, in spite of the strange and incorrect phraseology of the writer, to borrow the following notice of them from the pages of ‘Bailey’s Magazine,’ published soon after Mr. Greville’s death:—

‘Though the Warwick family have long been identified with the sports of the field, it is fair to assume that Mr. Greville’s love for the turf came from his mother’s side, as the Portlands, especially the late Duke, have always been amongst the strongest supporters of the national sport, and raced, as became their position in society. That Mr. Greville took to racing early may be imagined when we state he saw his first Derby in 1809, when the Duke of Grafton’s Pope won it, beating five others. At that period he was barely fifteen years of age, and the impression the sight of the race made upon him at the time was very great, and it was rekindled more strongly when, in 1816, travelling with his father and mother to Ickworth, the seat of the Marquis of Bristol, he stopped at Newmarket and saw Invalid and Deceiver run a match on the heath; and subsequently he saw a great sweepstakes come off between Spaniard, Britannia, and Pope, which the latter won. Four years elapse, and, as a proof that the lad we have described had kept pace with the times, we find him selected to manage the racing establishment of the late Duke of York, on the death of Mr. Warwick Lake. The first step taken by Mr. Greville on being installed in office was to weed the useless ones and the ragged lot; and with the aid of Butler (father of the late Frank and the present William Butler) he managed so well that in his second year he won the Derby for him with Moses. As the Duke’s affairs at that time were in anything but a flourishing condition, Mr. Greville did not persuade him to back his horse for much money; still his Royal Highness won a fair stake, and was not a little pleased at the result. He likewise carried off the Claret with him the following year. With Banker, who was a very useful horse at all distances, he won for him many good races; and, by a reference to the “Calendars” of the day, it will be seen the Duke won in his turn, if he did not carry all before him. To reproduce the names of his horses now would not be worth while, as from the effluxion of time the interest in them has ceased. The first animal in the shape of a race-horse that Mr. Greville ever possessed was a filly by Sir Harry Dimsdale, which he trained in the Duke’s stable with a few others of no great standing.

‘Circumstances with which the world are familiar rendering the retirement of the Duke of York requisite, his stud came to the hammer, and Mr. Greville came to the assistance of his uncle, the Duke of Portland, who trained with Prince. With the Duke Mr. Greville remained some little time, and afterwards became confederate with Lord Chesterfield, who was at that time coming out, and was in great force with his Zinganee, Priam, Carew, Glaucus, and other crack horses. During this time he had few horses of any great account of his own, although his confederate had nothing to complain of in the shape of luck. At the termination of this confederacy Mr. Greville entered upon another with his cousin, Lord George Bentinck, who, from his father’s hostility to his racing, was unable to run horses in his own name. The extent of this stud was so great that we are unable to deal with it at the same time with the horses of the subject of our memoir, who can scarcely be said to have come across a really smashing good mare until he met with Preserve, with whom, in 1834, he won the Clearwell and Criterion, and in the following year the One Thousand Guineas, besides running second for the Oaks to Queen of Trumps. A difference of opinion as to the propriety of starting Preserve for the Goodwood Stakes led to their separation, and for a time they were on very bad terms, but by the aid of mutual friends a reconciliation was effected. From what Preserve did for him, Mr. Greville was induced to dip more freely into the blood, or, as old John Day would have said, to take to the family, and accordingly he bought Mango, her own brother, of Mr. Thornhill, who bred him. Mango only ran once as a two-year-old, when, being a big, raw colt, he was not quick enough on his legs for the speedy Garcia filly of Col. Peel and John Day’s Chapeau d’Espagne, and was easily beaten. In the spring Mango made so much improvement that Mr. Greville backed him for the Derby for a good stake; and had he been able to have continued his preparation at Newmarket, and been vanned to Epsom, as is the custom in the present day, there is little doubt he would have won; but having to walk all the way from Newmarket, he could not afford to lose the days that were thus consumed, and although he ran forward he did not get a place. That this view of the case is not a sanguine one is proved by his beating Chapeau d’Espagne, the second for the Oaks, for the Ascot Derby, and within an hour afterwards bowling over Velure, the third in that race, for William the Fourth’s Plate. On the Cup Day he likewise beat the Derby favourite, Rat-Trap, over the Old Mile. At Stockbridge, in a sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, with thirteen subscribers, he frightened all the field away with the exception of Wisdom, whom he beat cleverly, and then he remained at Dilly’s, at Littleton, to be prepared for the St. Leger. Having stood his work well, John Day brought over The Drummer and Chapeau d’Espagne from Stockbridge to try him on Winchester race-course. Both Mr. Greville and Lord George Bentinck had reason to be satisfied with what Mango did in his gallop on that morning, and the latter backed him very heavily for the race—much more so, indeed, than his owner. Mr. Greville was anxious to have put up John Day, but the Duke of Cleveland having claimed him for Henriade, he was obliged to substitute his son Sam, a very rising lad, with nerves of iron and the coolest of heads. The race was a memorable one, inasmuch as William Scott, who was on Epirus, the first favourite, fell into the ditch soon after starting, and Prince Warden running over him and striking him with his hind leg, he sustained a severe fracture of the collar-bone. Henriade also came down about a distance from home from a dog crossing the course. John Day, however, soon righted him, but the contretemps spoilt his chance. At the stand there were but three in the struggle—The Doctor, Abraham Newland, and Mango. The two former seemed to be making a match of it, and it looked impossible for Mango to get up; but a slight opening presenting itself, which was not visible to the spectators, Sam Day, with a degree of resolution which justifies the attributes we have before ascribed to him, sent his horse through with such a terrific rush that his breeches were nearly torn off his boots, and won by a neck.

‘After the race Lord George, who was a very heavy winner, gave Honest John 500ℓ. for his trial with the Drummer; the like sum to Sam Day for having ridden him better than he was ridden in the Derby, and an equivalent proportion to Montgomery Dilly for preparing him better than Prince for the same race. Mango was afterwards sent to Newmarket for the St. Leger, and “Craven,” who then edited the “Sporting Magazine,” having asserted that Mr. Greville had caused it to be reported that Mango was lame to get him back in the markets for that race, he called on him to apologise for the statement, which proving, by the volunteered testimony of Lord George Bentinck, Colonel Anson, and Admiral Rous, to be wholly without foundation, the writer in question made Mr. Greville the fullest amende honorable. Mango only won once again as a four-year-old, when he carried off a sweepstakes of 300 sovereigns at Newmarket, beating Chapeau d’Espagne and Adrian. Having thus established himself with Dilly, owing to Mr. Payne, with whom he had become confederate, training at Littleton, Mr. Greville made no change until Dilly gave up, when he continued his confidence to his brother William Dilly, who succeeded him on his retirement from Lord Glasgow.

‘It was some few years before Mr. Greville had another good horse, at least one that is worth dwelling upon, and Alarm must be considered the legitimate successor to Mango. This colt Mr. Greville purchased of his breeder, Captain George Delmé, and tried him good enough to win the Derby in 1845 in a canter, even in the face of such animals as Idas and The Libel. But just prior to starting an accident occurred by which all Mr. Greville’s hopes were destroyed; for The Libel flying at Alarm very savagely, he jumped the chains, threw Nat who lay for a time insensible on the ground, and ran away. He was, however, soon caught and remounted, and although much cut about ran forward enough to justify the idea that but for his accident he must have won, as no other animal could have got through the Cambridgeshire with 7st. 10lb. on him so easily as he did in a field of such quality as he met. In the following year Alarm made some amends for his Epsom failure, by winning the Ascot Cup, as well as the Orange Cup at Goodwood, the latter after a terrific race with Jericho. He also, at Newmarket in the autumn, won three great matches in succession, viz. with Oakley, the Bishop of Romford’s cob, and Sorella. Going through the “Calendar,” Cariboo is the next most noteworthy animal we come across, for it will be recollected he ran second to Canezou for the Goodwood Cup, having been lent to make running for her. But it is almost needless to add that, had Mr. Greville known him to be as good as he was, he would have been started on his own account, in which case the cup in all probability would have gone to Bruton Street instead of to Knowsley. Continuing our track through the “Calendar,” we light on a better year for Mr. Greville, in 1852, when he had really two good animals in Adine and Frantic. With the former, at York, he had perhaps the best week he ever had in his life, having won both the Yorkshire Oaks and Ebor Handicap with her, besides beating Daniel O’Rourke with Frantic, who two months before had carried off the Union Cup for him at Manchester. The following year Adine did a good thing for him by winning the Goodwood Stakes, and two years afterwards he again won that race with Quince.

‘Between Adine and Quince’s years came Mr. Greville’s last good horse, Muscovite, whom he thought impossible to lose the Metropolitan, and backed him accordingly. He was much put out, however, by old John Day telling him he had no chance with his mare Virago. At first Mr. Greville was incredulous at what John told him, and made him acquainted with the form of Muscovite. This made not the slightest impression on the old man, who merely went on repeating Mr. Greville must back Virago for 500ℓ., and the value of the advice was proved by the mare beating the horse very easily. Muscovite’s career for a time was a very unfortunate one, for when in Dockeray’s stable he was so “shinned” that his chance for the Goodwood Stakes was completely out, and his trainer, who could not discover the offender, and who was terribly annoyed at the circumstance, begged he might be transferred to William Dilly’s, at Littleton. While there he was betted against for the Cæsarewitch in the same determined manner as he had been for his other races, and when he arrived at Newmarket, and stood in Nat’s stables, which were perfectly impregnable, there was no cessation in the opposition to him, although his trainer told everybody that unless he was shot on the Heath, which he could not prevent, he would walk in. This he did, and the crash he produced is still fresh in the public recollection; but it is creditable to the bookmaker who laid the most money against him to state that out of 23,000ℓ. which he lost, he paid 16,000ℓ. down on the spot, an act which procured him time for the remainder.

‘Since Muscovite, who is now at the stud at Newmarket, Mr. Greville has had no animal that has done a really good thing for him, though Anfield made another determined attempt at the Goodwood Stakes this year; and having, at Lord Ribblesdale’s sale of General Peel’s horses, purchased Orlando, and added him to his establishment at Hampton Court, he has turned his attention perhaps more to breeding than racing. For some time his returns were very large, but of late, from the age of Orlando, and from getting some of his stock so small, they have diminished in amount, although the old horse looks as fresh as a four-year-old, and preserves all that fine symmetry for which he was remarkable both in and out of training. Latterly Mr. Greville, from being the confederate of Mr. Payne, has trained with Alec Taylor at Fyfield; but with Godding he has generally two or three at Newmarket.

‘In turning to Mr. Greville in his private capacity we hardly know how to treat him, for his is a nature that shrinks from having his good deeds brought before the glare of the public eye. No man, ever so high or low, we believe, ever sought his advice and assistance in vain; and to no one individual, probably, have so many and such various difficulties been submitted. Neither can we remember a new trial or even an appeal demanded by those who had sought his counsel. Beloved by his friends, and feared by his opponents, Mr. Greville will ever be considered one of the most remarkable men that have lent lustre to the English turf.’

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

INDEX.

• Abercromby, Right Hon. James, proposed as Speaker, ii. 333; Master of the Mint, iii. 95; proposed as Speaker, 201; the Speakership, 204; elected Speaker, 213
• Aberdeen, Earl of, Duchy of Lancaster, i. 124; motion about Belgium, ii. 238
• Achmet Pacha, concludes a treaty with Russia, iii. 69
• Adair, Right Hon. Sir Robert, sworn in Privy Councillor, i. 136
• Addington, Henry Unwin, recalled from Madrid, iii. 14
• Address, proposed amendment to the, iii. 217
• Adelaide, Queen, ii. 7; at the Ancient Concert, 133; mobbed in the City, 141; audience of, about the crown, 179; coronation of, 190; Lord Howe, 338; yacht, iii. 99; return of, 125; illness of, 125; supposed to be with child, 198, 199, 201
• Adrian’s Villa, i. 377
• Agar Ellis, see Dover, Lord
• Alava, General, and the Duke of Cumberland, iii. 275
• Albani, Cardinal, influence of, i. 310; conversation with, 373; interview with, 380
• Albano, i. 331
• Alexander, Emperor of Russia, death of, i. 78; coronation of, described by Talleyrand, ii. 185
• Allen, Dr., Bishop of Ely, iii. 363
• Allen, John, iii. 135; unbelief of, 324
• Althorp, Viscount, proposed as Chairman of the Finance Committee, i. 120; Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 66, introduces the budget, 114; leader of the House of Commons, 116, 200; letter to Attwood, 205, 206; hurries on the Irish Church Bill, 364; as Chancellor of the Exchequer, iii. 2; arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms, 56; financial statement, 60; defects as leader, 62; summons a meeting of the supporters of Government, 92; resigns, 101; popularity of, 105; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Melbourne, 113; succeeds his father as Earl Spencer, 140
• Alvanley, Lord, duel with Morgan O’Connell, ii. 257; on Irish affairs, 348
• America, dispute with France, iii. 322
• Anglesey, Marquis of, recalled, i. 149; entry into Dublin, ii. 99; disputes with O’Connell, 106
• Antwerp, threatened bombardment of, by the Dutch, ii. 321; French army marches to, 329
• Arbuthnot, Right Hon. Charles, nickname ‘Gosh,’ i. 103; conversation with, on the Duke of Wellington’s Administration, ii. 51; conversation with, at Oatlands, 170
• Arbuthnot, Mrs., death of, iii. 116
• Arkwright, Sir Richard, fortunes of iii. 50
• Arkwright, Mrs., visit to, iii. 49
• Arms Bill, the, ii. l96
• Arnold, Dr., proposed for a bishopric, iii. 325
• Artevelde, Philip van, iii. 114; discussed at Holland House, 128
• Ascot Races, 1831, ii. 147; 1833, 375
• Attwood, chairman of the Birmingham Union, ii. 205, 208; proclamation against, 215
• Auckland, Lord, Board of Trade, ii. 66; First Lord of the Admiralty, iii. 88, 113; on the state of affairs, 238; First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Melbourne’s second Administration, 256
• Augustus, Prince, of Prussia, ii. 319
• Austin, Mr. John, his work on Jurisprudence, iii. 138
• Austin, Mr. Charles, ii. 306
• Aylmer, Lord, recalled from Canada, iii. 394; the King’s address to him, 395

• Bachelor, valet to the Duke of York and to King George IV., i. 142, 143; conversation with, ii. 30
• Bagot, Lord, conduct to Lord Harrowby, ii. 253
• Baiæ, Bay of, i. 341
• Baring, House of, ii. 53
• Baring, Right Hon. Alexander, offered the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, ii. 299; proposes a compromise with the ex-Ministers, 300
• Baring, Francis, Chairman of the West India Committee, iii. 279
• Barnes, Mr., editor of the ‘Times,’ ii. 97, 214; negotiations with, for supporting the Government, iii. 155, 156, 157 dines with Lord Lyndhurst, 167, 169 alarm of, at the prevailing spirit, 188
• Barri, Madame du, ii. 219
• Barry, Dr., sent to Sunderland, ii. 216; report on cholera, 217
• Bath, Chapter of the Order of the, i. 254
• Bathurst, Earl, Lord President, i. 124; death of, iii. 115; character of, 115
• Bathurst, Countess, conversation with, ii. 62
• Bathurst, Hon. William, appointed Clerk of the Council, ii. 61, 86; delay in appointment of, 74; sworn in Clerk of the Council, 94
• Bathurst, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Seymour, death of, iii. 79
• Baudrand, General, ii. 33; reception of, 38
• Bazaar, in Hanover Square, ii. 383
• Beauclerc, Lord Aurelius, dances a country dance with the King, ii. 341
• Belgian question, the, settlement of, ii. 314
• Belgium, revolution in, ii. 41; affairs of, 44; unsettled state of, 69; deputation from, 160; fortresses of, 169; invaded by the Dutch, 175; French army refuses to leave, 181; end of hostilities with the Dutch, 184; Conference, 1832, 321
• Belmore, Earl of, Governor of Jamaica, i. 140, 147
• Belvoir Castle, iii. 46
• Benson, Canon, sermon at the Temple Church, ii. 113
• Bentinck, Right Hon. Lord William, desires to be appointed Governor-General of India, i. 59; address to the electors of Glasgow, iii. 339, 343; qualities of, 339; inscription on monument in honour of, 340
• Bentinck, Lord Henry, quarrel with Sir Roger Gresley, ii. 148
• Bergara, Convention of, iii. 259
• Berri, Duchesse de, in La Vendée, ii. 322
• Berry, Miss, iii. 58
• Berryer, M., iii. 379; appearance of, 380
• Best, Right Hon. William Draper, see Lord Wynford
• Bethnal Green, distress in, ii. 261
• Bexley, Lord, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, i. 95
• Biekersteth, Henry, see Lord Langdale
• Blacas, M. de, favourite of Louis XVIII., ii. 305
• Black Book, the, ii. 79
• Bloomfield, Sir Benjamin, dismissal of, i. 55
• Blount, Rev. Mr., sermon, iii. 12
• Body-snatchers, ii. 227
• Bologna, i. 402
• Bonaparte, Emperor Napoleon, in the 100 days, i. 24; campaigns of, described by Marshal Marmont, ii. 35
• Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, Strasburg attempt, iii. 381
• Bonaparte, Joseph, at dinner at Lady Cork’s, iii. 18
• Bonaparte, Lucien, introduced to the Duke of Wellington, iii. 11; at dinner at Lady Cork’s, 18
• Boodle’s, dinner at, ii. 124
• Bosanquet, Right Hon. Sir John Bernard, sworn in a Privy Councillor, iii. 30; Judge of the King’s Bench, 71
• Boswell, ‘Life of Johnson,’ anecdotes lost, ii. 105
• Boulogne, iii. 388
• Bourbon, Duke de, death of, ii. 50
• Bourmont, Marshal de, marches on Lisbon, iii. 25
• Bourne, Right Hon. Sturges, Secretary of State for the Home Department, i. 95
• Bowring, Dr., sent to Paris, ii. 219; satire of Moore on, 219; career of, 220
• Bradshaw, Mrs., acting of, at Bridgewater House, ii. 353
• Brescia, i. 412
• Bretby, visit to, iii. 327; Chesterfield Papers, 327
• Bridgewater House, dramatic performances at, iii. 352, 355
• Bridgewater Election, iii. 398
• Brighton, the Court at, 1832, ii. 334; races, 1835, iii. 284
• Bristol, riots at, ii. 208
• Broglie, Duke de. conduct of, iii. 386
• Brooks’s Club, iii. 320
• Brougham, Lord, attack upon, in ‘Quarterly Review,’ i. 16; speech on the Queen’s trial, 35; letter to the Queen, 57; character of, 117; qualities of, ii. 18, 33; appointed Lord High Chancellor, 65; discontent of, 65; social qualities of, 69; anecdote of, 106; quarrel with Sugden, 106; correspondence with Southey on rewards to literary men, 112; speech on Chancery Reform, 118; domestic kindness of, 120; origin of representation of Yorkshire, 125; as Lord Chancellor, 128; at the Horse Guards, 129; as a judge, 145; at dinner at Hanbury’s brewery, 148; at the British Museum, 149; claims the old Great Seal, 188; intention of sitting at the Privy Council, 223; speech on the Russian Loan, 244; quarrel with Sugden, 312; anecdote of, 314; Bill for creating a new Court of Appeal, 342; Bill objected to, 344; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Bill, 365; sits on the case of Drax v. Grosvenor, 370; as Chancellor, iii. 22; anecdotes of Queen Caroline, 36; and Sir William Home, 67; meets Sir Thomas Denman in Bedfordshire, 71; judicial changes, 71; defence of himself, 72; apology for, 76; speech on Lord Wynford’s Bill for the observance of the Sabbath, 83; on the Pluralities Bill, 86; on the Irish Church, 94; and the ‘Times,’ 96; Lord Chancellor in Lord Melbourne’s Administration, 113; and Lord Westmeath, 119; conduct in the Westmeath case, 119, 124; versatility of, 121; lines applied to, 121; Greek epigrams, 121; ambition of, 122; in Scotland, 133; communicates to the ‘Times’ the fall of Lord Melbourne’s first Administration, 145; resigns the Great Seal, 156; takes leave of the Bar, 156; asks for the Chief Baronship, 157; anecdote, 232; conduct of, in the case of Swift v. Kelly, 260, 267; on the London University Charter, 261; judgment in the case of Swift v. Kelly, 274; on the Corporation Bill, 286; violence in the House of Lords, 303; illness of, 329; and Macaulay, 337, 338; at Queen Victoria’s first Council, 408
• Brummel, ‘Beau,’ i. 282
• Brussels, disturbances at, ii. 40
• Buccleuch, Duke of, subscription to election expenses, iii. 182
• Budget, the, 1831, ii. 113
• Buller, James, death of, ii. 59
• Bülow, Baron von, on English affairs, iii. 211
• Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, iii. 348
• Bunsen, Baron, i. 315; career of, 327; on Roman affairs, 389
• Burdett, Sir Francis, returned for Westminster, 1837, iii. 398
• Burghersh, Lord, at Florence, i. 299; amateur opera, 301
• Burghersh, Lady, intercedes for a prisoner at the Old Bailey, ii. 85
• Burghley, party at, iii. 53
• Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, writings of, iii. 209; compared with Mackintosh, 314
• Burke, Sir G., conversation with, on O’Connell, ii. 111
• Buxton, Fowell, dinner at the brewery, ii. 148
• Byng, Right Hon. George, Lord of the Treasury, iii. 95
• Byron, Lord, Moore’s Life of, i. 272; character of, 273

• Cambridge, H.R.H. the Duchess of, reception of, i. 2
• Cambridge, University of, petition for the admission of Dissenters to the, iii. 72, 75
• Campbell, Sir John, Solicitor-General, ii. 333; Attorney-General, iii. 141
• Canada, affairs in, iii. 350
• Canning, Right Hon. Sir Stratford, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, ii. 352, 357; anecdote of, iii. 39; offered the Governor-Generalship of Canada, 234
• Canning, Right Hon. George. Foreign Secretary, i. 55; correspondence with the King on taking office, 59; forms an Administration (1827), 93, 95; death of, 103; anecdotes of, 104; industrious habits of, 106; memoirs of, 263, 272; despatch in verse, 326; sagacity of, ii. 42; conversation with the King, 102; correspondence with the Duke of Wellington, 103; coldness to the Duke of Wellington, 103; anecdote of, 125; negotiation with the Whigs, 170; influence over Lord Liverpool, 172; in favour with the King, 172; on Reform, iii. 135; and King George IV., 137
• Canning, Lady, visit to, ii. 101; authorship of pamphlet, iii. 40
• Canning, Mr. Charles, offered a Lordship of the Treasury, iii. 202
• Cannizzaro, Duchess of, iii. 11; crowns the Duke of Wellington, 406
• Canterbury, Archbishop of, indecision of the, ii. 250, 262, 263; importance of support of the, 252, 253
• Canterbury, Viscount, declines to go to Canada, iii. 234
• Capo di Monte, i. 335
• Capua, i. 360
• Cardinals, the, i. 309
• Carlisle, Earl of, Lord Privy Seal, i. 95; iii. 88
• Carlists, the, in Spain, iii. 66
• Carlos, Don, in London, iii. 98
• Carlow election, iii. 348
• Carnarvon, Earl of, refuses to move the address in the House of Lords, iii. 202
• Caroline, Queen, return of, i. 28; trial of, 31, 35; anecdote of, iii. 37
• Carvalho, Minister of Finance to Dom Pedro, iii. 93
• Catacombs, the, see Rome
• Catholic emancipation, i. 163, 172, 174
• Catholic Relief Bill, excitement concerning the, i. 180; debates on, see Lords and Commons
• Cato Street Conspiracy, the, i. 26
• Cayla, Madame du, i. 71; dinner at the Duke of Wellington’s, 214; Béranger’s verses on, 215; favourite of Louis XVIII., ii. 306
• Cenis, the Mont, i. 287
• Champollion, Jean François, death of, ii. 307
• Chapeau de Paille, the, purchase of, ii. 125
• Chapel, near Holland House, unable to be consecrated, iii. 200
• Charles I., King, head of, discovered at Windsor, ii. 168; executioner of, iii. 132
• Charles X., King, of France, arrival of in England, ii. 31; at Lulworth Castle, 33; off Cowes, 34
• Charlotte, Queen, illness of, i. 2, 3
• Charlotte, H.R.H. the Princess, anecdotes of, ii. 319
• Chartres, H.R.H. the Duc de, arrival of, i. 208
• Chatham, Earl of, death of, iii. 316
• Chatsworth, hospitality at, i. 237; charade at, 238; party at, ii. 51
• Chesterfield Papers, the, iii. 327
• Chobert, the ‘Fire King,’ i. 276
• Cholera, the, in Russia, ii. 57; account of, 150; preventive measures against, 154, 216; effect on trade of, 156; spread of, 161; alarm about, 169; at Berlin, 192; at Sunderland, 208, 210; at Marseilles, 221; on the decline, 224; near Edinburgh, 240; in London, 258, 259; in Bethnal Green, 261; account of, 278; diminution of, 285; in Paris, 287; alarm in London, 309, 311
• Christina, Queen, of Spain, iii. 66, 72; reported flight of, 360; courage of, 365
• Christmas trees, introduced by Princess Lieven at Panshanger, i. 259
• Church Bill, the, Committee on, iii. 199
• Church Reform, iii. 206
• City, the, address to the King, ii. 126; illumination in, 140; election, 1835, iii. 184, 186, 187; anxiety in the money-market, 373, 376
• Civil List, the, excess of expenditure on, i. 253; for debates on, see Commons, House of
• Clanricarde, Marquis of, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 78
• Clarence, H.R.H. the Duke of, Lord High Admiral, i. 95; removal of, from the office of Lord High Admiral, 138, 140. See William IV.
• Cobbett, William, trial of, ii. 158; returned for Oldham, 335; takes his seat, 351; and Sir Robert Peel, 373
• Cochrane, Lord, at Florence, i. 301; villa near Florence, 302
• Codrington, Sir E., interview with the Duke of Wellington, i. 179
• Coercion Bill, the, introduced, ii. 359
• Colchester Election, iii. 112
• Commons, House of; Alien Bill, i. 1; Dr. Halloran’s petition, 14; debate on grant to the Duke of York, 18; debates on Queen Caroline, 30, 32, 38; Small Notes Bill, 79; debates on Catholic Relief Bill, 91, 133, 166, 191; division on Catholic Relief Bill, 185; Catholic Relief Bill read a third time, 203; Regency and Civil List, ii. 45; debate on the Evesham election, 25; debate on the Civil List, 110; announcement of the Reform Bill, 110; Pension List, 111; debate on Ireland, 112; Budget of 1831, 113; proposed reductions, 118; introduction of the first Reform Bill, 121; debates on the Reform Bill, 123, 125; debate on the Timber duties, 130; debate on the Reform Bill, 131; division on the Reform Bill, 132; Government defeated, 135; scene in the House, 135; second reading of the Reform Bill, 156; Wine duties, 160; Reform Bill, Schedule A, 170; second Reform Bill, 227; debate on, and second reading of the second Reform Bill carried, 228; Reform Bill supported by the Irish Members, 239; division on the Russian Loan, 240; division on the sugar duties, 267; Reform Bill passed, 270; debates, 296; violent scene in debate on petition of the City of London, 299; Irish Tithe question, 308; debate on, 309; debate on the Address, 353; Irish Church Reform, 354; aspect of the reformed House, 360; debate on Slave Emancipation, 371; vote of confidence in the Ministers, 376; division on the Irish Church Bill, 381; vote against sinecures, iii. 13; division on Apprenticeship Clause of West India Bill, 16; disorganised state of the House, 17; Pension List, 60; business of the House, 61; debate on the Corn Laws, 68; debate on admission of Dissenters to the University, 75; debate on Repeal of the Union, 80; Pension List, 80; debate on Portugal, 82; Poor Law Bill, 83; debate on Irish Tithe Bill, 98, 99; gallery for reporters, 205; debate on the Speakership, 214; debate on the Address, 221; debate and division on amendment to the Address, 223; Malt Tax, 224; debate on appointment of Lord Londonderry, 225; Dissenters’ Marriage Bill, 230; Government beaten on Chatham election, 234; state of parties in the House, 234; debate and division on Irish Church question, 240; uproar in the House, 243; Government defeated on Irish Tithe Bill, 246; debate on Irish Church Bill, 281; position of the House, 288, 291; conflict with the House of Lords, 225; debate and division on the amendment to the Address, 334; effect of division, 336; Opposition defeated, 347; division, 359; Irish Corporation Bill, 388; insult to Lord Lyndhurst, 389; debates on Irish Tithe Bill, 391; abandonment of the appropriation clauses, 393
• Como, i. 414
• Conroy, Sir John, ii. 190; iii. 3
• Conservative Club, dinner at, ii. 327; speeches, 327
• Constantine, the Grand Duke, accident to, i. 259; death of, ii. 164
• Convention signed between France, England, and Holland, ii. 375
• Conyngham, Marquis of, Postmaster-General, iii. 88, 113
• Conyngham, Marchioness of, i. 46; wears a Crown jewel, 48; Court intrigues, 207
• Conyngham, Lord Francis, i. 50
• Coprogli, History of the Grand Vizier, iii. 115
• Cornelius, painter, ii. 149
• Coronation, the, of William IV. decided on, ii. 156; preparations for, 157, 163, 165; estimates for, 181; disputes over the arrangements for, 187
• Cottenham, Lord, Lord High Chancellor, iii. 328
• Cotton, Sir Willoughby, suppresses the insurrection in Jamaica, ii. 262; on affairs in Jamaica, 380
• Council, Clerk of the, Mr. Greville sworn in, i. 44; after the accession of William IV., ii. 12; Lord Grey’s Administration sworn in, 71; for the proclamation against rioters, 73; recorder’s report in, 85; clerks of the, 87; scene at Council for a new Great Seal, 188
• Council, Privy: suttee case before the, ii. 307; embargo on Dutch ships, 343; meeting of the, on the London University petition, iii. 80; counter petition of Oxford and Cambridge, 80
• Council, Cabinet: the first of Lord Melbourne’s Administration, iii. 120; the first of Sir Robert Peel’s Administration, 174
• Covent Garden Theatrical Fund Dinner, i. 205
• Coventry, glove trade, ii. 224
• Cowley, Abraham, lines from ‘Ode to Solitude,’ ii. 272
• Cowper, Earl, at Panshanger, ii. 229
• Cowper, Countess, at Panshanger, ii. 229
• Cowper, William, Life of, by Southey, iii. 134
• Cradock, Colonel, sent to Charles X., ii. 37
• Crampton, Sir Philip, Irish story, i. 243
• Craven, Earl of, disperses a mob, ii. 77; on the proposed new Peers, 232
• Craven, General the Hon. Berkeley, suicide of, iii. 350
• Crawford, William, member for the City of London, iii. 188
• Creevey, Mr., i. 235
• Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, edition of ‘Boswell’s Life of Johnson,’ ii. 105; reviews lost, 106
• Cumberland, H.S.H. the Duke of, opposition to Catholic Relief Bill, i. 180; intrigues at Court, 222; insults Lady Lyndhurst, 222, 223; quarrel with Lord Lyndhurst, 224; disputes concerning the office of ‘Gold Stick,’ ii. 5, 21
• Cumberland, H.P..H. the Duchess of, i. 2
• Cuvier, Baron, death of, ii. 307

• Dalberg, Duke de, letter on European affairs, ii. 44
• Dawson, Right Hon. George Robert, speech on Catholic Emancipation, i. 138, 200; sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 71
• De Gazes, Duke, favourite of Louis XVIII., ii. 305; Ambassador to the Court of St. James, 306
• Dedel, M., Dutch Minister at the Court of St. James, iii, 32
• Denbigh, Earl of, Chamberlain to Queen Adelaide, ii. 342; sworn in Privy Councillor, 352
• Denman, Lord, correspondence with the King, i. 156; sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 329; Lord Chief Justice, 330; qualities of, 331; meeting of, with Lord Brougham, in Bedfordshire, iii. 71; raised to the Peerage, 74
• Derby Dilly, the, iii. 236, 237, 253
• De Ros, Lord, in Rome, i. 368
• De Ros, Colonel, the Hon. Arthur John Hill, death of, i. 81; character of, 82
• Dickenson, Captain, trial of, by court-martial, i. 235
• Diebitsch, Marshal, death of, from cholera, ii. 154
• Dino, Duc de, arrest of the, i. 255
• Dino, Duchesse de, ii. 57; on the state of France, 195
• Discontent throughout the country, ii. 108
• Disraeli, Benjamin, projects for sitting in Parliament, iii. 170
• Dissenters’ Marriage Bill, iii. 207, 230. For debates on, see Commons, House of
• Dorsetshire election, 1831, ii. 203, 207; crime in, iii. 77
• Dover, Lord, resigns the Woods and Forests, ii. 109; created a Peer, 150; death of, iii. 4; character of, 4; Life of Frederick II., 6; book on the Man in the Iron Mask, 6
• Down, deanery of, iii. 70
• Drax v. Grosvenor, case of, ii. 224; lunacy case, 369; decision on, 375; final meeting on, 377
• Drummond, Henry, mission to the Archbishop of York, iii. 333
• Dublin Police Bill, iii. 333
• Dudley, Earl of, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, i. 95, 124; dinner to Marshal Marmont, ii. 38; eccentricity of, 271, 272
• ‘Duke of Milan,’ quotation from the, i. 178
• Dulcken, Madam, performs before the Judicial Committee, iii. 325
• Duncannon, Viscount, iii. 104; called to the House of Lords, and Secretary of State, 109; sworn in, 112; Home Secretary, 113; on O’Connell, 117; at a fire in Edward Street, 117; on the state of affairs, 196; Commissioner of Woods and Forests under Lord Melbourne, 256
• Duncombe, Hon. Thomas Slingsby, maiden speech of, i. 128; petition from Barnet, ii. 255; guilty of libel, iii. 9; at Hillingdon, 123
• Durham, Earl of, quarrel with Lady Jersey, ii. 119; influence over Lord Grey, 222; attack on Lord Grey at a Cabinet dinner, 226; rudeness of, 269; return from Russia, 333; violence of, 333; created an earl, 365
• Dwarris, Sir Fortunatus, dinner at the house of, ii. 359

• East, Sir E. Hyde, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 155
• Eboli, Duchesse d’, ball at Naples, i. 335
• Ebrington, Viscount, moves a vote of confidence in the Government, ii. 202, 204
• Ebury, Lord, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 78
• Egremont, Earl of, at Petworth, ii. 336; wealth of, 337; hospitality to the poor, iii. 84
• Eldon, Earl of, audience of King George IV., i. 197; speech at Apsley House, ii. 198; career of, 378; tribute to, iii. 42
• Election, General, in 1830, ii. 20, 29; in 1831, 139, 141, 142, 145; in 1832, 335; in 1835, iii. 184, 189, 191, 193; results of, 195; in the counties, 198; result, 201
• Eliot, Lord, return of, from Spain, iii. 259; conversation with Louis Philippe, 259
• Ellenborough, Earl of, Lord Privy Seal, i. 124; letter to Sir John Malcolm, 271; on West India affairs, ii. 350; on Egypt, 351; speech on admission of Dissenters to the University, iii. 73
• Ellesmere, Earl of, Irish Secretary, i. 146
• Ellice, Right Hon. Edward, iii. 104; and the Colchester election, 112; Secretary for War, 113; in Paris, 379
• Elliot, Frederic, letter from Canada, iii. 325
• Epsom races, 1831, ii. 143; in 1833, 373
• Erskine, Right Hon. Thomas, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 223; Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, 223
• Escars, Duchesse d’, at a party given by the Duke of Wellington, i. 214
• Este, Sir Augustus d’, behaviour of, ii. 194
• Esterhazy, Prince Paul, conversation with, ii. 40; on Belgian affairs, 189; on the state of England, iii. 32; on affairs in Europe, 370; conversation with, 373
• Europe, state of, ii. 126; in 1831, 187; in 1836, iii. 370
• Evans, General de Lacy, iii. 265; reported death of, 359
• Evans, the incendiary, arrest of, ii. 70
• Exeter, Bishop of, correspondence with Lord Melbourne, ii. 97; interview with Lord Grey, 205; talents of, 287; ambition of, 289

• Falck, Baron, ii. 15, 41
• Ferdinand, Emperor, of Austria, iii. 374
• Fergusson, Right Hon. Cutlar, Judge Advocate, iii. 95
• Ferrara, i. 405
• Fieschi conspiracy, iii. 286
• Fingall, Earl of, created a Baron of the United Kingdom, ii. 150
• Finsbury election, 1834, Radical returned, iii. 100
• Fitzclarence, Colonel George, see Munster, Earl of
• Fitzclarence, Lord Frederick, resigns appointment at the Tower, ii. 362
• Fitzclarence, Lord Adolphus, picture of, ii. 179
• Fitzclarence, Lord Augustus, at Ascot, ii. 147; picture of, 176
• Fitzclarence, Lady Augusta, marriage of, iii. 363
• Fitzgerald, Right Hon. Vesey, i. 150
• Fitzherbert, Sirs., death of, iii. 396; documents of, 396
• Flahault, Madame de, anecdotes of Princess Charlotte, ii. 319; salon of, in Paris, iii. 381
• Fleury, Cardinal, ii. 347
• Florence, i. 299; sights of, 300; society at, 302; sculpture, 300, 301; pictures, 303; Grand Duke, 303
• Foley, Lord, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 84; Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire, 84; at St. James’s, 297
• Fonblanque, Albany, iii. 348
• Forester, Right Hon. Colonel Cecil, resigns his appointment as Groom of the Bedchamber, ii. 118
• Forfar election, 1835, iii. 197
• Fox, Mrs. Lane, accompanies the Prince of Orange to Gravesend, ii. 133; receives the Cabinet Ministers, iii. 140
• Fox, Right Hon. Charles James, described by Talleyrand, ii. 344
• Fox, W.J., Unitarian minister, sermon, iii. 43
• France, state of affairs in, i. 284; appearance of the country, 287; impending crisis in 1830, 369; events in 1830, ii. 17; revolution, 19; Duke of Orleans ascends the throne, 26; political prospects, 26; reconstruction of the Constitution, 28; army ordered to Belgium, 178; army in Belgium, 181; seizure of Portuguese ships, 182, 184; republican tendencies of, 187; state of the country, 1831, 195; weakness of the Government of Louis Philippe, 322; dispute with America, iii. 322; state of the country, 382
• Francis, Sir Philip, handwriting of, i. 234
• Franklin, Benjamin, ii. 185
• Franz Joseph, Archduke, iii. 374
• Frascati, convent at, i. 305; dinner at, 305; visit to, 390

• Gallatin, Albert, i. 257
• Gambier, Lord, proxy of, ii. 286
• Garrick, David, anecdotes of ii. 316
• Gell, Sir William, at Rome, i. 372, 375
• Geneva, i. 415
• Genoa, i. 292; palaces, 293, 295; churches, 294; tomb of Andrew Doria, 296
• George III., death of, i. 23; will, 64; jewels and property, 65; dislike of the Duke of Richmond, iii. 129
• George IV., illness of, i. 23; at the Pavilion, 49; interview with, 91; health and habits of, 143; violent dislike to the Catholic Relief Bill, 153, 181; character of, 155; personal habits of, 189; interview with the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, 201; health of, 206; racing interests of, 212; anecdotes concerning, 216; eyesight affected, 233, 236; courage of, 236; conduct in reference to Mr. Denman, 250; illness of, 368; death of, 417; funeral of, ii. 4; sale of wardrobe, 23; details of last illness, 30; anecdotes concerning, 189
• Gérard, Marshal, reported resignation of, ii. 45; ordered to Belgium, 178
• Gibson, John, R.A., at Rome, i. 383
• Gladstone, William Ewart, West India Committee, iii. 280
• Glenelg, Lord, President of the Board of Trade, i. 124; Board of Control, ii. 66, iii. 113; Colonial Secretary in Lord Melbourne’s second Administration, 256; and the King, 276
• ‘Glenfinlas’ performed at Bridgewater House, iii. 353, 355
• Glengall, Earl of, comedy by the, i. 249
• Glengall, Countess of, ii. 85
• Gloucester, H.R.H. the Duke of, ii. 8
• Goderich, Viscount, Small Notes Bill, i. 79; Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs and War, 95; sent for by the King, 107; scene at Windsor, 108; Administration of, formed, 108; resignation of, 115; returns to office, 116; Ministry dissolved, 120; Colonial Secretary, ii. 66; Lord Privy Seal, 365; created an earl, 367; invested with the Order of the Garter, 367
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, death of, ii. 307
• Goodwood, ii. 182; in 1833, iii. 20
• Gorhambury, party at, ii. 188
• ‘Goriot, Le Père,’ iii. 378
• Goulburn, Right Hon. Henry, Chancellor of the Exchequer, i. 124
• Graham, Right Hon. Sir James, First Lord of the Admiralty, ii. 66; elevation of, 90; remarks on, 91; resignation of, iii. 88; declines to join the Peel Administration, 176; conservative spirit of, 249; on the crisis of 1835, 249; joins the Opposition, 272
• Grange, The, attacked by a mob, ii. 68
• Grant, Right Hon. Charles, see Glenelg, Lord
• Granville, Earl, Ambassador in Paris, iii. 385
• Granville, Countess, i. 10; quarrel with M. Thiers, iii. 380
• Greece, policy of the English Government towards, i. 255
• Greenwich, dinner at, iii. 1
• Grenville, Thomas, conduct during the riots of 1780, iii. 129
• Gresley, Sir Roger, quarrel with Lord H. Bentinck, ii. 148
• Greville, Charles, sen., death of, ii. 318
• Greville, Mrs., ‘Ode to Indifference,’ ii. 319
• Greville, Algernon, private secretary to the Duke of Wellington, iii. 163
• Grey, Earl, hostility to the Government, i. 100; forms an Administration, 1830, ii. 64, 66; First Lord of the Treasury, 66; at dinner at Lord Sefton’s, 69; nepotism of, 78; character of, 88; relations with Lord Lyndhurst, 88; lays the Reform Bill before the King, 109; weakness of Government in the House of Commons, 116; remarks on Administration of, 137; invested with the Order of the Garter, 146; at dinner at Hanbury’s Brewery, 149; attacked on his foreign policy, 178; on Belgian affairs, 178; attacked by Lord Durham, 226; proposed new Peers, 230; altered conduct of, 232; reluctance to make new Peers, 247; conversation with, 248; interview with Lord Harrowby and Lord Wharncliffe, 259; minute of compromise with Lord Harrowby and Lord Wharncliffe, 260; speech on Ancona, 269; speech at the close of the Reform debate, 288; continued efforts for a compromise, 291; Government defeated in committee, 293; resignation of Administration of, 294; resumes office with his colleagues, 300; remarks on the members of the Administration of, 322; embarrassment of Government, 369; instance of readiness of, iii. 10; on Portuguese affairs, 21; compared with the Duke of Wellington, 73; changes in the Administration of, 88, 90, 91; situation of, in the crisis of 1834, 91; letter to Lord Ebrington, 92; weakness of the Government, 97; resignation of, 101; refuses the Privy Seal, 112; desires to retire, 124; dinner to, at Edinburgh, 135; events subsequent to retirement of, 145; intrigue, 145; conservative spirit of, 249; audience of the King, 251; dissatisfaction of, 352
• Grey, Sir Charles, Governor of Jamaica, sworn in a Privy Councillor, iii. 271
• Grote, George, returned for the City of London, iii. 188
• Guixot, Monsieur, reported resignation of, ii. 45; eminence of, iii. 379
• Gully, Mr., account of, ii. 335; returned for Pontefract, 336
• Gunpowder Plot, papers relating to, i. 161

• Haddington, Earl of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, iii. 181
• Halford, Sir Henry, report on the cholera, ii. 137
• Hampden, Dr. Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, iii. 341, 342
• Hanbury’s Brewery, dinner at, ii. 148
• Happiness, reflections on, iii. 293
• Hardinge, Right Hon. Sir Henry, on the prospects of the Tory Government, iii. 167; on the King and Lord Melbourne, 168
• Harrowby, Earl of, Lord President, i. 95; speech on Reform, ii. 206; interview with Lord Grey, 224; circular to the Peers, 242, 248; interview with Lord Grey, 259; discussions on letter of, 262; letter shown to Lord Grey, 264; the ‘Times’ on the letter of, 264, 265; patriotic conduct of, 275; declines to vote on Schedule A, 281; character of, iii. 52; subscription to election expenses, 182
• Harrowby, Countess of, iii. 52
• Hartwell, visit to, ii. 345
• Harvey, Whittle, committee, iii. 112; speech of, at Southwark, 188
• Harwich election, 1835, iii. 186
• Health, formation of a board of, ii. 154
• Henry II., King, and Thomas à Becket, iii. 130
• Henry VIII., King, coffin of, found at Windsor, ii. 168
• Herbert, Sydney, Secretary to the Board of Control, iii. 194
• Herculaneum, i. 349
• ‘Hernani,’ ii. 154
• Herries, Right Hon. John Charles, scene at Council, i. 108; discussions on appointment of, 110; ill-will of, towards his colleagues, 121; Master of the Mint, 124
• Hertford, Marchioness of, funeral of, iii. 79
• Hess, Captain, ii. 319, 320
• Heurteloup, Baron, before the Judicial Committee, iii. 332
• Heythrop, riot at, ii. 77
• Hill, Mr., Irish members’ squabble, iii. 55
• Hobhouse, Right Hon. Sir John Cam, speech on the Reform Bill, ii. 123; Secretary of War, 243; resigns Irish Secretaryship and seat for Westminster, ii. 368; on the state of affairs, iii. 195; Board of Control, in Lord Melbourne’s second Administration, 256
• Holland, the King of, invades Belgium, ii. 175; state of, 200; conduct of the King of, 314; the King refuses to give up Antwerp, 321, 329; obstinacy of the King, 324; bankrupt condition of, iii. 32
• Holland, Lord, at Panshanger, ii. 47; Duchy of Lancaster, iii. 113; anecdotes related by, 131; on Reform, 135; on Mr. Canning, ib.; anecdotes, 335; on Mr. Fox, ib.; contempt for the Tory party, 336
• Holland, Lady, fancies of, ii. 331; and Spencer Perceval, iii. 331
• Holland House, dinner at, ii. 245; conversation at, 316; Allen and Macaulay, 317; sketch of, 331; conversation at, iii. 127, 129; literary criticisms, 130; Lord Melbourne’s conversation, 131; dinner at, 132; news of the fall of Lord Melbourne’s Administration, 147; party spirit at, 192
• Holmes boroughs, ii. 140
• Hook, Theodore, improvisation of, iii. 119, 197; singing of, 197
• Home, Sir William, Attorney-General, ii. 333; and Lord Brougham, iii. 67
• Hortense, Queen, at Frascati, i. 305
• Horton, Wilmot, lectures at the Mechanics’ Institute, ii. 97
• Howe, Earl, dismissal of, ii. 203; Queen’s Chamberlain, 319; and Queen Adelaide, 331; correspondence about the Chamberlainship, 339
• Howick, Viscount, Under-secretary, ii. 78; in office, iii. 254; civility of the King to, 255; Secretary of War, 256; acrimony of, 312; interview with Spencer Perceval, 330; on the position of parties, 360
• Hudson, Sir James, page of honour, ii. 339
• Hume, John Deacon, Assistant-Secretary to the Board of Trade, i. 223; ii. 49
• Hume, Joseph, extreme Radical views of, ii. 361; speech on the Orangemen, iii. 344; deputation to Lord Melbourne, 357
• ‘Hunchback, The,’ ii. 285
• Hunt, Henry, speech of, ii. 112; speech of, against the Reform Bill, 134
• Huskisson, Right Hon. William, President of the Board of Trade, i. 95; dispute in the Cabinet, 120; joins the new Government, 122; Colonial Secretary, 124; resignation of, 131; Lord Melbourne’s opinion of, ii. 46; death of, 47; character of, 49; funeral of, 51

• Incendiarism in the country, ii. 84
• Ireland, trials in, i. 239; dissatisfaction in, ii. 76; unpopularity of Government changes in, 89; state of, 112, 114; education in, 267, 271; tithes, 309; Church difficulties in, 323
• Irish Church, abuses in, iii. 9; the Irish Church Bill dangerous to the Government, 86; differences in the Cabinet, 89; difficulties of the Irish Church question, 240, 253; opinions of Lord Melbourne on the, 269. For debates on the Irish Church Bill, see Lords, House of, and Commons, House of
• Irish Tithe Bill, thrown out, iii. 117; divisions on the, 246; conduct of the Government, 298; difficulties of, 353, 354; abandonment of the Appropriation Clause, 355
• Irving, Edward, service in chapel, iii. 40; the unknown tongues, 41; sermon of, ib.; interview with Lord Melbourne, 129
• Irving, Washington, i. 249
• Istria, Duchesse d’, beauty of, iii. 381

• Jacquemont’s Letters, iii. 115
• Jamaica, insurrection in, ii. 262; Mr. Greville, Secretary of the Island of, 349; petition to the King, 352; affairs of, ib.; anecdote of a slave, 359; opinion of Sir Willoughby Cotton, 380; office of Secretary to the Island of, threatened, iii. 266, 268, 275; secured, 279
• Jebb, Judge, charge of, at O’Connell’s trial, ii. 109
• Jeffrey, Lord, and Professor Leslie, iii. 44
• Jersey, Countess of, character of, i. 12; party at the house of, ii. 64; quarrel with Lord Durham, 119; correspondence with Lord Brougham, 126
• Jockey Club, dinner given by the King to the, 1828, i. 134; in 1829, 211
• ‘John Bull,’ the, newspaper, ii. 97
• Johnson, Dr., anecdotes of, ii. 316
• Johnstone, Right Hon. Sir Alexander, sworn in a Privy Councillor, iii. 27, 30; at the Judicial Committee, 125
• Jones Loyd, Mr., iii. 188
• Jones, ‘Radical,’ interview with Lord Wharncliffe, ii. 200
• Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Bill for the establishment of the, iii. 21; meeting to make regulations for the, 35; first sitting of the, 38; working of the, 205

• Kelly, Mrs., adventures of her daughter, i. 379, 383; case before the Privy Council, iii. 259, 261, 266, 267; judgment, 274
• Kemble, Charles, and his family, iii. 260
• Kemble, Miss Fanny, i. 240, ii. 129; tragedy by, 270; in the ‘Hunchback,’ 285
• Kempt, Right Hon. Sir James, Master-General of the Ordnance, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 84
• Kent, H.R.H. the Duchess of, disputes in the Royal Family, ii. 190; and the Duke of Wellington, ib.; the Regency Bill, 191; salutes to, iii. 3; at Burghley, 315; quarrels with the King, 366; scene at Windsor, 367; answer to the address of the City of London, 399; squabble with the King, 400
• Kenyon, Lord, speech at Apsley House, ii. 198
• Kinnaird, Lord, created a Baron of the United Kingdom, ii. 150
• Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, anecdote of, iii. 130
• Knatchbull, Right Hon. Sir Edward, joins the Peel Government, iii. 176, 177; attack on, 226
• Knighton, Sir William, i. 72; influence with the King, 99, 144; behaviour of, during the King’s illness, ii. 174

• Lafayette, Marquis de, resignation of, ii. 99
• La Ferronays, M. de, French Ambassador at Rome, i. 307; on the accession of the Emperor Nicholas, 373; on French politics, 368; civility of, 380, 381; on French affairs, 393, 395
• La Granja, revolution of, iii. 364, 365
• ‘Lalla Rookh,’ at Bridgewater House, iii. 353
• Lamb, Sir Frederick, ii. 94; reported letter to the King of France from the Duke of Wellington, 94
• Lambeth Palace, restoration of, ii. 34
• Lancashire election, 1835, iii. 198
• Langdale, Lord, reply to Lord Brougham, iii. 81; declines the Solicitor-Generalship, 141; peerage, 328; Master of the Rolls, 328
• Lansdowne, Marquis of, Secretary of State for the Home Department, i. 95; Lord President, ii. 66; dinner to name the sheriffs, 109; on the Reform Bill, 131; and Lord Brougham, 347; Lord President in both of the Administrations of Lord Melbourne, iii. 113, 256
• La Roncière, case of, iii. 202
• Laval, M. de, at Apsley House, ii. 15
• Law, History of English, iii. 114
• Lawrence, Sir Thomas, early genius of, i. 256; death of, 263; character of, 264; funeral of, 268; engagement of, to the Misses Siddons, iii. 50
• Leach, Right Hon. Sir John, disappointed of the Woolsack, ii. 68; in the case of Drax v. Grosvenor, 378
• Leigh, Colonel George, ii. 189
• Leinster, Duke of, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 155
• Leitrim, Earl of, created a Baron of the United Kingdom, ii. 150
• Le Marchant, Denis, at Stoke, iii. 21
• Lemon, Robert, F.S.A., Deputy Keeper of the State Papers, iii. 44
• Lennard, John Barrett, Chief Clerk of the Privy Council Office, ii. 370
• Leopold, King, i. 22; desires to ascend the throne of Greece, 265; anxiety to ascend the throne of Belgium, ii. 153; accepts the throne of Belgium, 158; starts for Belgium, 167; proposes to the Princess Louise of France, 168; in Belgium, 177; want of confidence in, 177; cold reception of, at Windsor, iii. 370
• Leuchtenberg, Duke of, at Havre, iii. 33; marriage of, 33; letter to Lord Palmerston, 34; arrival of, 195
• Leveson, Lord Francis, see Ellesmere, Earl of
• Levee, iii. 213
• Lewis, Matthew Gregory, (‘Monk’ Lewis), journals and voyages to the West Indies, ii. 382; anecdote of, iii. 2; agreement with Mr. Murray for the Journal, 8
• Lichfield, Earl of, at Runton, iii. 51
• Lichfield Cathedral, iii. 327
• Lieven, Prince, recalled, iii. 87
• Lieven, Princess, character of, i. 15; attacks Lord Grey, ii. 261; on the Belgian question, 266; conversation with, 322; renews her friendship with the Duke of Wellington, 325; grievances of, 351; interference of, 358; diplomatic difficulties, 357; reception of, at St. Petersburg, iii. 23; position, of, in Paris, 379
• Littleton, Right Hon. Edward, i. 11; proposed by Lord Althorp as Speaker, ii. 333; Secretary for Ireland, 372; and O’Connell, iii. 99; instrumental in breaking up the Government, 102; political career of, 103; letter to Lord Wellesley, 103, 110; in communication with O’Connell, 103, 110; Irish Secretary, 113
• Liverpool, Earl of, and the King, i. 25; paralytic seizure, 90; transactions before the close of Administration of, ii. 173
• Liverpool, opening of the railroad, ii. 43, 47; bribery at election, 79
• Lobau, Marshal, Commandant-Général, ii. 99
• Lodge, the Royal, entertainments at, i. 99
• London, speech of Bishop of, iii. 391; University Charter, iii. 80, 81, 237; meeting of Committee of Council on, 260, 262
• Londonderry, Marquis of, death of, i. 51; character of, 52; funeral of, 54
• Londonderry, Marquis of, motion on Belgium, ii. 180; attacks Lord Plunket, 266; debate on appointment of, to St. Petersburg, iii. 225; opinion of the Duke of Wellington, 227; speech of, 228; resignation of, 229
• Long, St. John, trial of, ii. 85
• Lords, House of, debate of Royal Dukes, i. 177; debate on Catholic Relief Bill, 199; division on Catholic Relief Bill, 199; debate on affairs in Portugal, 277; debate on the Methuen Treaty, ii. 118; speech of Lord Brougham, 118; violent scene in the, 136; debate on Lord Londonderry’s motion, 180; prospects of the Reform Bill, 193; First Reform Bill thrown out, 202; attack on the Bishops, 205; new Peers, 230; measures for carrying the second reading of the Second Reform Bill, 235, 237; division on the Belgian question, 240; Reform Bill, 271; Irish education, 271; debates on second reading of the Reform Bill, 272, 286; list of proposed new Peers, 283; Reform Bill carried, 287; in Committee on the Reform Bill, 291; debate on conduct of the Tory party, 303; Russo-Dutch Loan, 315; Government beaten on Portuguese question, 376; powerlessness of, 377; Local Courts Bill, 382, 384; debate on Local Courts Bill, iii. 7; Government defeated, 7; Irish Church Bill, 8; Bill for the observance of the Sabbath, 83; debate on the Irish Church Bill, 94; Poor Law Bill, 114; debate on Irish Tithe Bill, 117; conduct of the House, 239; debate on Corporation Bill, 286, 290; position of the House, 288, 291; Irish Tithe Bill thrown up, 295; conflict with the House of Commons, 295; state of the House, 307; debate on Corporation Bill, 308, 351; hostility to the House of Commons, 359; conduct of the House, 360, 361
• Louis XVIII., King, memoirs of, ii. 305; favourites of, 305; at Hartwell, 345
• Louis Philippe, King, accession of, ii. 26; conduct of, 27; tranquillises Paris, 99; speech of, 169; averse to French attack on Antwerp, 334; behaviour of, to the Queen of Portugal, iii. 33; power of, in the Chamber, 142; courage of, 286; conduct towards Spain, 321, 360, 364; at the Tuileries, 382; dislike to the Duke de Broglie, 386
• Louise, H.R.H. Princess, daughter of King Louis Philippe, ii. 168
• Louis, Baron, reported resignation of, ii. 45
• Luckner, General, ii. 219
• Lushington, Dr., speech of, in the appeal of Swift v. Kelly, ii. 383
• Lushington, Sir Henry, and ‘Monk’ Lewis, iii. 2
• Luttrell, Henry, character of, i. 10; ‘Advice to Julia,’ 33
• Lyndhurst, Lord, Lord High Chancellor, i. 95, 124; quarrel with the Duke of Cumberland, 223; dissatisfaction at Lord Brougham’s being raised to the Woolsack, ii. 68; reported appointment to be Lord Chief Baron, 89; opinion of the Government, 93; Lord Chief Baron, 106; political position of, 107; anecdote of a trial, 107; retort to the Duke of Richmond, 139; on the Government, 143; on Sir Robert Peel, 144; on Lord Brougham, 144; sent for by the King, 294; efforts to form a Tory Government, 326; judgment in Small v. Attwood, 330; account of the efforts of the Tory party to form a Government, 340; forgets the message of the King to Lord Grey, iii. 49; account of transactions between the King and Lord Melbourne, 150; policy of, 151; on Lord Brougham, 153; Lord High Chancellor, 156; on the Administration of Sir Robert Peel, 189; conduct on the Corporation Bill, 288, 292; on the prospects of the session, 332; on the business of the House of Lords, 333; speech in vindication of conduct, 362; in Paris, 378; insult offered to, in House of Commons, 389; capacity of, 390; violent speech of, 401
• Lyndhurst, Lady, insulted by the Duke of Cumberland, i. 222; conversation with, ii. 93
• Lynn Regis, election, iii. 170, 171, 175, 181
• Lyons, riots at, ii. 219