• Sadler, Mr., maiden speech of, in opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill, i. 191
  • Saint-Aulaire, M. de, French Ambassador at Vienna, ii. 187; anecdote of, 187
  • Saint-Aulaire, Madame de, iii. 187
  • Saint-Germain, Count de, account of, ii. 186; the ‘Wandering Jew,’ 186
  • Salerno, i. 344
  • Salisbury, Marquis of, petition to the King, ii. 231
  • Saltash, borough of, division on, ii. 170
  • San Carlos, Duke and Duchess of, i. 8
  • Sandon, Viscount, moves the Address in the House of Commons, iii. 202; on Sir Robert Peel, 340
  • Sandys, Lord, iii. 359
  • Sartorius, Admiral, petition, iii. 366
  • Scarlett, Sir James, Attorney-General, i. 210
  • Scott, Sir Walter, death of, ii. 307
  • Seaford, Lord, i. 83
  • Sebastiani, Count, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, iii. 180
  • Sefton, Earl of, dinner to Lord Grey and Lord Brougham, ii. 69; on Lord Brougham, 148; created a Peer of the United Kingdom, 150; qualities of, 183
  • Segrave, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, iii. 322
  • Senior, Nassau, at Holland House, iii. 138
  • Session of 1833, review of the, iii. 28
  • Sestri, i. 297
  • Seton, Sir Henry, arrival of, from Belgium, ii. 178
  • Seymour, Lord, withdraws his support from the Government, ii. 124
  • Seymour, George, Master of the Robes, ii. 50
  • Seymour, Horace, retires from the Lord Chamberlain’s Department, ii. 133
  • Seymour, Jane, coffin of, found at Windsor, ii. 168
  • Shadwell, Right Hon. Sir Lancelot, on legal business, iii. 76
  • Shee, Sir Martin, elected President of the Royal Academy, i. 269
  • Sheil, Right Hon. Richard, dispute with Lord Althorp, iii. 55; arrest of, by the Serjeant-at-Arms, 56; committee, 57, 58; insult to Lord Lyndhurst, 389
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, iii. 336
  • Siege of Saragossa, the, iii. 40
  • Siena, i. 303
  • Simplon, the, i. 415
  • Slavery, abolition of, ii. 347; for debates on, see Commons, House of
  • Smith, Baron, ii. 105; O’Connell’s attack upon, iii. 59, 61, 63
  • Smith, Sydney, and the siege of Saragossa, iii. 39; and Professor Leslie, 44; sermon of, in St. Paul’s Cathedral, 166; on Sir James Mackintosh, 317; dispute of, with the Bishop of London, 395; letter to Archdeacon Singleton, 395
  • Smithson, Sir Hugh, ii. 337, 338
  • Somaglia, Cardinal, i. 312
  • Somerville, Mrs., iii. 58
  • Sorrento, i. 352; Benediction of the Flowers, 352
  • Soult, Marshal, sent to Lyons, ii. 219; Prime Minister of France, 324
  • Southey, Robert, at breakfast given by Mr. Henry Taylor, ii. 59; letter to Lord Brougham on rewards to literary men, 111
  • Spain, the Duke of Wellington on affairs in, iii. 47; state of, 55; affairs in, 66, 72; proposal to combine with Dom Pedro, 72; affairs in, 183; deplorable state of, 359
  • Spanish Legion, formation of the, iii. 265
  • Speaker, the, indecision of, ii. 299; disputes on the Speakership, 333; iii. 204
  • Spencer, Earl, death of, iii. 140
  • Spencer, Earl, see Althorp, Viscount
  • Sprotborough, party at, for the races, ii. 50
  • Staël, Madame de, ‘Considérations sur la Révolution française,’ i. 16; anecdote of, ii. 186
  • Stafford House, concert at, iii. 278
  • Stanley, Right Hon. Edward, Irish Secretary, ii. 66; speech on the Reform Bill, 123; seat in the Cabinet, 150; speech in answer to Croker, 228; Secretary for the Colonial Department, 365; at The Oaks, 374; indecision of, iii. 17; racing interests of, 35; resignation of, 88; in opposition, 93; ‘Thimblerig’ speech, 100; conciliatory letter to Lord Grey, 107; disposition of, 165, 167; declines to join Sir R. Peel, 175, 176; speech at Glasgow, 180; formation of the Stanley party, 220; position of Mr. Stanley, 222; policy of, 228; meeting of party at the ‘King’s Head,’ 237; speech on Irish Church question, 240; character of, 250; letter to Sir Thomas Hesketh, 265; joins the Opposition, 272; conduct of, 336
  • Stanley, Right Hon. Edward John, Under-Secretary of State, iii. 112
  • State Paper Office, i. 160; iii. 44
  • Stephen, James, opinions on emancipation, ii. 359
  • Stephenson, George, on steam-engines, iii. 54
  • Stewart, Lady Dudley, party given by, ii. 115; accompanies the Prince of Orange to Gravesend, 133
  • Stoke, party at, i. 142; ii. 185
  • Strangford, Viscount, sent to the Brazils, i. 140
  • Strasburg prisoners, acquittal of, iii. 381
  • Strawberry Hill, party at, i. 247
  • Strutt, Edward, ii. 59
  • Stuart de Rothesay, Lord, Ambassador in France, i. 141
  • Sugden, Right Hon. Sir Edward, quarrel of, with Lord Brougham, ii. 312; origin of animosity towards Lord Brougham, iii. 22; Irish Chancellor, 178; resignation of, 231; retains his appointment, 234
  • Sugden, Lady, not received at Court, iii. 231
  • Sunderland, state of, ii. 216
  • Sussex, H.R.H. the Duke of, marriage of, ii. 194
  • Sutherland, Duke of, death of the, iii. 19; wealth, of the, 19
  • Suttee case, before the Privy Council, ii. 307
  • Swift v. Kelly, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, iii. 259, 266, 267, 271; judgment, 274
  • Tallyrand, Charles Maurice de, letter to the Emperor of Russia, i. 23; Ambassador to the Court of St. James, ii. 44; conversation of, 185; anecdotes, 185; mot of, 195; dinner with, 222; on Fox and Pitt, 344; detained in the Thames, 346; on Portuguese affairs, iii. 25; on relations between France and England, 314; opinion of, of Lord Palmerston, 360; dissatisfaction at his position in London, 386
  • Tasso, i. 328; bust of, 328
  • Tavistock, Marquis of, on the prospects of the Liberal party, iii. 43
  • Taylor, Sir Herbert, conversation with Lord Wharncliffe, ii. 251; correspondence with, about the Chancellorship, 339
  • Taylor, Henry, breakfast at the house of, ii. 58; breakfast to Wordsworth, Mill, Elliot, Charles Villiers, 120; on the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, 348; ‘Philip van Artevelde,’ iii. 114
  • Taylor, Brook, mission to Rome, ii. 153
  • Teddesley, party at, i. 11
  • Tenterden, Lord, death of, ii. 329; character of, 331; classical knowledge of, 331
  • Terceira, Portuguese expedition to, i. 169, 170
  • Terni, Falls of, i. 401
  • Thiers, Adolphe, dinner to, iii. 31; account of, 31; at the head of the French Government, 66; on interference in Spain, 66; foreign policy of, 364; social qualities of, 370; quarrel with Lady Granville, 380; courts the favour of Austria, 387
  • Thompson, Alderman, difficulties with his constituents, ii. 166
  • Thomson, Right Hon. Charles Poulett, originates a commercial treaty with France, ii. 219; Board of Trade, iii. 113, 256; self-complacency of, 330
  • Thorwaldsen, Albert, at Florence, i. 299, 300
  • Tierney, Right Hon. George, i. 14; Master of the Mint, 95; death of, 269
  • ‘Times,’ the, on Lord Harrowby’s letter, ii. 264, 265; attacks Lord Grey, 267; Lord Chancellor’s speech, 313; influence of the, 362; and Lord Brougham, iii. 133; disposition of, to support a Tory Government, 149, 152; terms of support to the Duke of Wellington, 155; power of the, 156, 157; negotiations with Lord Lyndhurst, 171; letter signed ‘Onslow,’ 199
  • Titchfield, Marquis of, death of, i. 75; character of, 75
  • Tivoli, i. 375
  • Tixall, party at, i. 10; Macao, 11
  • Torrington, Viscount, and the King, iii. 285
  • Tory party, state of the, ii. 162; meeting at Bridgewater House, iii. 237; state of the, 306; indifference of members of the, 389
  • Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, iii. 45; between Russia and Turkey, 1834, 69; the Quadruple, for the pacification of the Peninsula, signed 1834, 94
  • Tree, Ellen, at the City Theatre, ii. 181
  • Tuileries, the, reception at, iii. 382; ball at, 383; small ball at, 385
  • Turf, the, reflections on, iii. 139
  • Turin, i. 291
  • Turkey, threatened by Russia, i. 228; critical state of, ii. 351; relations with Russia, iii. 183
  • Tusculum, i. 390
  • Twiss, Horace, supper party given by, iii. 260
  • Union, speech of O’Connell on the repeal of the, iii. 80
  • Unions, proclamation against the, ii. 215; procession of trades, iii. 79
  • Urquhart, Mr., Secretary to the Embassy at Constantinople, iii. 405
  • Van de Weyer, Sylvain, Belgian Minister to the Court of St. James, ii. 180
  • Vaudreuil, M. de, French chargé d’affaires in London, on French affairs, ii. 24
  • Vaughan, Right Hon. Sir Charles, special mission to Constantinople, iii. 405
  • Vaughan, Right Hon. Sir John, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 155
  • Venice, i. 405; sights of, 406, 408, 410
  • Vernet, Horace, at Rome, i. 325
  • Verona, Congress of, i. 65; visit to, 413
  • Verulam, Earl of, petition to the King, ii. 231
  • Vesuvius, ascent of, i. 350
  • Vicenza, i. 412
  • Victoria, H.R.H. the Princess, at a child’s ball, i. 209; first appearance of, at a drawing-room, ii. 119; at Burghley iii. 315; health of, proposed by the King, 364; at Windsor, 367; letter from the King, 400; seclusion of, 403; first Council of, 406; proclaimed Queen, 408; impression produced on all, 409
  • Villiers, Hon. Hyde, appointed to the Board of Control, ii. 145
  • Villiers, Hon. George, at the Grove, ii. 105; conversation with the Duke of Wellington, 105; mission to Paris for a commercial treaty, 219; Minister at Madrid, iii. 14, 20, 21; on prospects in Spain, 69, 79; letters of, from Madrid, 321, 360, 365
  • Villiers, Hon. Charles Pelham, ii. 59
  • Virginia Water, ii. 25; visit to, 30
  • Walewski, Count Alexander, arrival of, in London, ii. 104
  • Walpole, Horace, letters to Sir Horace Mann, iii. 2
  • ‘Wandering Jew, The,’ ii. 186
  • Warsaw, affair at, ii. 95; taken by the Russians, 192
  • Warwickshire Election, iii. 353, 354
  • Wellesley, Marquis of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, iii. 31; correspondence with Mr. Littleton, 103, 110; resigns the White Wand, 258
  • Wellesley, Long, Esq., committed for contempt of court, ii. 166
  • Wellington, Duke of, account of the battle of Waterloo, i. 39; in Paris with Blücher, 41; dispute with the King, 51; on affairs of France and Spain, 67; opinion of Bonaparte, 71; mission to Russia, 78; visit to the Royal Lodge, 102; opinion of Mr. Canning, 107; forms a Government, 1828, 124; resolves to carry the Catholic Relief Bill, 143; correspondence with Dr. Curtis, 148; ascendency of, in the Cabinet, and over the King, 176; hardness of character of, 191; duel with Lord Winchelsea, 192; conversation with, on King George IV. and the Duke of Cumberland, 216, 218; prosecution of the press, 233, 258, 260; business habits of, 262; conversation with on the French Revolution, ii. 21; qualities of, 41; confidence in, 45; declaration against Reform, 53; Administration of, defeated, 61; resignation of, 62; suppresses disturbance in Hampshire, 75; political character of, 81; reported letter of advice to the King of France, 94; correspondence with Mr. Canning, 103; conduct towards the Government, 159; objections to Mr. Canning, 170; dinner at Apsley House, 188; anti-Reform dinner at Apsley House, 197; remarks upon, 204; memorial to the King, 211; correspondence with Lord Wharncliffe, 221; obstinacy of, 234; letter to Lord Wharncliffe, 248; unbecoming letter laid before the King, 252; reply to Lord Wharncliffe, 253; speech on Irish Education, 272; sent for by the King, 294; efforts of, to form an Administration, 299; inability of, to form an Administration, 300; statement of his case, 302; conduct of the Tory party, 302; ill-feeling towards Peel, 325; view of affairs, 1833, 363; government of French provinces, 363; respect evinced towards, 372; defence of policy, 379; Speech on the Coronation Oath, iii. 9, 10; policy on the Irish Church Bill, 10; on Portuguese affairs, 11, 26; and the Bonaparte family, 26; subsequent account of attempt to form a Government, 48; compared with Lord Grey, 73; speech on the admission of Dissenters to the University, 73; presents the Oxford petition, 79; and the Whigs, 82; installed as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 95; First Lord of the Treasury, and Secretary of State for the Home Office, 149; arrangement for a provisional Government, 149; at the public offices, 1834, 154; account of crisis of 1834, 162; inconsistencies of, 172; on the division on the Speakership, 216; on Lord Londonderry’s appointment, 227; anecdote of Lord Brougham, 232; on Spain, 270; on the Walcheren expedition, 271; policy of, on the Corporation Bill, 283; letter to the Duke of Cumberland, 320; speech in answer to Lord Lyndhurst, 362; meeting of Tory Peers, 397; crowned by the Duchess of Cannizzaro, 406; quarrel with the Duke of Clarence, 406
  • Western, Lord, evidence of, iii. 112
  • West India Body, consternation of the, ii. 350; deputation of the, 350
  • West India Bill, prospects of the, iii. 13. For debates on the, see Commons, House of
  • West Indies, Lord Chandos’s motion on the state of the, ii. 116; project of emancipation, 347; alarm in the, 352; difficulties attending emancipation, 360; committee on affairs of the, iii. 266; decision on the office of Secretary of the Island of Jamaica, 279
  • Westmeath, Marchioness of, pension, i. 157, 160
  • Westmeath v. Westmeath, appeal before the Judicial Committee, iii. 119, 124; decision in, 140
  • Westminster election, 1818, contest, i. 3; in 1819, 17, 19; in 1833, ii. 370; in 1837, iii. 398
  • Wetherell, Sir Charles, account of, i. 194; speech on the Reform Bill, ii. 123; supports Sir E. Sugden’s motion, 314
  • Wharncliffe, Lord, interview with Radical Jones, ii. 200; overtures for a compromise on the Reform Bill, 211; character of, 213; draws up a declaration for signature in the City, 214; disappointment of, 218; final interview of, with Lord Grey, 220; correspondence of, with the Duke of Wellington, 221; interview of, with the King on the proposed new Peers, 231, 233; memorandum laid before the King, 252; as chief of a party, 289; in communication with Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Ellenborough, 290; defends his policy, 292; paper on the Tory party, 343; on the prospects of the country, iii. 54; joins the Peel Government, 175; on the prospects of the session, 341
  • Whately, Richard, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, iii. 280
  • Whig party, state of the, iii. 159; tactics of the, 216; union with O’Connell, 219; symptoms of disunion in the, 221; meeting at Lichfield House, 224; prospects of the, 235
  • Wicklow, Earl of, attack on the Government, iii. 110
  • Wilberforce, William, speech of, i. 16; negotiation with Mr. Canning, ii. 125
  • William IV., King, accession of, ii. 1; dislike of, to the Duke of Cumberland, 5; behaviour of, 6, 9; at the House of Lords, 11; personal anecdotes of, 11, 12, 13, 14; dinner at Apsley House, 14; at Windsor, 25; pays the racing debts of the Duke of York, 50; speech on the change of Government, 72; levee, 74; health of, 106, 108; mobbed on returning from the theatre, 117; in mourning for his son-in-law, 133; in the House of Lords, 136; dissolves Parliament, 136; conduct to his Ministers, 138; at Ascot, 147; opens Parliament, 153; at Windsor, 179; and the Bishops, 185; divides the old Great Seal, 188; crowned at Westminster, 190; levee, 192; toasts at dinner at St. James’s, 193; interview with Lord Wharncliffe on creation of new Peers, 233; health of, 282; reluctance of, to make Peers, 283; adverse sentiments towards the Whigs, 298; dinner to the Jockey Club, 301; levity of, 302; letter to the Peers, 303; character of, 307; struck by a stone, 307; country dance, 341; anecdotes of, 342; state of mind of, 364; letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 382, 383; letter-writing, iii. 2; animosity to the French, 33; irritability of, 81; conduct of, 84; personal feelings towards the members of Lord Melbourne’s Administration, 137; dismissal of Lord Melbourne, 144; speech to the Tory Lords, 148; provisional appointments, 148; account of difference with Lord Melbourne, 150; resolution of, to support the Tory Government, 161; address to the new Ministers, 175; on the state of Persia, 184; whims of, 203; Island of St. Bartholomew, 203; indignation of, at the affair of Lord Londonderry, 231; distress of, 245; and the Ministers, 251; personal habits of, 264; speech to Sir Charles Grey, 272; audience to Lord Durham, 272; hostility towards Lord Glenelg and the Ministers, 276; conduct to the Speaker, 279; scene with Lord Torrington, 285; speech to the Bishops, 303; speech on the Militia, 311; and the Duchess of Kent, 313; speech at dinner to the Jockey Club, 351; Toryism of, 358; joke, 361; speech to the Bishop of Ely, 363; proposes the health of the Princess Victoria, 364; aversion to his Ministers, 364, 366; speech to Lord Minto, 364, 366; rudeness to the Duchess of Kent, 366; scene at birthday party, 367; reception of King Leopold, 370; speech, 1837, 385; address to Lord Aylmer, 394; illness of, 399, 400; letter to the Princess Victoria, 399; dangerous illness of, 401; prayers offered up for, 403; death of, 406; kindness of heart of, 410
  • Williams, Sir John, Justice of the Common Pleas, iii. 71
  • Winchelsea, Earl of, duel of, with the Duke of Wellington, i. 192; incident of the handkerchief, 198
  • Winchester Cathedral, iii. 283
  • Windham, Right Hon. William, diary of, i. 231; conversation with Doctor Johnson, 232
  • Windsor Castle, dinner in St. George’s Hall, ii. 34, 42; dinner during the Ascot week, 147
  • Windsor election, mobs at the, iii. 130
  • Woburn, party at, i. 23; riot at, ii. 77
  • Wood, Charles, on the Reform Bill, ii. 280
  • Wood, Matthew, returned to Parliament for the City of London, iii. 188
  • Worcester, Marchioness of, death of the, i. 47
  • Worcester Cathedral, iii. 327; monument of Bishop Hough, 327
  • Wordsworth, William, characteristics of, ii. 120
  • Wortley, Right Hon. John, Secretary to the Board of Control, i. 271. See Wharncliffe
  • Wrottesley, Sir John, motion of, for a call of the House, iii. 8, 13
  • Wynford, Lord, raised to the Peerage, i. 210; Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, 210
  • Wynn, Right Hon. Charles, President of the Board of Control, i. 95; resignation of, ii. 124
  • York, H.R.H. the Duke of, character of, i. 5; management of racing establishment, 44; dislike to the Duke of Wellington, 48, 62; duel with the Duke of Richmond, 62; anecdotes of King George IV., 73; illness of, 83, 85; death of, 84; funeral of, 89; letter to Lord Liverpool on the Catholic question, ii. 104
  • York, H.R.H. the Duchess of, character of, i. 5; portrait of, 8; illness of, 27; death of, 34
  • Young, Thomas, private secretary to Lord Melbourne, iii. 126
  • Zea Bermudez, iii. 21; dismissal of, 55
  • Zumalacarreguy, ii. 270