Chapter X (4)

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.R.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.R.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 Cazes, 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, Mrs., 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

Guizot, 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,
135; anecdotes, 335; on Mr. Fox, 335; 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, 41; 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, 352;
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. 154; 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, 190; 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

Macao, verses on, i. 11, 12

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, speeches on the Reform Bill, ii. 123,
199; eloquence of, 204; at Holland House, 245; appearance of,
246; character of, 317; on the Coercion Bill, 363; conversation
of, iii. 35; memory of, 337; eloquence of, compared to Lord
Brougham, 338; inscription on monument erected in honour of
Lord William Bentinck, 339

Macaulay, Zachary, iii. 337

Mackintosh, Right Hon. Sir James, speech of, on the criminal
laws, i. 19; conversation of, 241; death of, ii. 307; 'History
of England,' iii. 139; remarks on life of, 293, 314; compared
with Burke, 314; life of, 316; abilities of, 316; religious
belief of, 324

Maggiore, Lago, i. 414

Maidstone, state of the borough, iii. 184

Maii, Monsignore, i. 367, 375

Malibran, Maria Felicita, in the 'Sonnambula,' iii. 12

Mallet, conspiracy of, ii. 186

Malt Tax, the, Government defeated on, ii. 368

Manners Sutton, Sir Charles, G.C.B., proposed as Premier, ii.
326; conduct of, 341; reappointed Speaker, 343; Knight of the
Bath, iii. 30; the Speakership, 204, _see_ Canterbury, Lord

Mansfield, Lord, speech against the Government, ii. 136; audience
of the King, 138; meeting of Peers, 152

Mansion House, the, dinner at, iii. 178

Marengo, battle-field of, i. 292

Maria, Donna, Queen of Portugal, at a child's ball, i. 209;
proposals of marriage for, iii. 33; at Windsor, 33; picture of,
195

Marie Amélie, Queen, iii. 383

Marmont, Marshal, at Lady Glengall's, ii. 34; conversation with,
34; revolution of 1830, 37; at Woolwich, 38; dinner at Lord
Dudley's, 38

Matteis, trial of, i. 336, 341

Matuscewitz, Russian Ambassador Extraordinary, i. 159; on affairs
in Europe, ii. 176; conduct of, 324; conversation with, iii.
314

Maule, Mr. Justice, at dinner at the Athenaeum. ii. 101

Meeting of moderate men, origin of the 'Derby Dilly,' iii. 219

Meiningen, château of, model of the, iii. 122; the Queen revisits
the, 125

Melbourne, Viscount, Home Secretary, ii. 66; efficiency of, in
office, 90; negotiations with, 104; dissatisfaction of, 245; on
the proposed new Peers, 254; on the Reform Bill, 277; on the
members of Lord Grey's Administration, 322; sent for by the
King, iii. 102; forms an Administration, 108; letter to the
Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Stanley, 109;
Administration of, 113; anecdote of, 126; information of, 130;
literary conversation of, 131; on Benthamites, 138; theological
reading of, 138; fall of Government of, 143; dismissal of, 144;
details of fall of Government, 147; account of dismissal, 150,
168; with the King, 163, 168; with his colleagues, 164, 165,
166; dispute with Lord Duncannon, 166; speeches at Derby, 170;
weakness of, 170; second Administration formed, 253;
composition of, 256; theological reading of, 324; appointment
of Dr. Hampden, 342; action against, brought by the Hon. Mr.
Norton, 349; result of the trial, 351; difficulties of the
Government, 355

Melville, Viscount, President of the India Board, i. 124

Mendizabal, ability of, iii. 321; dismissal of, 350

Messiah, the oratorio of the, performed in Westminster Abbey,
iii. 98

Methuen, Paul, M.P., on supporting the Government, iii. 65;
retort of O'Connell to, 65

Metternich, Princess, anecdote of, iii. 187

Mexico, failure of the Spanish expedition against, i. 249

Meynell, Mr., retires from the Lord Chamberlain's department, ii.
133

Mezzofanti, i. 403

Middlesex election, 1835, iii. 197

Middleton, party at, i. 12

Miguel, Dom, ii. 312, 315, 321; attacks Oporto, 324; fleet
captured by Captain Napier, iii. 9; anecdote of, 26; blunders
of, 93

Milan, i. 413

Mill, John Stuart, at breakfast given by Mr. Henry Taylor, ii. 59

Milton, Viscount, at a meeting at Lord Althorp's, ii. 161

Mirabeau, Count de, Talleyrand's account of, ii. 384

Miraflores, Count de, Spanish Ambassador in London, iii. 98;
doubtful compliment to Madame de Lieven, 99

Mola di Gaeta, i. 359; Cicero's villa, 368

Molé, M., Prime Minister of France, iii. 379; abilities of, 380

Montalivet, case of the French refugee, iii. 386

Monti, Vincenzo, anecdote of, ii. 186

Moore, Thomas, i. 239, 245; conversation of, 242; anecdotes, 247;
Irish patriotism of, ii. 98; opinions on Reform, 140; copy of
'Lord Edward Fitzgerald,' 169; satire on Dr. Bowring, 219;
compared with Rogers, iii. 324; quarrel with O'Connell, 346

'Morning Herald,' the, moderate Tory organ, ii. 269

Mornington, Countess of, death of, ii. 194

Morpeth, Viscount, Irish Secretary, iii. 256; speech on Irish
Tithe Bill, 256

Mosley, Sir Oswald, meeting of moderate men, iii. 220

Mulgrave, Earl of, in Jamaica, ii. 352; refuses the office of
Postmaster-General, iii. 90; Lord Privy Seal, 113; capability
of, 255

Municipal Corporation Bill, iii. 263, 284, 290; policy of Tory
Peers on the, 283; prospects of the, 295; effects of the, 309,
313; the Bill carried, 310

Munster, Earl of, employed by the King, ii. 10; raised to the
Peerage, 143; Lieutenant of the Tower, 168; sworn in a Privy
Councillor, 352

Murat, Achille, ii. 115

Murray, Dr., Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, i. 146

Murray, Sir George, Secretary of State for the Colonial
Department, ii. 11

Murray, Lady Augusta, marriage of, ii. 194

Musard's ball, iii. 384

Namik Pacha, Turkish Ambassador, ii. 339

Napier, Sir William, on the state of the country, ii. 108;
'History of the Peninsular War,' iii. 271

Napier, Captain Charles, captures Dom Miguel's fleet, iii. 9;
cause of capture of a French squadron, 11; anecdote of, 34

Naples, i. 333; sight-seeing at, 334; Court of Justice, 334;
manuscripts, 334; ceremony of taking the veil, 338; sights of,
345, 356; miracle of the blood of San Gennaro, 353, 355, 364;
excursions to Astroni, 356; lines on leaving, 361

Navarino, battle of, i. 114, 163

Nemours, H.R.H. Duc de, accompanies King Louis Philippe, ii. 99;
nomination to the throne of Belgium declined, 111; in the House
of Commons, iii. 306; at Doncaster, 315

Newmarket, political negotiations at, ii. 290

Nicholas, Emperor, accession of, i. 373; reception of strangers,
iii. 24; on the change of Government in England, 211; speech at
Warsaw, 319; dislike to King Louis Philippe, 387; qualities of,
371

'Norma,' the opera of, iii. 2

North, Lord, Letters of George III. to, iii. 129; anecdote of,
132

Northamptonshire election, iii. 326

Northumberland, Duke of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, i. 157

Northumberland, Duchess of, resigns her office of governess to
the Princess Victoria, iii. 400

Norton, Hon. Mr., action brought against Lord Melbourne, iii.
349; result of the trial, 351

Oaks, The, ii. 374; party at, 374

Oatlands, the residence of the Duke of York, i. 4; weekly parties
at, 5, 7

O'Connell, Daniel, character of, i. 145; at dinner, 203; attempts
to take his seat, 207; elected for Clare, 1829, 223; insult to,
ii. 76; in Ireland, 96; opposition to Lord Anglesey, 98;
abilities of, 100; violence of, 106; arrest of, 107; trial of,
109; position of, 111; pleads guilty, 114; opposition to Lord
Duncannon in Kilkenny, 115; explanation of, 123; dread of
cholera, 309; member for Ireland, 351; violent speech at the
Trades' Union, 362, 363; attack on Baron Smith, iii. 59; retort
to Mr. Methuen, 65; and the Coercion Bill, 103, 110; in
correspondence with Mr. Littleton, 110; union with the Whig
party, 219; power of, 255; affair with Lord Alvanley, 256; in
Scotland, 316; proposed expulsion from Brooks's club, 320;
quarrel with Moore, 346; Carlow election, 348

O'Connell, Morgan, duel with Lord Alvanley, iii. 256

Old Bailey, trials at, i. 204; ii. 85

Opera House, the English, burnt, i. 277

Orange, Prince of, dinner to the, ii. 57; returns to Holland, 133

Orange, Princess of, robbery of jewels of, i. 267

Orange Lodge, association of, iii. 343

Orangemen, meeting of, iii. 123

Orleans, H.R.H. Duke of, arrival of, i. 208; sent to Lyons, ii.
219; in England, 373; project of marriage at Vienna, iii. 372;
question of marriage of, 387

Orloff, Count, arrival of, ii. 278; delay in ratification of the
Belgian Treaty, 285

Osterley, party at, ii. 187

Padua, i. 411

Paestum, i. 344

Palmella, Duke of, arrival of in London, ii. 315

Palmerston, Viscount, speech on the Portuguese question, i. 211;
Foreign Secretary, ii. 66; suggests a compromise on the Reform
Bill, 211; on proposed new Peers, 254; on prospects of the
Reform Bill, 256; business habits of, iii. 20, 21; unpopularity
of, 56; speech on the Turkish question, 71; Foreign Secretary
in Lord Melbourne's Administration, 113; unpopularity with the
_corps diplomatique_, 136; loses his election in Hampshire,
197; as a man of business, 210; Foreign Secretary, 256;
abilities of, 360

Panic, the, 1825, i. 77; on the Stock Exchange, 1830, ii. 43

Panshanger, parties at, ii. 46, 47, 229

Paris, society at, in 1830, i. 283; in July, 416, 417; Marshal
Marmont's account of events at, in 1830, ii. 36; alarm felt in,
99; change of Ministry, 133; in 1837, iii. 377; society at,
378, 385; sight-seeing, 381, 383

Park, Judge, anecdotes of, ii. 92; iii. 372

Parke, Right Hon. Sir James, sworn in a Privy Councillor, iii.
21; Baron of the Exchequer, 71; in the appeal of Swift _v._
Kelly, 268

Parliament, meeting of, 1830, ii. 53; meeting of, 1831, ii. 110;
dissolution of 1831, 137; opening of, 153; in 1831, 223;
dissolution of, 1832, 334; opening of, 1833, 351; prorogation
of, 1833, iii. 27; opening of, 1834, 55; dissolution of, 183;
temporary buildings for Houses of, 205; opening of, 219; in
1836, 334; prorogation of, 1836, 361

Parnell, Sir Henry, turned out of office, ii. 243

Parsons, anecdotes of, ii. 108

Paskiewitch, Marshal, in quarantine, ii. 162

Pattison, James, returned to Parliament for the City of London,
iii. 188

Pavilion, The, dinner at, i. 49; completion of, 54

Pease, Mr., and O'Dwyer, iii. 59

Pedro, Dom, expedition of, ii. 312, 315; proposal to combine with
Spain, iii. 72; in possession of Portugal, 93

Peel, Right Hon. Sir Robert, Home Secretary, i. 124; speeches on
Catholic Relief Bill, 167, 183; Oxford University election,
1829, 177; defeated, 178; political prospects of, ii. 95, 96;
power in the House of Commons, 116; speech on the Reform Bill,
123; inactivity of, on the Reform Bill, 130, 134; complaints of
policy of, 141; conduct of, 160; reserve of, 161, 174;
excellence in debate, 200; answer to Lord Harrowby, 248, 249;
policy of, 264; speech on Irish Tithes, 269; invited to form a
Government, 294; refuses to take office, 296; defence of
conduct, 304; conduct during the Tory efforts to form a
Government, 327, 328; conduct compared with that of the Duke of
Wellington, 328; character of, 354; on political unions, iii.
12; in society, 35; position of, in the House of Commons, 64;
collection of pictures, 70; great dinner given by, 72; speech
on admission of Dissenters to the University, 75; policy of the
Administration of, 161; friendship with the Duke of Wellington
renewed, 167; arrival of, from the Continent, 174; formation of
Administration, 177; manifesto to the country, 178; prospects
of the Ministry, 179; qualities of, 189; Toryism of
Administration of, 194; false position of, 208; prospects of
Government, 214, 235, 236; talents of, 224; conduct to his
adherents, 230, 244; courage of, 283; impending resignation of,
242; Government defeated, 246; resignation of Administration
of, 1835, 246, 248; speech on Corporation Reform, 263; on Irish
Church Bill, 281; relations with Lord John Russell, 282;
seclusion of, 297; speech on Corporation Reform, 304;
consideration for Lord Stanley, 335; conduct with regard to the
Corporation Bill, 340; position of, 358; on the beginning of
the new reign, 402

Peel, Sir Robert, sen., account of, ii. 125

Peel, Right Hon. Jonathan, iii. 243

Pemberton, Thomas, ii. 314; in the appeal of Swift _v._ Kelly,
iii. 267, 271

Pembroke, Earl of, i. 250

Pension List, _see_ Commons, House of

Pepys, Right Hon. Sir Christopher, Master of the Rolls, iii. 328.
_See_ Cottenham, Lord

Perceval, Spencer, discourse of, iii, 41; the Unknown Tongue, 41;
on the condition of the Church, 123; apostolic mission to the
members of the Government, 331; at Holland House, 331;
apostolic mission of, 333

Périer, Casimir, momentary resignation of, ii. 175; attacked by
cholera, 288; death of, 307

Persian Ambassador, the, quarrel of, with the Regent, i. 21

Perth election, 1835, iii. 197

Petworth House and pictures, ii. 336; fête at, iii. 84

Peyronnet, Comte de, i. 393

Phillpotts, _see_ Exeter, Bishop of

Pisa, i. 297

Pitt, Right Hon. William, described by Talleyrand, ii. 345;
anecdotes of, iii. 131

Plunket, Lord, Lord Chancellor in Ireland, ii. 90; anecdote of,
107; at Stoke, iii. 21; Deanery of Down, 70

Poland, contest in, ii. 157

Polignac, Prince Jules de, head of the Administration in France;
i. 160, 229, 283; Administration of, 394; behaviour of, ii. 29;
letter to M. de Molé, 33; exasperation against, 38, 39

Pompeii, i. 338; excavations at, 343

Ponsonby, Viscount, Minister at Naples, ii. 155; letters of, 172;
conduct of, as Ambassador at Constantinople, iii. 405

Pope, the, audience of Pius VIII., i. 382; Irish appointments of
the, iii. 269. _See_ Rome

Portfolio, the, iii. 327

Portland, Duke of, Lord Privy Seal, i. 95

Portugal, ships seized by the French, ii. 182, 184; affairs in,
iii. 25, 79; bankrupt state of, 93

Powell, Mr., ii. 52

Pozzo di Borgo, Count, ii. 347; views of, on the state of Europe,
iii. 182; Russian Ambassador in London, 201, 203

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, first speech of, ii. 115; First
Secretary to the Board of Control, iii. 194

Pratolino, i. 402

Prayer, form of, on account of the disturbed state of the
kingdom, ii. 99

Proclamation against rioters, ii. 73

Quakers, the, address to King William IV, ii. 17

'Quarterly Review, The,' attacks Lord Harrowby, ii. 269, 270;
pamphlet in answer to article, 270

Quintus Curtius, iii. 130

Racing, remarks on, ii. 373; anecdote, 374

Redesdale, Lord, letter of, ii. 269

Reform, plan of, ii. 105; remarks on, 207; negotiations
concerning, 215, 217, 218

Reform Bill, the, laid before the King, ii. 109; excitement
concerning, 124; carried by one vote, 132; alterations in, 134;
Government defeated, 135; remarks on, 180; attitude of the
press, 193; prospects of, 199; negotiations for a compromise,
211; altered tone of the press, 225; meeting of Peers in
Downing Street, 225; measures for carrying the second reading
in the House of Lords, 235, 237, 239, 241; continued efforts to
compromise, 268; finally passed in the House of Commons, 270;
continued discussions on, 274; difficulty with Schedule A, 280;
carried in the House of Lords, 287; in committee, 292; passes
through committee, 304; results of, iii. 27, 191. For debates
on, _see_ Lords, House of, and Commons, House of

Reichstadt, Duke of, and Marshal Marmont, iii. 374

Reis-Effendi, the, i. 159

Renfrewshire election, iii. 388

Rice, Right Hon. Thomas Spring, Colonial Secretary, iii. 88, 113;
difficulties with, 253; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 256;
incapacity of, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 376

Richmond, Duke of, and King George III. at a naval review, iii.
129

Richmond, Duke of, summary of character of, i. 199;
Postmaster-General, ii. 66; refuses the appointment of Master of
the Horse, 67; difficulties with his labourers, 68; at Goodwood,
182; on Reform, 211; character of, iii. 15; resignation of, 88

Riots, in London, 1830, ii. 55; among the farm labourers, 68;
proclamation against, 73; in the country, 77

Ripon, Earl of, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 66; resignation of, iii. 88.
_See_ Goderich, Viscount

Robarts, Mr., dinner given by, iii. 184

Robinson, Right Hon. Frederick John, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
i. 79; _See_ Goderich, Viscount

Rochester election, 1835, iii. 193

Roden, Earl of, declines the office of Lord Steward, iii. 179,
181

Rogers, Samuel, breakfast given by, ii. 150; compared with Moore,
iii. 324

Rolle, Lord, remark to Lord Brougham, iii. 107

Rome, i. 303, 304; St. Peter's, 303, 321; sight-seeing, 306, 311,
322; the Sistine Chapel, 309; the cardinals, 309; a cardinal
lying in state, 312; Pompey's statue, 313; Temple of Bacchus,
313; the Catacombs, 314; the Pope's blessing, 316, 324; Holy
Week observances, 317; the Grand Penitentiary, 317, 319;
washing of pilgrims' feet, 320; supper to pilgrims, 321;
Protestant burial-ground, 322; St. Peter's illuminated, 325;
excavations, 327; sight-seeing, 328, 329, 362; aqueducts, 363;
the Scala Santa, 364; St. Peter's, 366; Library of the Vatican,
367; votive offering of a horse-shoe, 367, 372; Columbaria,
374; saints, 385; the Flagellants, 387; relations with
Protestant countries, 391; the Coliseum, 395; story of a thief,
396; convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 397; sight-seeing, 398

Rosslyn, Earl of, Lord Privy Seal, i. 210; Lord President of the
Council, iii. 177; dinner for selecting the Sheriffs, 201

Roussin, Admiral, at Constantinople ii. 367

Rovigo, the Duke de, at Rome, i. 325

Rundell, Mr., fortune of, will of, i. 90

Runton Abbey, shooting at, iii. 51; murder in the neighbourhood,
51

Russell, Right Hon. Lord John, introduces the Reform Bill, ii.
121; seat in the Cabinet, 150; brings in his Bill, 155; letter
to Attwood, 205, 206; willing to compromise, 223; brings on the
second Reform Bill, 227; Paymaster, of the Forces, iii. 113;
objected to by the King as leader of the House of Commons, 160;
speech at Totness, 171; on the Speakership, 205; on Church
Reform, 206; first speech as leader of the House of Commons,
214; letter of, on the Speakership, 218; as leader of the House
of Commons, 221; marriage of, 252; Home Secretary in Lord
Melbourne's second Administration, 256; introduction of
Corporation Reform, 263; relations with Sir Robert Peel, 282;
course to be pursued on the Corporation Bill, 303, 310; speech
on the Orangemen, 344; moderation of, 352; meeting at the
Foreign Office, 357, 358; intention of the Government to
proceed with their Bills, 397; speech in answer to Roebuck, 401

Russia, state of, 1829, i. 158; intrigues of, ii. 351; diplomatic
relations with, 352; combines with Turkey against Egypt, 366;
fleet sent to Constantinople, 366; establishes her power in the
East, 371; quarrel with, iii. 44; policy towards Turkey, 48;
treaty with Turkey, 69; relations with Turkey, 183

Russo-Dutch Loan, question of the, ii. 240, 241; origin of the,
244; debate on the, in the House of Lords, 315

Rutland, Duke of, anti-Reform petition, ii. 263; birthday party,
iii. 46

Sadler, Mr., maiden speech of, in opposition to the Catholic
Relief Bill, i. 191

Saint-Aulaire, M. de, French Ambassador at Vienna, iii. 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