Chapter X (5)

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

Talleyrand, 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, 379; 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, 251; and the Ministers, 245;
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, iii. 270

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