Chapter XIII

A Proclamation against Rioters--Appointments--Duke of Wellington
in Hampshire--General Excitement--The Tory Party--State of
Ireland--More Disturbances--Lord Grey's Colleagues--Election at
Liverpool--The Black Book--The Duke of Wellington's Position
and Character--A Council on a Capital Sentence--Brougham in the
House of Lords--The Clerks of the Council--Lord Grey and Lord
Lyndhurst--The Chancellor of Ireland--Lord Melbourne--Duke of
Richmond--Sir James Graham--Lyndhurst Lord Chief Baron--Judge
Allan Park--Lord Lyndhurst and the Whigs--Duke of Wellington
and Polignac--The King and his Sons--Polish Revolution--
Mechanics' Institute--Repeal of the Union--King Louis
Philippe--Lord Anglesey and O'Connell--A Dinner at the
Athenaeum--Canning and George IV.--Formation of Canning's
Government--Negotiation with Lord Melbourne--Count Walewski--
Croker's Boswell--State of Ireland--Brougham and Sugden--Arrest
of O'Connell--Colonel Napier and the Trades Unions--The Civil
List--Hunt in the House of Commons--Southey's Letter to
Brougham on Literary Honours--The Budget--O'Connell pleads
guilty--Achille Murat--Weakness of the Government--Lady Jersey
and Lord Durham--Lord Duncannon--Ireland--Wordsworth.
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