Chapter XX (3)

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 Amelie, 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, chateau 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

Mole, 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

Perier, 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; fete 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 Mole, 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

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

Stael, Madame de, 'Considerations sur la Revolution francaise,'
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 _charge 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 Bluecher, 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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