Chapter XXIV

Taylor's 'Philip Van Artevelde'--Goodwood--Earl Bathurst's
Death--Death of Mrs. Arbuthnot--Overtures to O'Connell--Irish
Tithe Bill--Theodore Hook's Improvisation--Lord Westmeath's
Case in the Privy Council--First Council of Lord Melbourne's
Government and Prorogation--Brougham's Vagaries--Lord Durham's
Exclusion--The Edinburgh Dinner--Windsor and Meiningen--Spencer
Perceval--Lord Grey's Retirement--The Westmeath Case again--The
Queen's Return--Melbourne and Tom Young--Holland House--
Reflections--Conversation on the Poets--Miscellaneous Chat--
Lord Melbourne's Literary Attainments--Lord Holland's Anecdotes
of Great Orators--Execution of Charles I.--Lord Melbourne's
Opinion of Henry VIII.--The 'Times' attacks Lord Brougham--His
Tour in Scotland--His Unpopularity--Cowper's Secret--Canning on
Reform--Lord Melbourne on Palmerston and Brougham--Canning and
Brougham in 1827--Senior--Lord Melbourne and the Benthamites--
His Theology--Spanish Eloquence--The Harley Papers--The Turf--
Death of Lord Spencer--The Westmeath Case heard--Law
Appointments--Bickersteth--Louis Philippe's Position.
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