Chapter XXXII: Appendix: B (1)

LETTER ON THE ANTI-PAPAL AGITATION.

The following is the letter signed 'Carolus' which Mr. Greville addressed to the 'Times' on the subject of the Protestant Agitation, on December 9, 1850, which is referred to in the text:--

_To the Editor of the 'Times.'_

[Sidenote: THE ANTI-PAPAL AGITATION.]

Sir,--I am one of those who think we have had enough, and more
than enough, of anti-Papal agitation. All the good it can
produce has been achieved, while the evil is still increasing.
The good, which I do not underrate, is a manifestation of the
strong and universal attachment of the people of this country
to the Protestant religion. The evil, the revival of sectarian
animosities, and of that intolerant zeal so alien to the true
spirit of Christianity, and which has ever been the bane and the
torment of every country in which it has prevailed. I refrain from
commenting upon the harangues and addresses which for weeks past
have been resounding through the country and filling your columns,
and I only hope that in all Europe nobody reads these effusions
but ourselves, for they will not exalt our national reputation.
It may be a vain attempt to sprinkle some drops of reason and
remonstrance upon the raging furnace of popular excitement; but,
like everything in this world, abuse and ridicule of the Pope and
railing against the Roman Catholic religion must at last come to
an end. When all this fury has exhausted itself, and people get
tired of reading or of hearing the same stale repetitions, they
will begin to take a more sober and practical view of the case,
and to consider what this mountain in labour is eventually to
produce. We shall assuredly look exceedingly foolish if all the
hubbub should turn out to have been made without some definite,
reasonable, and, moreover, attainable object; and yet we appear
to be in imminent danger of finding ourselves in this perplexing
and mortifying predicament. We cry out that an insult has been
offered by the Pope to the English Crown and nation; that the
ecclesiastical constitution which he has promulgated is illegal
or unconstitutional, and that it shall not be endured. When the
Queen of England is insulted, or her subjects are injured by any
foreign Power, she demands redress, and, failing to obtain it,
she exacts it by her armies and her fleets. Are we to hold the
Pope in his temporal capacity responsible for his merely spiritual
acts, and deal with him by demands and threats, and by armaments
to enforce them? I apprehend that no such extreme measures will
be adopted. How, then, are we to deal with a Power over which
we can have no control, whose authority is purely spiritual,
while the visible signs of its exercise are only to be found in
a voluntary obedience which no laws can reach and no Governments
can prevent? Your statutes will have no more effect at the Vatican
than Papal bulls in Westminster Hall. You cannot restrain the
Pope from elaborating his ecclesiastical policy here, and all the
lawyers in England would fail in devising prohibitory laws as to
spiritual matters which the objects of them could not find means
to evade. Cardinal Wiseman has said with truth that England could
not complain of being taken by surprise. More than two years ago
it was no secret that such measures were in contemplation. They
were discussed not only in the press, but in the House of Commons;
and on one occasion Lord John Russell made a speech, which was so
replete with wisdom and truth, and so exactly applicable to the
present occasion and to all that is passing around us, that it
deserves the most attentive and general consideration. On August
17, 1848, in a debate on the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill,
Sir Robert Inglis, after declaring that he had no objection to
call Dr. Wiseman a bishop, but objected to call him Archbishop of
Westminster, put certain questions with regard to the appointment
of archbishops and bishops in this country without the consent
of its sovereign, to which the Prime Minister replied in the
following terms:--

'I do not know that the Pope has authorised in any way by any
authority that he may have the creation of archbishoprics and
bishoprics with dioceses in England; but certainly I have not
given my consent, nor should I give my consent if I were asked to
do so, to any such formation of dioceses. With regard to spiritual
authority, the honourable gentleman must see, when he alludes to
other States in Europe, that whatever control is to be obtained
over the spiritual authority of the Pope can only be obtained by
agreement for that end. You must either give certain advantages
to the Roman Catholic religion, and obtain from the Pope certain
other advantages in return, among which you must stipulate that
the Pope shall not create any dioceses in England without the
consent of the Queen; or, on the other hand, you must say you will
have nothing to do with arrangements of that kind, that you will
not consent in any way to give any authority to the Roman Catholic
religion in England. _But then you must leave the spiritual
authority of the Pope entirely unfettered. You cannot bind the
Pope's spiritual influence unless you have some agreement...._ But
though you may prevent any spiritual authority being exercised by
the Pope by law, yet there is no provision, no law my honourable
friend could frame that would deprive the Pope of that influence
that is merely exercised over the mind, or that could preclude him
from giving advice to those who choose to attend to such advice.
It is quite obvious that you cannot by any means or authority
prevent the Pope from communicating with the Catholics of this
country. You may try to prevent such communication from being
open, but I think it would be very foolish if you took any means
of great vigour and energy for that purpose. If it is not open,
it will be secret. So long as there are Roman Catholics in this
country, and so long as they acknowledge the Pope as the head of
their Church, you cannot prevent his having spiritual influence
over those who belong to that communion.'

This speech, which is equally sensible and true, and the really
practical view of the subject, gives a complete answer to the
present agitation, and to those who are clamouring for acts of
vigour and for restrictive or prohibitory laws. It is fruitless
now to search into the animus or the objects of the Pope. He was
ill-advised, ignorant of the state of feeling and opinion here;
his pretensions were extravagant, and his hierarchy was proclaimed
in an ostentatious and offensive manner. But, granting all this,
and admitting our indignation to be called for, the question still
recurs, 'What is it we can do?' It is easy to determine what we
cannot do. We cannot compel the Pope to rescind his brief. We
cannot prevent the bishops from exercising their functions within
the precise limits of the jurisdictions severally assigned to
them. We cannot undo territorial circumscriptions which have no
tangible character, and which are nothing but local designations
indicative of a defined sphere of spiritual action. We cannot
abrogate the spiritual allegiance which the whole Roman Catholic
hierarchy bear to the Pope, nor obstruct the free exercise of
the Roman Catholic religion, in which freedom, if it is to be
perfect, its episcopal constitution must be included. The people
of England, to do them justice, in the utmost heat of their
resentment, have evinced no disposition to violate the principle
of religious liberty, and all suggestions of returning to penal
laws against the Roman Catholics have been invariably repudiated.
Well, then, if we cannot do any of these things, what is left for
us to do? We are told that the Pope may, indeed, make bishops,
but that he need not have sent any here, and that he has sent
too many; and, again, that, though he might appoint bishops, he
could not appoint dioceses over which they were to preside. But
the Pope himself can alone judge of the necessary extent of his
episcopal establishment, and if bishops are appointed at all,
it is indispensable, for the mere avoidance of confusion and
disputes, that each prelate should have some local attribution,
and this can be nothing else but his diocese--the proper and only
name for the circuit of his jurisdiction. In fact, wherever there
is a _bishopric_ there must be a diocese. But the Pope has not
only created bishops, but has given them titles; and this seems
to be considered the head and front of his offence, inasmuch as
it is opposed to the spirit, if not to the letter of our laws,
and is an audacious assumption of a power belonging only to the
sovereign of this realm. I am very wise (as people often are)
after the event, and can clearly see that the acts of the Pope,
together with the language of some in authority under him, have
been very imprudent and mischievous. But I doubt whether I should
have been so wise had I been aware of his Holiness' intentions;
for, though I should have deprecated his purpose, I certainly
should not have anticipated an outburst of popular, or rather of
national rage and resentment, which has had no parallel in England
since the time of the Popish plot. Nevertheless, if we consider
the matter calmly, it must be confessed that the Pope had some
grounds for thinking that he might make these appointments without
any danger of deeply offending this country. He had already
created titular Bishops in various colonies with the concurrence
and consent of the Government; and the whole hierarchy of Ireland,
with their open assumption of the titles of their sees, had been
rather more than winked at, the law which forbids that assumption
had been advisedly suffered to be a dead letter. But besides
this, in the speech of Lord John Russell, to which I have already
alluded, there was an intimation that it would not be expedient
to enter into agreements with the Pope for the regulation of
the religious arrangements of the Roman Catholics. And as this
opinion immediately followed his dictum 'that the spiritual
authority of the Pope could only be controlled by agreement,
and without any such agreement that it must be left entirely
unfettered,' I think the Pope might not unreasonably conclude
that the British Government were not inclined to communicate with
him at all on these matters, and that they preferred leaving him
to administer his ecclesiastical affairs in England according to
his own discretion. I have ever been very strongly of opinion
that the true policy of England, with her 8,000,000 or 9,000,000
of Roman Catholics, would be to communicate with the Pope as
other Powers do, and to concert with the Holy See such measures
as the spiritual interests of those Catholics may appear to
require. This is the practice of Prussia, and why should it not
be that of England? I believed at the time of its introduction
that the Diplomatic Relations Bill had this object in view,
for it is obvious that we never can have any important secular
affairs to discuss with the Vatican, and no need, therefore, of
any diplomatic relations for merely political purposes. But that
Bill was a sham; its real character was not avowed; and in order
to make it appear that no recognition of the Pope's _de facto_
authority, even over Roman Catholics, was intended, and that we
were not going to communicate with him in his spiritual capacity,
the matter was so mismanaged that the Bill itself has been totally
inoperative, and the Pope himself was offended instead of being
conciliated by the transaction. The Lords began by a puerile and
pedantic denial of his title as 'the Pope' or the 'Sovereign
Pontiff,' and would only consent to call him 'Sovereign of the
Roman State,' and this was followed up by the foolish clause
prohibiting an ecclesiastic from coming here as ambassador. It
was as notorious as the sun at noonday, that we had long been in
communication with the Pope, upon ecclesiastical affairs, in an
underhand and clandestine manner, which was equally undignified
and unsatisfactory. All statesmen, particularly those who governed
Ireland, were anxious that regular and open relations should be
substituted, and such was the desire of the Roman Catholics and
of the Pope. Between the niceness of some and the timidity or
indifference of others, this project of conciliation and practical
utility fell to the ground, and the nation is now convulsed by
a paroxysm of wrath and indignation at measures which, if they
had been concerted with our Government, and arranged in a spirit
of liberality and good will, might have been carried into effect
without giving umbrage to the most zealous Protestant or any
semblance of invading the prerogative of the Queen. However, all
this is gone by. Instead of conciliation and agreement, we are
employed in vilifying and caricaturing the Pope, burning him and
the Sacred College in effigy, and heaping execrations on the
Roman Catholic religion. The great City of London is going up in
solemn procession to lay at the foot of the Throne its superfluous
protestations of allegiance, its fanciful complaints of injury,
and its vague demands for redress. And how is redress to be
obtained? After so much has been _said_, what is to be _done_?
'Ay, there's the rub!'

[Sidenote: THE ANTI-PAPAL AGITATION.]

We cannot touch the Pope himself and we cannot unfrock his
Bishops. To wage war with the dioceses would be to fight the empty
air; to put any restraint on the Roman Catholic Clergy would be
religious persecution: this all men eschew. Nothing that I know
of remains, nothing at least that is accessible and tangible,
but to make a legislative attack on the episcopal titles, either
by an extension of the existing law or the enactment of a new
one. This would, indeed, be but a lame and impotent conclusion
to an agitation which has shaken the isle from its propriety;
and before we proceed to break such flies upon the wheels of
legislation, it would be advisable to consider what the thing is
we are to attack, and what has already been done in reference to
the very same matter. People talk of the Pope's making a Bishop
of Birmingham as if it was just the same thing as the Queen's
making a Bishop of London; forgetting that while the Queen bestows
rank, peerage, wealth, authority, and innumerable legal privileges
and immunities, the Pope confers nothing but his own delegated
authority to a priest to govern spiritually those individuals
within a specified and geographical limit who may be willing
to submit themselves to his government, and this geographical
limit being marked out for an ecclesiastical purpose only, and
placed under the supervision of a Bishop, is called according to
canonical custom a diocese. But the Pope's Bishop has no revenues,
and in the eye of the law no authority, no privilege, no immunity
whatever; the law recognises in him no power, he has no power,
he has no Court into which he can cite offenders even of his
own persuasion. He may be arrested for debt and tried by juries
like any other citizen. Bishop of Birmingham he is and will be,
in spiritual communion with the Roman Catholics of his diocese;
but if Dr. Ullathorne should attempt to assume that title in
the ordinary intercourse of society, he would expose himself to
merited contempt, and though the Roman Catholics may acknowledge
it, no Protestant will.

The Irish Roman Catholic Bishops all sign their Christian and
surnames, and so entirely have time and the gradual softening of
sectarian acrimony in Ireland moulded apparently irreconcileable
rights and claims into harmonious custom, that while even official
documents speak of 'the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin,'
that same prelate is content to be everywhere received and to
call himself 'Archbishop Murray.' All this is the fruit of
mutual but tacit concession and a sincere desire for 'peace and
goodwill.' Not many years ago Dr. MacHale on some occasion or
other subscribed himself 'John Tuam,' and an angry interpellation
was addressed to Lord Melbourne (then Premier), to know whether
Her Majesty's Government meant to prosecute this violation of the
law. Lord Melbourne replied that the Government had considered the
matter, and, exercising their own discretion, they did not think
it expedient to make an appeal to the law. This prudent decision
excited the indignation of the opposite benches, but the Duke of
Wellington, with his usual good sense and superiority to party
motives, rebuked the zeal of his followers and approved of the
forbearance of the Government. What practical mischief resulted
from the fact of the Irish prelates taking the titles of their
sees? and would it have been better to indict Dr. MacHale, and
that he should have been either acquitted by a jury, or convicted
in a penalty of 100_l._, and perhaps imprisoned for refusing to
pay the fine? If it was not expedient to enforce the old law then,
would it be advisable to do so now, or to ask Parliament for fresh
laws? Is it fit to invoke that mighty power merely to repel an
impertinence?

[Sidenote: THE ANTI-PAPAL AGITATION.]

I well know how perilous it is to attempt to throw cold water on
the fire of popular wrath, but no such consideration shall deter
me from speaking out what I believe to be the sober truth. I think
the character of my countrymen, and their reputation all over
the world, and in after ages, much more in jeopardy than their
religion. Indeed, it is not without a feeling of shame that I see
the pusillanimous terror of Popery which is so often and openly
proclaimed. What, when we Protestants form nineteen out of twenty
out of the population, with an incalculable superiority of wealth,
influence, and learning, a richly endowed Church, all the great
seminaries of education, almost the whole of the aristocracy,
a vast preponderance of public opinion, and, above all, with
reason, truth, and the Bible on our side, are we afraid of the
Roman Catholics? and can we not defy the open efforts or the
secret machinations of the Romish hierarchy? Let me not, however,
be misunderstood. Although I think the prevailing agitation
exaggerated, and far more than commensurate with the cause which
has excited it, I do not think it unnatural or unreasonable in its
origin, and notwithstanding the apology for the Pope, of which
the scope of my arguments necessarily presents the appearance,
I join in the general condemnation which his proceedings have
elicited. They exhibit rashness, want of courtesy to the Crown,
and want of consideration for the feelings of the people of
England. It is impossible to expect men to distinguish accurately
or to reason calmly when the passions are roused; and all the
odious or offensive matter scattered through briefs, pastoral
letters, and Popish sermons have been confounded together into one
cumulative case against the Pope and the Roman Catholic Faith.
The flourish of trumpets, the songs of triumph, the vain boasting
with which those measures were proclaimed, justify a large amount
of disgust and indignation; but the real injury which the honour
and the policy of England are required to redress bears in my mind
but a small proportion to the false assumptions and ridiculous
pretensions which we might well afford to regard with a scornful
indifference. I do not, indeed, believe that the Pope intended
to insult the Queen, because such conduct would be inconsistent
alike with his character and his interest; but he ought to have
taken more pains than he did, even for the sake of the English
Catholics, to ascertain how his measures would be received, and
still more, to be careful that their introduction was divested of
every suspicious circumstance and offensive detail. Whatever may
have been his motives, he has cast a firebrand into this country,
and been the primary cause of a conflagration which time and great
prudence and moderation alone can quench. I cannot help looking
beyond the present hour, and regarding with horror the prospect
of a chronic state of religious discord and sectarian hatred. All
men deprecate the renewal of penal laws, but at the same time
express a vague and undefined longing to have _something_ done.
It is said, that if we do nothing we shall give the Catholics a
triumph; but we shall surely give them a much greater triumph if
by some piece of peddling and abortive legislation we should have
the appearance of being willing without having the power to strike
them. I cannot conclude without expressing the deep regret with
which I have read denunciations of the Roman Catholic Church, in
language which is not that of humility, or charity, or peace; nor
do I think that it becomes the members of a Church, which admits
its own fallibility, thus dogmatically to condemn the belief of
the great majority of the Christian world.

Divines can say but what themselves believe;
Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative;
For were all sure, then all sides would agree,
And faith itself be lost in certainty.
To live uprightly, then, is sure the best:
To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, CAROLUS.

(The 'Times,' December 9, 1850.)

INDEX.

Abbotsford, visit to, iii. 291

Aberdeen, Rt. Hon. Earl of, Foreign Secretary in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, ii. 37;
and the Spanish quarrels, 73, 74;
at the Ch‚teau d'Eu, 200;
communications of, with the 'Times,' 200;
Scotch Church Patronage Bill, 206;
handsome behaviour of, to Lord Palmerston, 406;
communications of, with the 'Times' on the Corn Laws, 311;
reluctance of, to distrust M. Guizot, iii. 53;
negotiations with, on the formation of a Government (1851), 383

Acland, Sir Thomas, motion of, i. 92

Adair, Sir Robert, anecdotes, iii. 212

Adelaide, Queen, at Exeter Hall, ii. 97

Afghanistan, expedition to, i. 241;
events in (1842), ii. 85, 89;
withdrawal from, 99, 101;
recapture of Ghuznee and Cabul and release of the prisoners, 123,
125;
indignation in England, 136

Aix-la-Chapelle, visit to, ii. 167

'Alarm,' accident to, at the Derby, ii. 284;
wins at Newmarket, 302;
wins the Emperor's Cup, 396

Alava, General, i. 241;
conversation with, 241, 242

Albert, H.R.H. Prince, betrothal of, to the Queen announced, i. 247;
proposed allowance for, 258;
naturalisation of, 259;
precedence of, 259, 263;
refused, 265;
Mr. Greville's pamphlet on the Precedence Question, 266, 269;
_see_ Appendix, vol. i.;
marriage of, 266, 269, 272;
precedence conceded by the Duke of Cambridge, 270;
name inserted in the Liturgy, 272;
gazetted, 273;
introduction of, 305;
at Oxford, ii. 13;
declines an invitation to the Waterloo Dinner, 15;
and the King of Hanover, 192;
hunting at Belvoir, 216;
conversation with the Duke of Bedford, 264;
elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, iii. 65;
installed, 97;
at Balmoral, 296;
on Lord Palmerston's conduct of foreign affairs, 317

Aldborough, Lady, at Baden Baden, ii. 183

Alexander, Grand Duke (afterwards Emperor Alexander II. of Russia),
departure of, i. 215;
munificence of, 215

Allen, Mr. John, i. 38;
death of, ii. 153;
account of, 154

Alliance meeting at Hertford, ii. 415

Althorp, library at, ii. 275

Alvanley, Lord, death of, iii. 304;
character of, 305

America, case of McLeod, i. 383;
boundary question settled, ii. 101;
discovery of a missing map, 102

Ampthill, visit to, i. 250

Anglesey, Marquis of, the, speech of, at the Waterloo Dinner, i.
102-104;
wounded at Waterloo, 135;
visit to, in North Wales, ii. 16-17;
reception of, at Carnarvon, 18

Anti-Papal Bill, the objections of the Peelites to, iii. 385, 387;
objections to, 392, 393;
debate on, 400

Antwerp, visit to, ii. 287

Arbuthnot, Mr., death of, iii. 362;
character of, 363

Arkwright, Mr., death of, ii. 157

Armstrong, Colonel, ii. 94

Ashburton, Lord, mission of, to the United States, ii. 71;
signs the Treaty of Washington, 101

'Atlantic,' _fÍte_ on board the, iii. 409

Auchterarder Case, the, ii. 206, 207

Auckland, Lord, great ability of, ii. 63;
First Lord of the Admiralty, 405;
death of, iii. 254;
career of, 255;
character of, 255

Augusta, H.R.H. Princess, Royal consent given for the marriage of the,
ii. 118

Austin, Mrs., _salon_ of, in Paris, iii. 38

Austria, revolution in, iii. 155, 158;
victories over the Piedmontese, 218;
at Novara, 282

Austria, Ferdinand, Emperor of, decision of, iii. 159

Backhouse, Mr., correspondence of, with Mr. Urquhart, i. 158

Bacourt, M. de, opinion of, of the Treaty of Washington, ii. 101

Baden Baden, arrival at, ii. 176;
society at, 177-186;
excursions, 178-186;
scenery, 179

Bagot, Sir Charles, Governor-General of Canada, ii. 117

Baillie, Right Hon. Henry, motion of, for a Committee of Enquiry on
Ceylon, British Guiana, and Mauritius, iii. 269

Ball, fancy, at the Palace, ii. 283

Ballot, The (for debates on, _see_ Lords, House of, and Commons, House
of), division on, i. 61;
an open question, 216

Balmoral, Council at, iii. 295;
the Court at, 296

Bangor Cathedral, service at, ii. 17

Bank Charter Act, the, suspended, iii. 101

Barcelona, bombardment of, ii. 201

Baring, Hon. William Bingham (afterwards second Baron Ashburton),
returned for North Staffordshire, i. 17

Baring, Hon. Francis (afterwards third Baron Ashburton), on French
politics, iii. 35

Baring, Sir Francis, First Lord of the Admiralty, iii. 260

Barnes, Mr., i. 123;
death of, ii. 2;
anecdote, iii. 75

Bath, visit to, i. 222;
Mr. Harry Greville at, 222;
Abbey Church at, 223

Battersea Schools, the, i. 131;
lecture at, 151;
visit to the, ii. 86

Battle of the Diamond, the, i. 30, 31

Bavaria, King of, the, abdication of, iii. 155

Beaudesert, party at, i. 48

Beaumaris, visit to, ii. 17

Beaumont, M. Gustave de, appointed French Ambassador to the Court of
St. James's, iii. 218

Beauvale, Lord, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 120

Bedchamber, ladies of the, affair of the, i. 201, 209

Bedford, fourth Duke of, diary of, ii. 47

Bedford, sixth Duke of, letter of Lord Brougham to, on education,
i. 238

Bedford, seventh Duke of, Devonshire property of, iii. 206

Bedford, Duchess of, resignation of, ii. 32

Bentinck, Lord George, racing transactions of, ii. 160;
speech on the Corn Laws, 373;
denounces a supposed job, 413;
railway scheme defeated, iii. 57;
speech on the Cracow affair, 67;
attack on Mr. Labouchere, 71;
attacked by Lord J. Russell, 197;
death of, 222;
character of, 223, 232;
career of, 224, 234;
'Orlando' trial, 228;
political career of, 229;
Disraeli's life of, 417, 423

Bentinck, Lady William, death of, and character, ii. 157;
funeral of, 159

Berlin, revolution in, iii. 155

Berry, Miss, ii. 201;
anecdote of, 202

Berry, Miss Agnes, ii. 201, 202

Bessborough, Right Hon. Earl of, opinion of, on affairs, ii. 353;
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 405;
illness of, iii. 77, 80;
letter to Lord J. Russell, 81;
death of, 82

Beyrout, bombardment of, i. 328

Birkenhead, visit to, ii. 282

Birthday reflexions, i. 85

Blanc, Louis M., iii. 152;
at dinner, 235

Blessington, the Countess of, society at Gore House, i. 167;
works of, 168

Bonaparte, JÈrÙme, Count de Montfort, at Gore House, i. 277

Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, afterwards Emperor of the French, _see_
Napoleon

Bordeaux, Duc de, visit to England of the, ii. 211;
reception of the, 212, 213

Bourqueney, Baron, letter from M. Guizot to the, i. 348;
misreported conversation with Lord Palmerston, 381

Bowood, party at, ii. 69

Bradshaw, Mr., disloyal speech of, at Canterbury, i. 244;
duel with Mr. Horsman, 254, 255

Bresson, Count, instructions to, on the Spanish marriages, iii. 24
(_see_ Spanish Marriages)

Bretby, visit to, ii. 309;
contrasted with Woburn, 416

Bridgewater House, private theatricals at, ii. 96

Bridgewater Trust, account of the, ii. 303

British Museum, correspondence with the, about the missing Privy
Council Registers, ii. 162

Broadlands, visit to, ii. 104

Brocket, visits to, iii. 119, 375;
manuscripts at, 376

Broglie, Duc de, speech of the, iii. 37

Brougham, Lord, scene with Lord Melbourne, i. 32;
ability of, 33;
on the ballot, 59;
anecdote of, 59;
habits of, 60;
and Wakley, 60;
at the Council Office, 65;
qualities of, 66;
in the House of Lords, 69, 71;
anti-slavery speech, 73;
speech on Small _v._ Attwood, 83;
article on Lady C. Bury's book, 90;
and Mr. Handley, 99;
contrast to the Duke of Wellington, 111;
attacks Lord Durham's Ordinance, 123;
pamphlet letter to the Queen, 149;
reconciled to Lord Durham, 150;
denies the pamphlet, 152;
and Lord Melbourne, 152;
and the Serjeants-at-Law, 156;
anecdote of, and Lord Lyndhurst, 160;
on the Bedchamber affair, 211, 212;
attacks the Ministers, 213;
great speech censuring the Irish policy of the Government, 228;
freaks of, at a Greenwich dinner, 229;
proposes the health of the Duke of Wellington at the Dover dinner,
237, 240;
letter on education, 238;
anecdotes of, 240;
pretended death of, 243, 245, 247;
squabbles with M. de Tocqueville and others, ii. 150, 151;
intercourse with the Court, 151;
endeavours to obtain an affidavit from Mr. Reeve, 207;
Judicial Committee Bill, 225, 234;
caprices of, 235;
makes eleven speeches in the House of Lords, 242;
at the Judicial Committee, 242;
executor to Lord Melbourne, iii. 252

Brown, Mr., M.P., _fÍte_ on board the 'Atlantic,' iii. 409

Brunnow, Baron, mission of, to England, i. 242;
letter of, complaining of Lord Palmerston's conduct, iii. 332;
on foreign affairs, 345

Buccleuch, the Duke of, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 82;
Lord President of the Council, 337

Buccleuch, the Duchess of, Mistress of the Robes, ii. 44

Buckingham, the Duke of, Lord Privy Seal in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, ii. 37;
resignation of, 79;
First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451

Buckinghamshire, dispute on the appointment of sheriff, ii. 144

Buckinghamshire magistrates, appointment of the, ii. 66;
opinion of the Duke of Wellington on, 77

Buckland, Dr., at the Grange, ii. 264

Bugeaud, Marshal, commands the troops in Paris in 1848, iii. 144

Buller, Charles, Mr., Radical opinions of, i. 32;
appointed by Lord Durham, 109;
author of Lord Durham's report, 163;
paper of, on Ireland, iii. 221;
death of, 241;
character of, 249

Bulwer, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Lytton, play of 'Richelieu,' i. 173

Bulwer, Sir Henry, expulsion of, from Spain, iii. 169;
arrival of, in London, 180;
defence, 181;
debate in the House of Commons, 190;
intrigues in Spain, 194 (_for_ despatches to, _see_ Spanish
Marriages)

Burge, William, Mr., Q.C., i. 255

Burghersh, Lord (afterwards Earl of Westmorland), opera by, i. 116;
mistake of, ii. 275

Burghley, party at, i. 37

Burgoyne, Sir John, letter from the Duke of Wellington to, iii. 107

Burke, Rt. Hon. Edmund, iii. 213

Bury, Lady Charlotte, book by, i. 48;
book reviewed by Lord Brougham, 65, 90

Butler, Mrs., reading of, at Bowood, ii. 69;
in the 'Hunchback,' 96

Cabul, retreat from, ii. 85, 89, 107;
recapture of, 123;
opinion of the Duke of Wellington on the events at, 137, 138

Cambridge, visit to, ii. 238

Cambridge, University of, H.R.H. Prince Albert elected Chancellor of,
iii. 65;
installed, 97

Cambridge, H.R.H. Adolphus, Duke of, concedes precedence to Prince
Albert, i. 270;
death of, iii. 366

Cambridge, H.R.H. George, Duke of, precedence of, iii. 365, 366

Campbell, Lord, Lord Chancellor of Ireland with a peerage, ii. 14;
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 405;
speech of son of, at Cambridge, iii. 89;
Lord Chief Justice of England, 327;
success in the Court of Queen's Bench, 327

Canada, insurrection in, i. 34;
debate on, in the House of Commons, 34;
Duke of Wellington on, 37;
Lord Durham sent out as Governor-General, 49;
state of, 53;
discussions on, 55;
Lord Durham's Ordinance, 123;
disallowed, 125;
Lord Durham's Proclamation, 134;
report on administration of, 162;
bill dealing with the Canada Clergy Reserves, 294;
government of, ii. 117;
Sir Charles Bagot succeeds Lord Sydenham, 117;
Sir Charles Metcalfe appointed Governor-General, 117

Canada Bill, _see_ Commons, House of

Candlish, Dr., sermon by, iii. 292

Canford, visit to, ii. 105

Canning, Rt. Hon. George, distrust of, ii. 399

Canning, Stratford, Rt. Hon. Sir, opposition of, to Russia, iii. 279

Cannizzaro, Duchess of, death of the, i. 365;
account of the, 365, 366

Canterbury, Archbishop of, Dr. Sumner appointed, iii. 125

Capel, Hon. and Rev. William, dispute with the Bishop of London,
ii. 113

Capua, Prince of, the, at dinner at Devonshire House, i. 279

Carnarvon, visit to, with Lord Anglesey, ii. 18

Carnot, iii. 153

'Carolus' letter to the 'Times,' iii. 372, 374;
_see_ Appendix B, vol. iii.

Catholic Clergy, Endowment question, ii. 199

Cavaignac, General, iii. 199, 205

CÈcille, Admiral, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, iii. 268

Ceylon, committee of enquiry into administration of, iii. 269;
witnesses, 308;
evidence of Captain Watson, 312

Chantrey, death of, ii. 60;
monument by, in Lichfield Cathedral, 60

Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, defeat of, iii. 218;
abdication of, 282

Chartists, progress of the, i. 155;
precautions in London for great meeting of the (1848), iii. 160,
162, 164;
failure of the demonstration, 165;
dangerous manifestations in the country, 188;
Government measures, 190;
agitation, 191;
demonstration, 192;
establishment near Chenies, 215

Chatham, Rt. Hon. Earl of, anecdotes of the, i. 245

Chatsworth, visit to, ii. 204;
visit of the Queen to, 215

Chepstow, visit to, i. 222

Chester, visit to, ii. 16

Chester, Mayor of, question of baronetcy on the birth of the Prince
of Wales, ii. 52

Chillianwallah, battle of, iii. 273

China, war with, i. 283; debate on, 283;
Duke of Wellington on the war with, 286;
annexation of Hong Kong, 383;
return of Captain Elliot from, ii. 49, 52;
views of Sir George Grey on, 72;
treaty of peace with, 123

Chiswick, visit of the Queen and Prince Albert to, ii. 14;
_fÍte_ at, for the Czar, 244

Chloroform, an operation under, iii. 110

Christina, Queen of Spain, intrigues of, ii. 419, 421;
M. Guizot's account of, iii. 32;
conduct of, 119

Church of Scotland, disruption in the, ii. 206

Circourt, Madame de, _salon_ of, iii. 45

Clanricarde, Marquis of, Postmaster-General, ii. 405

Claremont, council at, for events in the East, i. 328;
lent to King Louis Philippe, iii. 154

Clarence, H.R.H. Duke of, _see_ William IV., King

Clarendon, Rt. Hon. Earl of, office of Governor-General of Canada
offered to the, i. 173;
first appearance of the, in the House of Lords, 227;
Lord Privy Seal, 243;
on Eastern policy, 301;
dissents from the treaty (1840), 304;
conversation with M. Guizot, 305;
offers to resign on the Eastern Question, 317;
letter of, on Lord Holland's death, and on French affairs, 341;
confidence of the Queen in, ii. 403;
President of the Board of Trade, 405;
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, iii. 85;
requires a Coercion Bill for Ireland, 105;
and the Irish Catholics, 195;
applies for more powers, 212;
Proclamation of, 207;
policy of, in Ireland, 217;
interview of, with King Louis Philippe, 239;
on Irish emigration, 251;
on taking high office, 251;
Irish relief, 285;
conversation with Sir R. Peel, 286;
success of the Queen's visit to Ireland, 295;
dismissal of Lord Roden, 310;
explanation in the House of Lords, 313;
Encumbered Estates Act in Ireland, 314;
conversation with the Queen and Prince Albert on foreign affairs,
317;
conversation with Lord J. Russell, 361;
spoken of as Foreign Secretary, 428, 431

Clifton, visit to, i. 222

Cobden, Richard, Mr. Greville's letter to, in the 'Times,' iii. 123;
_see_ Appendix A, vol. iii.

Coburg marriage, fear of, in France, iii. 30

Colborne, Sir John, Lieutenant-Governor of Canada, i. 35

Coleridge, Stanza from 'Ode to Tranquillity,' i. 109

Colloredo, Count, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 282, 283, 288

Cologne, visit to the cathedral at, ii. 167

Commons, House of, select committee on pensions, i. 29;
disorder in, 31;
debate on insurrection in Canada, 34;
discussions on Canada, 55;
division on the ballot, 59;
scene in, 68;
Pendarves' motion, 70;
vote of censure on Lord Glenelg, 72;
amendment on, 73;
Lord Eliot's motion on Spain, 83;
motion of Sir George Strickland on emancipation, 84;
motion on Lord Durham's expenses, 86;
the Appropriation Clause, 93;
Irish Municipal Corporation Bill, 100;
session of 1838, 127;
debate on the Irish policy of the Government, 190;
Jamaica Bill, 196;
division on, 199;
Sir H. Fleetwood's motion, 215;
Ballot an open question, 216;
the privilege question, 257, 271;
Prince Albert's allowance, 258;
Ministers defeated on the Irish Registration Bill, 279;
debate on vote of censure on measures resulting in Chinese war, 283;
debate on the Registration Bill, 287;
two new Irish Registration Bills, 373;
Government defeated on Lord Morpeth's Bill, 391;
division on the Sugar Duties, ii. 8;
vote of censure carried by one, 10;
dissolution, 14;
Sir R. Peel's Corn Bill, 83, 86;
attack of Lord J. Russell on Lord Corehouse, 84;
Sir R. Peel's Budget, 87;
Vote of Thanks to Lord Ashburton, 152;
Irish Arms Bill, 188, 194;
debate on Ireland, 228, 230;
division, 232;
the Ten Hours Bill, 236;
Government defeated on the Sugar Duties, 246;
Maynooth Grant, 276;
debate, 279;
Sir R. Peel's measure for sliding-scale duties on corn, 357;
protracted debate on the Corn Laws, 366, 367, 371;
scene in the House, 392;
debate on the annexation of Cracow, iii. 67;
Irish Poor Law, 69;
Mr. Strutt's Railroad Bill, 93, 95;
Irish measures (1847), 104, 106;
obstruction, 161, 163;
mismanagement of, 186;
West India Committee, 187;
alteration of the Oath Bill, 187, 192;
debate on occurrences in Spain, 190;
West India Sugar Bill, 193;
subsequent crisis, 195;
irritation, 197;
Irish Bill, 209;
Irish grant opposed, 267;
committee of enquiry on Ceylon and British Guiana, 269, 309;
debate on, 270;
Sicilian arms affair, 271, 277;
maiden speech of Mr. Frederick Peel, 288;
debate on the Poor Laws, 319;
Mr. Hutt's motion on the African squadron, 324;
Stamp Bill, 325, 327;
Mr. Roebuck's vote of confidence, 344;
Mr. Locke King's motion, 378;
Anti-Papal Bill, 400;
Lord Palmerston's dismissal, 446;
Militia Bill, 447, 449;
dissolution, 454;
Reform question, 469

Conference at Constantinople (1840), i. 328, 329

Conroy, Sir John, i. 14, 20

'Constitutionnel,' indiscreet article in the, iii. 34

Conway Castle, ii. 16

Coplestone, Dr. (Bishop of Llandaff), publishes Lord Dudley's
letters, i. 273

Corn Laws, i. 158, 164;
allusion to, in the Queen's Speech, ii. 82;
Sir R. Peel's Bill, 83;
discussions on, 301;
repeal of the, announced by the 'Times,' 309;
consequent agitation, 312, 316;
Sir R. Peel's Government broken up, 317;
Mr. Greville's pamphlet, 350;
Duke of Wellington on the, 351;
Sir R. Peel's measure for sliding-scale duties, 357;
immediate repeal of, discussed, 360, 366;
debate on the, 366;
protracted discussions, 379

Cornwall, the Duchy of, iii. 67

Coronation of Queen Victoria, i. 105, 106

Cottenham, Lord High Chancellor, ii. 405;
resignation of, iii. 338

Council, picture of the Queen's first, i. 82;
at Windsor, 145;
for declaration of the Queen's marriage, 247;
at Windsor on crutches, ii. 203;
at Osborne, resignation of Sir R. Peel, 316

Courvoisier, murder of Lord W. Russell, i. 284

Cousin, Victor, visit to, iii. 44

Cowley, Lord, conversation with, in Paris, iii. 19;
views of, on the Spanish marriage question, 26

Cowley, Lord (afterwards Earl Cowley), Ambassador at Paris, iii.
441, 446;
question of proxy, 472

Cracow, ii. 427;
the annexation of, 430, 431;
debate on annexation of, iii. 67

Creevey, Mr., death of, i. 63;
offices held by, 63;
letters and papers of, 64, 275

Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, article by, in the 'Quarterly
Review,' i. 103, 105;
two anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, 248;
on Sir R. Peel's policy, ii. 200;
and the Duke of Wellington, iii. 98;
and Sir R. Peel, 98

Cromer, visit to, ii. 120

Curran, anecdote of, i. 153;
Master of the Rolls in Ireland, 153

Czartoryski, Prince, at the HÙtel Lambert, iii. 44

Dalhousie, Right Hon. Earl of, President of the Board of Trade, ii.
267;
promising speech of, 395

Danton, anecdote of, iii. 111

D'Arblay, Madame, journal of, ii. 127

Day, Sam, the jockey, death of, i. 133

De Grey, Right Hon. Earl, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in Sir R.
Peel's Administration, ii. 37

Delane, Mr. John T., succeeds Mr. Barnes as editor of the 'Times,'
ii. 3;
information on the Corn Law question from Lord Aberdeen, 310,
315 (_see_ 'Times')

Delessert, M., on the state of France, iii. 157

Denman, Lord, closes the term, ii. 63

Derby, Right Hon. (fourteenth) Earl of, forms a government, iii. 447;
conduct of the Government, 453;
dissolution of Parliament, 454;
at Goodwood, 463;
and Lord Cowley's proxy, 472;
efforts to strengthen the Government, 473;
_see also_ Stanley

Derby, the, accident to 'Alarm,' ii. 284

De Ros, Lord, death of, i. 180

Devonshire, Duke of, letters and papers of the, ii. 377

Devonshire House, dinner at, to the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of
Capua, i. 278

Dickens, Charles, performance of, at the St. James's Theatre, ii. 302

Disraeli, Right Hon. Benjamin, maiden speech of, i. 26, 30;
quarrel with General Peel, ii. 388;
Protectionist speech of, 392;
and Mr. Moxon, iii. 75;
defends Lord G. Bentinck, 197, 198;
leader of the Protectionists, 264;
'Life of Lord G. Bentinck,' 417, 423;
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby's Administration, 451;
speech on the Budget, 451

Dolly's Brae affair, iii. 310, 313

D'Orsay, Count, at Gore House, i. 167;
death of, iii. 465;
character of, 466

Dost Mahomed, surrender of, i. 360

Downton Castle, visit to, i. 218

Drouyn de Lhuys, M., French Ambassador in London, iii. 326;
on the Greek affair, 326;
recall of, 330

Drumlanrig, visit to, iii. 299

Drummond, Mr. Edward, assassination of, ii. 141

Drummond Castle, visit to, iii. 299

Dudley, Lord, letters of, published, i. 273;
diary of, destroyed, 275;
diary of, iii. 74

Duncannon, Lord, and the apartments in St. James's Palace, i. 280

Duncombe, Mr. Thomas, attack of, on the Post Office, ii. 272

Dundas, Right Hon. Sir David, at Ampthill, i. 250;
conversation of, ii. 133;
as Solicitor-General, iii. 122

Durham, Right Hon. Earl of, Governor-General of Canada, i. 49, 54;
motion on expenses of, 86;
behaviour of, 88;
appointments of, attacked, 109;
entry of, into Quebec, 110;
ordinance of, attacked, 123;
disallowed, 125;
resignation of, 133;
proclamation of, 134;
return of, from Canada, 137, 141;
conduct of, in Canada, 143;
excuses of, 158;
report of, on the administration of Canada, 162;
distributes copies of report, 163;
position of, 165;
anecdote of, iii. 75

Eastern Question, the, beginning of, i. 242;
in 1840, 297;
anti-Palmerstonian policy of France, 302;
communication of M. de Pontois to the Porte, 304, 306;
conduct of ministers at the beginning, 308;
protocol signed, 309;
conversations with M. Guizot on, 310, 315, 319;
indecision of ministers, 312;
intentions of Lord John Russell, 313;
discussions on, 315, 317, 325;
cabinet on, 320;

Prince Metternich's suggestion, 325;
Lord Holland's remarks, 325;
bombardment of Beyrout, and deposition of Mehemet Ali, 328;
Lord Palmerston gains his point, 330;
Lord Ponsonby's despatch, 334;
note from the French Government, 335;
surrender of the Emir Beschir, 344;
terms of conciliation with France, 351;
mission of Baron Monnier, 356;
unsettled affairs in Egypt, 361;
settlement of (1841), 377-383;
protocols signed, 383;
the Hatti-sherif, 385;
fresh obstacles, 387

Easthope, Sir John, proprietor of the 'Morning Chronicle,' i. 179

Eastnor Castle, i. 219

Eaton, visit to, ii. 15;
lines cut on an hotel window, 16

Eden, Hon. and Rev. Robert (afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells),
Rector of Battersea, i. 131;
lecture in Battersea, 151;
Battersea Schools, ii. 86

Eden, Hon. Emily, letter of, i. 383;
bitterness of, against Lord Ellenborough, ii. 128, 150

Edinburgh, visit to, iii. 291

'Edinburgh Review,' originators of the, ii. 153

Education question, the, ii. 212

Egerton, Lord Francis, at Ems, ii. 287;
house of, at Worsley, 303

Egremont, Right Hon. Earl of, death of the, i. 23;
character of the, 24;
at Petworth, 25

Egypt, _see_ Eastern Question

Election, general, result of, in 1837, i. 13, 16, 18;
in 1841, ii. 15;
result of, 20-22;
in 1852, iii. 454;
result of, 459

Eldon, Right Hon. Earl of, death of the, i. 49

Ellenborough, Right Hon. Earl of, Board of Control in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, ii. 37;
anecdotes of, 78;
proclamation of, 123, 125;
attacks on, 128, 136, 138;
Duke of Wellington's opinion of, 139;
extraordinary behaviour of, 141;
position of, 145;
vindication of, 148;
despatch on the secret committee of the directors, 219;
recall of, 238

Ellice, Right Hon. Edward, at Brocket, iii. 375

Elliot, Captain (afterwards Sir Charles), return of, from China, ii.
49, 52

Emir Beschir, _see_ Eastern Question

Ems, visit to, ii. 287

Endsleigh, visit to, iii. 205

Epsom, racing transactions of Lord G. Bentinck and Lord Kelburne, ii.
160

Espartero, downfall of, ii. 201

Eton College case, ii. 411

Eu, Ch‚teau d', visit to, of Queen Victoria, ii. 196, 200;
the agreement at, 201

Evans, Sir De Lacy, made a K.C.B., i. 65

'Every Man in his Humour,' performance of, ii. 302

Exchequer Bills, forgery of, ii. 50;
anecdotes of, 56, 57

Exchequer, Court of, anecdote, iii. 125

Exeter, Bishop of, attacks the Archbishop, i. 120;
on the St. Sulpice question, 388;
charge of, ii. 136;
attack on Newman, 136;
reply to a Privy Council judgement, 136;
the Gorham Case, iii. 300

Exeter, visit to, iii. 207

Exhibition, the Great, 1851, opening of, iii. 405

Eyre, Lieutenant, book by, on Cabul, &c., ii. 137

Faubourg St. Germain, political feeling in the, iii. 42

Faucher, M. LÈon, in London, iii. 410

Felbrigg Hall, visit to, ii. 120

Ferdinand I., Emperor of Austria, political crisis, 1848, iii. 159

FitzGerald and Vesey, Lord, conversation with, i. 46;
death of, ii. 158

Fitzroy, Lord Charles, resigns the office of Vice-Chamberlain, i. 86

Fleetwood, Sir H., motion on 10_l._ householders, i. 216

Foley, Lord, anecdote, i. 217

Foster, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 378

Fox, Right Hon. C. J., account of the death of, i. 154

Fox, Maule, Right Hon., Secretary at War, ii. 405

Fox, Mr. William, member for Oldham, iii. 103

Fox, Miss, death of, ii. 274

France, Lord Palmerston's hostility to, i. 347;
attempt at conciliation with, 351;
debate in the Chamber on Eastern affairs, 354;
dispute with, on the Tahiti affair, ii. 253;
opinions on change of government in England (1845), 345, 347;
estrangement with, on the Spanish marriages question, iii. 10, 11;
effect of conciliatory debate in England, 39;
threatened rupture with, 62;
estrangement from England, 73;
revolution in 1848, 132;
state of, 148, 152;
Provisional Government in, 152;
M. Delessert on affairs in, 157;
anarchy in, 178;
fighting in Paris, 202;
tranquillity, 219;
Prince Louis Napoleon elected President of the Republic, 253;
unsatisfactory condition of the country, 284;
share in the English and Greek dispute, 334, 337;
_coup d'Ètat_ of Louis Napoleon, 420

France, Bank of, arrangement with the Emperor of Russia, ii. 70

Francis, Sir Philip, at Woburn, ii. 47

Frankfort, visit to, ii. 169;
Dannecker's 'Ariadne,' 170;
Rothschild's house, 171;
Jews' Street, 173;
the mother of the Rothschilds, 173

Frost, Mr. John, a magistrate, i. 250;
concerned in a Chartist riot, 250;
trial of, 256

Fullerton, Lady Georgiana, novel by, ii. 205

Galiera, Duchesse de, ball at the house of the, iii. 35

Garnier PagËs, iii. 153

George II., King, anecdote of, ii. 215

George IV., King, Memoirs of the time of, i. 48

Germany, condition of the country and people of, ii. 180, 181

Ghent, visit to, ii. 285

Girondins, Histoire des, by Lamartine, iii. 111

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. William E., President of the Board of Trade in
Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37;
resignation of, on the Maynooth Endowment, 267;
explanation, 271

Glasgow, visit to, iii. 292

Glastonbury, Lord, and his peerage, ii. 236

Glenelg, Rt. Hon. Lord, resignation of, i. 161

Gomm, Sir William, Commander-in-Chief in India, iii. 273

Goodrich Castle, i. 220

Goodrich Court, armoury at, i. 221

Goodwood, party at, ii. 408; iii. 463

Gore House, dinner at, i. 166;
hoax of Lord Brougham's death, 243;
party at, 255;
JÈrÙme Bonaparte at, 277

Gorham _v._ the Bishop of Exeter, iii. 300-304;
judgement, 323

Gorhambury, visit to, ii. 111;
Bishop of London at, 111, 112

Goulburn, Rt. Hon. Henry, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, ii. 37

Graham, Rt. Hon. Sir James, conduct of, i. 9;
negotiation of, between Sir R. Peel and Lord J. Russell, 185, 189;
Home Secretary in Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37;
on the state of parties, iii. 51;
and the Governor-Generalship of India, 87;
on the Cumberland election, 89;
declines the Governor-Generalship of India, 92;
on colonial matters, 124;
on obstruction in the House of Commons, 161;
declines the Admiralty, 259;
reasons for declining, 262, 264;
on administrative reforms, 338;
forebodings of, 382;
negotiations with the Whigs, 383;
on the state of parties, 390;
vacillation of, 394;
and the Whigs, 398, 401;
Lord J. Russell's overtures to, 410;
mission of Sir G. C. Lewis to Netherby, 411, 412;
on public affairs, and a possible coalition, 435-439

Granby, Marquis of, chosen leader of the Protectionist party, iii.
123;
consistent conduct of, 471;
appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, 472

Grange, The, visit to, i. 137

Granville, Rt. Hon. (first) Earl, paralytic seizure of, i. 390

Granville, Rt. Hon. (second) Earl, Foreign Secretary, iii. 428;
conversation with Lord Palmerston, 433;
paper of, on foreign policy, 442

Greece, disputes with, iii. 308, 311, 314;
disputes continued, 325;
opinions of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, 326;
further disputes, 334;
debate in House of Lords on dispute, 341;
Lord Palmerston on brigandage in, 418

Green, Mr., anatomical lecture by, iii. 375

Greenwich dinner, freaks of Lord Brougham at a, i. 229;
Lord Normanby's health drunk at a, 237

Gregory, Mr., house of, near Belvoir, i. 42

Grenville, Thomas, Mr., anecdote of, i. 80;
dinner with, ii. 114;
anecdote of Porson, 114;
Julio Clovio, 115;
recollections and anecdotes, 116;
anecdote of Wolfe, 120;
death of, iii. 1;
character of, 2

Greville, Charles C., Mr., pamphlet of, on Prince Albert's Precedence,
i. 266, 269, 270 (_see_ Appendix, vol. i.);
book of, on Ireland, ii. 259;
criticisms on, 260;
publication of, objected to, 261, 266;
publication decided on, 274;
criticisms on, 276;
opinions of the press on, 284;
letters to France, 345;
pamphlet 'Sir R. Peel and the Corn Law Crisis,' 350, 368;
success of pamphlet, 354;
visit to Paris (1847), iii. 16;
birthday reflexions, 73;
letter to Cobden in the 'Times,' 123 (_see_ Appendix A, vol. iii.);
removes to Bruton Street, 277;
elected a member of Grillon's Club, 321;
letter of 'Carolus,' 372, 374 (_see_ Appendix B, vol. iii.)

Greville, Harry, Mr., at Bath, i. 222

Greville, Mrs. Algernon, death of, i. 390

Grey, Rt. Hon. Earl, prevents the formation of a Whig Government, ii.
330, 331;
explanation of conduct of, 341-344, 353;
Colonial Secretary, 405;
Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland, iii. 65;
remonstrance of, on Lord Palmerston's conduct, 185;
speech of, on the suppressed despatches, 200;
discredit of, 309

Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir George, Home Secretary, ii. 405

Grey, Sir George (formerly Chief Justice of Bengal), views of, on
Chinese affairs, ii. 72

Grillon's Club, dinner at, iii. 321

Grote, George, Mr., returned for the City of London, i. 13;
Radical party reduced to, 215;
visit to, iii. 122

Grove, The, visit to, ii. 111;
agreeable party at, 289;
Macaulay at, 415;
return to, iii. 409

Guards, the, question of promotion on the birth of the Prince of
Wales, ii. 51

Guernsey duties, affair of the, ii. 292

Guizot, M., French Ambassador in London, i. 282;
on the Eastern Question, 302, 303;
at dinner at Windsor, 310;
conversations with, on Eastern affairs, 311, 315, 317;
on the deposition of Mehemet Ali, 328;
difficulty of dealing with Lord Palmerston, 330;
conciliatory efforts of, 335;
note from the French Government, 335;
succeeds M. Thiers (1840), 343;
letter of, to Baron Bourqueney, 348;
speech in the Chamber, 355;
critical position of, ii. 269, 270;
amicable meeting with M. Thiers, 278, 288;
alarm at possible return of Lord Palmerston to the Foreign Office
(1845), 345;
conduct of, in the Spanish Marriages affair, 425;
_ib._ iii. 6;
note in reply to Lord Palmerston, ii. 433;
explanation relating to the Spanish Marriages, iii. 17;
conversation with, on the Spanish Marriages, 20-26;
complaints of Lord Palmerston, 30;
and Lord Palmerston's despatch, 33;
indignation of, 42;
bad terms of, with Lord Normanby, 42;
resentment at Lord Normanby and Lord Palmerston, 46, 47;
invited to the British Embassy 'by mistake,' 59;
continuance of the quarrel, 60;
the quarrel made up, 66;
escape of, to England, 137, 145;
conduct of, in the Revolution, 138;
narrative of the Revolution, 142-145;
dines with Lord Palmerston, 157

Gurwood, Colonel, second of Mr. Bradshaw, i. 254

Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Ireland, iii. 207;
suspension of, renewed, 265

Haddington, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the First Lord of the Admiralty in Sir
Robert Peel's Administration, ii. 37;
declines the Governor-Generalship of India, 46;
correspondence of, with the Duke of Wellington, 224

Hampden, Dr., made Bishop of Hereford, iii. 109;
consequent disputes, 112, 114;
correspondence of, with the Bishop of Oxford, 115;
correspondence on appointment of, as Regius Professor, 116, 117;
case of, 118

Hannibal, comparison with the Duke of Wellington, i. 57

Hanover, the King of, proclamation of, i. 12;
act of, on his accession, 42;
declines to give up the apartments in St. James's Palace, 280;
arrival of, ii, 161;
in London, 192;
anecdote, 192

Hanover, Stade Treaty with, ii. 107

Hardinge, Rt. Hon. Lord, Secretary at War in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, ii. 37;
Governor-General of India, 240;
dinner at the India House, 242;
sent to Ireland, iii. 213

Harewood Lodge for Ascot, ii. 11

Harrowby, Rt. Hon. Earl of, death of the, iii. 112

Harrowby, Countess of, the, death of, i. 96;
character of, 96, 98

Hastings, Lady Flora, i. 172;
death of, 224