The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852

INDEX BRETBY AND WOBURN. Lord John went away the day I came. He is in high spirits, on good terms with the Queen, and well satisfied with the political aspect of his affairs. He seems very honourably and wisely disposed, meaning well and conscientiously, with no rash designs and extravagant projects, but, on the contrary, desirous of doing nothing but what public opinion and public necessity really demand, and determined to avoid all extremes, such as might rouse any great interest to a furious opposition against him. He resists a dissolution, which is strenuously urged upon him by Ellice and others. He seems to be wonderfully free from any spirit of jobbing and favouritism in his appointments of all sorts, and, without losing sight of party and political ties and obligations, to be resolved to do what is right and just and good for the public service. It is curious to see what good terms he is on with the Duke of Wellington, who is much more cordial and communicative with him than he was with his former colleagues. But Lord John is very civil and deferential to him, and he has no reason to find fault with the Whig Minister who always has been a Whig; he could not forgive his old friends for their new Whiggism, which was odious to him, and in which he found himself involved against his inclination. They are all very much annoyed at the Montpensier marriage, and the way in which Louis Philippe has carried his point. They say that he has effected it by a long course of duplicity and intrigue, but that Aberdeen had suffered the marriage question to go so far, that they had not time or power to stop it. But Clarendon, who told me this, had just before told me that a proposition had come from France for some joint action about the Queen's marriage, and that Palmerston left this unanswered for above a month. At last Clarendon received a letter from William Hervey, 139 complaining of this, and saying how mischievous it was, which letter he took to John Russell, and resolved to urge him to press Palmerston to send an answer. Lord John pulled out of his pocket one he had received from Normanby to the same effect. He did speak to Palmerston after (or, indeed, it may have been before) Palmerston wrote a despatch to Bulwer, which Clarendon said was quite admirable; but long before this reached Madrid the mischief was done. Now I find there is a difference between Palmerston and Jarnac about some matter of fact, and on the whole matter our Government considers that they have been deceived and ill-used, and that the independence of Spain, in which we have an interest, is about to be completely sacrificed. It is, however, now too late for us to take any energetic steps to prevent this marriage, and Palmerston, however angry, seems to take a very dispassionate and prudent view of the situation. But there is and must be an end of the intimacy between the two Governments, and probably between the two Courts, for the Queen and Prince Albert partake of the indignation and resentment of her Ministers. I confess I can feel none of the apprehensions that my friends do. I don't believe the influence of France will be increased in Spain by the marriage; more likely the reverse; and if it were, I do not see how it ever can be exercised in a manner injurious to us. There never can be a renewal of the family compact. Spain has no colonies except Cuba and no navy, nor will have any for many years to come; the old dangers that excited the alarm and indignation of Chatham have long ceased to exist or to be possible. I believe that it will be attended with no greater evil (but that is a great one) than the revival of jealous, semi-hostile feelings between France and England, and the termination of that state of cordiality and confidence which have been, and would be, instrumental in maintaining the peace of the world. THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. September 24th. —Went to Broadlands on Friday last. Palmerston was so engaged, messengers arriving all day long, that there was no possibility of conversing with him for some time; but on Sunday morning, after breakfast, he gave me a very clear and succinct account of the Spanish marriage question. He is very much disconcerted, and very indignant at all that has taken place, and he thinks that the consequences will be, sooner or later, very mischievous. It seems that the question of the Montpensier marriage had been touched upon some time ago, but Guizot gave assurances to Aberdeen, and Louis Philippe did the same to the Queen, that there should be no question of it till the Queen of Spain was married and had got children (in the plural 140 ). It was therefore impossible not to rely on an engagement so positive as this. Meanwhile the different actors in this drama seem to have been pulling different ways, and all sorts of intrigues were going on both at Paris and Madrid. Christina wanted the Queen to marry the Coburg Prince, and urged us to support this marriage. We refused. Louis Philippe was violently against this match, which he affected to consider as an English object, besides that he is not a Bourbon. The French Government instructed Jarnac to go on offering to settle the matter in concert with us, but at the same time, and without any instruction to us, they were concerting the scene that was acted at Madrid, and preparing for the simultaneous announcement of the two marriages. Palmerston told Jarnac that we would have no concern with the Coburg candidate as Christina wished. If we had chosen to consent to this, and to connive at his being sent at once to Madrid and the match concluded, Palmerston says we could have made a bargain with Christina, and got her to prevent the Montpensier marriage, but this would have savoured of intrigue on our part, and have been false and underhand, the same sort of conduct that we now reproach France for having been guilty of. Palmerston therefore said to Jarnac, 'Why don't you at once take one of the Spanish princes, Don Francisco's sons? Of the two, Don Enrique seems the least objectionable, and would be preferred by Queen Isabella to his brother, whom she dislikes. We are quite ready to concur with you in this settlement and to communicate with the Spanish Government accordingly.' Jarnac appeared to acquiesce, but Palmerston says that it is quite clear that this did not suit Louis Philippe, and that he thought Enrique so much better a man , better endowed morally and physically, than his brother, that as soon as he found we were ready to join in settling such a marriage, he sent off orders to Madrid at once to clinch the affair with the Duke of Cadiz. All this was done without any intimation to us of his designs; on the contrary, Jarnac was deceiving Palmerston here, at the very time all this intrigue was working at Madrid. The nocturnal Council was held, and the young Queen compelled, much against her inclination, to accept as her husband a miserable creature, whom she dislikes and despises. They told her if she did not take him she should not be married at all. He is known to be imbecile, and supposed to be impotent; but it is possible in this latter respect the world may be mistaken, and that he may be the means, after all, of continuing a race of imbeciles, of which the Royal family of Spain has generally consisted. As to the other child, though policy would forbid the banns, she is well enough off. The Duc de Montpensier is probably a far better husband in all ways than she would have found elsewhere, and to be transplanted to Paris and made a member of such a family as that of Louis Philippe, people who have brains and hearts, is a blessed lot for her in comparison with that of her elder sister. But without any question the manner in which all this has been done is odious and offensive to the last degree, and of necessity puts an end to all the intimacy which has existed between the two Governments and the two Courts. It has been a great damper to the Queen's engouement for the House of Orleans, for she fully enters into the feelings and sentiments of her Ministers upon the whole question. She wrote to the Queen of the French a letter, in which (though I suppose in very measured terms) she made known her thoughts. We have done all we can do with propriety and dignity in such a case. The long and short of it is that we have been tricked and deceived, but we cannot quarrel outright about it. We have remonstrated and given our opinion upon it, but the matter has now proceeded too far to be stopped, and Louis Philippe would not be such a fool as not to clutch the prize, when he has subjected himself to all the odium, nor could he now retract if he would. SPANISH INTRIGUES. At Madrid and in Spain the French alliance is very unpopular, but the Government is sold to Christina; the Cabinet is nothing but a knot of her satellites; Munoz, Isturitz, Mon, and Pidal are all leagued together with Bresson, the French Ambassador; the Cortes is packed, the Press is gagged; the people cannot make themselves heard. The elements of disorder are, however, scattered about. In the midst of a chaos of intrigue and anger and dissatisfaction, the Pretender has escaped from France, and Narvaez has been recalled to Madrid. He goes with the privity of the King, and the two worthies have an understanding together; but while the wily King thinks to make the brutal Spaniard his tool, the Spaniard, not less wily, quite as unscrupulous, more passionate and vindictive, and swelling with an ambition of his own, is gone back with a resolution to play a very different part from what is expected of him—to throw over Louis Philippe and Christina, rouse the sentiment of national independence and hatred of France, and deliver his country from the yoke of French domination or influence. I saw Clarendon for a few minutes on Tuesday, who showed me a very curious and by no means ill-written letter from Narvaez, setting forth these designs, but saying that he must proceed with great caution in order to ensure success. This letter was written in Spanish to Madame Marliani at Paris (from whom and her husband he seems to have no secrets), and she translated it into French and sent it to Clarendon. It will be exceedingly curious to watch the progress of these complicated affairs. Louis Philippe, while accomplishing his darling scheme, may find that he has over-reached himself and plunged into a sea of troubles. Both Palmerston and Clarendon attach far greater political importance to the Montpensier marriage than I am disposed to do; they think it will rivet French influence on Spain. I think (though it may do so) that it is more likely to arouse and keep alive the jealousy of French influence. There can be no doubt that it is the interest of Louis Philippe to prevent the triumph of constitutional principles in Spain, and to make the Government as arbitrary as he can; while it is ours to promote their ascendency, because the more free the nation becomes, the less will they endure the domination of France. He has seen this all along, and I have not much doubt that what Palmerston told me about the Quadruple Alliance is true. He said that when he proposed it to Talleyrand, the latter jumped at it. He said, 'This is the very thing we most desire. What I want is to sign something, no matter what, with you, that our names should appear together in some public act demonstrative of our union.' Accordingly the Quadruple treaty was signed. It answered the end. The other Governments took alarm at the union between France and England, and began to make advances to France. Then Louis Philippe, having got all the good he expected out of this treaty, turned his thoughts to the object of improving his relations with the other Powers who had hitherto treated him so coldly. Pozzo went to him and remonstrated with him on the Quadruple treaty, and he replied (so Palmerston says), 'Mon cher, je vous donne ma parole d'honneur que je n'ai signé le traité que pour ne pas l'exécuter.' It seems hardly credible that he should have so broadly announced his intentions, but whether he said it or no, he acted in exact conformity with the speech that is attributed to him, for it was nothing but the connivance of the French Government in the transport of stores from France to the Carlists which kept the war alive so long, and as soon as that connivance ceased the war was brought to an end. Jarnac tells people here that Palmerston wanted the Coburg alliance, which is certainly false, and he must know it to be so. He went down to Broadlands the other day with M. Dumont, and on that occasion Palmerston is said to have told him that 'it was the first time a King of France had broken his word,' but it is hardly possible he should have said this, though it may be true. 141 THE QUEEN'S INTEREST IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Between this Spanish question and the increasing destitution in Ireland, the Government are very uneasy, and Lord John particularly is very nervous and alarmed. They are now discussing the question of calling Parliament together in order to ask for money, for the Irish are clamorous for money, and Lord John is indisposed to make any considerable advances without the sanction of Parliament, but it would be very unpopular and very impolitic to assemble Parliament, and for such a purpose. October 7th. —At the Grove the last two days, with Lord and Lady Lansdowne, Panizzi, and a Spaniard with a name like this—Buschenthal, 142 really an Alsatian, I believe, and the Hollands. Clarendon told me some things I had not heard before relating to the Spanish and other questions; among others about the Queen and Palmerston, which is remarkable, because it proves two things: one, that the Queen takes a more serious and prominent part in business than I was aware of; and the other, that Palmerston's independent action in the Foreign Office has received a complete and final check. It is pretty clear that although John Russell is so different from Melbourne, Palmerston had resolved to make an attempt to go on in his old way. It was about the end of August that he wrote a despatch to Bulwer of a very important character, both with regard to the sentiments of England on the marriage question and the relations which he wished Bulwer to establish with the Progressista party. This despatch he sent to John Russell, requesting it might be immediately returned that he might send it off. It reached John Russell on a Sunday morning as he was going to church. He was not at all pleased at the hour and the day on which it was sent to him, and he kept it till the next day. He then returned it to Palmerston with an intimation that such a despatch could by no means go without being previously submitted to the Queen. He sent it to the Queen, who kept it two days and then returned it with her own comments and objections. Her letter was remarkably well written, and all the objections concisely but ably put, and it exhibited a very correct knowledge of the state of parties in Spain. The consequence of the Queen's letter was that John Russell assembled Palmerston, Lord Lansdowne, and Clarendon at his house, where they discussed the matter for two hours, and finally agreed on a letter to be written in place of that which Palmerston had first composed. It was divided into two parts and into two separate despatches. Though they did not separate till past twelve at night, Palmerston re-wrote these despatches before he went to bed, and the next morning they were again sent to the Queen, who returned them with her approbation. But on my expressing my surprise at this, Clarendon told me that the Baroness Lehzen had told him long ago that the Queen kept a journal in which she entered everything remarkable that came under her notice, with her own observations and thoughts thereupon, and that after every important debate she consulted all the newspapers, and taking what appeared to her the best reports of the most remarkable speeches, she made a précis from them of the whole. Nothing, it appears, can exceed her indignation and that of the Prince at the conduct of the King of the French, and she spoke of it to Clarendon in the most unmeasured terms. The entente cordiale is at an end, and can hardly be revived. 'He did not write to me himself,' she said, 'but made the Queen write. I don't think they will be much pleased with my answer.' I heard also a miserable subterfuge of Guizot's, for which I feel quite sorry and ashamed. He gave (either to Normanby or to William Hervey) a positive assurance that there was no design of making the marriages simultaneous, of marrying the Infanta at the same time as the Queen. When he was subsequently called to account for this fresh piece of falsehood and deceit, he was not ashamed to descend to so paltry a subterfuge as to say that he never intended anything but that they were not to be married by one ceremony , that they were not to stand at the altar together ! 143 He had much better have brazened it out, and said that it had not been originally intended, but that they had changed their minds. Peel met John Russell at Windsor. He came one day and Lord John went away the next, which was a judicious way of managing their invitations. He told Palmerston that he and Aberdeen and Graham were as indignant at what had passed and at the conduct of the King and Guizot, as any of the Ministers could be, and I saw a letter from Graham to George Lewis in the same strain. INDIGNATION AT THE SPANISH MARRIAGES. London, November 4th. —The last month has as usual been spent in and about Newmarket, and left neither time nor inclination for anything but racing occupations. I have not much to say about politics. The last month or two have been occupied with the Spanish marriages, Irish distresses and disturbances, and the question of the opening of the ports and the meeting of Parliament. In respect to the first, the King and Guizot, having accomplished their end, are now anxious to make it up with us, but they find this not so easy. All sorts of conciliatory attempts have been made through Jarnac, Madame de Lieven, myself, and others, which have been very coldly met. Jarnac sent to John Russell a letter of Guizot's, in which he spoke slightingly of Palmerston. Lord John wrote an answer expressing his own entire concurrence with Palmerston, and his view of the conduct of the French Government, an excellent letter, I am told. Madame de Lieven wrote to me, begging me to go to Paris, where I might do a great deal of good. I wrote her a long letter telling her all I thought, and how unanimous all parties and public men were here, and showed my letter to the Palmerstons, who were very well pleased with it. In Ireland Bessborough has done admirably well, with a mixture of wisdom and firmness which has gained him great applause. Even Lord Roden says he is the best Lord-Lieutenant they ever had. The state of Ireland meanwhile is most deplorable, not so much from the magnitude of the prevailing calamity as from the utter corruption and demoralisation of the whole people from top to bottom; obstinacy, ignorance, cupidity, and idleness overspread the land. Nobody thinks of anything but how they can turn the evil of the times to their own advantage. The upper classes are intent on jobbery, and the lower on being provided with everything and doing nothing. It sickens and disgusts me, and it is necessary to bear constantly in mind how much we have to reproach ourselves for letting Ireland become so degraded and corrupt to endure the spectacle with any sort of patience. November 20th. —Some days ago Lady Palmerston got from Palmerston the correspondence between him and Guizot, which was printed for the Cabinet, and gave it me to read. There were three notes: Palmerston's first against the marriage before it took place; Guizot's case for himself and against us; and Palmerston's elaborate reply to the latter, which is certainly very able and conclusive, and exposes with great force the shuffling, tricking, and unfair conduct of the French Cabinet. I presume when Parliament meets these papers will appear, when the world may judge of them. The point on which I think Palmerston fails to make a case, and which he was imprudent in putting forward, was that of the Treaty of Utrecht. I think he has there no locus standi , and such is Aberdeen's opinion. It is the more to be regretted that he brought this forward, because it was of great importance that he and Aberdeen should be of one mind throughout the matter, besides which I have very little doubt that when Parliament meets, and the question is discussed, Brougham will come down to the House of Lords and make a very powerful speech against the Government on this point of the case. If he does, there is nobody to answer him, and Clarendon takes the same view of it that I do. Brougham has written a long, rambling, absurd letter to Clarendon, the object of which is to complain of Normanby's conduct in not going to the reception, and generally of the impolicy of quarrelling with the French Government, of course written for Louis Philippe and Guizot. Clarendon wrote him a very good answer. COUNCIL OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER. A great uproar has been made here by the appointment of a council for the Duchy of Lancaster, Graham and Lincoln being on it. Both Whigs and Protectionists were very angry, and fancied it was a political move and a sign of coalition. It has been misunderstood, but it is a pity the thing was done at all, and there is an awkwardness about it. It seems very absurd that Graham should be selected to be a sort of land steward to the Duchy of Lancaster. The simple truth, however, is that it was a fancy of the Queen's, or rather of the Prince's, and nothing more. They found that a council had worked well in the Duchy of Cornwall, and that the revenue was improved, and they thought similar machinery might produce similar effects in the other duchy; and next they took it into their heads that nobody would do their business so well as Graham, so John Russell, willing to please them, made no objection. Graham, however, when appealed to, refused, and was only induced to accept the office by very pressing entreaties from George Anson, and its being made a matter of personal favour to the Queen and Prince. The Duke of Bedford was the man they wanted to appoint, but he declined, because the management of his own affairs left him no time to attend to any others. November 23rd. —The Cracow affair 144 has made a great sensation in France, and puzzled Guizot not a little. He now feels the embarrassment of having quarrelled with us, and is obliged to make overtures to us, which is rather mortifying to him, and in which our Government find great matter for exultation. It was suspected here that Guizot, in order to conciliate the Northern Courts, would give in to their violation of the Treaty of Vienna, but it turns out quite otherwise. Probably he does not dare; but be this as it may, Jarnac came down to the Foreign Office on Saturday when the Cabinet was sitting, and sent in a note stating that the matter was sufficiently urgent to induce him to 'poursuivre Palmerston même dans le sein du Conseil,' and stating that he was ordered by Guizot to go forthwith to him, and beg to know his sentiments on the transaction, and to convey to him those of the French Government; in short, to invite confidential intercourse with a view to joint action. The Cabinet were mightily pleased at Guizot's being reduced to the necessity of thus appealing to us. They resolved, however, to take a somewhat dry and stately, though civil tone. Palmerston had received an intimation from Metternich of what the three Northern Courts had resolved to do, in rather a peremptory style, and he had already written an answer and submitted it to the Cabinet. It was to the effect that he was bound to protest against this violation of the treaty, and that 'jusqu'à présent' he had not seen any evidence of the facts on the strength of which they had grounded the necessity for what they had done. The answer was as strong as it is advisable to make any document, which there is no intention of following up by any action. This note was to be submitted to the Queen, and on its return from her to be sent off to Vienna. The answer to Jarnac was to be that we entirely disapproved of what had been done, and he was to be furnished with a copy of Palmerston's note, informing him that it had been already despatched to Vienna, thus concurring in opinion with Guizot, but acting independently. There seemed to me to be too much disposition to exhibit marked coldness, and to repulse any attempt at reconciliation; and I told Clarendon that as we must make it up sooner or later, I thought it much better to deal with the Cracow question in such a manner as to enable its being made the means of a rapprochement . The fear is that Palmerston will say or write twitting and irritating notes, and so keep alive the feud. THE ANNEXATION OF CRACOW. November 27th. —On Tuesday I passed the day in the Court of Queen's Bench to hear the case of Lewis v. Ferrand, 145 and had the pleasure of hearing Ferrand get a severe drubbing. Thesiger made a capital speech for Lewis, and the Court refused to hear his junior, and gave judgement directly, condemning Ferrand very strongly and absolving Lewis completely. It was particularly satisfactory, because I was the instigator of the motion for a criminal information, and but for me Lewis would not have done it. He was afraid to move, and his friends and relations were afraid for him. I alone put pluck into him and ' brought him to the scratch .' November 28th. —Yesterday I heard a great deal about foreign politics. Clarendon brought me a letter from Howden, who writes to him constantly from Paris. There is an idea now taken up by the French papers that the King has been all along cognisant of the intentions of the three Courts about Cracow, and has himself conducted an underhand intrigue with Flahault about it; that Flahault got leave of absence in order not to be placed in the false position of not objecting , the King having secretly instructed him to laisser faire , and give them to understand that he must talk big, but that they were not to mind that, and to count on his doing nothing. This Howden does not believe, but Clarendon does. He saw yesterday a M. Grimblot, a violent partisan of Thiers, who hates the King and Guizot, and who told him he believed this story to be true; and, moreover, that if Guizot lost his place in the scramble that is likely to take place, and Thiers and Co. come in, there was nothing they would not do and no sacrifice they would not make to renew the English alliance, that all France wished for it, and that the estrangement had frightened them: 'nous avons peur' he said. This Clarendon swallowed down, though it seems to me so base and despicable an avowal that it must be false. It is an attempt at cajolery, coarse and overdone, to ingratiate the Thiers party with our Government. Clarendon thinks, however, that the above story of the King is true, and he rests his belief on the fragment of an intercepted letter from Princess Metternich; but it requires more confirmation than this. Delane arrived with a long letter he had received from Aberdeen, very just, sound, and sensible, very moderate towards Palmerston, and urging Delane to support him. He declared his belief in the sincerity of the convictions on which Guizot had acted, was satisfied that if he (Aberdeen) had remained in office the marriage would not have taken place, or at least not in the manner it did. He repudiated the construction put on the Treaty of Utrecht, and regretted its having been brought forward. CONVERSATIONS WITH M. DE JARNAC. Last night, at the Duchess of Gloucester's ball, I met Jarnac and had at least an hour's conversation with him. He was in low spirits at the state of affairs, much disappointed at the rejection of his overture for a joint action about Cracow, complained of the inconvenience and the impolicy of it, that it was more our interest than theirs, that they were proposing to us to assist in tying up their own hands, and that such articles as had recently appeared in the 'Chronicle,' taken in conjunction with this rebuff , as it must be considered (this was not his word), would make a great sensation in France, be regarded as indicative of a hostile feeling, and seriously widen the breach. He admitted that Palmerston's personal communication with him had been very civil. Palmerston had asked him if he had any remark to make on our despatch to Lord Ponsonby, and seemed to expect some, but he said he had none. We discussed all the questions at issue, and in a great deal that he said I was quite disposed to agree with him. He dwelt on the difficulty of getting over the deliberate and repeated demands for renunciation made both to France and Spain, where it must be well known that a compliance with such demands was utterly impossible and not to be expected. However, even in this point the French Court is trying to amuse us, for Clarendon received a letter from Billing (an âme damnée of Louis Philippe and Guizot) suggesting that we should open a negotiation with Spain for a renunciation there, and confirmation by the Cortes of a resignation of the eventual rights of the Infanta and her family, an absurdity too gross to impose on anybody. I told Jarnac that if the French Court had gone about their designs with something more of boldness and frankness, and in a more direct and straightforward manner, they would have accomplished all their ends without any risk or difficulty, and have averted the consequences that have followed. If the King had acted in bonâ fide concert with us about the marriage of the Queen, and from the first declared his intention to marry his son to her sister, making no engagements and conditions, but merely acting openly and honourably, all would have gone well, and everything he desired would have been accomplished, for so little did people here care about or object to the Montpensier marriage that it would have been impossible to get up the steam of public opinion, or to goad the nation into a quarrel on the marriage itself. Jarnac said, with an affected naïveté , 'You mean if the Queen had been married to Prince Leopold?' I said, 'I mean no such thing; why, you know perfectly well that we never had any such design or wish, that not even the Court wished it. The Queen and the Prince did not wish for it, and the Government have all along discouraged and repudiated it. Your case, in fact, involves of necessity a charge against us, which we say is unfounded, and you attempt to defend your own good faith by impugning ours. You admitted the obligation you contracted, but affirm that it was conditional; that we bound ourselves by a reciprocal obligation, which we broke, and that this breach of ours released you from yours. You are half an Englishman yourself, and you know enough of the state of opinion in England and of the morality of public men to be aware that any underhand proceeding or intrigue, any conduct different from that which is avowed, is absolutely impossible here. The publicity which is given to everything, and the responsibility of public men to public opinion, render such conduct out of the question; therefore when we told you, as we have done all along, that we did not encourage this marriage, you knew it to be true.' I then recapitulated all that had passed, to which he could only reply that he could tell me a great deal more, but that was not the place and the moment, for Lady Palmerston was then sitting very near us. I told him, however, that though under existing circumstances we could not consent to a joint action, we did not want to bouder ; that he must not regard the 'Morning Chronicle' as the exponent of the sentiments of the Cabinet, still less of the country; that the articles were much disapproved of, and that if they would have patience the cogent interests of the two nations to be on good terms would infallibly bring the Governments together likewise, though the same sort of intimacy could never exist again. PEEL'S RESOLUTION NOT TO TAKE OFFICE. Bowood, December 12th. —Came here on Tuesday; on Monday saw the Duke of Bedford, who told me a scrap or two of information not very new, but which he imparts in this way when he thinks of it. He was just come from Arundel; the Queen and Prince Albert have got on vastly good terms with Lord John. He had lately met Lord Hardwicke, who told him that in September he had called on Peel in his way from Longshawe, and had a great deal of conversation with him, in the course of which Peel told him that when he went to the Queen to take leave of her on quitting office, he said he had a request to make to her which she must beforehand promise him to grant, that he must not be denied. She said she should be glad to comply with any request of his if she could. He then said that the request he had to make to her was that she would never again at any time or under any circumstances ask him to enter her service. He did not say what Her Majesty's answer was. That Peel meant this as he said it I have no doubt, but his remaining in the House of Commons is rather inconsistent if such is his determination, and the best thing he could have done would have been to go to the House of Peers; that would have been a dignified retirement from political power. The Duke of Wellington is on excellent terms with these Ministers, and better satisfied with them than with his old colleagues in respect to the defences of the country. It seems that not very long ago such angry communications took place between the Duke and Peel on that subject, that the Government was very near being broken up, and would have been if Arbuthnot had not interfered and set it right. So at least Arbuthnot told the Duke of Bedford. Since I came here I have read Guizot's last note in reply to Palmerston's long one. It is a very poor performance, and a shuffling as well as insufficient answer. Clarendon says that this note is very different from the one which Guizot wrote and submitted to his Cabinet; that his note was so mutilated and altered that Guizot was excessively angry, and disposed to refuse to send it, but that he was induced to let it go by the extravagant eulogiums that were passed upon it by the King and the rest, and by their assurances that it was a masterpiece of diplomatic reasoning. Madame de Lieven had told my brother that she understood all who had seen it thought it most convincing and triumphant. Prince Albert told this story to John Russell, who supposes that he got it from Leopold. Lord John also told Clarendon how cleverly he had managed to get the Duke of Wellington to do a gracious and popular act, which he has hitherto always roughly refused, the bestowal of decorations on the Peninsular soldiers. He advised the Queen to write to the Duke and express her own wish that it should be done. He replied with great alacrity, and expressed his readiness to carry her commands into execution. She then wrote again, and said she wished his name to be connected with the decoration in some way or other. He replied again in a very good letter that he hoped to be allowed to decline this distinction, that he had already been honoured and rewarded far beyond his deserts, and that he was only too happy to have been deemed to have rendered any service to his sovereigns and his country. Lord John, however, is resolved that his name and exploits shall in some way be introduced into the inscription, whatever it may be. But the subject that has most occupied everybody here is Ireland. Charles Wood brought down all his papers, and has been constantly doing business with his two colleagues. He showed me a very good paper he had drawn up for the Cabinet, setting forth all that had been done, the present state of things, and the remedies he proposes to adopt, the legislative measures to be submitted to Parliament. His views are very sound, and I expect his measures will be well received. But the state of Ireland is to the last degree deplorable, and enough to induce despair: such general disorganisation and demoralisation, a people with rare exceptions besotted with obstinacy and indolence, reckless and savage—all from high to low intent on doing as little and getting as much as they can, unwilling to rouse and exert themselves, looking to this country for succour, and snarling at the succour which they get; the masses brutal, deceitful, and idle, the whole state of things contradictory and paradoxical. While menaced with the continuance of famine next year, they will not cultivate the ground, and it lies unsown and untilled. There is no doubt that the people never were so well off on the whole as they have been this year of famine. Nobody will pay rent, and the savings banks are overflowing. With the money they get from our relief funds they buy arms instead of food, and then shoot the officers who are sent over to regulate the distribution of relief. While they crowd to the overseers with demands for employment, the landowners cannot procure hands, and sturdy beggars calling themselves destitute are apprehended with large sums in their pockets. We are here all of opinion that some tremendous catastrophe is inevitable. The evil is not in course of diminution, and what will happen, and when it will happen, God only knows; but there must and will be some tremendous convulsion, and that before very long. STATE OF IRELAND. THE END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON INDEX A bbotsford, 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 Château 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,' fête 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 B ackhouse, 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, Jérôme, 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 ; recetion 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., fête 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 C abul, 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 Cécille, 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 ; fête 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 Hôtel Lambert, iii. 44 D alhousie, 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 E astern 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, Château 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 F aubourg St. Germain, political feeling in the, iii. 42 Faucher, M. Léon, 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'état 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 G aliera, Duchesse de, ball at the house of the, iii. 35 Garnier Pagès, 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; Jérôme 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; 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 H abeas 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 Head, Right Hon. Sir Edmund, Poor Law Commissioner, ii. 60 Head, Right Hon. Sir Francis Bond, position of, i. 166; book by, 174 Heidelberg, visit to, ii. 175 Herbert, Right Hon. Sidney, in the Cabinet, ii. 267 Hereford, Bishop of, appointment of, iii. 109, 112; consequent disputes, 114 Herefordshire, state of the constituency, iii. 463 Herrenheim, Château de, visit to the, ii. 287 Herries, Right Hon. John C., President of the Board of Control in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451 Hertford, Marquis of, the, death of, ii. 90 ; account of, 91 , 92 ; will of, disputed, 111 ; will case at the Judicial Committee, 231 Hervey, Lord William, pamphlet by, suppressed, ii. 130 Hesse, the Elector of, at Ems, ii. 287 Hillingdon, visit to, ii. 121 Hobhouse, Right Hon. Sir John Cam, conversation with, i. 241; President of the Board of Control, ii. 405 Hodgson, Mr., i. 48 Holland, Right Hon. Lord, objects to Lord Palmerston's Eastern policy, i. 308, 309; on the Eastern Question, 325, 329; death of, 341; M. Guizot's estimate of, 370 Holland, Lady, death of, ii. 306 ; character of, 307 Holland House, dinner at, i. 152; anecdotes of George Selwyn, 217; anecdotes, 245; dinner at, after Lord Holland's death, 367; anecdotes, 368; death of John Allen, ii. 153 Hook, Rev. Mr. (afterwards Dean of Chichester), preaches before the Queen, i. 116 Horsman, Mr., duel of, with Mr. Bradshaw, i. 254, 255 Hôtel de Ville, ball at the, iii. 42 Howick, Lord, see Grey, Earl Hudson, Mr., 'The Railway King,' ruin of, iii. 273 Hullah, John, Mr., system of teaching vocal music, i. 372; choral meeting at Exeter Hall, ii. 97 'Hunchback, The,' amateur performance of, ii. 96 Huntington, William, S.S., story of, i. 369 Huskisson, Right Hon. William, anecdote of, and Sir Robert Peel, iii. 216; conduct of, on the East Retford franchise, 424 Hutt, Mr., motion of, on the African squadron, iii. 324 I ndia, the Sikh war, ii. 372 ; terminated, 380 ; retrospect of the campaign, iii. 214 ; discussions on the Governor-Generalship of, iii. 87; Governor-Generalship offered to Sir James Graham, 92 Inverary, visit to, iii. 292 Irby, Mr., death of, ii. 115 Ireland, administration of Lord Normanby, i. 176; state of, ii. 197 ; debate on, 228 , 230 ; division, 232 ; Mr. Greville's book on the 'Policy of England to,' 259 , 263 ; publication of book, 274 ; criticisms on, 275 ; opinions of the press on, 284 ; potato failure, 301 ; state of, 375 , 426 , 434 , iii. 71 ; Lord-Lieutenancy discussed, 77 , 80 ; plan for abolishing the office, 80 ; discussions on the Lord-Lieutenancy of, 81 - 85 ; critical state of, 103 ; Government measures, 104 , 106 ; seditious state of, 156 , 160 ; plans for improvement of, 167 ; affray at Limerick, 172 ; proclamation of the Lord-Lieutenant, 207 ; Habeas Corpus Act suspended, 207 ; strong measures taken, 209 ; reported outbreak, 210 ; flight of Smith O'Brien, 213 ; and capture, 215 ; Lord Clarendon's policy in, 217 ; disaffection in, 220 ; proposed remedies for, 221 ; financial difficulties in, 237 ; emigration scheme, 251 ; renewal of suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, 265 ; distress in, 267 ; relief for, 285 ; the Queen's visit to, 295 ; Encumbered Estates Act, 314 ; proposed abolition of the office of Lord-Lieutenant, 314 ; Papal Aggression, 367 Irish Arms Bill, ii. 188 , 194; proposal for renewing the, 408; given up, 410 Irish Coercion Bill, ii. 375 Irish Poor Law, iii. 69 Irish Registration Bills, i. 373; Government defeated on Lord Morpeth's Bill, 391 Isabella II., Queen of Spain, marriage of, ii. 418 , 420 ; conduct of, iii. 78; account of, 118; see Spanish Marriages Isturitz, sent away, iii. 193 J amaica Bill, the, i. 196 Jarnac, Philippe de Rohan Chabot, Comte de, First Secretary of the French Embassy in London, ii. 409 ; Spanish marriages affair, 420 , 431 ; on the annexation of Cracow, 430 ; details of the Spanish marriages, iii. 6; on Lord Normanby, Lord Palmerston, and M. Guizot, 56 Jekyll, Mr., pun of, ii. 232 Jersey, Right Hon. Earl of, the, Master of the Horse, ii. 37 Jervis, Right Hon. Sir John, Attorney-General, difficulty about his son's election, iii. 122 Journal, reflexions on keeping a, i. 36 Judge and Jury Court, the, ii. 123 Judicial Committee, the, petition of apprentices from British Guiana, i. 80; Amendment Bill, 273; suggestions for, 274; petition of the Serjeants-at-Law, 156-160; James Wood's Will case, ii. 28 ; Lord Brougham's Bill, 225 ; working of, 226 ; Vice-Presidency of, 227 ; Lord Hertford's Will case, 231 ; the Gorham case, iii. 300-304; judgement, 323 Junius, letters of, proposed new edition of, ii. 346 ; Macaulay's opinion on, 416 K ay, Dr. (afterwards Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, Bart.), visit to Poor Law school of, i. 230; Battersea schools, ii. 86 Kelburne, Viscount (afterwards Lord Glasgow), racing transactions, ii. 160 Kent, H.R.H. the Duchess of, conversation of, with Princesse Lieven, i. 15, 16 King, Locke, Mr., motion of, for the extension of the suffrage, iii. 378 Kisseleff, Count, and M. Guizot, iii. 46 Kossuth, in England, iii. 413; reception of, 414; speeches of, 416 L abouchere, Right Hon. Henry, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, i. 171; Chief Secretary for Ireland, ii. 405 ; afterwards Vice-President of the Board of Trade, 405 Ladies of the Bedchamber, affair of the, i. 201, 209; steps taken (1841) to avert recurrence of difficulty, ii. 7 , 8 Lahore, death of the King of, i. 360 Lakes, the English, visit to, iii. 409 Lamartine, 'Histoire des Girondins,' iii. 111; greatness of, in the French revolution, 141; reply to the Irish deputation, 161 Lambert, Hôtel, account of the, iii. 44 Lambeth, dinner at, i. 99 Lancaster, Duchy of, appointment of a council for, ii. 427 Langdale, Right Hon. Lord, at the Judicial Committee, ii. 266 Lansdowne, Right Hon. Marquis of, Lord President of the Council, ii. 405 ; defence of Lord Palmerston, iii. 174; declines the Premiership, 243; and Count Colloredo, 289; on Reform, 414 Lansdowne House, ball at, i. 282 'Lays of Ancient Rome,' publication of, ii. 116 Ledru Rollin, iii. 153 Lehzen, Baroness, the, i. 21; at Windsor, 246; leaves Windsor, ii. 110 Le Marchant, Sir Denis, anecdote, iii. 75 Lemoinne, M., iii. 240 Lemon, Mr., ii. 162 Lesseps, M., Consul at Barcelona, iii. 38 Lewis, Right Hon. George Cornewall, Lewis v. Ferrand, ii. 429 ; mission of, to Netherby, iii. 411, 412; Herefordshire election, 463 Lichfield, Rt. Hon. Earl of, quarrel of, with Mr. Wallace, i. 29 Liège, visit to, ii. 166 Lieven, Princesse, audience of the Queen, i. 15; of the Duchess of Kent, 15; and Lady Palmerston, ii. 130 ; account of interview between Guizot and Thiers, 287 ; on the Spanish marriage disputes, iii. 18; conversations with, 36, 42, 48; flight of, 137; account of the Revolution (1848), 137-141; on French affairs, 153; dines with Lord Palmerston, 157 Limerick, affray at, iii. 172 Lincoln, Rt. Hon. Earl of (afterwards fifth Duke of Newcastle), in the Cabinet, ii. 267 ; Woods and Forests in Sir R. Peel's Administration, 37 Lines cut on an hotel window, ii. 16 Literature, evils of inferior, iii. 208 Livy, character of Hannibal, i. 57 Logan, Dr., iii. 126 London, Bishop of, at Gorhambury, ii. 111 , 112 ; charge of, 112 ; dispute of, with the Hon. and Rev. William Capel, 113 Lonsdale, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the, Lord President of the Council in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451 Lord Mayor, the, and the picture of the Queen's First Council, i. 79, 82 Lords, House of, debate on Canadian Rebellion, i. 49; debates on the Canada Bill, 51-53; skirmish between Lords Melbourne and Lyndhurst, 68; violence of Lord Brougham, 71; debate on the Coolie question, 73; appeal of Small v. Attwood, 83; debate on affairs in Spain, 102; debate on the naval instructions, 111; the Bishops on the Ecclesiastical Discipline Bill, 120; attack on Lord Durham's Ordinance, 123; review of session of 1838, 126; the Turton case, 170; Lord Roden's motion on the state of Ireland, 175; debate on the Bedchamber affair, 211, 212; Lord Melbourne declines to make Radical concessions, 213; debate, 213; majority against proposed Committee of Council on Education, 224; debate on Irish policy of the Government, 228; naturalisation of Prince Albert, 259; debate on the China question, 286; St. Sulpice question, 388; debate on the Address (1841), ii. 31 ; vote of thanks to Lord Ashburton, 152 ; debate on Lord Roden's motion, 194 ; Lord Aberdeen's Scotch Church Patronage Bill, 206 , 207 ; Lord Brougham's Judicial Committee Bill, 225 , 234 ; debate on the Corn Laws, 370 ; debate conciliatory to France, iii. 39; defeat of the Protectionists, 59; debate on the Enlistment Bill, 77; Government beaten on the Diplomatic Bill, 126; opening of the session (1849), 263; Sicilian arms affair, 276; debate on the Navigation Bill, 287; affair of Lord Roden, 310, 312; debate and division on the Pacifico affair, 341; Lord Torrington's defence, 402 Louis Philippe, King, policy of, on the Eastern Question, i. 339; receives Queen Victoria at the Château d'Eu, ii. 196 , 200 ; on Spanish affairs, 200 ; aversion of, to Lord Palmerston, 345 ; shot at by Lecomte, 388 ; letter to M. Guizot, 414 ; conduct of, in the affair of the Spanish marriages, 418 - 423 ; Cracow affair, 429 ; at the Tuileries, iii. 35; and Danton, anecdote of, 111; fall of, 135; arrival of, in England, 137; as Comte de Neuilly, 137; conduct of, during the Revolution, 139, 143; narrative of the Revolution, 150; at Claremont, 154; letter of, on the Spanish marriages, 168; courtesy of Queen Victoria to, 186; on the French generals, 205; reported communication from M. Thiers, 239; interview with Lord Clarendon, 239; and Admiral Cécille, 268; M. Malac's mission, 328; death of, 364 Lowther, Rt. Hon. Lord, Postmaster-General, ii. 37 Ludlow, visit to, i. 217; castle of, 218 Lushington, Rt. Hon. Dr., negotiation of, with the Duke of Wellington, i. 278 Luttrell, Mr., death and character of, iii. 425 Lyndhurst, Rt. Hon. Lord, and Lord Melbourne, i. 69; judgement of, in Small v. Attwood, reversed, 80; anecdote of, and Lord Brougham, 160; at Gore House, 255; Lord Chancellor in Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37 ; exchange of patronage with Lord Ripon, 413 ; reply to Lord G. Bentinck, 413 , 415 Lynedoch, Lord, at Woburn, ii. 46 M acaulay, Rt. Hon. Thomas Babington, return of, from India, i. 112; on the state of parties, 112; talents of, 121; elected at Edinburgh, 215; 'Grote and his wife,' 215; speech of, 215; a saying of Lord Brougham's, 240; conversational powers of, 367; Mr. Henry Taylor's remark on, 367; anecdotes of, 368; collected ballads, ii. 60 ; at Bowood, 69 , 70 ; 'Lays of Ancient Rome,' 116 ; meets Ranke, 203 ; Maynooth speech of, 279 ; attack on the Irish Church, 282 ; repartee of, 339 ; on Junius, 416 ; History of England, iii. 252; elected at Edinburgh, 460 MacDougal, Mr., Chartist meeting, iii. 193 MacGregor, Mr., and Lord Ripon, on Free Trade, ii. 53 MacHale, Dr., appointment of, ii. 217 MacLeod, case of, i. 383 Macready as 'Richelieu,' i. 173 Maitland, General Sir Thomas, anecdote of mistaken identity, i. 285 Malac, M., mission of, to Claremont, iii. 328 Malmesbury, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the, Foreign Secretary in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451 Malvern, visit to, i. 219 Manchester, riots at, ii. 98 ; visit to, 305 'Mango,' trial of, i. 23; wins the St. Leger, 23 Manners, Rt. Hon. Lord John, First Commissioner of Works in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451 Marie Amélie, Queen, courage of, iii. 140 Marlborough, Duchess of, letters of the, ii. 67 ; anecdotes of, 67 Marliani, pamphlet by, i. 251 Mayence, visit to, ii. 169 , 174 Maynooth Grant, ii. 276 ; debate on, 279 Mehemet Ali, see Eastern Question Melbourne, Rt. Hon. Lord, adviser of the Queen, i. 22; attack of, on Lord Brougham, 33; position of the Government, 62; and Lord Lyndhurst, 69; and the Queen, 130; at Windsor, 147; resigns, 199; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-209; resumes the Government, 207; declines to make Radical concessions, 213; effect of speech, 214; on Mr. Creevey's Journal, 275; alarmed at affairs in the East, 303, 307; indecision of, 312; asleep at the Cabinet, 321; remarks on Lord Palmerston, 363; advice to the Queen, ii. 23 ; advice to Sir R. Peel on behaviour to the Queen, 39 ; attack of palsy, 116 ; failing health of, 214 ; and the Court of Rome, 217 ; on O'Connell's trial, 233 ; on the Post-Office affairs, 289 ; nervous condition of, 292 ; breaks out on the Corn Laws at Windsor, 351 ; visit to, at Brocket, iii. 119; anecdote of, 121; death of, 240; character of, 241; devotion of, to the Queen, 244; compared to Sallustius Crispus, 246; conversations and opinions, 247; declaration in regard to the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 253; manuscript books of, 376 Melrose, visit to, iii. 291 Metcalfe, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, on Afghanistan, ii. 99 ; Governor-General of Canada, 117 Metternich, Prince, on the Eastern Question, i. 306; suggestion of, 325; flight of, iii. 155; fall of, 158 Milman, Very Rev. Dean, dinner at the house of, ii. 60 Minto, Rt. Hon. Earl of, the, Lord Privy Seal, ii. 405 ; mission of, to Italy, iii. 108 Miraflores, mission of, to Paris, iii. 20 Mirasol, mission of, to London, iii. 183 Mitchell, John, affray at Limerick, iii. 172; conviction of, 182 Molé, M., opinion of affairs, iii. 20; attempts to form a government, 139, 143 Molesworth, Right Hon. Sir William, moves vote of censure on Lord Glenelg, i. 72 Monmouth, visit to, i. 219; historical interest of, 219 Monmouth convicts, the, i. 261 Montgomery, Mr. Alfred, hoax of Lord Brougham's death, i. 243 Montpensier, H.R.H. Duchesse de, Infanta of Spain, marriage of the, ii. 418 ; at the Tuileries, iii. 35 ( see Spanish Marriages) 'Morning Chronicle,' the, conduct of, i. 179; ill-timed hostility of, to France, 326, 327; violent article on M. Guizot, iii. 42; attacks on Lord Aberdeen, 52; purchased by the Peelites, 128 Mounier, Baron, mission of, i. 356 Moxon, Mr., and Mr. Disraeli, iii. 75 Mulgrave, Right Hon. Earl of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, i. 30 Munster, Right Hon. Earl of, returns the keys of the Round Tower, i. 17; death of the, ii. 94 Muntz, Mr., appointed magistrate, i. 227 Murray, Sir George, asked to review the 'Wellington Despatches' in the 'Edinburgh Review,' i. 38, 57 N apier, Sir Charles, sent to India as Commander-in-Chief, iii. 274, 276, 280 Napier, Admiral, proclamation of, i. 305 Naples, insurrection at, iii. 216; Lord Palmerston's breach of neutrality, 261, 271; Lord Palmerston's claims on, 419 Napoleon, Louis, Prince (afterwards Emperor of the French), at Gore House, i. 167; success of, iii. 239; elected President of the French Republic, 253; position of, 329; coup d'état , 1851, 420; M. Thiers' account of, 443; and Lord Normanby, 441 Narvaez, intrigues of, iii. 194 Navigation Laws, the, iii. 283, 287 Netherlands, King of the, at Goodwood, ii. 287 Newcastle, fourth Duke of, dismissed from the Lord-Lieutenancy of Nottinghamshire, i. 194; letter of the, to the Lord Chancellor, 195; interview of the, with the Duke of Wellington, 195 Newport, Mayor of, the, at Court, i. 249 Newport, Chartist riot at, i. 249, 256; result of the trial, 260 Norbury, Right Hon. Earl of, murder of the, i. 157 Norman Court, visit to, i. 133 Normanby, Right Hon. Marquis of, the, succeeds Lord Glenelg at the Colonial Office, i. 161, 164; Irish administration of, 176; at a Greenwich dinner, 237; despatches relating to the Spanish marriages, iii. 17; indiscretion of, 30, 34; relations of, with M. Thiers, 35; communications of, with M. Thiers, 40; bad terms of, with M. Guizot, 43, 46; condition of the Embassy, 49; perplexity of, 58; further misunderstanding, 59, 60; the quarrel made up, 66; more blunders, 69; results in Europe of the squabble, 72; proposed as Ambassador to Rome, 108; resigns, 441, 445; and Louis Napoleon, 442 North, Right Hon. Lord, anecdote of, ii. 116 Nottinghamshire election, iii. 389 Novara, battle of, iii. 282 O akley Park, visit to, i. 218 O'Brien, Smith, return of, to Ireland, iii. 167; affair at Limerick, 172; search for, 213; capture of, 215 O'Connell, Daniel, speech of, at the 'Crown and Anchor' Tavern, i. 66, 67; declines the Mastership of the Irish Rolls, 101; speech of, 279; conduct of, on Irish measures, ii. 132 ; proclamation of, prohibiting Repeal meeting, 204 ; arrest of, 205 ; trial of, 210 , 218 ; popularity of, 214 ; advice of, on Ireland, 220 , 221 ; result of the trial of, 228 ; release of, 255 ; death of, iii. 82; career of, 85 O'Connor, Feargus, at the Chartist meeting (1848), iii. 166 Odilon Barrot, conduct of, in the French Revolution, iii. 140, 144 Orange, Princess of, the, ii. 287 Orangemen, discomfiture of, i. 30 Orford, Right Hon. Earl of (Horace Walpole), letters of the, to Sir Horace Mann, ii. 202 'Orlando' takes the Derby Stakes, ii. 250 ; the trial, iii. 228 Orleans, H.R.H. Duchesse d', iii. 35; on the proposed reconciliation between the two branches of the French Royal family, 329 Ossington, visit to, ii. 309 Ostend, passage to, ii. 166 Ovid, quotation from, i. 238 Oxford, Bishop of, anti-slavery speech of, ii. 411 ; want of tact of, 411 ; correspondence with Dr. Hampden, iii. 115 P acifico, Don, the case of, iii. 308, 311; debate on, in the House of Lords, 341 Pakington, Right Hon. Sir John, Colonial Secretary in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451 Palace, the, dinner at, i. 77; balls at, 9, 109 Palmerston, Right Hon. Viscount, and Mr. Urquhart. i. 117, 119; and the 'Portfolio,' 159; policy in the East (1840), 297-304; objections to policy of, 301; coolness of, 304; conduct of, at the outset of the Eastern Question, 308; offers to resign, 308; independence of, at the Foreign Office, 309; the Eastern Question, 312-314; at the Cabinet on the Eastern Question, 321; hostility of, to France, 326; article in the 'Morning Chronicle,' 326; triumph of, 330; note from the French Government, 335; ignores his colleagues, 345; defends Lord Ponsonby, 347; hostility to France, 347, 353; and the Tories, 363; position of, 364; settlement of the Eastern Question, 377-383; jobbing at the Foreign Office, ii. 48 ; attack on, in a Berlin newspaper, 75 ; and consequent misunderstanding, ib. ; abuses the treaty of Washington, 104 , 109 ; attacks on the Government, 105 , 106 ; and the press, 130 ; commencement of coalition with M. Thiers, 267 ; consternation in France at possible return of, to the Foreign Office, 345 ; visit of, to Paris, 383 ; letter to King Louis Philippe, 388 ; Foreign Secretary, 405 ; incipient disputes with France, 409 ; Spanish marriages, 418 , iii. 6 ; despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, ii. 424 ; conversation with, on the Spanish marriages, iii. 15; conduct discussed by M. Guizot, 20, 26; effect of despatch, 25; M. Guizot's complaints of, 30; mismanagement of, 40; and the 'Morning Chronicle,' 52; threatens a rupture with France, 62; consequences in Europe, 72; anecdote of, 121; dinner to M. Guizot, 157; despatch to Sir H. Bulwer, 169; conduct of, attacked in the House of Lords, 173; omission of, 178; and the Duc de Broglie, 185; Sicilian arms affair, 261, 271, 276; attacks on, 261; and Count Colloredo, 282, 283; suppression of a despatch, 288; the Greek dispute, 308, 311; quarrels with France, 330; Baron Brunnow complains, 332; able speech of, 346; Radical dinner to, 362; conversation with, 374; and Kossuth, 413, 416; Finsbury and Islington deputation, 415; claims on Naples, 419; dismissal of, from the Foreign Office, 426; own version of the affair, 428; succeeded by Earl Granville, 433; complete account of the affair, 434; further details, 444; explanations in Parliament, 446 Palmerston, Lady, conversation with, on Eastern affairs, i. 330 Panic in the money market, iii, 99; proposed measures of the Government, 101 Panshanger, party at, ii. 415 Papal aggression, iii. 366 Paris, visit to (1847), iii. 16-50; Mrs. Austin's salon , 38; ball at the Hôtel de Ville, 42; ball at Mme. Pozzo di Borgo's, 42; visit to M. Cousin, 44; the Hôtel Lambert, 44; Mme. de Circourt's salon , 45; Mme. de Girardin's salon , 45; farewell visits, 48; Revolution (1848), 132; state of, 149, 284; fighting in the streets of, 199; details of fighting, 202; the Archbishop of, killed on a barricade, 200, 203; the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon, 420 Parke, Rt. Hon. Baron, and Lord Brougham, i. 59 Parker, Admiral, instructions to, iii. 216 Parkes, Mr. Joseph, tour of, i. 194 Parliament, dissolution of, debated, ii. 5 ; resolved on, 9 , 12 , 13 ; dissolved, 14 ; opening of (1842), 81 ; opening of, and state of parties (1844), 222 Parliamentary proceedings, see Lords, House of, and Commons, House of Payne, Knight, built Downton Castle, i. 218 Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert, informed of the moderation of Lord J. Russell, i. 188; caution of, 193; sent for by the Queen, 200; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-209; coldness of, to Lord J. Russell, 259; thrown over on the Canada Bill, by the Duke of Wellington, 294; vote of censure on the Government, ii. 10 ; sent for to Windsor, 33 ; forms an administration (1841), 37 ; conversation with the Queen, 41 ; Corn Bill (1842), 83 ; Budget, 87 ; difficulties of, 189 ; unpopularity of, 191 , 247 ; Maynooth Grant, 276 ; resignation of, 317 ; position of, 324 ; conduct of, 328 ; resumes office, 332 ; vindication of, in Mr. Greville's pamphlet, 350 , 368 ; measure for sliding-scale duties on corn, 357 ; discussions on the measure, 357 - 366 ; position of, 380 ; anecdote of, 387 ; conversation with, 389 ; assailed by the Protectionists, 392 ; behaviour to Mr. Canning, 397 ; resigns office, 401 ; resolution of, not to take office, 433 ; position of, iii. 94; unpopularity of, in Liverpool, 97; correspondence with Mr. Croker, 98; influence of, 100; position of, 146; on obstruction, 163; reluctance of, to take office, 199; anecdote of, and Huskisson, 216; conversation with Lord Clarendon, 286; on foreign affairs, 315; accident to, 347; death of, 348; character of, 349; career of, 350-358; effects of death of, 358; conduct of, on the East Retford franchise, 424 Peel, Rt. Hon. Gen. Jonathan, affronts Mr. Disraeli, ii. 388 Peel, Frederic (afterwards Rt. Hon. Sir F. Peel, K.C.M.G.), maiden speech of, iii. 288 Penryn Castle, visit to, ii. 17 Perceval, Rev. Mr., preaches before the Queen, i. 116 Pereira, Mr., lecture of, i. 78 Perez, Antonio, anecdote of a manuscript, ii. 129 Phillips, Sir Thomas, at Windsor, i. 249 Phillpotts, see Exeter, Bishop of Pigou, Mr., and the Duke of Wellington's letter on the defence of the country, iii. 107 Piscatory, M., in the French Revolution, iii. 140 Pitt, Rt. Hon. William, peerages, ii. 235 Plas Newydd, visit to Lord Anglesea at, ii. 16 Plunket, Rt. Hon. Lord, compelled to resign the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, ii. 14 Plymouth, visit to, iii. 207 Poland, reported annexation of, by Russia, iii. 4 Ponsonby, Rt. Hon. George, Irish Chancellor, i. 153; and Curran, 153 Ponsonby, Viscount, despatch of, announcing Mehemet Ali's deposition, i. 334; recall of, proposed, 346; defended by Lord Palmerston, 347; violence of, 361; conversation with, ii. 110 Pontois, M. de, communication of, to the Porte, i. 304 Porson, anecdote of, ii. 114 'Portfolio,' the, i. 117, 118, 158 Portland, third Duke of, anecdote of the, iii. 212 Portugal, Donna Maria, Queen of, iii. 79 Portugal, state of affairs in, iii. 76, 77, 79 Post Office, letters opened at the, ii. 249 ; alleged opening of Mr. Thomas Duncombe's letters, 272 ; Lord Melbourne's warrants for opening letters, 289 Pozzo di Borgo, Comtesse, ball at the house of, iii. 42 Prandi, at Burnham Beeches, iii. 122 Precedence Question, see H.R.H. Albert, Prince; Mr. Greville's pamphlet on, see Appendix, vol. i.; of ambassadors, i. 282 'President,' the, loss of, i. 391 Pritchard, Mr., and the Tahiti affair, ii. 252 Privilege Question, the, i. 257; disputes on, 270 Privy Council, position of the sons of the Sovereign, i. 274; introduction of Prince Albert, 274 Privy Council Office, correspondence with the British Museum on the missing registers, ii. 162 ; ( see Judicial Committee) Protectionist party, position of the, iii. 380 Protestant agitation, iii. 368, 369, 373 Protocol signed, 1840, i. 309 Prussia, King of, arrival of the, ii. 77 ; sight-seeing, 78 ; at the House of Lords, 81 ; lunches with Mrs. Fry. 81 Prussia, Prince of, the, flight of, iii. 155; visit of, to Queen Victoria, 179 Prussia, state of, iii. 238; retrospect of 1848, 257 'Punch,' cartoon in, iii. 407 Q uarterly Review, the, article on Sir R. Peel's policy, ii. 200 ; article on Lord Orford's letters, 202 R achel, Mlle., as Hermione, ii. 6 ; recites at Windsor Castle, 11 Radetzki, Marshal, victory of, iii. 282 Radical party, the, reduced, i. 215; dissatisfaction at Lord J. Russell, 216 Radowitz, General, invited to Windsor, iii. 372 Raglan Castle, visit to, i. 220 Railway, first time of travelling on the, i. 11; speculation, ii. 300 Ranke, Professor, breakfasts with Sir G. C. Lewis, ii. 203 Rapallo, Exchequer Bills, ii. 50 ; advanced money to Louis Napoleon, 50 Reeve, Henry, Mr., first acquaintance of, with Mr. Greville, i. 27; goes to Paris, 388; declines to make an affidavit for Lord Brougham, ii. 207 ; and King Louis Philippe, 216 ; letters of, from Paris, 345 - 347 Reform, question of, iii. 469 Repeal magistrates, the, restored, ii. 407 Revolution, the French (1848), iii. 132; details of, 138, 142 ( see France) Revolution in Austria, iii. 155, 158 Rhine, voyage up the, ii. 167 'Richelieu,' first representation of, i. 173 Riddlesworth, visit to, ii. 205 Ripon, Right Hon. Earl of, the, and Mr. Macgregor at the Board of Trade, ii. 5 ; President of the Board of Trade in Sir R. Peel's Administration, 37 ; differs with Mr. Macgregor, 53 ; exchange of patronage with Lord Lyndhurst, 413 Roden, Right Hon. Earl of, dismissed from the Commission of the Peace, iii. 310 Roebuck, Mr., vote of confidence in the Government, iii. 344 Rolfe, Right Hon. Baron (afterwards Lord Chancellor Cranworth), at Ampthill, ii. 265 ; estimate of Lord Eldon, 265 Rolle, Lord, at the Queen's Coronation, i. 107 Rome, retrospect of the year 1848, iii. 257 Romsey, church at, ii. 105 Ross, visit to, i. 219; 'The Man of,' 219 Rossi, Count, on French affairs, i. 343 Rothschild, house of the family of, at Frankfort, ii. 171 , 173 Royal Academy of Arts, lecture at the, iii. 375 Royal Institution, evening at the, i. 78 'Running Rein,' case of, ii. 250 Russell, Right Hon. Lord John, attack on the Bishop of Exeter, i. 66; finality speech of, 181; position of, 182; sentiments of moderation towards Sir R. Peel, expressed through Sir J. Graham, 183, 189; skilful speech of, 190; threatened by the Radicals, 191; slight to an Irish member, 194; letter to the electors of Stroud, 196; brings in the Jamaica Bill, 196; speech on Sir H. Fleetwood's motion, 216; note to Sir R. Peel, 259; as leader, 293; alarmed, at affairs in the East, 303, 307; opposes Lord Palmerston's policy, 312; Cabinet on the Eastern Question, 320; weakness of, 331; efforts of, to settle affairs in the East, 333; threatens to resign, 344; intentions of (1841), ii. 27 ; attack on two judges, 84 ; conversation at Holland House on the Reform Bill, 121 ; dissatisfaction of, at the American Treaty, 126 ; sent for by the Queen, 317 ; difficulties in forming a Government, 319 , 331 ; resigns, 332 ; promise to the Queen, 361 ; convokes a meeting of Whig Peers, 394 ; forms a Government, 405 ; conversation with, on French affairs, iii. 55; threatened with personal violence, 65; speech on the Irish Poor Law, 69; position of, 96; financial statement of, 126; results, 128; difficulties with Lord Palmerston, 185; West India Sugar Bill, 193; subsequent crisis, 195; peerage suggested for, 281, 285; despatch relating to the Spanish marriages, 298; Government defeated on the Pacifico affair, 341; indecision of, 342; conversation with Lord Clarendon, 361; letter on the Papal aggression, 367, 370; resigns, 378; negotiations for the formation of a government, 383; return of, to office, 389; negotiations with Sir J. Graham, 395, 399, 401; overtures to Sir J. Graham, 410, 412; dismissal of Lord Palmerston, 426, 429; details of the affair, 434, 444; explanations in Parliament, 446; resignation of, 447 Russell, Lord William, murder of, i. 284 Russell, Lord William, G.C.B., recalled from Berlin, ii. 66 Russia, the Emperor Nicholas of, visit to London, ii. 243 ; review in Hyde Park, 243 ; fête at Chiswick, 244 ; appearance of, 244 ; arrangement with the Bank of France, iii. 70; and Louis Napoleon, 441; remark of, on the British fleet, 315 Russia, measures in Poland, iii. 5; interference with, 279; complains of Lord Palmerston, 332 Russian Note, the, iii. 323 Rutland, Duke of, birthday festivities of, i. 41, 44, 45 S t. Aulaire, Marquis de, French Ambassador in London, ii. 58 ; dinner with, iii. 54 St. James's Palace, arrangements for the apartments in, i. 280 St. Jean d'Acre, capture of, i. 354 St. Leger, won by 'Mango,' i. 23 St. Leonards, Right Hon. Lord, Lord Chancellor in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451 Salamanca, battle of, Duke of Wellington's account of the, i. 39 Sale, Mrs., letter of, from Cabul, ii. 85 Salic Law, the, proposed revival of, in Spain, iii. 13 Salisbury, Right Hon. the Marquis of, Lord Privy Seal in Lord Derby's Administration, iii. 451 Salisbury Cathedral, visit to, i. 223 Sampayo, anecdote of a manuscript, ii. 129 Sandwich, Countess of, appointment of, i. 224 Sardinia, defeated by Austria, iii. 282 Schleswig-Holstein question, the, iii. 371 Schwabe, Mr., on Spain, iii. 38 Scotland, visit to, iii. 291; Balmoral, 295 Scrope, Davies, iii. 47 Seaton, Lord, see Colborne Sefton, Right Hon. Earl of, death of the, i. 138; character of the, 138, 139 Selwyn, George, anecdotes of, i. 217 Serjeants-at-law, petition of the, i. 156, 160 Serrano, Marshal, intrigues of, iii. 194 Session, review of the (1838), i. 126, (1839) 231, (1840) 291, (1842) ii. 97, 98; opening of the (1849), iii. 263 Sicily, revolution in, iii. 123; Lord Palmerston's breach of neutrality with the Government of, 261, 271, 276 Sikh war, the, ii. 372 ; termination of, 380 ; the campaign, iii. 214 Singleton, Archdeacon, death of, ii. 94 Smith, Rev. Sydney, death of, ii. 273 Smith, Bobus, death of, ii. 274 Small v. Attwood, i. 80, 81; judgement in, reversed, 83 Sobraon, victory of, ii. 380 Somerset, Lord Fitzroy (afterwards Lord Raglan), account of the Duke of Wellington's campaigns, i. 135-137 Somerset, Right Hon. Lord Granville, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37 Somnauth, Temple of, the gates of the, carried off, ii. 123 , 139 Sophia, H.R.H. Princess, death of the, iii. 184 Sotomayor, Duke of, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 169 Soult, Marshal, arrival of, in London, i. 103; at Queen Victoria's coronation, 106; reception of, 113 Southern, Mr., on Irish affairs, iii. 171 Southwell, Church at, ii. 309 Spain, termination of the Carlist war, i. 241, 242; quarrels in, ii. 73 ; insurrection in, 201 ; intrigues in, 421 ; proposed revival of the Salic Law, iii. 13; political crisis in, 45; affairs in, 78; relations with, 183; debate in the House of Commons, 190; intrigues in, 194; expulsion of Sir H. Bulwer, 169 Spanish Marriages, the, first proposals for the Queen's marriage (1838), i. 251; papers relating to the, iii. 6; detailed account of the affair, 7-11; further details, 15, 17; Princesse Lieven on the quarrels, 18; discussion with M. Guizot, 20-26, 30-33; letters relating to the, 168; beginning of the disputes, 412; account of intrigues, 418-423; indignation at, 425; conversation on, with M. de Jarnac, 431 Speakership, discussion on the, ii. 23 Spencer, Right Hon. Earl, anecdote of, when leader of the House of Commons, ii. 152 ; death of, 295 ; character of, 295 -298 Spencer, Hon. John, anecdotes of, ii. 67 Spottiswoode Gang, the, i. 31 Stade Dues, the, ii. 107 Staleybridge, riots at, ii. 98 'Standard,' the, contradicts the 'Times' on the repeal of the Corn Laws, ii. 313 Stanley, Right Hon. Lord (afterwards fourteenth Earl of Derby) at Knowsley, i. 11; Colonial Secretary in Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37 ; called up to the House of Lords, 256 ; good speech of, 395 ; replies to Lord Grey, iii. 200; Steward of the Jockey Club, 205; on the Dolly's Brae affair, 310, 312; negotiations for the formation of a Government, 381, 384, 385; attempt to form a Government, 385; failure of the attempt, 386; at Newmarket, 402 ( see Derby, Earl of) Stanley, Edward Henry, Hon. (afterwards fifteenth Earl of Derby), maiden speech of, iii. 337 Stephen, Right Hon. Sir James, position of, at the Colonial Office, i. 174 Stephens, arrest of, i. 155 Sterling, John, Mr., and Coleridge, i. 109 Stowe, sale at, iii. 216 Strachan, Lady, ii. 91 Strutt, Right Hon. Edward (afterwards Lord Belper), Railroad Bill of, iii. 93, 95 Sudeley, Lord, loses three forged Exchequer Bills, ii. 57 Sumner, Dr., appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 125 Sussex, H.R.H. Duke of, the, claim of, i. 113, 115; at dinner at Devonshire House, 278; dissatisfaction of, 279; death of, ii. 155 ; funeral of, 156 Sutton Sharpe, anecdotes, ii. 78 Sybilla, Margravine, the residence of, near Baden, ii. 184 Syria, military operations in, i. 328; affairs of, 346, 354 T ahiti affair, the, ii. 252 Talleyrand, death of, and character, i. 94; and Napoleon, ii. 193 Tavistock, Marquis of, i. 10 Taylor, Mr. Henry, paper by, on the West Indies, i. 197 Taymouth, visit to, iii. 292 Temple Church, service at the, ii. 159 Temple, Sir William, award on the claims on Naples, iii. 419 Thiers, M., resignation of, i. 343; beginning of coalition with Lord Palmerston, ii. 267 ; amicable meeting with M. Guizot, 278 , 288 ; visit to England, 298 ; interview with Lord Aberdeen, 299 ; bitterness of, towards Talleyrand, 299 ; visit to, and conversation, iii. 27-29; dinner at, 29; cordial relations of, with the British Embassy, 35; communications with Lord Normanby, 40; bitterness of, 48; conduct of, during the Revolution, 140, 144; reported communication of, to King Louis Philippe, 239; visit to London, 407; account of the coup d'état , 443 Thomson, Right Hon. Charles Poulett (Lord Sydenham), sent to Canada, i. 235; death of, ii. 117 ; abilities of, ib. Thynne, Rev. Lord John, visit to, iii, 207 'Times,' the, on the Corn Laws, i. 158; on Lord Durham's report, 163; on the Eastern Question, 324; and Lord Palmerston, 362; death of Mr. Barnes, ii. 2 ; Mr. Delane appointed editor, 3 ; communications with the Government, 200 ; Mr. Henry Reeve's article on the Duc de Bordeaux, 216 ; article announcing the repeal of the Corn Laws, 309 ; contradiction, 312 , 314 ; supports Lord J. Russell's Administration, 406 ; anecdote, iii. 75; on Lord Palmerston's breach of neutrality, 261, 272; letter of 'Carolus,' 272, 274, see Appendix B, vol. iii., letter to Cobden, Appendix A, vol. iii. Tintern Abbey, visit to, i. 221 Tocqueville, M. de, letter of, i. 362; attacked by Lord Brougham, ii. 150 ; on the state of parties in France, iii. 41 Torrington, Viscount, attack on, iii. 269; defence of, 402 Tory-Radical, a, i. 19 Tower of London, fire at the, ii. 51 Treason, High, cases of, i. 289 Treaty, July 15, 1840, for settling the affairs of the East, i. 297 ( for results of Treaty, see Eastern Question) Trench, Sir Frederic, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington, i. 106 Troy House, visit to, i. 219; built by Duke of Beaufort, 1689, 219 Tuileries, reception at the, iii. 35 Turton, Mr., appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110; appointment criticised, 158; debate on, in House of Lords, 170 U nderwood, Lady Cecilia, at dinner at Devonshire House, i. 278; created Duchess of Inverness, 282; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282 Urquhart, Mr., and Lord Palmerston, i. 117; account of, 119; the 'Portfolio,' 158 Usk Castle, visit to, i, 220 Usk salmon, i. 220 V entura, General, ii. 100 Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, accession of, i. 2; praise of, 14, 20; audience to Princesse Lieven, 15; interview of, with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, 20; visit to Queen Adelaide, 21; cordiality to Lord Melbourne, 22; picture of first Council of, 83; at a ball at the Palace, 91; Coronation of, 105, 106; two sermons, 116; and Lord Melbourne, 130; life at Windsor, 146; resignation of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, 200; the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-206; declaration of marriage of, 247; opens Parliament (1840), 253; Marriage of, 266; goes to the Ancient Concert, 275; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282; shot at, 288; on the Eastern Question, 323; visit to Nuneham and Oxford, ii. 13 ; visit to Chiswick, 14 ; visit to Woburn, 26 ; council for appointing ministers in Sir R. Peel's Administration, 37 ; admirable behaviour of, 38 ; appointments in the Household (1841), 42 , 43 ; reception of the new Ministers, 44 ; birth of the Prince of Wales, 51 ; the new Ministers, 84 ; shot at, 96 ; first visit to Scotland, 108 ; visit to the Château d'Eu, 196 , 200 ; visit to Chatsworth, 215 ; fancy ball, 283 ; absence in Germany, 292 ; sends for Lord J. Russell, 317 ; Lord J. Russell's audience, 322 , 323 ; letter on Lord Palmerston's despatch, 424 ; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434 ; good order of private affairs of, iii. 67; correspondence on the Spanish marriages, 168; visit of the Prince of Prussia to, 179; affection of, for the Orleans Royal family, 186; annoyance of, at Lord Palmerston's conduct, 289; visit to Ireland, 295; life at Balmoral, 296; on Lord Palmerston's conduct of foreign affairs, 317; sends for the Duke of Wellington, 388; on the crisis, 390 'Victoria and Albert,' the, Royal yacht, ii. 196 Vienna, outbreak at, iii. 158 Villiers, Right Hon. Charles P., correspondence with Cobden, ii. 349 Villiers, Hon. Edward, death and character of, ii. 208 , 209 Visconti, Madame, i. 365 W akefield, Mr. Edward Gibbon, appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110 Wakley, Mr., i. 60 Wales, H.R.H. Prince of, birth of, ii. 51 ; question of promotion for the officer on guard, 51 ; question of a baronetcy for the Mayor of Chester, 52 ; armorial bearings of, 63 ; gazetted Duke of Saxony, 65 Wales, North, excursion to, ii. 15 - 20 ; the inhabitants of, 19 Walewski, Count, mission of, i. 315; opinion of Lord Palmerston, iii. 418 Walpole, Rt. Hon. Spencer, position of, iii. 397; Home Secretary in Lord Derby's Administration, 451; clause in the Militia Bill, 449 Walter, John, Mr., returned for Nottingham, i. 391; succeeds to the 'Times,' iii. 64 Washington, the Treaty of, signed, ii. 101 ; discovery of a missing map, 102 ; attacked by Lord Palmerston, 101 , 104 - 106 ; controversy kept up, 109 , 111 ; dissatisfaction of Lord J. Russell at, 126 ; ratification of, 147 Wellington, Duke of, the, on operations in Canada, i. 37; on his Spanish campaigns, 37-41, 46; advice of, to the King of Hanover, 42; patriotism of, 45; on the Canada Bill, 53; comparison of, with Hannibal, 57; at the Waterloo dinner, 103; meets Marshal Soult, 105; and Mr. Croker, 105; equestrian statue of, 106; contrast to Lord Brougham, 111; panegyric on despatches of, 120, 121; with Lord Anglesey at Waterloo, 135; at Orthez, 135; at Salamanca, 136; lost his army, 136; interview of, with the Duke of Newcastle, 195; assurance of support to Lord Melbourne after moderation of the latter, 213; effect of speech of, 214; angry vein of, 225; at the Dover dinner, 237; Mr. Croker's anecdotes of, 248; serious seizure of, 267; on the Privilege Question, 270; altered appearance of, 271, 275; at Court, 278; instance of failing memory, 278; speech on the China question, 286; conversation with, 287; opposes the Canada Bill, 294; influence of, 296; on Eastern affairs, 300; illness of, 373; self-reliance of, ii. 34 ; irritability of, 43 ; chattels of, 59 ; delusions of, 61 ; meets the King of Prussia, 77 ; on events in Afghanistan, 89 , 100 , 137 ; at Exeter Hall, 97 ; opinion of Lord Ellenborough, 139 ; on the Duke of Marlborough, 192 , 193 ; Talleyrand and Napoleon, 193 ; on the evils of the press, 220 ; deference shown to, at the Cabinet, 223 ; increasing irritability of, 223 ; correspondence with Lord Haddington, 224 ; at a review, 243 ; on the Corn Laws, 351 ; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434 ; conversation with, iii. 55; reasons against taking office, 55; on the defence of the country, 76; on the Enlistment Bill, 76, 78; Wyatt's statue of, 91; failing powers of, 97; and Mr. Croker, 98; letter of, on the defence of the country, 107; preparations of, for the great Chartist meeting, 162; death of Mr. Arbuthnot, 362; sent for by the Queen, 388; death and character of, 474 Wells, visit to, iii. 207 West Indies, threatened emancipation of the, i. 84 West India question, the, iii. 175 West India Committee, iii. 187 West India Bill, iii. 193 Westminster Play 'Phormio,' ii. 216 Wharncliffe, Rt. Hon. Lord, Lord President in Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37 ; management of the Privy Council Office, 212 ; contradicts the statement of the 'Times' on the repeal of the Corn Laws, 312 - 314 ; death of, 335 Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, in society, iii. 73 Wheatstone, Mr., i. 79 Whig Government, prospects of the, i. 180; state of the party, 193; split with the Radicals, 192; Government resigns, 199; defeat of the party at the general election (1841), ii. 21 - 23 ; negotiations with the Peelites (1851), iii, 383; possible coalition with the Peelites, discussed, 437-440 Wiesbaden, visits to, ii. 171 , 285 ; theatre and society at, 172 'Wilberforce, Life of,' review of, in the 'Edinburgh Review,' i. 90 Wilberforce, Archdeacon (afterwards Bishop of Oxford), at the Grange, ii. 264 Wilde, Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice, dinner party at, iii. 125 Wilkie, David, picture of the Queen's First Council, i. 79, 82 William IV., H. M. King, as Duke of Clarence, i. 2; Lord High Admiral, 3; character of, 3; funeral of, 8 Wilton, visit to, i. 223 Windcliffe, visit to, i. 222 Windsor Castle, invitation to, i. 132; the Queen at, 146; Council at, 246; dinner at, 246; Mayor of Newport at, 249; anecdote of M. Guizot, 310; dinner in St. George's Hall, ii. 11 ; Council and dinner at, 44 , 45 Wiseman, Dr., ii. 25 ; conversation on relations with the Pope, iii. 108; manifesto of, 369 Woburn, visit of the Queen to, ii. 26 ; visit to, 46 , 47 ; party at, 76 ; fire at, 76 ; management of the estate, 110 ; contrasted with Bretby, 416 Wolfe, General, anecdote of, ii. 120 Wolff, Dr., i. 88 Wood, Right Hon. Sir Charles, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 405 ; income-tax difficulty, iii. 146 Wood, Mr., President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, dismissal of, i. 165 Wood, James, Mr., will case of, ii. 28 Worms, visit to, ii. 287 Worsley, visit to, ii. 303 Wrest, visit to, i. 250-251 Wyatt, Matthew, statue by, of the Duke of Wellington, i. 106 Wye, the river, scenery on, i. 220, 222 Wyse, Right Hon. Sir Thomas, British Minister at Athens, iii. 334; instructions to, in the Greek dispute, 334 York, Archbishop of (Hon. Edward Harcourt), death of the, iii. 102 Z ichy-Ferraris, Countess, ii. 91

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