CONTENTS
of
THE SECOND VOLUME

CHAPTER XI

 

  1. Accession of William IV.
  2. The King's Proceedings
  3. His Popularity
  4. Funeral of George IV.
  5. Dislike of the Duke of Cumberland
  6. The King's Simplicity and Good-nature
  7. Reviews the Guards
  8. The First Court
  9. The King in St. James's Street
  10. Dissolution of Parliament
  11. The King dines at Apsley House
  12. The Duke of Gloucester
  13. The Quaker's Address
  14. The Ordinances of July
  15. The French Revolution
  16. Brougham's Election for Yorkshire
  17. Struggle in Paris
  18. Elections adverse to Government
  19. The Duke of Wellington on the French Revolution
  20. Duke of Cumberland resigns the Gold Stick and the Blues
  21. George IV.'s Wardrobe
  22. Fall of the Bourbons
  23. Weakness of the Duke's Ministry
  24. The King at Windsor
  25. The Duke of Orleans accepts the Crown of France
  26. Chamber of Peers remodelled
  27. Prince Polignac
  28. The New Parliament
  29. Virginia Water
  30. Details of George IV.'s Illness and Death
  31. Symptoms of Opposition
  32. Brougham
  33. Charles X. in England
  34. Dinner in St. George's Hall
  35. Lambeth
  36. Marshal Marmont
  37. His Conversation
  38. Campaign of 1814
  39. The Conflict in Paris
  40. Dinner at Lord Dudley's

CHAPTER XII

  1. The Belgian Revolution
  2. The Duke of Wellington and Canning
  3. The King's Plate
  4. Gloomy Forebodings
  5. Retreat of the Prince of Orange
  6. Prince Talleyrand
  7. Position of the Government
  8. Death of Huskisson
  9. His Character
  10. Duke of Wellington and Peel
  11. Meeting of Parliament
  12. The Duke's Declaration
  13. The King's Visit to the City abandoned
  14. Disturbances in London
  15. Duchesse de Dino
  16. The Cholera Southey, Henry Taylor, John Stuart Mill
  17. Dinner at Talleyrand's
  18. The Duke of Wellington resigns
  19. Mr. Batburst made Junior Clerk of the Council
  20. Lord Spencer and Lord Grey sent for
  21. Formation of Lord Grey's Administration
  22. Discontent of Brougham
  23. Brougham takes the Great Seal
  24. Character of the New Ministers
  25. Prospects of the Opposition
  26. Disturbances in Sussex and Hampshire
  27. Lord Grey and Lord Brougham
  28. Lord Sefton's Dinner the New Ministers sworn at a Council

CHAPTER XIII

  1. A Proclamation against Rioters
  2. Appointments Duke of Wellington in Hampshire
  3. General Excitement
  4. The Tory Party
  5. State of Ireland
  6. More Disturbances
  7. Lord Grey's Colleagues
  8. Election at Liverpool
  9. The Black Book
  10. The Duke of Wellington's Position and Character
  11. A Council on a Capital Sentence
  12. Brougham in the House of Lords
  13. The Clerks of the Council
  14. Lord Grey and Lord Lyndhurst
  15. The Chancellor of Ireland
  16. Lord Melbourne
  17. Duke of Richmond
  18. Sir James Graham
  19. Lyndburst Lord Chief Baron
  20. Judge Allan Park
  21. Lord Lyndhurst and the Whigs
  22. Duke of Wellington and Polignac
  23. The King and tris Sons
  24. Polish Revolution
  25. Mechanics' Institute
  26. Repeal of the Union
  27. King Louis Philippe
  28. Lord Anglesey and O'Connell
  29. A Dinner at the Athenæum
  30. Canning and George IV.
  31. Formation of Canning's Government
  32. Negotiation with Lord Melbourne
  33. Count Walewski
  34. Croker's 'Boswell'
  35. State of Ireland
  36. Brougham and Sugden
  37. Arrest of O'Connell
  38. Colonel Napier and the Trades Unions
  39. The Civil List
  40. Hunt in the House of Commons Southey's Letter to Brougham on Literary Honours
  41. The Budget
  42. O'Connell pleads guilty
  43. Achille Murat
  44. Weakness of the Government
  45. Lady Jersey and Lord Durham
  46. Lord Duncannon
  47. Ireland
  48. Wordsworth

CHAPTER XIV

  1. Introduction of the Reform Bill
  2. Attitude of the Opposition
  3. Reform Debates
  4. Peel
  5. Wilberforce and Canning
  6. Old Sir Robert Peel
  7. The City Address
  8. Agitation for Reform
  9. Effects of the Reform Bill
  10. Brougham as Chancellor
  11. Brougham at the Horse Guards
  12. Miss Kemble
  13. Vote on the Timber Duties
  14. Lord Lansdowne's Opinion of the Bill
  15. Reform Bill carried by one Vote
  16. The King in Mourning
  17. The Prince of Orange
  18. Peel's Reserve
  19. Ministers beaten
  20. Parliament dissolved by the King in Person
  21. Tumult in both Houses
  22. Failure of the Whig Ministry
  23. The King in their Hands
  24. The Elections
  25. Illumination in the City
  26. The Queen alarmed
  27. Lord Lyndhurst's View of the Bill
  28. Lord Grey takes the Garter
  29. The King at Ascot
  30. Windsor under William IV.
  31. Brougham at Hanhury, Buxton & Co.'s Brewery and at the British Museum
  32. Breakfast at Rogers'
  33. The Cholera Quarantine
  34. Meeting of Peers
  35. New Parliament meets
  36. Opened by the King
  37. 'Hernani' at Bridgewater House
  38. The Second Reform Bill
  39. The King's Coronation
  40. Cobbett's Trial
  41. Prince Leopold accepts the Crown of Belgium
  42. Peel and the Tories
  43. A Rabble Opposition
  44. A Council for the Coronation

CHAPTER XV

  1. Preparations for the Coronation
  2. Long Wellesley committed by the Chancellor for Contempt
  3. Alderman Thompson and his Constituents
  4. Prince Leopold goes to Belgium
  5. Royal Tombs and Remains
  6. The Lieutenancy of the Tower
  7. The Cholera
  8. The Belgian Fortresses
    Secret Negotiations of Canning with the Whigs
  9. Transactions before the Close of the Liverpool Administration
  10. Duke of Wellington and Peel
  11. The Dutch invade Belgium
  12. Defeat of the Belgian Army
  13. The French enter Belgium
  14. Lord Grey's Composure
  15. Audience at Windsor
  16. Danger of Reform
  17. Ellen Tree
  18. The French in Belgium
  19. Goodwood
  20. The Duke of Richmond
  21. The Reform Bill in Difficulties
  22. Duke of Wellington calls on Lord Grey
  23. The King declines to be kissed by the Bishops
  24. Talleyrand's Conversation
  25. State of Europe and France
  26. Coronation Squabbles
  27. The King divides the old Great Seal between Brougham and Lyndburst
  28. Relations of the Duchess of Kent to George IV. and William IY.
  29. The Coronation
  30. Irritation of the King
  31. The Cholera
  32. A Dinner at St. James's
  33. State of the Reform Bill
  34. Sir Augustus d'Este
  35. Madame Junot
  36. State of France
  37. Poland

CHAPTER XVI

  1. Whig and Tory Meetings on Reform
  2. Resolution to carry the Bill
  3. Holland
  4. Radical Jones
  5. Reform Bill thrown out by the Lords
  6. Dorsetshire Election
  7. Division among the Tories
  8. Bishop Phillpotts
  9. Prospects of Reform
  10. Its Dangers
  11. Riots at Bristol
  12. The Cholera at Sunderland
  13. An Attempt at a Compromise on Reform
  14. Lord Wharncliffe negotiates with the Ministers
  15. Negotiation with Mr. Barnes
  16. Proclamation against the Unions
  17. Barbarism of Sunderland
  18. Disappointment of Lord Wharncliffe
  19. Bristol and Lyons
  20. Commercial Negotiations with France
  21. Poulett Thomson
  22. Lord Wharncliffe's Proposal to Lord Grey
  23. Disapproved by the Duke of Wellington
  24. Moderation of Lord John Russell
  25. The Appeal of Drax v. Grosvenor
  26. The Second Reform Bill
  27. Violence of Lord Durham
  28. More Bodysnatchers
  29. Duke of Richmond and Sir Henry Parnell
  30. Panshanger
  31. Creation of Peers
  32. Division of Opinion
  33. Negotiation to avoid the Creation of Peers
  34. Lord Wharncliffe's Interview with the King
  35. Opposition of the Duke of Wellington
  36. The Waverers resolve to separate from the Duke

CHAPTER XVII

 

  1. Measures for carrying the Second Reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords
  2. The Party of the Waverers
  3. The Russo-Dutch Loan
  4. Resistance of the Tory Peers
  5. Lord Melbourne's Views on the Government
  6. Macaulay at Holland House
  7. Reluctance of the Government to create Peers
  8. Duke of Wellington Intractable
  9. Peel's Despondency
  10. Lord Grey on the Measures of Conciliation
  11. Lord Wharncliffe sees the King
  12. Prospects of the Waverers
  13. Conversations with Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston
  14. Duke of Richmond on the Creation of Peers
  15. Interview of Lord Grey with the Waverers
  16. Minute drawn up
  17. Bethnal Green
  18. The Archbishop of Canterbury vacillates
  19. Violence of Extreme Parties
  20. Princess Lieven's Joumal
  21. Lord Holland for making Peers
  22. Irish National Education Seizure of Ancona
  23. Reform Bill passes the House of Commons
  24. Lord Dudley's Madness
  25. Debate in the Lords

CHAPTER XVIII

  1. Debate in the House of Lords
  2. Lord Harrowby's Position
  3. Hopes of a Compromise
  4. Lord Melbourne's View
  5. Disturbances caused by the Cholera
  6. The Disiranchisement Clause
  7. The Number '56'
  8. Peers contemplated
  9. The King's Hesitation
  10. 'The Hunchback'
  11. Critical Position of the Waverers
  12. Bill carried by Nine in the Lords
  13. The Cholera in Paris
  14. Moderate Speech of Lord Grey
  15. End of the Secession
  16. Conciliatory Overtures
  17. Negotiations carried on at Newmarket
  18. Hostile Division in the Lords
  19. Lord Wharncliffe's Account of his Failure
  20. Lord Grey resigns
  21. The Duke of Wellington attempts to form a Ministry
  22. Peel declines
  23. Hostility of the Court to the Whigs
  24. A Change of Scene
  25. The Duke fails
  26. History of the Crisis
  27. Lord Grey returns to Office
  28. The King's Excitement
  29. The King writes to the Opposition Peers
  30. Defeat and Disgrace of the Tories
  31. Conversation of the Duke of Wellington
  32. Louis XVIII.
  33. Madame du Cayla
  34. Weakness of the King
  35. Mortality among Great Men
  36. Petition against Lord W. Bentinck's Prohibition of Suttee heard by the Privy Council
  37. O'Connell and the Cholera
  38. Irish Tithe Bill
  39. Irish Difficulties
  40. Mr. Stanley
  41. Concluding Debates of the Parliament
  42. Quarrel between Brougham and Sugden
  43. Holland and Belgium
  44. Brougham's Revenge and Apology
  45. Dinner at Holland House
  46. Anecdotes of Johnson
  47. Death of Mr. Greville's Father
  48. Madame de Flahault's Account of the Princess Charlotte
  49. Prince Augustus of Prussia
  50. Captain Hess
  51. Hostilities in Holland and in Portugal
  52. The Duchesse de Berri
  53. Conversation with Lord Melhourne on the State of the Govemment

CHAPTER XIX

  1. Foreign Difficulties
  2. Conduct of Peel on the Resignation of Lord Grey
  3. Manners Sutton proposed as Tory Premier
  4. Coolness between Peel and the Duke
  5. Embargo on Dutch Ships
  6. Death of Lord Tenterden
  7. Denman made Lord Chief Justice
  8. Tableau of Holland House
  9. The Speakership
  10. Horne and Campbell Attorney-and Solicitor-General
  11. The Court at Brighton
  12. Lord Howe and the Queen
  13. Elections under the Refomm Act
  14. Mr. Gully
  15. Petworth
  16. Lord Egremont
  17. Attempt to reinstate Lord Howe
  18. Namik Pacha
  19. Lord Lyndhurst's Version of what occurred on the Resignation of Lord Grey
  20. Lord Denbigh appointed Chamberlain to the Queen
  21. Brougham's Privy Council Bill
  22. Talleyrand's Relations with Fox and Pitt
  23. Negro Emancipation Bill
  24. State of the West Indies
  25. The Reformed Parliament meets
  26. Russian Intrigues
  27. Four Days' Debate on the Address
  28. Peel's Political Career

CHAPTER XX

 

  1. Appointment of Sir Strafford Canning to the Embassy to Russia
  2. Cause of the Refusal
  3. Slavery in the West Indies
  4. The Refomned Parliament
  5. Duke of Wellington's View of Affairs
  6. The Coercion Bill
  7. The Privy Council Bill
  8. Lord Durham made an Earl
  9. Mr. Stanley Secretary for the Colonies
  10. The Russians go to the Assistance of the Porte
  11. Lord Goderich has the Privy Seal, an Earldom, and the Garter
  12. Embarrassments of the Government
  13. The Appeal of Drax v. Grosvenor at the Privy Council
  14. Hobhouse defeated in Westminster
  15. Bill for Negro Emancipation
  16. The Russians on the Bosphorus
  17. Mr. Littleton Chief Secretary for Ireland
  18. Respect shown to the Duke of Wellington
    Moral of a 'Book on the Derby'
  19. The Oaks
  20. A Betting Incident
  21. Ascot
  22. Govemment beaten in the Lords on Foreign Policy
  23. Vote of Confidence in the Commons
  24. Drax v. Grosvenor decided
  25. Lord Eldon's Last Judgement
  26. His Character
  27. Duke of Wellington as Leader of Opposition
  28. West India Affairs
  29. Irish Church Bill
  30. Appropriation Clause
  31. A Fancy Bazaar
  32. The King writes to the Bishops
  33. Local Court Bill
  34. Mirabeau

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