CONTENTS
of
THE THIRD VOLUME


CHAPTER XXI


  1. Dinner at Greenwich Monk Lewis
  2. The King's Letter
  3. Lord Althorp's Finance
  4. Salutes to the Royal Family
  5. Death of Lord Dover
  6. His Character
  7. Lyndhurst and Brougham on the Local Courts Bill
  8. Charles Napier captures the Miguelite Fleet
  9. The Irish Church Bill
  10. The Duke Of Wellington and the Bonapartes
  11. Blount's Preaching
  12. Sir Robert Peel on Political Unions
  13. Mr. George Villiers appointed to Madrid
  14. Duke of Richmond
  15. Suspension Clause in Irish Church Bill
  16. Apprenticeship Clause in West India Bill
  17. State of House of Commons
  18. Lucien and Joseph Bonaparte
  19. Lord Plunket
  20. Denis Lemarchant
  21. Brougham and Sugden
  22. Princess Lieven
  23. Anecdotes of the Emperor Nicholas
  24. Affairs of Portugal
  25. Don Miguel at Stratfieldsaye
  26. Prorogation of Parliament
  27. Results of the Reform Bill


CHAPTER XXII


  1. The Speaker a Knight of the Bath
  2. Lord Wellesley Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
  3. M. Thiers in England
  4. Prince Esterhazy's Opinion of the State of England
  5. Queen of Portugal at Windsor
  6. The Duke Of Leuchtenberg
  7. Macaulay and Sydney Smith
  8. Brougham's Anecdotes of Queen Caroline
  9. Judicial Committee Of the Privy Council
  10. Sir Stratford Canning and M. Dedel
  11. Sydney Smith and the 'Siege Of Saragossa'
  12. Edward Irving
  13. The Unknown Tongues
  14. Tribute to Lord Eldon
  15. W. J. Fox
  16. Lord Tavistock on the Prospects Of his Party
  17. Moore at the State Paper Office
  18. Russia and England
  19. Belvoir Castle
  20. The Duke of Wellington at Belvoirs
  21. Visit to Mrs. Arkwright
  22. Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Misses Siddons
  23. A Murder at Ranton
  24. Sandon
  25. Lord and Lady Harrowby
  26. Burghley
  27. Railroads talked of
  28. Gloomy Tory Prognostications
  29. State of Spain
  30. Parliament opens
  31. Quarrel of Sheil and Lord Althorp
  32. Unpopularity of Lord Palmerston
  33. Mrs. Somerville
  34. O'Connell's Attack on Baron Smith
  35. Lord Althorp's Budget
  36. The Pension List
  37. Lord Althorp as Leader of the House
  38. Sir R. Peel's Position in the House
  39. Meeting of Supporters of Government
  40. Mr. Villiers on the State of Spain
  41. Predicament of Horne, the Attorney-General


CHAPTER XXIII


  1. Spain
  2. Russia and Turkey
  3. Sir R. Peel's Pictures
  4. Peel and Stanley
  5. Lord Brougham's Judicial Changes
  6. Lord Brougham's Defence
  7. Admission of Dissenters to the Universities
  8. Lord Denman's Peerage
  9. Growing Ascendency of Peel
  10. An Apology for Lord Brougham
  11. Personal Reflections
  12. Crime in Dorsetshire
  13. Spain and Portugal
  14. Procession of the Trades' Unions
  15. Lady Hertford's Funeral
  16. Petition of the London University for a Charter
  17. Repeal of the Union
  18. Excitement of the King
  19. Brougham and Eldon at the Privy Council
  20. Duke of Wellington's Aversion to the Whigs
  21. Lord Brougham and Lord Wynford
  22. Fête at Petworth
  23. Lord Brougham's Conduct on the Pluralities Bill
  24. Crisis in the Cabinet
  25. Prince Lieven recalled
  26. Stanley, Graham, and the Duke of Richmond resign on the Irish Church Bill
  27. History of the Crisis
  28. Ward's Motion defeated by moving the Previous Question
  29. Affairs of Portugal
  30. Effects of the late Change
  31. Oxford Commemoration
  32. Peel's Declaration
  33. Festival in Westminster Abbey
  34. Don Carlos on his way to Spain
  35. Stanley's 'Thimble-rig' Speech
  36. Resignation of Lord Grey
  37. Mr. Greville's Account of the Causes of his Retirement
  38. The Government reconstituted by Lord Melbourne
  39. Lord Duncannon Secretary of State


CHAPTER XXIV


  1. Taylor's 'Philip van Artevelde'
  2. Goodwood
  3. Earl Bathurst's Death
  4. Death of Mrs. Arbuthnot
  5. Overtures to O'Connell
  6. Irish Tithe Bill
  7. Theodore Hook's Improvisation
  8. Lord Westmeath's Case in the Privy Council
  9. First Council of Lord Melbourne's Government and Prorogation
  10. Brougham's Vagaries
  11. Lord Durham's Exclusion
  12. The Edinburgh Dinner
  13. Windsor and Meiningen
  14. Spencer Perceval
  15. Lord Grey's Retirement
  16. The Westmeath Case again
  17. The Queen's Return
  18. Melbourne and Tom Young
  19. Holland House
  20. Reflections
  21. Conversation on the Poets
  22. Miscellaneous Chat
  23. Lord Melbourne's Literary Attainments
  24. Lord Holland's Anecdotes of Great Orators
  25. Execution of Charles I.
  26. Lord Melbourne's Opinion of Henry VIII.
  27. The 'Times' attacks Lord Brougham
  28. His Tour in Scotland
  29. His Unpopularity
  30. Cowper's Secret
  31. Canning on Reform
  32. Lord Melbourne on Palmerston and Brougham
  33. Canning and Brougham in 1827
  34. Senior
  35. Lord Melbourne and the Benthamites
  36. His Theology
  37. Spanish Eloquence
  38. The Harley Papers
  39. The Turf
  40. Death of Lord Spencer
  41. The Westmeath Case heard
  42. Law Appointments
  43. Bickersteth
  44. Louis Philippe's Position


CHAPTER XXV


  1. Fall of Lord Melbourne's Government
  2. History and Causes of this Event
  3. An Intrigue
  4. Effect of the Coup at Holland House
  5. The Change of Government
  6. The two Camps
  7. The King's Address to the New Ministers
  8. The Duke's Account of the Transaction
  9. And Lord Lyndhurst's
  10. Diffcult Position of the Tories
  11. Their Policy
  12. The Duke in all the Offices
  13. Negotiation with Mr. Barnes
  14. Power of the 'Times'
  15. Another Address of the King
  16. Brougham offers to be Lord Chief Baron
  17. Mr. Barnes dines with Lord Lyndhurst
  18. Whig View of the Recent Change
  19. Liberal Views of the Tory Ministers
  20. The King resolved to support them
  21. Another Account of the Interview between the King and Lord Melbourne
  22. Lord Stanley's Position
  23. Sydney Smith's Preaching at St. Paul's
  24. Lord Duncannon and Lord Melbourne
  25. Relations of the four Seceders to Peel
  26. Young Disraeli
  27. Lord Melbourne's Speeches at Derby
  28. Lord John Russell's Speech at Totness
  29. The Duke of Wellington's Inconsistencies and Conduct


CHAPTER XXVI


  1. Sir R. Peel arrives
  2. The First Council
  3. The King's Address
  4. Lord Stanley and Sir J. Graham decline to join the Government
  5. Lord Wharncliffe and Sir E. Knatchbull join
  6. The Ministers sworn in
  7. Peel's Address to his Constituents
  8. Dinner at the Mansion House
  9. Offer to Lord Roden
  10. Prospects of the Election
  11. Stanley's Want of Influence
  12. Pozzo di Borgo's Views
  13. Russia and England
  14. Nomination of Lord Londonderry to St. Petersburg
  15. Parliament dissolved
  16. State of the Constituencies
  17. A Governor-General for India
  18. Sébastiani and St. Aulaire
  19. Anecdote of Princess Metternich
  20. The City Elections
  21. Lord Lyndhurst's View of the Government
  22. Violence of the Opposition
  23. Close Contest at Rochester
  24. Sidney Herbert
  25. Sir John Hobhouse's Views
  26. Anecdotes
  27. County Elections
  28. The Queen supposed to be with Child
  29. Church Reform
  30. Dinner of Ministers
  31. Story of La Roncière
  32. The King's Crotchets


CHAPTER XXVII


  1. The Speakership
  2. Temporary Houses of Parliament
  3. Church Reform
  4. Dissenters' Marriage Bill
  5. Peel's False Position
  6. Burke
  7. Palmerston's Talents as a Man of Business
  8. Sympathy of Continental Courts with the Tories
  9. Abercromby elected Speaker
  10. Defeat of the Government
  11. Tactics of the Opposition
  12. The Speaker does not dine with Peel
  13. Meeting of Stanley's Friends
  14. Debate on the Address
  15. Lord JohnRussell leads the Opposition The Stanley Party
  16. Second Defeat of the Government
  17. Peel's Ability
  18. The Lichfield House Meeting
  19. Debate on Lord Londonderry's Appointment
  20. His Speech in the Lords and Resignation
  21. Sir E. Sugden resigns the Great Seal of Ireland
  22. Lady Canterbury
  23. Brougham in the House of Lords
  24. Peel's Readiness and Courage
  25. Lord Canterbury and Stratford Canning proposed for Canada
  26. Approaching Fall of the Peel Government
  27. Meetings of the Opposition
  28. Further Defeat
  29. Sir Robert Peel's own View of the State of Affairs
  30. He resigns


CHAPTER XXVIII


  1. Lord Grey and Sir James Graham express Conservative Views
  2. Opinions of Lord Stanley
  3. Lord Grey sees the King, but is not asked to resume Office
  4. Lord Melbourne's Second Administration
  5. His Moderation
  6. A Difficulty
  7. Spring Rice
  8. A Joyless Victory
  9. Exclusion of Brougham
  10. The New Cabinet
  11. Lord John Russell defeated in Devonshire
  12. Lord Alvanley and O'Connell
  13. Duel with Morgan O'Connell
  14. Lord Wellesley resigns the Lord Stewardship
  15. The Eliot Convention
  16. Swift v. Kelly
  17. The Kembles
  18. London University Charter discussed at the Privy Council
  19. Corporation Reform
  20. Formation of the Conservative Party
  21. The King's Habits
  22. Secretaryship of Jamaica
  23. Lord Melbourne's Tithe Bill
  24. The Pope rejects the Recommendation of the British Government
  25. Relations with Rome
  26. Carlists and Christinos in Spain
  27. Walcheren
  28. The King's Address to Sir Charles Grey
  29. Stanley and Graham cross the House
  30. Failure of Stanley's Tactics
  31. Alava and the Duke of Cumberland
  32. A Sinecure Placeman
  33. Lord Glenelg and the King
  34. Concert at Stafford House
  35. The King's Aversion to his Ministers and to the Speaker
  36. Decision on the Secretaryship of Jamaica
  37. Archbishop Whateley
  38. Irish Church Bill
  39. Payment of Catholic Clergy
  40. Peel and Lord John Russell
  41. Factious Conduct of Tory Peers
  42. The King's Violence
  43. Debate on the Corporation Bill


CHAPTER XXIX


 

  1. Resistance of the Lords
  2. Duke of Richmond
  3. Happiness
  4. Struggle between Lords and Commons
  5. Peel keeps aloof
  6. Inconsistency of the Whigs on the Irish Church Bill
  7. Violent Language in the Lords
  8. Lord John Russell and Peel pass the Corporation Bill
  9. Dissolution of the Tory Party foreseen
  10. Meeting of Peers to consider the Amendments
  11. King's Speech in Council on the Militia
  12. Lord Howick's Bitterness against the Lords
  13. Lord Lyndhurst's Opinion of the Corporation Bill
  14. The King's Language on the Regency
  15. Talleyrand's View of the English Alliance
  16. Comparison of Burke and Mackintosh
  17. The St. Leger
  18. Visit of Princess Victoria to Burghley
  19. O'Connell's Progress through Scotland
  20. Mackintosh's Life


CHAPTER XXX


 

  1. Emperor Nicholas's Speech at Warsaw
  2. His Respect for Opinion in England
  3. Burdett proposes the Expulsion of O'Connell from Brooks's
  4. Club Law
  5. George Villiers at Madrid
  6. Lord Segrave Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
  7. Dispute between France and America
  8. Allen's Account of Mackintosh and Melbourne
  9. Prolongation of a Patent
  10. Should Dr. Arnold be made a Bishop?
  11. Frederic Elliot
  12. O'Connell's Mischievous Influence
  13. Bretby
  14. Chesterfield MSS.
  15. The Portfolio
  16. Lord Cottenham and Lord Langdale
  17. Opening of Parliament
  18. The Judicial Committee
  19. Poulett Thomson at the Board of Trade
  20. Mr. Perceval's Interviews with the Ministers
  21. Prospects of the Tories
  22. Lord Stanley's Relations to them
  23. Holland House Anecdotes
  24. Mischievous Effects of the Division on the Address
  25. The Youth of Macaulay
  26. Brougham and Macaulay
  27. Lord William Bentinck
  28. Review of Sir R. Peel's Conduct
  29. Dr. Hampden's Appointment
  30. The Orange Lodges


CHAPTER XXXI


 

  1. Moore and O'Connell
  2. Defeat of the Opposition
  3. The Carlow Election
  4. Lord Alvanley's Speech to the Tory Peers
  5. Norton v. Lord Melbourne
  6. Catastrophe after Epsom
  7. Mendizabal and Queen Christina
  8. Lord John Russell's Moderation in the Ecclesiastical Commission
  9. Theatricals at Bridgewater House
  10. Irish Church
  11. Ministerial Difficulties
  12. Deplorable State of Spain
  13. What was thought of Lord Palmerston in 1836
  14. Weakness of Govemment
  15. Lord Lyndhurst's Summary of the Session
  16. Balance of Parties
  17. Lady Augusta Kennedy's Marriage
  18. King's Speech to Princess Victoria
  19. Revolution of La Granja
  20. Rudeness of the King to Ministers
  21. Irritation of the King at the Duchess of Kent
  22. Scene at Windsor on the King's Birthday
  23. Prince Esterhazy's View of the Affairs of Europe
  24. Emperor Nicholas at Vienna
  25. A Gisis in Trade
  26. State of the Court at Vienna
  27. Duc de Reichstadt


CHAPTER XXXII


  1. Crisis in the City
  2. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
  3. A Journey to Paris
  4. Lord Lyndhurst in Paris
  5. Princess Lieven
  6. Parties in France
  7. Berryer
  8. The Strasburg Conspirators
  9. Rotten State of France
  10. Presentation at the Tuileries
  11. Ball at the Tuileries
  12. Bal Musard
  13. Lord Granville
  14. The Duc de Broglie
  15. Position of the Duc d'Orléans
  16. Return to England
  17. Conservative Reaction
  18. Sheil's Tirade against Lord Lyndhurst
  19. Lyndhurst as a Tory Leader
  20. Angry Debate on Church Rates
  21. The Government on the Brink of Resignation
  22. Sir R. Peel's Prospects
  23. The King and Lord Aylmer
  24. Death of Mrs. Fitzherbert
  25. Ministerial Compromise
  26. Westminster Election
  27. Majority of the Princess.Victoria
  28. The King's Illness
  29. The King's Letter to the Princess
  30. Preparations for the Council
  31. Sir R. Peel on the Prospects of the New Reign
  32. Prayers ordered for the King's Recovery
  33. Affairs of Lord Ponsonby
  34. Death of King William IV.
  35. Council of Queen Victoria
  36. The Queen proclaimed
  37. Character of William IV

 

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