CONTENTS
of
THE FIRST VOLUME

CHAPTER I.

 

  1. Queen Charlotte
  2. Duchesses of Cumberland and Cambridge
  3. Westminster Election
  4. Contest between Sir Francis Burdett and Sir Murray Maxwell
  5. London Election
  6. Oatlands
  7. The Duke of York
  8. Duchess of York
  9. Ampthill
  10. Tixall
  11. Mr. Luttrell
  12. Lady Granville
  13. Teddesley
  14. Macao
  15. Burleigh
  16. Middleton
  17. Lady Jersey
  18. The New Parliament
  19. Tierney and Pitt
  20. Princess Lieven
  21. Madame de Staël on the French Revolution
  22. Westminster Election
  23. Hobhouse Defeated
  24. Scarlett's Maiden Speech
  25. Influence of Party
  26. Play
  27. The Persian Ambassador at Court
  28. Prince Leopold
  29. Woburn
  30. Anecdote of the Allies
  31. Death of George III.
  32. Illness of George IV.
  33. Queen Caroline
  34. Fleury de Chabaulon
  35. The Cato Street Conspiracy
  36. George IV. at Ascot
  37. Marchioness of Conyngham
  38. Queen Caroline in London
  39. Message to Parliament
  40. Debates
  41. Insubordination in the Guards
  42. Wilberforce's Motion
  43. Proceedings against the Queen
  44. 'Les Liaisons dangereuses'
  45. The Queen's trial
  46. The Duke of Wellington on the Battle of Waterloo and the Occupation of Paris

CHAPTER II.

 

  1. Popularity of George IV.
  2. The Duke of York's Racing Establishment
  3. Clerk of the Council
  4. Lord Liverpool and Mr. Sumner
  5. Lady Conyngham
  6. Death of Worcester
  7. Her Character
  8. Ball at Devonshire House
  9. The Duke of York's Aversion to the Duke of Wellington
  10. The Pavillion at Brighton
  11. Lord Francis Conyngham
  12. The King and tbe Duke of Wellington
  13. Death of the Marquis of Londonderry
  14. His Policy
  15. Sir B. Bloomfield sent to Stockholm
  16. Mr. Canning as Foreign Secretary
  17. Queen Caroline and Brougham
  18. Canning and George IV.
  19. Lord William Bentinck aspires to go to India
  20. His Disappointment
  21. The Duke of York's Duel with Colonel Lennox
  22. George III.'s Will
  23. George IV. appropriates the late King's Personal Property
  24. The Duke of Wellington on the Congress of Verona and on the Politics of Europe
  25. Intervention in Spain
  26. Ferdinand VII.
  27. M. de Villèle
  28. The Duke's Opinion Napoleon
  29. Sir William Knighton
  30. The Duke of York's Anecdotes of George IV.
  31. Death of the Marquis of Titchfield
  32. His Character

CHAPTER III.

 

 

  1. The Panic of 1825
  2. Death of the Emperor Alexander
  3. The Duke of Wellington's Embassy to St. Petersburg
  4. Robinson Chancellor of the Exchequer
  5. Small Notes Bill
  6. Death of Arthur de Ros
  7. George III. and Lord Bute
  8. Illness and Death of the Duke of York
  9. His Funeral
  10. Lord Liverpool struck with Paralysis
  11. Rundell's Fortune and Will
  12. Copley and Phillpotts
  13. The Cottage
  14. Formation of Mr. Canning's Administration
  15. Secession of the Tories
  16. The Whigs join him
  17. Dinner at the Royal Lodge
  18. Difficulties of Canning's Government
  19. Duke of Wellington visits the King
  20. Canning's Death
  21. Anecdotes of Mr. Canning
  22. Recognition of South American States
  23. His Industry
  24. The Duke of Wellington on Canning
  25. Lord Goderich's Administration formed
  26. The Difficulty about Herries
  27. Position of the Whigs
  28. The King's Letter to Herries
  29. Peel and George IV.
  30. Interview of Lord Lansdowne with the King
  31. Weakness of the Government
  32. First Resignation of Lord Goderich
  33. Lord Harrowby declines the Premiership
  34. Lord Goderich returns
  35. Brougham and Rogers
  36. Conversation and Character of Brougham
  37. Lord Goderich's Ministry dissolved
  38. Cause of its Dissolution
  39. Hostility of Herries
  40. Position of Huskisson and his Friends
  41. Herries and Huskisson both join the New Cabinet

CHAPTER IV.

 

  1. The Duke of Wellington's Administration
  2. Huskisson's Speech
  3. Irritation of Mr. Canning's Friends
  4. Tom Duncombe's Maiden Speech
  5. Mr. Huskisson resigns and the Canningites quit the Government
  6. Princess Lieven hostile to the Duke
  7. The Catholic Question
  8. Jockey Club Dinner at St. James's
  9. Lord Lyndhurst
  10. Sir Rohert Adair
  11. Fox and Burke
  12. Fox and Pitt
  13. The Lord High Admiral dismissed by the King
  14. Dawson's Speech on Catholic Emancipation
  15. The King's Health
  16. His Pages
  17. State of Ireland
  18. Marquis of Anglesey
  19. O'Connell
  20. His Influence in Ireland
  21. Lord Belmore Governor of Jamaica
  22. The Duke's letter to Dr. Curtis
  23. Recall of Lord Anglesey from Ireland
  24. Causes of this Event
  25. Excitement of the King on the Catholic Question
  26. His Aversion to Sir William Knighton
  27. Character of George IV.
  28. Denman's Silk Gown
  29. Pension to Lady Westmeath
  30. Duke of Wellington on Russia
  31. The Reis-Effendi
  32. Duke of Northumberland goes to Ireland
  33. Privy Council Register
  34. State Paper Office
  35. The Gunpowder Plot
  36. Catholic Emancipation
  37. Navarino

CHAPTER V.

 

  1. The Catholic Relief Bill
  2. Inconsistency of the Tories
  3. The Catholic Association
  4. Dinner at Charles Grant's
  5. The Terceira Expedition
  6. Tory Discontent
  7. Peel resigns his Seat for Oxford University
  8. A Blunder in Chancery
  9. The Oxford Election
  10. Influence of the Duke of Wellington
  11. Debate of Royal Dukes
  12. Peel beaten
  13. Sir Edward Codrington
  14. Violence of the King
  15. Intrigues to defeat the Catholic Bill
  16. The Duke of Cumberland
  17. Furious State of Parties
  18. Matuscewitz
  19. Peel's Speech on Catholic Emancipation
  20. Exclusion of O'Connell from his Seat for Clare
  21. Pitt's View of Catholic Emancipation
  22. 'Musæ Cateatonenses'
  23. 'Thorough'
  24. Mr. Lowther not turned out
  25. Duke of Newcastle's Audience of George IV.
  26. The King's Personal Habits
  27. The Debate
  28. Mr. Sadler
  29. Hardness of the Duke of Wellington
  30. His Duel with Lord Winchilsea
  31. The Bishops and the Bill
  32. Sir Charles Wetherell
  33. The King on the Duel
  34. Lord Winchilsea's Pocket~handkerchief
  35. Debate on the Catholic Bill
  36. The Duke of Richmond
  37. Effects of Dawson's Speech on the King
  38. The Bill in Jeopardy
  39. Lady Jersey and Lord Anglesey
  40. Lord Falmouth and Lord Grey
  41. O'Connell at Dinner
  42. The Duke breaks with Lord Eldon
  43. Hibner the Murderess
  44. Theatrical Fund&emdash;The Levee
  45. The Duke's Carriage stopped
  46. The King's Health
  47. Lady Conyngham
  48. O'Connell's Seat
  49. Child's Ball at Court
  50. Princess Victoria
  51. Legal Appointments
  52. Lord Palmerston on Foreign Affairs
  53. The King and Lord Sefton
  54. The King's Speech on the Prorogation
  55. Madame Du Cayla
  56. George IV.'s Inaccuracy
  57. Conversation of the Duke of Wellington on the King and the Duke of Cumberland

CHAPTER VI.

 

  1. The Recorder'g Report
  2. Manners of George IV.
  3. Intrigues of the Duke of Cumberland
  4. Insults Lady Lyndhurst
  5. Deacon Hume at the Board of Trade
  6. Quarrel between the Duke of Cumberland and the Lord
  7. Chancellor
  8. A Bad Season
  9. Prostration of Turkey
  10. France under Pulignac
  11. State of Ireland
  12. Mr. Windham's Diary
  13. George IV.'s Eyesight
  14. Junius
  15. A Man without Money
  16. Court-martial on Captain Dickenson
  17. The Duke and the 'Morning Journal'
  18. Physical Courage of the King
  19. A Charade at Chatsworth
  20. Huskisson and the Duke
  21. Irish Trials
  22. Tom Moote
  23. Scott
  24. Byron
  25. Fanny Kemble
  26. Sir James Mackintosh
  27. His Conversation
  28. Black Irishmen
  29. Moore's Irish Story
  30. Moore's Singing
  31. George IV. and Mr. Denman
  32. Strawberry Hill
  33. Moore at Trinity College
  34. Indian Vengeance at Niagara
  35. Count Woronzaw
  36. Lord Glengall's Play
  37. The Recorder's Report

CHAPTER VII.

 

 

  1. Chapter of the Bath
  2. The Duc de Dino arrested
  3. A Ball to the Divan
  4. English Policy in Greece
  5. Sir Thomas Lawrence
  6. Gallatin
  7. Court of King's Bench
  8. Accident to the Grand Duke Constantine
  9. Osterley
  10. Young Sidney Herbert
  11. Duke of Wellington in Office
  12. Stapleton's 'Life of Canning'
  13. Death of Sir Thomas Lawrence
  14. Leopold and the Throne of Greece
  15. Canning's Answers to Lord Grey
  16. Distressed State of the Country
  17. Canning's Greatness and his Failings
  18. Death of Tierney
  19. Sir Martin Shee President
  20. The Duke of Wellington's Views and Conduct
  21. The coming Session
  22. Moore's 'Life of Byron'
  23. Character of Byron
  24. Opening of Parliament
  25. The Fire King
  26. The Duke of Wellington's Speaking
  27. The English Opera House burnt down
  28. Lord Thurlow on Kenyon and Buller
  29. Old Rothschild
  30. Larlsdowne House
  31. Earl Stanhope
  32. John Murray
  33. Departure for Italy

CHAPTER VIII.

 

  1. Calais
  2. Beau Brummel
  3. Paris
  4. The Polignac Ministry
  5. Polignac and Charles X.
  6. The Duke of Orleans
  7. State of Parties
  8. Talleyrand
  9. Lyons
  10. First Impressions of Mountain Scenery
  11. Mont Cenis
  12. Turin
  13. Marengo
  14. Genoa
  15. Road to Florence
  16. Pisa
  17. Florence
  18. Lord and Lady Burghersh
  19. Thorwaldsen
  20. Lord Cochrane
  21. Rome
  22. St. Peter's
  23. Frascati
  24. Grotto Ferrata
  25. Queen Hortense and Louis Napoleon
  26. Coliseum
  27. Death of Lady Northampton
  28. The Moses
  29. Gardens
  30. Palm Sunday
  31. Sistine Chapel
  32. The Cardinals
  33. Popes
  34. Cardinal A]bani
  35. The Farnese Palace
  36. A Dead Cardinal
  37. Pasquin
  38. Statue of Pompey
  39. Galleries and Catacombs
  40. Bunsen
  41. The Papal Benediction
  42. Ceremonies of the Holy Week
  43. The Grand Penitentiary
  44. A Confession
  45. Protestant Cemetery
  46. Illumination of St. Peter's
  47. Torlonia
  48. Bunsen on the Forum

CHAPTER IX.

 

 

  1. Lake of Albano
  2. Velletri
  3. Naples
  4. Rapid Travelling in 1830
  5. A Trial at Naples
  6. Deciphering Manuscripts
  7. Ball at the Duchesse d'Eboli's
  8. Matteis's Plot and Trial
  9. Pompeii
  10. Taking the Veil
  11. Pausilippo
  12. Baiæ
  13. La Cava
  14. Salerno
  15. Pæstum
  16. Lazzaroni
  17. Museum of Naples
  18. Grotto del Cane
  19. The Camaldoli
  20. Herculaneum
  21. Vesuvius
  22. Sorrento
  23. Miracle of St. Januarius
  24. Astroni
  25. Farewell to Naples .

CHAPTER X.

 

 

  1. Mola di Gaeta
  2. Capua
  3. Lines on leaving Naples
  4. Return to Rome
  5. The Aqueducts
  6. 'Domine, quo vadis?'
  7. St. Peter's
  8. The Scala Santa
  9. Reasons in Favour of San Gennaro
  10. Ascent of St. Peter's
  11. Library of the Vatican
  12. A racing ex voto
  13. Illness of George IV.
  14. Approaching Coup d'État in France
  15. The Villa Mills
  16. The Malaria
  17. Duc and Duchesse de Dalberg
  18. The Emperor Nicholas on his Accession
  19. Cardinal Albani
  20. A Columbarium
  21. Mai
  22. Sir William Gell
  23. Tivoli
  24. Adrian's Villa
  25. The Adventures of Miss Kelly and Mr. Swift
  26. Audience of the Pope
  27. Gibson's Studio
  28. End of Miss Kelly's Marriage
  29. A Great Function
  30. The Jesuits
  31. Saint-making
  32. San Lorenzo in Lucina
  33. The Flagellants
  34. Statues by Torchlight
  35. Bunsen on the State cf Rome
  36. Frascati
  37. Relations of Protestant States with Rome
  38. The French Ministry
  39. M. de Villèle
  40. The Coliseum
  41. Excommunication of a Thief
  42. The Passionists
  43. The Corpus Domini
  44. A Rash Marriage
  45. Farewell to Rome
  46. Falls of Terni
  47. Statue at Pratolino
  48. Bologna
  49. Mezzofanti
  50. Ferrara
  51. Venice
  52. Padua
  53. Vicenza
  54. Brescia
  55. Verona
  56. Milan
  57. Lago Maggiore
  58. The Simplon
  59. Geneva
  60. Paris

NOTE ON MR. GREVILLE's CONNEXION WITH THE TURF

 

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