The Act 'for placing the Lords' restrains the Queen from granting any precedence in Parliament or in the Council, over any of the Royal and official personages and others, who have places assigned to them therein. She may make any man a Privy Councillor, but she cannot authorise him to sit in a higher place than that to which he is by law entitled, or above those whose places are marked out by the statute. If Prince Albert, for example, was to be made a Privy Councillor, not being a peer, he would, of absolute right, be entitled to no place but that of a junior Privy Councillor, or to such as a Knight of the Garter might claim; and all the persons specified in the Act would have an absolute right to take precedence of him in Council. And it is worth while to consider in what a curious predicament he might have been placed, if the Bill for his naturalisation had passed with those amendments as to his precedence which are said to have been contemplated by the Opposition Lords—that is, supposing always the rule of precedence established by law to be carried inflexibly into operation.

If the status of Prince Albert had been fixed immediately after all the members of the Royal Family, and immediately before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and if Her Majesty should be hereafter pleased to make both Prince George of Cambridge and Prince Albert members of her Most Honourable Privy Council, in what order of precedence would these princes be obliged to take their respective seats at the board? In order clearly to comprehend this point, it is necessary to explain the ancient usage as to Royal precedence, and the manner in which it has been affected by the 31st Henry VIII. The Royal Family are to be considered in two lights, according to the different senses in which the term Royal Family is used—the larger sense includes all who may possibly inherit the Crown; the confined sense, those within a certain degree of propinquity to the reigning Prince, and to whom the law pays an extraordinary respect; but, after that degree is past, they fall into the rank of ordinary subjects. The younger sons of the king, and other branches of the Royal Family, not in the immediate line of succession, were only so far regarded by the ancient law as to give them a certain degree of precedence over peers and other officers, ecclesiastical and temporal. This was done by the 31st of Henry VIII., which assigns places in the Parliament Chamber and Council to the king's sons, brothers, uncles, and nephews, &c.—'therefore, after these degrees are past, peers, or others of the blood royal, are entitled to no place or precedence, except what belongs to them by their personal rank or dignity, which made Sir Edward Walker complain that, by the creation of Prince Rupert to be Duke of Cumberland, and of the Earl of Lennox to be duke of that name, previous to the creation of James to be Duke of York, it might happen that their grandsons would have precedence of the grandsons of the Duke of York.'[13]

[13] Blackstone, vol. i. p. 226.

Prince George of Cambridge, then, being neither son, brother, uncle, or nephew to the Queen, and having no personal dignity, is not entitled to any precedence over the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the great officers of state; the 31st Henry VIII. would place him below them all; but the 3rd Victoria (supposing such an Act to have passed) would have placed Prince Albert below Prince George, but above the Archbishop, who is himself above Prince George, thus giving to the Master of the Ceremonies the solution of a somewhat difficult problem of precedence—namely, how to place A above B, B above C, and C above A. This reductio ad absurdum at least proves that the amended Act would not only not have settled the question of precedence satisfactorily, but would not have settled it at all.

It may seem surprising or paradoxical to assert, and many may with difficulty believe, that Prince George of Cambridge is entitled to no precedence of his own, inseparable from his royal birth, but such, nevertheless, is undoubtedly the fact. By law, he can only take royal rank as the son, brother, uncle, or nephew, of the reigning sovereign, none of which he is, and he derives none whatever from having been nephew of William IV. and George IV., and grandson of George III. The princes of the Blood Royal have, as to precedence, a moveable and not a fixed status, constantly shifting, with their greater or less propinquity to the actual sovereign; and in the event of Prince George's succession to his father's dukedom, he would only be entitled to a place in Parliament and in the Council, according to the ancienty of his peerage.

The practice, however, does not wait upon the right, and is regulated by the universal sense and feeling of the respect and deference which is due to the Blood Royal of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury does not take a legal opinion or pore over the 31st of Henry VIII. to discover whether he has a right to jostle for that precedence with the cousin, which he knows he is bound to concede to the uncle, of the Queen; but he yields it as a matter of course, and so uniform and unquestionable is the custom, that in all probability neither the Prince nor the Prelate are conscious that it is in the slightest degree at variance with the right.

The obscurity which involves the question of precedence, and the prevailing doubts as to the extent of the Royal prerogative, proceed, in a great measure, from the intermixture of law and custom, by which the practice is regulated and enforced. The table of precedence, the authority of which is recognised for all social and ceremonial purposes, rests upon statutory enactments, ancient usages, and the king's letters patent; usage creeping in to disarrange the order, and break the links of the chain forged by the law; for, while the 31st of Henry VIII. places earls after marquises, custom interposes and postpones the former to the eldest sons of dukes (and so of Marquis's eldest sons and viscounts), though these are only commoners in the eye of the law. Now, as no custom (unless expressly saved) can prevail against the force of a statute, this renders it still more clear, that nothing was intended by the 31st Henry VIII. but 'the placing the Lords' in Parliament,[14] and that the question of general precedence (with all the prerogatives of the Crown thereunto appertaining) was left untouched by it.[15] In point of fact, the royal prerogative always has been, and still continually is exercised, in violation of the order of the established table; for when the King, by his Royal warrant, gives to one of his subjects, having neither rank nor dignity, the place and precedence of a duke's or an earl's son, the individual thus elevated supersedes all those (below that rank) whose place and precedence is determined either by law or custom.

[14] Lord Herbert, in his Life of Henry VIII, says, in allusion to this statute, 'it was declared also how the Lords in Parliament should be placed,' p. 218.

[15] Lord Coke clearly distinguishes between precedence in Parliament and Council and general precedence:—Thus far for avoiding contention about precedency in Parliament, Star Chamber, and all other assemblies, Council, &c. Now, they that desire to know the places and precedency of the nobility and subjects of the realm, as well men as women, and of their children (which we have added the rather, for that the contention about precedency between persons of that sex is even fiery, furious, and sometimes fatal), we will refer you to a record of great authority in the reign of Henry VII., entitled.'—4th Inst. 363.

The result, then, appears to be that, in the olden time, the king had unlimited power in matters of honour and precedence, and could confer whatever dignity or pre-eminence he thought fit, upon any of his subjects. That this power has been expressly restrained, quoad the Parliament Chamber and the Council, but exists unfettered in all other respects.

In Parliament (should Prince Albert be created a peer), he would only be entitled to a seat at the bottom of the degree to which he might belong, and he would be expressly prohibited from sitting nearer to the throne. In the Privy Council likewise (if made a Privy Councillor) he would be entitled to no especial place, but everywhere else, at ceremonials of every description, at royal marriages, christenings or funerals, at banquets, processions, and courtly receptions, at installations and investitures, at all religious, civil, or military celebrations, upon all occasions, formal or social, public or private, the Queen may grant to her husband an indisputable precedence and pre-eminence over every other subject in the realm. It will probably be less difficult to obtain a concurrence of opinion as to the extent of the Queen's constitutional right in granting precedence, than as to the manner in which it would be morally fit, and just to others, that this right should be exercised.

The bill, as originally introduced in the House of Lords, was undoubtedly liable to serious objections; but it is difficult to discover any valid reason why the Prince, Consort to the Queen, should not be invested for his own life with the highest personal dignity which it is in the power of the Crown to confer.

It has been said, that to place Prince Albert before the princes of the blood royal would be an invasion of the birth right of these illustrious persons. This seems to be the result of a confused notion, that a privilege of precedence is identical with a beneficial interest—it may be a man's birth right to succeed in some contingency to the throne, or to a title or to an estate, and it would be injurious, and therefore unjust, to thrust any interloper between him and his chance, however remote it might be, of such succession. But the same Act which limits the prerogative of the Crown, confers on the Royal Dukes and Great Officers of State the only right of precedence which they possess, and while they can claim no more than was given to them, the Crown is as surely entitled to all that was left to it by that Act. No individual can insist upon an indefeasible right never to be preceded, under any circumstances, by any other individual not having a status defined by this Act, and as the uncles of the Queen, and the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, occupy their respective steps in the ladder of precedence, by the self-same title, there would be no greater violation of birthright in placing an individual without a status before the Duke of Sussex, than there would in placing him before the Duke of Norfolk; if there be any injustice at all, the difference would not be in the principle, but in its local or personal application.

The question, then, is one of expediency, and of propriety, to be determined with reference to its own special circumstances, and according to the analogies which can be brought to bear upon it; there is not only no case exactly in point to refer to, but there is none sufficiently analogous to be taken as a precedent. When Queen Anne came to the throne, Prince George of Denmark was the only prince in England (all his children being dead), and no new Act was necessary to give him precedence, if the Queen had desired it, inasmuch as there was nobody for him to precede. The condition of a Queen Consort is certainly very different from that of a Prince Consort; but upon the broad principle of moral fitness, there seems no reason why the husband of the Queen regnant should not be invested, by virtue of his consortium, with the highest dignity, over other men, just as the wife of the king is participant by virtue of her marriage of divers prerogatives over other women. For the prerogatives with which the law invests her are allotted to her not upon her own account, but upon that of the king; she is considered as a feme sole, and has certain capacities and rights, 'in order that the king whose continual care and study is for the public, should not be troubled and disquieted on account of his wife's domestic affairs.' And the law, which out of respect to the king makes it high treason to compass or imagine the death of his wife, when she becomes a widow ceases to surround her with this protection. It is the king alone, his dignity and his comfort, which the law regards, and the privileges and pre-eminences of his family are conferred or established in such modes and proportions as may be most conducive thereto.

The principle on which precedence is established is that of propinquity to the sovereign, and no propinquity can be so close as that of the husband to the wife, nor does it seem unreasonable that all other subjects should be required to yield the outward forms of honour and respect to the man who is elevated to a station so far above them, whom she is herself bound to 'love, honour, serve, and obey,' and who is superior to her in their natural, while still subordinate in their civil and political relations. Many people who are not unwilling to concede a high degree of precedence to the Prince, are very sensitive about the dignity of the heir apparent, and while they are content that he should precede his other children, would on no account allow him to be superior in rank to a Prince of Wales. The difficulty in these cases is to establish a principle; but that difficulty is rendered much greater if, when the principle is once admitted, it is not taken with all its legitimate and necessary consequences. If the Prince is entitled to claim precedency over any of the blood-royal of England, above all others, he may claim it upon every moral ground over his own children, nor is there any civil or political consideration in reference to the heir apparent, requiring that an exception should be made in his behalf. There seem to exist confused notions of something very extraordinary and transcendant in the status of a Prince of Wales, but the difference between him and his younger brother is not very great; and the only positive privilege with which the law certainly and exclusively invests the heir apparent, is that of making it high treason to attempt his life.[16]

[16] It is also treason to kill certain judicial officers when in actual execution of their offices.—Hale, P. C. 13.

The heir apparent is Prince of Wales, and Duke of Cornwall, but he is not necessarily either the one or the other, and except on a certain condition he cannot be the latter.[17] For as the king creates his elder son, or heir apparent, Prince of Wales, he has the power of withholding such creation, and though the eldest son of the king is Duke of Cornwall by inheritance, the dukedom is limited to the first begotten son of the king.[18]

[17] Two months elapsed between the death of Frederick Prince of Wales, and the creation of his son, George III., Prince of Wales.

[18] If, for example, George IV. had died in his youth, his next brother might have been heir apparent, with no other title than that of Bishop of Osnaburgh. Henry VIII. after the death of Prince Arthur, and Charles I. after that of Prince Henry, were Dukes of Cornwall, but by special new creation.—H., P.C. 13.

The Prince of Wales has no right or privilege beyond those of any other subject; he owes the same faith and allegiance to the sovereign; and since 1789 none have ever ventured to assert that he could claim the regency rather than any other subject. His political condition, therefore, is little if at all different from that of the rest of the Royal Family. His personal propinquity to the sovereign must be less than that of his father, and the question is, whether there is anything so peculiar in his status as to supersede those natural relations of father and son, which, according to all human custom, as well as divine injunction, involve the duty of honour from the latter to the former.

The son's enfranchisement from parental rule when he arrives at years of discretion does not exempt him from the honour he is bound by the law of God and nature to pay to his parents.[19] The son is under a perpetual obligation to honour his father by all outward expressions, and from this obligation no state can absolve him. 'The honour due to parents' (says Locke) 'a monarch on his throne owes his mother, and yet this lessens not his authority, nor subjects him to her government.'[20] The monarchical theory ascribes to the King of England two bodies or capacities, a natural body, and a politic or mystical body, and 'from this mystical union of the ideal with the real king, the enquirer after constitutional information is led through childish reasoning and unintelligible jargon, to practical consequences founded on expediency.'[21] These practical consequences are the complete subordination of the natural to the politic capacity of the sovereign, and that moral revolution which supersedes the duty of the son to the father by the superior duty of the subject to the sovereign. Nothing less transcendental seems sufficient to cancel the force of this natural obligation, and while father and son are both in the condition of subjects, the filial and parental relations need not be outwardly reversed.

[19] Locke, vol. iv. p. 347.

[20] Ibid. vol. iv. p. 376.

[21] Allen on the Royal Prerogative, p. 29.

If the Queen, therefore, should be advised to grant to her Royal Consort letters patent of precedence immediately next to her own person, and at the same time make him a Privy Councillor, there would be no practical difficulty with regard to his place at the Council Board, notwithstanding the legal exception; there custom has in a great measure superseded law. The occasions are very rare when any of the Royal Dukes are present; and upon all others, the Prince would sit upon the right hand of Her Majesty, and precedence would be conceded to him as a matter of course. The Council Board is no longer what it was in the days of Henry VIII., at which time the King sat there regularly in person. The greater part of the Privy Councillors were in constant attendance upon him.[22] They resided in the Court, and accompanied him wherever he went; much (though far from all) of the most important business of the State was transacted there, and the order of sitting, when the members had to deliver their opinions seriatim, beginning with the lowest, was not unimportant. Councils are now merely formal assemblies, for the expedition of certain orders, which must emanate from the sovereign in person.

[22] Sir H. Nicholas' Preface to Council Register, vol. i. p. 13.

When any of the Royal Dukes are present, they sit next the Queen on her right hand, the Lord President always next her on her left. And, although the Lord President and the Chancellor (when present) sit on either side of the Queen, all the other officers are indiscriminately placed. It would not probably be deemed advisable to go back to the end of the seventeenth century for a precedent, or it would be found that Prince George of Denmark sat in council, without taking any oaths; not, therefore, as a Privy Councillor, but pro honoris causa. He always, however, occupied the place of honour, and his attendance was very regular, though there is no record of his having ever taken the oaths; and, at the accession of King William, when all the other Privy Councillors were sworn, it is expressly stated that Prince George was not.[23]

[23] He was first brought into Council by James II. in person, and placed on his right hand, but not sworn.

It is much to be regretted that such heat and irritation have been manifested in the discussion of this question, and certainly between the proceedings in both Houses of Parliament. Prince Albert may well have thought his reception neither cordial nor flattering; but the truth is, that any mortification which either the Prince or the Queen may have felt (and in her it is only natural, whether just or not) is at least as attributable to the really objectionable nature of the propositions which were made, as to the opposition which they encountered.

Nothing herein is more to be deplored than that any mistaken zeal should misrepresent the conduct, or any hasty impression misconstrue the motives, of the Duke of Wellington. His whole life has been a continual manifestation of loyalty and of superiority to petty purposes, and unworthy inducements; but his notions of loyalty are of a nature which mere courtiers are unable to comprehend, because he always considers the honour and the interests of the Crown, in preference to the personal inclination of the sovereign.

Of all men who ever lived he has sought the least the popularity he has so largely acquired—the tide of which, sometimes diverted by transient causes, has always returned with accumulated force. With him it is no 'echo of folly, and shadow of renown,' but a deep, affecting, almost sublime national feeling, which exults in him as the living representative of national glory. If there be an exception in any place to this universal sentiment, let us hope that the impression will not endure, that the cloud of momentary error will be dispersed, and that justice, ample and not tardy, will be rendered to

'The noblest man That ever lived in the tide of time.'



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INDEX.

Abbotsford, visit to, iii. 291

Aberdeen, Rt. Hon. Earl of, Foreign Secretary in Sir R. Peel's Administration, ii. 37; and the Spanish quarrels, 73, 74; at the Chateau 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,' fete on board the, iii. 409

Auchterarder Case, the, ii. 206, 207

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ball, fancy, at the Palace, ii. 283

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

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

Bangor Cathedral, service at, ii. 17

Bank Charter Act, the, suspended, iii. 101

Barcelona, bombardment of, ii. 201

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beaudesert, party at, i. 48

Beaumaris, visit to, ii. 17

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

Beauvale, Lord, and Lord Palmerston, iii. 120

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

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

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

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

Bedford, Duchess of, resignation of, ii. 32

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

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

Berlin, revolution in, iii. 155

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

Berry, Miss Agnes, ii. 201, 202

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

Beyrout, bombardment of, i. 328

Birkenhead, visit to, ii. 282

Birthday reflexions, i. 85

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bowood, party at, ii. 69

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Burghley, party at, i. 37

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

Burke, Rt. Hon. Edmund, iii. 213

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

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

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

Cambridge, visit to, ii. 238

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

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

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

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

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

Canada Bill, see Commons, House of

Candlish, Dr., sermon by, iii. 292

Canford, visit to, ii. 105

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carnot, iii. 153

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

Catholic Clergy, Endowment question, ii. 199

Cavaignac, General, iii. 199, 205

Cecille, 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; fete 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 Hotel Lambert, iii. 44

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

Danton, anecdote of, iii. 111

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

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

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

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

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

Denman, Lord, closes the term, ii. 63

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

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

De Ros, Lord, death of, i. 180

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

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

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

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

Dolly's Brae affair, iii. 310, 313

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

Dost Mahomed, surrender of, i. 360

Downton Castle, visit to, i. 218

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

Drumlanrig, visit to, iii. 299

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

Drummond Castle, visit to, iii. 299

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

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

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

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

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

Eastern Question, the, beginning of, i. 242; in 1840, 297; anti- Palmerstonian policy of France, 302; communication of M. de Pontois to the Porte, 304, 306; conduct of ministers at the beginning, 308; protocol signed, 309; conversations with M. Guizot on, 310, 315, 319; indecision of ministers, 312 intentions of Lord John Russell, 313; discussions on, 315, 317, 325; cabinet on, 320; Prince Metternich's suggestion, 325; Lord Holland's remarks, 325; bombardment of Beyrout, and deposition of Mehemet Ali, 328; Lord Palmerston gains his point, 330; Lord Ponsonby's despatch, 334; note from the French Government, 335; surrender of the Emir Beschir, 344; terms of conciliation with France, 351; mission of Baron Monnier, 356; unsettled affairs in Egypt, 361; settlement of (1841), 377-383; protocols signed, 383; the Hatti-sherif, 385; fresh obstacles, 387

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

Eastnor Castle, i. 219

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

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

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

Edinburgh, visit to, iii. 291

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

Education question, the, ii. 212

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

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

Egypt, see Eastern Question

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

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

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

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

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

Emir Beschir, see Eastern Question

Ems, visit to, ii. 287

Endsleigh, visit to, iii. 205

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

Espartero, downfall of, ii. 201

Eton College case, ii. 411

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

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

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

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

Exchequer, Court of, anecdote, iii. 125

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

Exeter, visit to, iii. 207

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

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

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

Faucher, M. Leon, 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 L10 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'etat of Louis Napoleon, 420

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

Francis, Sir Philip, at Woburn, ii. 47

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

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

Fullerton, Lady Georgiana, novel by, ii. 205

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

Garnier Pages, 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; Jerome 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; iii. 6; note in reply to Lord Palmerston, ii. 433; explanation relating to the Spanish Marriages, iii. 17; conversation with, on the Spanish Marriages, 20-26; complaints of Lord Palmerston, 30; and Lord Palmerston's despatch, 33; indignation of, 42; bad terms of, with Lord Normanby, 42; resentment at Lord Normanby and Lord Palmerston, 46, 47; invited to the British Embassy 'by mistake,' 59; continuance of the quarrel, 60; the quarrel made up, 66; escape of, to England, 137, 145; conduct of, in the Revolution, 138; narrative of the Revolution, 142-145; dines with Lord Palmerston, 157

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hanover, Stade Treaty with, ii. 107

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

Harewood Lodge for Ascot, ii. 11

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

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

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

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, Chateau 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

Hotel 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

India, 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

Jamaica 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

Kay, 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

Labouchere, 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, Hotel, 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

Liege, 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 Chateau 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 Cecille, 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

Macaulay, 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 Amelie, 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

Mole, 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

Napier, 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'etat, 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

Oakley 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

Pacifico, 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, 75; 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 Hotel de Ville, 42; ball at Mme. Pozzo di Borgo's, 42; visit to M. Cousin, 44; the Hotel 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'etat 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

Quarterly Review, the, article on Sir R. Peel's policy, ii. 200; article on Lord Orford's letters, 202

Rachel, 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; fete 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

St. 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

Tahiti 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'etat, 443

Thomson, Right Hon. Charles Poulett (Lord Sydenham), sent to Canada, i. 235; death of, ii. 117; abilities of, 117

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

Underwood, 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

Ventura, 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 Chateau 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

Wakefield, 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

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