The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) / A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV

INDEX.

Charles Greville

Abercromby, Right Hon. James, proposed as Speaker, ii. 333; Master of the Mint, iii. 95; proposed as Speaker, 201; the Speakership, 204; elected Speaker, 213
Aberdeen, Earl of, Duchy of Lancaster, i. 124; motion about Belgium, ii. 238
Achmet Pacha, concludes a treaty with Russia, iii. 69
Adair, Right Hon. Sir Robert, sworn in Privy Councillor, i. 136
Addington, Henry Unwin, recalled from Madrid, iii. 14
Address, proposed amendment to the, iii. 217
Adelaide, Queen, ii. 7; at the Ancient Concert, 133; mobbed in the City, 141; audience of, about the crown, 179; coronation of, 190; Lord Howe, 338; yacht, iii. 99; return of, 125; illness of, 125; supposed to be with child, 198, 199, 201
Adrian’s Villa, i. 377
Agar Ellis, see Dover, Lord
Alava, General, and the Duke of Cumberland, iii. 275
Albani, Cardinal, influence of, i. 310; conversation with, 373; interview with, 380
Albano, i. 331
Alexander, Emperor of Russia, death of, i. 78; coronation of, described by Talleyrand, ii. 185
Allen, Dr., Bishop of Ely, iii. 363
Allen, John, iii. 135; unbelief of, 324
Althorp, Viscount, proposed as Chairman of the Finance Committee, i. 120; Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 66, introduces the budget, 114; leader of the House of Commons, 116, 200; letter to Attwood, 205, 206; hurries on the Irish Church Bill, 364; as Chancellor of the Exchequer, iii. 2; arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms, 56; financial statement, 60; defects as leader, 62; summons a meeting of the supporters of Government, 92; resigns, 101; popularity of, 105; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Melbourne, 113; succeeds his father as Earl Spencer, 140
Alvanley, Lord, duel with Morgan O’Connell, ii. 257; on Irish affairs, 348
America, dispute with France, iii. 322
Anglesey, Marquis of, recalled, i. 149; entry into Dublin, ii. 99; disputes with O’Connell, 106
Antwerp, threatened bombardment of, by the Dutch, ii. 321; French army marches to, 329
Arbuthnot, Right Hon. Charles, nickname ‘Gosh,’ i. 103; conversation with, on the Duke of Wellington’s Administration, ii. 51; conversation with, at Oatlands, 170
Arbuthnot, Mrs., death of, iii. 116
Arkwright, Sir Richard, fortunes of iii. 50
Arkwright, Mrs., visit to, iii. 49
Arms Bill, the, ii. l96
Arnold, Dr., proposed for a bishopric, iii. 325
Artevelde, Philip van, iii. 114; discussed at Holland House, 128
Ascot Races, 1831, ii. 147; 1833, 375
Attwood, chairman of the Birmingham Union, ii. 205, 208; proclamation against, 215
Auckland, Lord, Board of Trade, ii. 66; First Lord of the Admiralty, iii. 88, 113; on the state of affairs, 238; First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Melbourne’s second Administration, 256
Augustus, Prince, of Prussia, ii. 319
Austin, Mr. John, his work on Jurisprudence, iii. 138
Austin, Mr. Charles, ii. 306
Aylmer, Lord, recalled from Canada, iii. 394; the King’s address to him, 395

Bachelor, valet to the Duke of York and to King George IV., i. 142, 143; conversation with, ii. 30
Bagot, Lord, conduct to Lord Harrowby, ii. 253
BaiÆ, Bay of, i. 341
Baring, House of, ii. 53
Baring, Right Hon. Alexander, offered the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, ii. 299; proposes a compromise with the ex-Ministers, 300
Baring, Francis, Chairman of the West India Committee, iii. 279
Barnes, Mr., editor of the ‘Times,’ ii. 97, 214; negotiations with, for supporting the Government, iii. 155, 156, 157 dines with Lord Lyndhurst, 167, 169 alarm of, at the prevailing spirit, 188
Barri, Madame du, ii. 219
Barry, Dr., sent to Sunderland, ii. 216; report on cholera, 217
Bath, Chapter of the Ord 0-h@25700-h-3.htm.html#Page_46" class="pginternal">46; wears a Crown jewel, 48; Court intrigues, 207
Conyngham, Lord Francis, i. 50
Coprogli, History of the Grand Vizier, iii. 115
Cornelius, painter, ii. 149
Coronation, the, of William IV. decided on, ii. 156; preparations for, 157, 163, 165; estimates for, 181; disputes over the arrangements for, 187
Cottenham, Lord, Lord High Chancellor, iii. 328
Cotton, Sir Willoughby, suppresses the insurrection in Jamaica, ii. 262; on affairs in Jamaica, 380
Council, Clerk of the, Mr. Greville sworn in, i. 44; after the accession of William IV., ii. 12; Lord Grey’s Administration sworn in, 71; for the proclamation against rioters, 73; recorder’s report in, 85; clerks of the, 87; scene at Council for a new Great Seal, 188
Council, Privy: suttee case before the, ii. 307; embargo on Dutch ships, 343; meeting of the, on the London University petition, iii. 80; counter petition of Oxford and Cambridge, 80
Council, Cabinet: the first of Lord Melbourne’s Administration, iii. 120; the first of Sir Robert Peel’s Administration, 174
Covent Garden Theatrical Fund Dinner, i. 205
Coventry, glove trade, ii. 224
Cowley, Abraham, lines from ‘Ode to Solitude,’ ii. 272
Cowper, Earl, at Panshanger, ii. 229
Cowper, Countess, at Panshanger, ii. 229
Cowper, William, Life of, by Southey, iii. 134
Cradock, Colonel, sent to Charles X., ii. 37
Crampton, Sir Philip, Irish story, i. 243
Craven, Earl of, disperses a mob, ii. 77; on the proposed new Peers, 232
Craven, General the Hon. Berkeley, suicide of, iii. 350
Crawford, William, member for the City of London, iii. 188
Creevey, Mr., i. 235
Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, edition of ‘Boswell’s Life of Johnson,’ ii. 105; reviews lost, 106
Cumberland, H.S.H. the Duke of, opposition to Catholic Relief Bill, i. 180; intrigues at Court, 222; insults Lady Lyndhurst, 222, 223; quarrel with Lord Lyndhurst, 224; disputes concerning the office of ‘Gold Stick,’ ii. 5, 21
Cumberland, H.P..H. the Duchess of, i. 2
Cuvier, Baron, death of, ii. 307

Dalberg, Duke de, letter on European affairs, ii. 44
Dawson, Right Hon. George Robert, speech on Catholic Emancipation, i. 138, 200; sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 71
De Gazes, Duke, favourite of Louis XVIII., ii. 305; Ambassador to the Court of St. James, 306
Dedel, M., Dutch Minister at the Court of St. James, iii, 32
Denbigh, Earl of, Chamberlain to Queen Adelaide, ii. 342; sworn in Privy Councillor, 352
Denman, Lord, correspondence with the King, i. 156; sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 329; Lord Chief Justice, 330; qualities of, 331; meeting of, with Lord Brougham, in Bedfordshire, iii. 71; raised to the Peerage, 74
Derby Dilly, the, iii. 236, 237, 253
De Ros, Lord, in Rome, i. 368
De Ros, Colonel, the Hon. Arthur John Hill, death of, i. 81; character of, 82
Dickenson, Captain, trial of, by court-martial, i. 235
Diebitsch, Marshal, death of, from cholera, ii. 154
Dino, Duc de, arrest of the, i. 255
Dino, Duchesse de, ii. 57; on the state of France, 195
Discontent throughout the country, ii. 108
Disraeli, Benjamin, projects for sitting in Parliament, iii. 170
Dissenters’ Marriage Bill, iii. 207, 230. For debates on, see Commons, House of
Dorsetshire election, 1831, ii. 203, 207; crime in, iii. 77
Dover, Lord, resigns the Woods and Forests, ii. 109; created a Peer, 150; death of, iii. 4; character of, 4; Life of Frederick II., 6; book on the Man in the Iron Mask, 6
Down, deanery of, iii. 70
Drax v. Grosvenor, case of, ii. 224; lunacy case, 369; decision on, 375; final meeting on, 377
Drummond, Henry, mission to the Archbishop of York, iii. 333
Dublin Police Bill, iii. 333
Dudley, Earl of, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, i. 95, 124; dinner to Marshal Marmont, ii. 38; eccentricity of, 271, 272
‘Duke of Milan,’ quotation from the, i. 178
Dulcken, Madam, performs before the Judicial Committee, iii. 325
Duncannon, Viscount, iii. 104; called to the House of Lords, and Secretary of State, 109; sworn in, 112; Home Secretary, 113; on O’Connell, 117; at a fire in Edward Street, 117; on the state of affairs, 196; Commissioner of Woods and Forests under Lord Melbourne, 256
Duncombe, Hon. Thomas Slingsby, maiden speech of, i. 128; petition from Barnet, ii. 255; guilty of libel, iii. 9; at Hillingdon, 123
Durham, Earl of, quarrel with Lady Jersey, ii. 119; influence over Lord Grey, 222; attack on Lord Grey at a Cabinet dinner, 226; rudeness of, 269; return from Russia, 333; violence of, 333; created an earl, 365
Dwarris, Sir Fortunatus, dinner at the house of, ii. 359

East, Sir E. Hyde, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 155
Eboli, Duchesse d’, ball at Naples, i. 335
Ebrington, Viscount, moves a vote of confidence in the Government, ii. 202, 204
Ebury, Lord, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 78
Egremont, Earl of, at Petworth, ii. 336; wealth of, 337; hospitality to the poor, iii. 84
Eldon, Earl of, audience of King George IV., i. 197; speech at Apsley House, ii. 198; career of, 378; tribute to, iii. 42
Election, General, in 1830, ii. 20, 29; in 1831, 139, 141, 142, 145; in 1832, 335; 9
Istria, Duchesse d’, beauty of, iii. 381

Jacquemont’s Letters, iii. 115
Jamaica, insurrection in, ii. 262; Mr. Greville, Secretary of the Island of, 349; petition to the King, 352; affairs of, ib.; anecdote of a slave, 359; opinion of Sir Willoughby Cotton, 380; office of Secretary to the Island of, threatened, iii. 266, 268, 275; secured, 279
Jebb, Judge, charge of, at O’Connell’s trial, ii. 109
Jeffrey, Lord, and Professor Leslie, iii. 44
Jersey, Countess of, character of, i. 12; party at the house of, ii. 64; quarrel with Lord Durham, 119; correspondence with Lord Brougham, 126
Jockey Club, dinner given by the King to the, 1828, i. 134; in 1829, 211
‘John Bull,’ the, newspaper, ii. 97
Johnson, Dr., anecdotes of, ii. 316
Johnstone, Right Hon. Sir Alexander, sworn in a Privy Councillor, iii. 27, 30; at the Judicial Committee, 125
Jones Loyd, Mr., iii. 188
Jones, ‘Radical,’ interview with Lord Wharncliffe, ii. 200
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Bill for the establishment of the, iii. 21; meeting to make regulations for the, 35; first sitting of the, 38; working of the, 205

Kelly, Mrs., adventures of her daughter, i. 379, 383; case before the Privy Council, iii. 259, 261, 266, 267; judgment, 274
Kemble, Charles, and his family, iii. 260
Kemble, Miss Fanny, i. 240, ii. 129; tragedy by, 270; in the ‘Hunchback,’ 285
Kempt, Right Hon. Sir James, Master-General of the Ordnance, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 84
Kent, H.R.H. the Duchess of, disputes in the Royal Family, ii. 190; and the Duke of Wellington, ib.; the Regency Bill, 191; salutes to, iii. 3; at Burghley, 315; quarrels with the King, 366; scene at Windsor, 367; answer to the address of the City of London, 399; squabble with the King, 400
Kenyon, Lord, speech at Apsley House, ii. 198
Kinnaird, Lord, created a Baron of the United Kingdom, ii. 150
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb, anecdote of, iii. 130
Knatchbull, Right Hon. Sir Edward, joins the Peel Government, iii. 176, 177; attack on, 226
Knighton, Sir William, i. 72; influence with the King, 99, 144; behaviour of, during the King’s illness, ii. 174

Lafayette, Marquis de, resignation of, ii. 99
La Ferronays, M. de, French Ambassador at Rome, i. 307; on the accession of the Emperor Nicholas, 373; on French politics, 368; civility of, 380, 381; on French affairs, 393, 395
La Granja, revolution of, iii. 364, 365
‘Lalla Rookh,’ at Bridgewater House, iii. 353
Lamb, Sir Frederick, ii. 94; reported letter to the King of France from the Duke of Wellington, 94
Lambeth Palace, restoration of, ii. 34
Lancashire election, 1835, iii. 198
Langdale, Lord, reply to Lord Brougham, iii. 81; declines the Solicitor-Generalship, 141; peerage, 328; Master of the Rolls, 328
Lansdowne, Marquis of, Secretary of State for the Home Department, i. 95; Lord President, ii. 66; dinner to name the sheriffs, 109; on the Reform Bill, 131; and Lord Brougham, 347; Lord President in both of the Administrations of Lord Melbourne, iii. 113, 256
La RonciÈre, case of, iii. 202
Laval, M. de, at Apsley House, ii. 15
Law, History of English, iii. 114
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, early genius of, i. 256; death of, 263; character of, 264; funeral of, 268; engagement of, to the Misses Siddons, iii. 50
Leach, Right Hon. Sir John, disappointed of the Woolsack, ii. 68; in the case of Drax v. Grosvenor, 378
Leigh, Colonel George, ii. 189
Leinster, Duke of, sworn in a Privy Councillor, ii. 155
Leitrim, Earl of, created a Baron of the United Kingdom, ii. 150
Le Marchant, Denis, at Stoke, iii. 21
Lemon, Robert, F.S.A., Deputy Keeper of the State Papers, iii. 44
Lennard, John Barrett, Chief Clerk of the Privy Council Office, ii. 370
Leopold, King, i. 22; desires to ascend the throne of Greece, 265; anxiety to ascend the throne of Belgium, ii. 153; accepts the throne of Belgium, 158; starts for Belgium, 167; proposes to the Princess Louise of France, 168; in Belgium, 177; want of confidence in, 177; cold reception of, at Windsor, iii. 370
Leuchtenberg, Duke of, at Havre, iii. 33; marriage of, 33; letter to Lord Palmerston, 34; arrival of, 195
Leveson, Lord Francis, see Ellesmere, Earl of
Levee, iii. 213
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, (‘Monk’ Lewis), journals and voyages to the West Indies, ii. 382; anecdote of, iii. 2; agreement with Mr. Murray for the Journal, 8
Lichfield, Earl of, at Runton, iii. 51
Lichfield Cathedral, iii. 327
Lieven, Prince, recalled, iii. 87
Lieven, Princess, character of, i. 15; attacks Lord Grey, ii. 261; on the Belgian question, 266; conversation with, 322; renews her friendship with the Duke of Wellington, 325; grievances of, 351; interference of, 358; diplomatic difficulties, 357; reception of, at St. Petersburg, iii. 23; position, of, in Paris, 379
Littleton, Right Hon. Edward, i. 11; proposed by Lord Althorp as Speaker, ii. 333; Secretary for Ireland, 372; and O’Connell, iii. 99; instrumental in breaking up the Government, 102; political career of, 103; letter to Lord Wellesley, 103, 110; in communication with O’Connell, 103, 110; Irish Secretary, 113
Liverpool, Earl of, and the King, i. 25; paralytic seizure, 374; saints, 385; the Flagellants, 387; relations with Protestant countries, 391; the Coliseum, 395; story of a thief, 396; convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 397; sight-seeing, 398
Rosslyn, Earl of, Lord Privy Seal, i. 210; Lord President of the Council, iii. 177; dinner for selecting the Sheriffs, 201
Roussin, Admiral, at Constantinople ii. 367
Rovigo, the Duke de, at Rome, i. 325
Rundell, Mr., fortune of, will of, i. 90
Runton Abbey, shooting at, iii. 51; murder in the neighbourhood, 51
Russell, Right Hon. Lord John, introduces the Reform Bill, ii. 121; seat in the Cabinet, 150; brings in his Bill, 155; letter to Attwood, 205, 206; willing to compromise, 223; brings on the second Reform Bill, 227; Paymaster, of the Forces, iii. 113; objected to by the King as leader of the House of Commons, 160; speech at Totness, 171; on the Speakership, 205; on Church Reform, 206; first speech as leader of the House of Commons, 214; letter of, on the Speakership, 218; as leader of the House of Commons, 221; marriage of, 252; Home Secretary in Lord Melbourne’s second Administration, 256; introduction of Corporation Reform, 263; relations with Sir Robert Peel, 282; course to be pursued on the Corporation Bill, 303, 310; speech on the Orangemen, 344; moderation of, 352; meeting at the Foreign Office, 357, 358; intention of the Government to proceed with their Bills, 397; speech in answer to Roebuck, 401
Russia, state of, 1829, i. 158; intrigues of, ii. 351; diplomatic relations with, 352; combines with Turkey against Egypt, 366; fleet sent to Constantinople, ib.; establishes her power in the East, 371; quarrel with, iii. 44; policy towards Turkey, 48; treaty with Turkey, 69; relations with Turkey, 183
Russo-Dutch Loan, question of the, ii. 240, 241; origin of the, 244; debate on the, in the House of Lords, 315
Rutland, Duke of, anti-Reform petition, ii. 263; birthday party, iii. 46

Sadler, Mr., maiden speech of, in opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill, i. 191
Saint-Aulaire, M. de, French Ambassador at Vienna, ii. 187; anecdote of, 187
Saint-Aulaire, Madame de, iii. 187
Saint-Germain, Count de, account of, ii. 186; the ‘Wandering Jew,’ 186
Salerno, i. 344
Salisbury, Marquis of, petition to the King, ii. 231
Saltash, borough of, division on, ii. 170
San Carlos, Duke and Duchess of, i. 8
Sandon, Viscount, moves the Address in the House of Commons, iii. 202; on Sir Robert Peel, 340
Sandys, Lord, iii. 359
Sartorius, Admiral, petition, iii. 366
Scarlett, Sir James, Attorney-General, i. 210
Scott, Sir Walter, death of, ii. 307
Seaford, Lord, i. 83
Sebastiani, Count, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, iii. 180
Sefton, Earl of, dinner to Lord Grey and Lord Brougham, ii. 69; on Lord Brougham, 148; created a Peer of the United Kingdom, 150; qualities of, 183
Segrave, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, iii. 322
Senior, Nassau, at Holland House, iii. 138
Session of 1833, review of the, iii. 28
Sestri, i. 297
Seton, Sir Henry, arrival of, from Belgium, ii. 178
Seymour, Lord, withdraws his support from the Government, ii. 124
Seymour, George, Master of the Robes, ii. 50
Seymour, Horace, retires from the Lord Chamberlain’s Department, ii. 133
Seymour, Jane, coffin of, found at Windsor, ii. 168
Shadwell, Right Hon. Sir Lancelot, on legal business, iii. 76
Shee, Sir Martin, elected President of the Royal Academy, i. 269
Sheil, Right Hon. Richard, dispute with Lord Althorp, iii. 55; arrest of, by the Serjeant-at-Arms, 56; committee, 57, 58; insult to Lord Lyndhurst, 389
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, iii. 336
Siege of Saragossa, the, iii. 40
Siena, i. 303
Simplon, the, i. 415
Slavery, abolition of, ii. 347; for debates on, see Commons, House of
Smith, Baron, ii. 105; O’Connell’s attack upon, iii. 59, 61, 63
Smith, Sydney, and the siege of Saragossa, iii. 39; and Professor Leslie, 44; sermon of, in St. Paul’s Cathedral, 166; on Sir James Mackintosh, 317; dispute of, with the Bishop of London, 395; letter to Archdeacon Singleton, 395
Smithson, Sir Hugh, ii. 337, 338
Somaglia, Cardinal, i. 312
Somerville, Mrs., iii. 58
Sorrento, i. 352; Benediction of the Flowers, 352
Soult, Marshal, sent to Lyons, ii. 219; Prime Minister of France, 324
Southey, Robert, at breakfast given by Mr. Henry Taylor, ii. 59; letter to Lord Brougham on rewards to literary men, 111
Spain, the Duke of Wellington on affairs in, iii. 47; state of, 55; affairs in, 66, 72; proposal to combine with Dom Pedro, 72; affairs in, 183; deplorable state of, 359
Spanish Legion, formation of the, iii. 265
Speaker, the, indecision of, ii. 299; disputes on the Speakership, 333; iii. 204
Spencer, Earl, death of, iii. 140
Spencer, Earl, see Althorp, Viscount
Sprotborough, party at, for the races, ii. 50
StaËl, Madame de, ‘ConsidÉrations sur la RÉvolution franÇaise,’ i. 16; anecdote of, ii. 186
Stafford House, concert at, iii. 278
Stanley, Right Hon. Edward, Irish Secretary, ii. 66; speech on the Reform Bill, 123; seat in the Cabinet, 150; speech in answer to Croker, 228; Secretary for the Colonial Department, 365; at The Oaks, 374; indecision of, iii. 17; racing interests of, 35; resignation of, 88; in opposition, 93; ‘Thimblerig’ speech, 100; conciliatory letter to Lord Grey, 107; disposition of, 165, 167; declines to join Sir R. Peel, a href="@public@vhost@g@html@files@25700@25700-h@25700-h-0.htm.html#Page_5" class="pginternal">5; management of racing establishment, 44; dislike to the Duke of Wellington, 48, 62; duel with the Duke of Richmond, 62; anecdotes of King George IV., 73; illness of, 83, 85; death of, 84; funeral of, 89; letter to Lord Liverpool on the Catholic question, ii. 104
York, H.R.H. the Duchess of, character of, i. 5; portrait of, 8; illness of, 27; death of, 34
Young, Thomas, private secretary to Lord Melbourne, iii. 126

Zea Bermudez, iii. 21; dismissal of, 55
Zumalacarreguy, ii. 270

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