Volume I Part 22 (2/2)

[8] [The hospitality of Chatsworth in the lifetime of William Spencer Cavendish, sixth Duke of Devonshi+re, was princely The Duke of Portland, Mr Greville's grandfather, hter of William, fourth Duke of Devonshi+re, from whom Mr Greville derived his second name of Cavendish He was therefore second cousin of the sixth Duke and of Lady Granville and Lady Carlisle]

[9] [The negotiations for the peace of Adrianople, which terminated the Russo-Turkish war]

I returned to Newmarket on the 11th of October At the end of the week I had a fall from my horse, which confined me tocoht the Duke and Huskisson together Nothing seems to have passed between them beyond the coreatly froht by hi hi into office on any terms It is a proof of the low estimation in which his character is held even by those who rate his talents the highest that all his former political adherents think this of him With such a reputation his political efficacy never can be great again There was a strong report that he was to join the Govern away The Duke is very fortunate, for histo lower their own characters and render thee Head: IRISH TRIALS]

The trials in Ireland are just over, and the Government have been defeated, which I find they think may be productive of very important consequences to the peace of the country The obstinacy of one ainst the other eleven, in the second batch of conspirators ere tried, obliged theth to dismiss the jury, and the prisoners will be tried at the next assizes; the others were acquitted, though the evidence against them was the same as that on which Leary, &c, were convicted

The exertions of O'Connell, who appears to have acted with great ability, produced this result The Government say, of course, that he has acted very ill, but as the Judge, at the conclusion of the trial, said publicly that the defence had been conducted with perfect regard to the due administration of the lae e, he did not overstep the legitireed on all hands, notwithstanding these excesses, that the state of the country is i fresh benefits every day

Nove and reat deal about his forthco 'Life of Byron' He is nervous about it; he is employed in conjunction with Scott and Mackintosh to write a history of England for one of the new publications like the Faland, and Moore Ireland; and they get 1,000 apiece; but Scott could not compress his share into one volume, so he is to have 1,500 The republication of Scott's works will produce him an enormous fortune; he has already paid off 30,000 of the Constable bankruptcy debt, and he is to pay the re 30,000 very soon A new class of readers is produced by the Bell and Lancaster schools, and this is the cause of the prodigious and extensive sale of cheap publications Moore had received a letter from Madame de Guiccioli to-day; he says she is not handsome Byron's exploits, especially at Venice, seem to have been marvellous Moore said he wrote with extraordinary rapidity, but his corrections were frequent and laborious When he wrote the address for the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, he corrected it repeatedly

[10] Dr Lardner's 'Cyclopaedia' Moore told me that the editor of one of the annuals offered him 600 to write two articles for his work, but 'that he loathed the task' and refused, though the money would have been very acceptable The man said he did not care about the merit of the performance, and only wanted his naotten lines of his to Perry, and inserted them with his name--[CCG]

I saw Miss fanny Kemble for the first time on Friday, and was disappointed She is short, ill e hands and feet, an expressive countenance, though not handsorace, and with great energy and spirit, her voice good, though she has a little of the drawl of her family She wants the pathos and tenderness of Miss O'Neill, and she excites no eood, perhaps a fine actress Mrs Siddons was not so good at her age She fills the house every night

The King, as to have gone to Brighton, has given it up, nobody knohy, but it is supposed that the Marchioness is not well Thisthe Duke andto fold a letter to his Majesty in a particular hich he has prescribed, for he will have his envelopes made up in some French fashi+on I hear he thinks that he rode Fleur de Lis for the cup at Goodwood, which he may as well do as think (which he does) that he led the heavy dragoons at Sala aheaven and earth to begin a fresh agitation about the Union, and to do all the mischief he can Francis Leveson is to meet Sheil at dinner to-morrow for the first ti leave of Peel Peel answered his letter that he 'rather inclined hi that the Duke would urge the difficulties of their position, and also the King's horror of the 's horror is in consequence of his speech about the Duke of York I adom, with a boundary line drawn fronty is to be offered to Prince Frederick of Orange, and, if he refuses it, to Leopold

[Page Head: SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH]

November 12th, 1829

At Roehampton at Lord Clifden's from Tuesday, the 10th, till to-day; Sir Ja,[11] and the Master of the Rolls It was uncoreeable I never was in Mackintosh's society for so long before, and never was ious memory and the variety and extent of his information remind me of all I have heard and read of Burke and Johnson; but his a character reeable than they could either of them (particularly Johnson) have been, while he is probably equally instructive and a Not a subject could be mentioned of which he did not treat with equal facility and abundance, from the Council of Trent to Voltaire's epistles; every subject, every character, every work, all were fareater treat than to hear hi, forn Office, universally known at this time as 'The Poodle,'

probably because he once kept a fine anireat reader of novels; had read 'Old Mortality' four tilish and once in French Ellis said he preferred Miss Austen's novels to Scott's Talked of the old novelists--Fielding, little read now, Sreat admirer of Swift, and does not think his infamous conduct to Vanessa quite ion, and said that they were in almost exact conformity with certain doctrines laid down in the Council of Trent The Jansenists differ very little from our Church, except as to the doctrine of the Real Presence Speaking of India, Mackintosh said that it was very reained another in the saeneration, and that it was still a ain or the other a loss

Called America the second Maritined the treaty at Paris, he retired for a ed his coat It was remarked, and he said he had been to put on the coat in which he had been insulted by Lord Loughborough at the English Council Board Madareeable in _tete-a-tete_ than in society; she despised her children, and said, 'Ils ne me ressemblent pas' He told her she did not do thehter

She said, 'C'est une lune bien pale' She took an aversion to Rogers, but when she met him at Bowood, and he told her anecdotes, she liked hiham, and was very proud of those conquests

Moore told several stories which I don't recollect, but this arated to soue, and when another shi+pload of Irish caroes as they sailed in said, 'Ah, Paddy, how are you?' 'Oh, Christ!' said one of them, 'what, y're beco the astonishi+ng knowledge of Mackintosh, was very full of inforhtful days I never passed I could not help reflecting what an extraordinary thing success is in this world, when a ifted as Mackintosh has failed co attained honours, reputation, or wealth, while so many ordinary men have reaped an abundant harvest of all What a consolation this affords tohis extraordinary powers, and at the sareater effects in the world either of literature or politics His virtues are obstacles to his success; he has not the art of pushi+ng or ofhimself feared; he is too _doucereux_ and complimentary, and from some accident or defect in the composition of his character, and in the course of events which have influenced his circulected Both Mackintosh and Moore told a greatat breakfast the latter related a story which struck us all

Mackintosh said it was enough to furnish materials for a novel, but that the siht to be written doithout exaggeration or addition I afterwards wrote it down as nearly as I could recollect it It was Craeon-General, who told it to Moore, and Crae Head: SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON'S STORY]

'Soht between a young hlin and another Irishman MacL

was desperately wounded; his second ran up to hience that his antagonist had also fallen He only replied, ”I a asevinced in this reply, and took an interest in the fate of the young ain powerfully excited by hearing that he had been arrested on suspicion of having murdered his father-in-law, his uilty on the evidence of a soldier who happened to be passing in the ht near the house in which the leah the lower part of the , he approached it, and through an opening between the shutter and the frame was able to look into the roo a dead body from the floor, while his hands and clothes were stained all over with blood He hastened to give inforhlin and hisbeen identified by the soldier, was found guilty There was no evidence against the wohlin conducted hihout the trial with detere his guilt Theof his execution he had an intervieith his mother; none knehat passed between them, but when they parted he was heard to say, ”Mother,events effaced the occurrence from my mind It was several years afterwards that I one day received a letter fro that I would immediately hasten down to the assistance of a Roerously ill at her house, and the symptoms of whose malady she described Her description left me doubtful whether theunable to leave Dublin, I wrote to say that if the disease was bodily the case was hopeless, but if mental I should recommend certain lenitives, for which I added a prescription The priest died, and shortly after his death the lady confided to me an extraordinary and dreadful story He had been her confessor and intiony and doubt produced by horrible recollections he had revealed to her a secret which had been i confession of MacLoughlin, who, as it turned out, was not the murderer of his father-in-law, but had died to save the life and honour of his mother, by whom the crime had been really committed She was a woman of violent passions; she had quarrelled with her husband in thehim from the bed had despatched him by repeated blows When she found he was dead she was seized with terror, and hastening to the apart spectacle and to save her from the consequences of her cri the body and preparing to reuilt, that the soldier passed by and saw him in the perfored the truth, but his last words to his mother were now explained'