Volume II Part 4 (1/2)

[Page Head: HUSKISSON'S LAST MOMENTS]

Got to Sprotborough last Sunday; Lord Talbot and Lady Cecil, William Lascelles, Irby, Lady Charlotte Denison, Captain Grey It rained all the time of the races They offered Priam to Chesterfield for 3,000 before his match, and he refused; he offered it after, and they refused There were a number of beautiful women there-- the best Cae party, but rather dull; Granvilles, Newboroughs, Wharncliffes, G Seyerald (very pretty), Talbots, Madahahter-in-law, in the highest spirits and state of excite; he was at Doncaster too Lord Granville was just returned froreatHe died the death of a great ned, calm, and collected; took the Sacrament, and made a codicil to his will, said the country had had the best of him, and that he could not have been useful for many more years, hoped he had never coiven, and declared that he died without a feeling of ill-will and in charity with allthe Duke of Wellington's arrival at Manchester, and he said, 'I hope to God the Duke h the day' When he had done and said all he desired, he begged they would open a vein and release hi he only wished to die quickly

Mrs Huskisson was violently opposed to his being buried at Liverpool, and it ith great difficulty she was persuaded to consent to the repeated applications that were made to her for that purpose

Buckenham, October 25th, 1830 {p051}

Aand always idleness Went from Chatsworth to Heaton Park; an iood sport for the sort of thing in a park, with gentleht of politics, and know nothing of what is going on, except that all things look glooenerally are alarmed Last week the Arbuthnots were at Cheveley, and I had a curious conversation enough with him I told hiton's Ad rid of many of his present Cabinet, ere both inefficient and odious, that I thought one great misfortune was that he had nobody to tell him the truth, and very few men hom he was on terms of confidential cordiality He owned it was so, but said that _he_ never concealed froreeable truths--on the contrary, told hi--and assuredthat I thought he ought to know I told hiht of, that Alvanley had told Talleyrand not to notice hio at once to the Duke when he had any iht tell the Duke this if he pleased, but no one else

He said he would, and then he began to talk of Peel, la like intimate confidence between the Duke and hinorant of his real and secret feelings and opinions; that to such a degree did Peel carry his reserve, that when they were out of office, and it had been a question of their returning to it, he had gone toout what his opinions were upon the then state of affairs, and that afterno more of his sentiments and disposition than before they met I said that with a Cabinet like this, and the House of Co ; he owned it was, and then coe other men in the House of Commons, or to suffer the transaction of business to pass through any hands but his own; that the Duke had been accused of a grasping a himself, whereas such an accusation would be much more applicable to Peel All this proves how little real cordiality there is between these two h they are now necessary to each other, a little matter would sever their political connection

Here we have an Ao, when he was one of the handsomest men that ever was seen, and lived in the society of Devonshi+re House

Three years of such a life spoilt him, as he confesses, for the nineteen which followed in his native country; and now he is come back with a wife and five children to see the town he recollects become a thousand tiotten hied, but as much for the worse as London is for the better; he see told me the other day that he re, and that out of the house which he founded not less than six or seven millions must have been taken Several colossal fortunes have been made out of it

London, Novee Head: WELLINGTON'S DECLARATION AGAINST REFORM]

Went from Buckenham to Euston, and then back to Newmarket, where I never have tireat cla's Speech, without much reason; but it was i condition, and the first night of this session the Duke of Wellington ainst Reform, which has without doubt sealed his fate Never was there an act of ious folly, or one so universally condemned by friends and foes The Chancellor said to Lady Lyndhurst after the first night's debate in the House of Lords, 'You have often asked me why the Duke did not take in Lord Grey; read these two speeches (Lord Grey's and the Duke's), and then you will see why Do you think he would like to have a colleague under hiet up and make such a speech after such another as his?'

The effect produced by this declaration exceeds anything I ever saw, and it has at once destroyed what little popularity the Duke had left, and lowered hio out of office, as most assuredly he nity and credit which ht have accompanied his retirement The sensation produced in the country has not yet been ascertained, but it is sure to be i with his i that a few days would produce his resignation

The King's visit to the City was regarded with great apprehension, as it was suspected that atteht, and consequently all the troops that could be ether with thousands of special constables, new police, volunteers, sailors, and ht a Cabinet Council was held, when it was definitively arranged to put it off altogether, and thisthe announcement has appeared in the newspapers Every sort of ridicule and abuse was heaped upon the Govern off the King's visit to the City; very droll caricatures were circulated

I ht, as full of the Duke and his speech, and of regrets at his approaching fall, which he considers as the signal for fresh encroacheneral ihout Europe I hear that nothing can exceed the general excite they hardly knohat

Nove I sallied forth and called on Arbuthnot, whom I did not find at home, but Mrs Arbuthnot was I had previously called on the Villiers, and had a long conversation about the state of everything They did not apprise ave ham means to propose, very different fro, whereas all other accounts agree that they are veryStreet, and, as she utters the Duke's sentiments, was anxious to hear what she would say about their present condition I said, 'Well, you are in a fine state; what do you mean to do?' 'Oh, are you alaro out, and I don't believe a word of it They will be beat on the question of Reforo on very well You will see this will be the end of it' I told her I did not believe they could stay in, and attacked the Duke's speech, which at last she owned she was sorry he had made She complained that they had no support, and that everybody they took in becah, Rosslyn, Murray It was evident, however, that she did conteh they do not n, and think they e Dawson, who told us the funds had fallen three per cent, and that the panic was tremendous, so much so that they were not without alarold Later in the day, however, the funds improved

In the House of Lords I heard the Duke's explanation of putting off the dinner in the City On the whole they seem to have done well to put it off, but the case did not sound a strong one; it rested on a letter fro the Duke an attempt would be made on his life Still it is a hundred to one that there would have been a riot, and possibly all its worst evils and cri Refor that he can do nothing However, in the House of Lords last night the speakers vied with each other in praising his Majesty and extolling his popularity Lady Jersey told o out; you will see we shall go on very well'

[12] [Thoe, afterwards fourth Earl of Clarendon, died in 1832]

Novee Head: DISTURBANCES IN LONDON]

It was expected last night that there would be a great riot, and preparations were e body of civil power put in , and everything indicated a disturbance After dinner I walked out to see how things were going on There was littleGardens, a large body of the new police was drawn up in three divisions, ready to be eton expected Apsley House to be attacked, and o and dine there, to assist in ht be necessary In Pall Mall I met Mr Glyn, the banker, who had been up to Lombard Street to see how matters looked about his house, and he told us (Sir T Farquhar andwas quiet in the City One of the policemen said that there had been a smart brush near Temple Bar, where a body of weavers with iron crows and a banner had been dispersed by the police, and the banner taken The police, who are a nificent set of fellows, behave very well, and it seems pretty evident that these troubles are not very serious, and will soon be put an end to The attack in Downing Street the night before last, of which theyat all The mob came there from Carlile's lecture, but the sentry stopped then Office; the police took them in flank, and they all ran away

I went to Brooks's, but there was hardly anybody there, and nothing occurred in the House of Coate between O'Connell and George Dawson The Duke talks with confidence, and has no idea of resigning, but he does not inspire his friends with the confidence he feels or affects hination as an event which is to plunge all Europe into war, and of the i another Administration, all which is mere balderdash, for he proved with o on; and as to our Continental relations being altered, I don't believe a word of it He may have influence abroad, but he owes it not to his own individual character, but to his possession of power in England If the Ministry who succeed hi of its influence abroad I have heard these sort of things said fifty ti was to be the greatest of calamities, and the breath was hardly out of his body before everybody discovered that it was the greatest of blessings, and, instead of its being io on without hi on with hie the other day, and invited all his old military friends tocivil to the Duke of Wellington, and the Queen likewise Lord Wellesley, speaking of the letter to the Lord Mayor, and putting off the dinner in the City, said 'it was the boldest act of cowardice he had ever heard of'

[Page Head: THE ducheSSE DE DINO]

After soive Madame de Dino[13]

the honours of A that at Vienna she did the honours of Talleyrand's house, and was received on that footing by the Emperor and Empress, so he said, 'Oh, very well; I will tell the Queen, and you had better tell her too'