Volume II Part 6 (1/2)

[22] [Lord Broughah Chancellor on the afternoon of this day, the 22nd of Novee bore the same date]

[23] [The Marquis of Tavistock, Lord John Russell's eldest brother, afterwards Duke of Bedford Lord John has since held almost every Cabinet office: his brother's notion that his health was unequal to the War Office in 1830 is a]

[24] [The Master of the Rolls was at that tie of Appeal at the Privy Council, which was commonly spoken of as 'the cockpit,' because it sat on the site of the old cockpit at Whitehall; but the business was very ill done, which led Lord Brougha in and carry his Act for the creation of the Judicial Committee in 1832--one of his best and most successful measures]

He said the Duke of Rich the incendiary who has been taken, and who they think will afford a clue whereby they will discover the secret of all the burnings

Thisthe peasantry, and sent a Bow Street officer after hi been informed that he was not there by the inmates of the house), and took him to the Duke, who had him searched On his person were found stock receipts for 800, of which 50 was left; and a chemical receipt in a secret pocket for coht up to town Montrond was very a of wool?'

Novee Head: COUNCIL OF THE NEW MINISTERS]

Yesterday at Court; a great day, and very aive up their seals, and the new Ministers came to take them All the first were asse in his closet severally, and held their last Council to swear in George Dawson a Privy Councillor Each after his audience departed, most of them never to return As they went away theyI ith the old set in the Throne Roo into the other room I found it full of the others--Althorp, Graham, Auckland, J Russell, Durhao I should have had s there The effect was very droll, such a coement de decoration_ When the old Ministers were all off the business of the day began All the Cabinet was there--the new Master of the Horse (Lord Albe with joy, and Brougha sent forsworn in, and to ask as to be done about Broughao to the House of Lords These things settled, he held the Council, when twelve new Privy Councillors were sworn in, three Secretaries of State, Privy Seal, and the declarations made of President of Council and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland The King could not let slip the opportunity ofa speech, so when I put into his hands the paper declaring Lord Anglesey Lord-Lieutenant he was not content to read it, but spoke nearly as follows:--'My Lords, it is a part of the duty I have to perforh I certainly should have acquiesced in any recoht have been made to me for this appointment by Earl Grey, Ithat e to the noble Lord, whom I therefore declare with entire satisfaction Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland And, my Lords, I must say that this day is since that of the death of my poor brother (here his voice faltered and he looked or tried to look affected) theoflife it has never happened to me to see so many appointments to be filled up as on this day; and when I consider that it is only last Tuesday night that the force of circumstances compelled those ere the confidential advisers of the Crown to relinquish the situations which they held, and that in this short space of ti such despatch as holding forth the best hopes for the future, and proving the unanimity of my Govern that the noble Earl (Grey) and the other noble Lords and gentlemen may be assured that they will receive fro, and devoted support' The expressions of course are not exactly the saham kissed hands in the closet, and afterwards in Council as Chancellor and Privy Councillor, and then went off to the House of Lords

CHAPTER XIII

A Proclaton in Hampshi+re--General Excitement--The Tory Party--State of Ireland--More Disturbances--Lord Grey's Colleagues--Election at Liverpool--The Black Book--The Duke of Wellington's Position and Character--A Council on a Capital Sentence--Brougham in the House of Lords--The Clerks of the Council--Lord Grey and Lord Lyndhurst--The Chancellor of Ireland--Lord Melbourne--Duke of Riche Allan Park--Lord Lyndhurst and the Whigs--Duke of Wellington and Polignac--The King and his Sons--Polish Revolution-- Mechanics' Institute--Repeal of the Union--King Louis Philippe--Lord Anglesey and O'Connell--A Dinner at the Athenaeu's Governotiation with Lord Melbourne--Count Walewski-- Croker's Boswell--State of Ireland--Broughaden--Arrest of O'Connell--Colonel Napier and the Trades Unions--The Civil List--Hunt in the House of Cohauilty--Achille Murat--Weakness of the Government--Lady Jersey and Lord Durham--Lord Duncannon--Ireland--Wordsworth

November 25th, 1830 {p073}

The accounts from the country on the 23rd were so bad that a Cabinet sat all the e rewards for the discovery of offenders, rioters, or burners Half the Cabinet walked to St James's, where I ith the draft procla's room to approve it I remember the last Council of this sort we held was on Queen Caroline's business She had deht to be crowned, and the King ordered in Council that she should be heard We held the Council in his dressing-rooown, and we in our boots This proclan rossed till the next day, but was nevertheless published in the 'Gazette'

Yesterday the accounts were better There was a levee and Council, all the Ministers present but Pal made a discourse, and took occasion (about some Admiralty order) to introduce the whole history of his early naval life, his first going to sea and the instructions which George III gave Adby as to his treatment All the old Ministers caton, as in Ha down the riots Anson as Master of the Buckhounds was made a Privy Councillor, not usually a Privy Councillor's place, but the King said he rather liked increasing the number than not Clanricarde has a Gold Stick, so there is Canning's son-in-law in office under Lord Grey! There has been a difficulty about the Master-General of the Ordnance, and a little difference between Lord Grey and Lord Hill: when the Duke of Richmond ithdrawn, Grey determined to appoint Sir W

Gordon, but as Gordon would have to give up a perained that he should have the Grand Cross of the Bath Lord Grey at the same time promised his brother Sir Charles Grey a Grand Cross, but Lord Hill (who as Commander-in-Chief has all the Crosses at his disposal) was offended at what he considered a slight to hi to co of the matter, and fancied they were all recommended by himself As the matter stands now, Gordon's appointment is suspended The only other difficulty is to find a Secretary at War Sandon is to have it, if they canconversation with the Duke of Rich the salary of his office, and entreated hireat nonsense He alleged a great , but proreeable situation as regards ue's place Lord Bathurst wrote a letter to Lord Lansdowne stating that the King had approved of his son's appointment, and that he had intended to reduce the salary of the office Lord Grey spoke to the King, and said that after what had passed in both Houses he did not wish to do anything, but to leave the office to be dealt with by a Committee of the House of Commons, under whose consideration it would co either, so that it reue, a deputy, or nothing at all

Noveton, who as soon as he was out of office repaired to Hants, and exerted himself as Lord-Lieutenant to suppress the disorders, returned yesterday, having done ely with the Secretary of State The Government are full of compliments and respects to hi he would naentle down to the county over which he 'so happily presided' He nae Head: DISTURBED STATE OF THE COUNTRY]

There has been nothing neithin these three days, but the alaritation which pervades men's minds unlike what I have ever seen Reform, economy, echoed backwards and forwards, the doubts, the hopes and the fears of those who have anything to lose, the uncertainty of everybody's future condition, the initude and ier, all contribute to produce a nervous excitement, which extends to all classes--to almost every individual Until the Ministers are re-elected nobody can tell ill be done in Parliath the Govern opinion that they ought to be supported at this ton and Peel nation with his colleagues (added to his not being invited to join this Governraces of his party, for Lord Bathurst told me had behaved very honourably He ain character, and as he is about the ablest public , and nearly the best speaker, he will yet bustle himself into consideration and play a part once e are three capital men for the foundation of a party--as men of business superior to any three in this Cabinet But I doubt if the Duke will ever be in a civil office again, nor do I think the country would like to see him at the head of a Government, unless it was one conducted in a very different manner fros, and for the effervescence of public opinion, which threatens the overthrow of the constitution in trying to amend it, Peel and the Duke are entirely responsible; and the forht have known better, and if he had gone long ago to the Duke, and laid before him the state of public opinion, told him how irresistible it was, and had refused to carry on the Government in the House of Coiven way Notwithstanding the great uished his Government, such as Catholic Emancipation, and the repeal of the Test Acts, a continual series of systenorance of, and indifference to, public opinion, have rendered the first of these greatin a worse state than before the Catholic question was settled; and why? Because, first of all, the settleitation would not subside, and because it was accompanied by an insult to O'Connell, which he has been resolved to revenge, and which he knows he can punish

Then instead of depriving hi thelected this, and followed up the o the whole nation against us What is this but egregious presunorance, and want of all political calculation and foresight? What re, for the anti-Union question is spreading far and ith a velocity that is irresistible, and it is the erous because the desire for the repeal of the Union is rather the offspring of iue, excited hopes, not, like the for and deeply felt But common shi+fts and expedients, partial ame a deep stake must be played or all will be lost To buy O'Connell at any price, pay the Catholic Church, establish poor laws, encourage eration, and repeal the obnoxious taxes and obnoxious laws, are the only expedients which have a chance of restoring order It is easy to write these things, but perhaps difficult to carry them into execution, but ant is a head to conceive and a heart to execute such measures as the enormous difficulties of the tie Head: THE RESULTS OF TORY GOVERNMENT]

The last two or three days have produced no reh the state of the country is still dreadful, it is rather better on the whole than it was; but London is like the capital of a country desolated by cruel war or foreign invasion, and we are always looking for reports of battles, burnings, and other disorders Wherever there has been anything like fighting, the reatest cowardice They do not, however, seem to have been actuated by a very ferocious spirit; and considering the disorders of the times, it is remarkable that they have not been e, with three or fourLords, his friends, defeated and dispersed them in Hampshi+re They broke into the Duke of Beaufort's house at Heythrop, but he and his sons got them out without mischief, and afterwards took some of the's hounds were returning to town, they were su a riot at Woburn, which they did; the gentleed and broke the people, and took some of them, and fortunately some troops came up to secure the prisoners The alarm, however, still continues, and a feverish anxiety about the future universally prevails, for no man can foresee what course events will take, nor how his own individual circumstances may be affected by them

The Governin by a display of activity, in early attendance at their offices, and unusual recoence and economy But Lord Grey's Government is already carped at, and not without apparent reason

The distribution of offices is in many instances bad; many of the appointments were bad, and the number of his own family provided for is severely criticised There are of Lord Grey's family: Howick, Under-Secretary; Ellice, Secretary of the Treasury; Barrington, Lord of the Adh he has no salary); and Lambton's brother in the Household Melbourne at the Home Office is considered an inefficient successor to Peel, Grahauished for the Admiralty; Poulett Thomson is said to entertain the most Radical opinions; Althorp put him in