Volume II Part 8 (1/2)

We had aat the Council Office on Friday to order a prayer 'on account of the troubled state of certain parts of the United Kingdo of the French has put an end to the disturbances of Paris about the sentence on the ex-Ministers by a gallant _coup d'etat_ At night, when the streets were itated, he sallied from the Palais Royal on horseback, with his son, the Duc de Neh Paris for two hours This did the business; he was received with shouts of applause, and at once reduced everything to tranquillity He deserves his throne for this, and will probably keep it

Dece the conduct of King Louis Philippe, and the happy termination of the disorders and tureatest alarm still prevails about the excitement in that place

In consequence of the Cha the constitution of the National Guard, and voting the post of Coned and has been replaced by Lobau I never remember times like these, nor read of such--the terror and lively expectation which prevail, and the way in which people's minds are turned backwards and forwards froe excursively to Poland or Pieds, riots, and executions here

Lord Anglesey's entry into Dublin turned out not to have been soto hireat number of people, and by all the most eminent and respectable in Dublin, so much so that he was very well pleased, and found it better than he expected War broke out between him and O'Connell without loss of time O'Connell had intended to have a procession of the trades, and a notice from him was to have been published and stuck over the door of every chapel and public place in Dublin Anglesey issued his proclamation, and half an hour before the time when O'Connell's notice was to appear had it pasted up, and one copy laid on O'Connell's breakfast table, at which anticipation he chuckledthe people to obey, as if the order of the Lord-Lieutenant was to derive its authority from his perinning of the world there never was so extraordinary and so eccentric a position as his It is a ely acquired, as Bonaparte's political poas Utterly lost to all sense of sha truth and honour under his feet, cast off by all respectable men, he makes his faults and his vices subservient to the extension of his influence, for he says and does whatever suits his purpose for the moment, secure that no detection or subsequent exposure will have the slightest effect with those over whose minds and passions he rules with such despotic sway He cares not who covered his cowardice with the cloak of religious scruples, he is invulnerable, and will resent no retaliation that can be offered him He has chalked out to hihest kind--if the _consentiens laus bonorum_ is indispensable to the aspirations of noble ar but highly active, restless, and i; and nobody can deny to him the praise of inimitable dexterity, versatility, and even prudence in the employment of the hly acquainted with the audiences which he addresses and the people upon whom he practises, and he operates upon their passions with the precision of a dexterous anatomist who knows the direction of every hout the Catholic question the furious eneemen, upon whom he lavished incessant and un them to join him on the Repeal question, has not only offered them a fraternal eies and demands for pardon, but he has entirely and at once succeeded, and he is now as popular or emen) as he was before with the Catholics, and Crampton writes word that the lower order of Protestants are with him to a e Head: A DINNER AT THE ATHENaeUM]

Came up to town yesterday to dine with the Villiers at a dinner of clever ot up at the Athenaeuinal party was broken up by various excuses, and the vacancies supplied by men none of whom I knew There were Poulett Tho, whom I knew; the rest I never saw before--Buller, Roet, and Walker, a police istrate, all ether producing anything but an agreeable party Maule was senior wrangler and senior e, and is a lawyer He was nephew to the o, and I had never seen him since; he was then a very clever boy, and assisted to teach the boys, being adht hireat brute I have young Maule now inwell caned, and recollect as if it was yesterday his doggedly dru a lesson of Terence into arden walk before the house

When I was introduced to him I had no recollection of him, but when I found out who he was I went up to hi a newspaper, and said that 'I believed we had once been well acquainted, though we had not met for twenty-seven years' He looked up and said, 'Oh, it is too long ago to talk about,' and then turned back to his paper So I set him down for a brute like his uncle and troubled him no further

I aood a chance of being agreeable as dinners of all clever people; at least the foray, and the latter are frequently heavy

Nonsense and folly gilded over with good breeding and _les usages du reeable results than a collection of rude, aard intellectual powers

[9] [Afterwards Mr Justice Maule]

Roeha this , anted me to read some of her papers Most of theotten I read the longten days before his Majesty put the formation of the Administration in his hands They both appear to have been explicit enough The King went through his whole life, and talked for two hours and a half, particularly about the Catholic question, on which he said he had always entertained the sae III and the Duke of York--and that with the speech of the latter he entirely concurred, except in the 'so help ht unnecessary He said _he_ had wished the Coronation Oath to be altered, and had proposed it to Lord Liverpool His great anxiety was not to be annoyed with the discussion of the question, to keep Canning and Lord Liverpool's colleagues, and to put at the head of the Treasury so would not hear of; he said that having lost Lord Liverpool he had lost his only support in the Cabinet, that the King kne he had been thwarted by others, and how io on but for Lord Liverpool, that he could not serve _under_ anybody else, or act with efficacy except as First Minister, that he would not afford in his person an example of any such rule as that support of the Catholic question was to be _ipso facto_ an exclusion fro to try and ht that with his feelings and opinions on the subject it hat he ought to do

This the King said was out of the question In the course of the discussion Canning said that if he continued in his service he must continue as free as he had been before; that desirous as he was to contribute to the King's ease and coe himself on the subject, because he should be assuredly questioned in the House of Commons, and he must have it in his power to reply that he was perfectly free to act on that question as he had ever done, and that he thought the King would better consult his own ease by retaining hi on his desire above all things to consult his Majesty's ease and coh leader of the House of Coe placed at his disposal, nor a single place to give away

[Page Head: THE DUKE AND MR CANNING]

About the ti was out of huton, for he had heard that many of the adherents of Government who pretended to be attached to the Duke had spoken of hi) in the most violent and abusive terms

In their opinions he conceived the Duke to be to a certain degree implicated, and this produced some coldness in his manner towards him Shortly after Arbuthnot came to him, complained first and explained after, and said the Duke would call upon him The Duke did call, and in a conversation of two hours Canning told hi, thereby putting the Duke, as he supposed, in complete possession of his sentiments as to the reconstruction of the Governed by the King to lay before him the plan of an Administration, and upon this he wrote the letter to his forues which produced so much discussion I read the letters to the Duke, Bathurst, Melville, and Bexley, and I must say that the one to the Duke was rather the stiffest of the whole,[10]

though it was not so cold as the Duke chose to consider it Then came his letter to the Duke on his speech, and the Duke's answer

When I read these last year I thought the Duke had much the best of it; but I 's opinions, as it is stated that he did entirely, after their long interview, at which the conversation with the King was communicated to him That materially alters the case

There was a letter fro to a pro-Catholic Pre Ireland with the First Lord of the Treasury of a different opinion on that subject from his own There was likewise a curious correspondence relative to a paper written by the Duke of York during his last illness, and not very long before his death, to Lord Liverpool on the dangers of the country froress of the Catholic question, the object of which (though it was vaguely expressed) was to turn out the Catholic members and for the Catholic interest This Lord Liverpool co, and it was afterwards co, who appears (the ansas not there) to have given the Duke of York a rap on the knuckles, for there is a reply of the Duke's to the King, full of devotion, zeal, and affection to his person, and disclai up the Government, an idea which could have arisen only fro of his letter by Lord Liverpool It is very clear, however, that he didelse The whole thing is curious, for he are that he was dying, and he says so

[10] [This correspondence is now published in the third volume of the Duke's 'Correspondence,' New Series, p

628]

January 12th, 1831 {p104}

Passed two days at Panshanger, but my room was so cold that I could not sit in it to write nobody there but F Lamb and J