Volume II Part 12 (2/2)

Breakfasted the day before yesterday with Rogers, Sydney Sreeable I never heard anythingthan Sydney Smith; such bursts of merriment and so dramatic Breakfasts are the meals for poets

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June 15th, 1831 {p150}

Five new peerages caar Ellis; John Russell and Stanley are to be in the Cabinet At the ball at St Jae Dawson told me that they had 270 people in the House of Commons on the side of the Opposition, if they could command their attendance; that he did not mean to say no Reform Bill would pass, but that the details of this Bill had never yet been discussed, and when they were it would be so clearly shown that it is impracticable that this identicalto recover fro at Lord Mansfield's on Friday, and they do, I believe, ht it out

June 19th, 1831 {p150}

[Page Head: THE CHOLERA]

The last few days I have been co reat ravages in Russia last year, and in the winter the attention of Government was called to it, and the question was raised whether we should have to purify goods coain, and if so hoas to be done Govern of Reform and other matters, and would not bestow ulations nor preparations were made All that was done was to co, to go to Moscow and elsewhere and ress of the disease, and report the result of his investigation to us He turned out, however, to be a very useless and inefficient agent In the ain appeared in Russia, but still we took no further a, at which place 700 or 800 sail of English vessels, loaded principally with he to coeneral alarm, and for many days past the newspapers have been full of letters and full of lies, and every sort of representation is h the press, as fear or interest happen to dictate The Consuls and Ministers abroad had been for so us with such information as they could obtain, so that ere in possession of a great deal of docuress of the disease The first thing we did was to issue two successive Orders in Council placing all vessels co from the Baltic in quarantine, and we sent for Sir Henry Halford and placed all the papers we had in his hands, desiring that he would associate with himself some other practitioners, and report their opinion as speedily as possible whether the disease was contagious and whether it could be conveyed by goods They reported the next day _yes_ to the first question, _no_ to the second In 1804, on the occasion of the yellow fever at Gibraltar, Government fore of Physicians, and it was intended to pursue the same course in this instance, but Lords Lansdowne and Auckland chose to take Halford's preliminary opinion, contrary to reat eree Just so it turned out, for when the case was sube, they would not adopt his opinion, much to his annoyance, and, as I believe, because they did not like to be merely called on to confirht their independence required a show of dissent The report they sent was very short and very unsatisfactory, and entirely against all the evidence they had before them; they advised precautionarythat their report was not satisfactory, and desiring a more detailed opinion, and the reasons which had dictated their conclusion; but in the ainst any eoods), it was found, would be by the ely asked the Admiralty to supply shi+ps for the purpose This Lord Grey, Sir James Graham, and Sir Byam Martin objected to, but Sir Thomas Hardy and Captain Elliot did not We proved that the shi+ps would sustain no injury, so after a battle they agreed to give theave strict orders for the due performance of quarantine, and to- a Board of Health and enjoining obedience to the quarantine laws, so that everything has been done that can be done, and if the cholera comes here it is not our fault Most of the authorities think it will coh the air it may, but I don't think it will if it is only to be cooods cannot convey it; nevertheless we have placed h we have not proulations, we release no vessels that cooods on board Poulett Thomson, who is a trader as well as Privy Councillor, is very usted in his fored to concur in in his latter This topic has now occupied for soood deal of the attention even of the fine fools of this town, and the Tories would even ainst the Government, only they don't know exactly how It is always safe to deal in generalities, so they say that 'Governht to be ie Head: MEETING OF PEERS]

There was aof Peers to the amount of nearly seventy at Lord Mansfield's the other day, which went off greatly to their satisfaction They unani in the way of a's Speech, to which, however, they will consider themselves bound tolaudatory of the Refor been taken ill I ood deal of conversation with hiood fight of it yet; told hly with theue that any o into any Cabinet of which he was not a ive him a very fine sword Aubin, as to have acted in 'Hernani' before the Queen on Wednesday next, is suddenly gone off to Ro Taylor happened to be in Italy, and they sent hi whether they could by law send a diplootiate with the Pope; but it was referred to Dener He is not accredited, and bears no _official_ character, but it is a regular mission

Lord Lansdowne told iu in direct opposition to the wishes and advice of all the Royal Fa'd, and, what is equally absurd, that the others cannot bear that he should be thus elevated

June 23rd, 1831 {p153}

The King opened Parliareater crowd asseated before, and the House of Lords was so full of ladies that the Peers could not find places The Speech was long, but good, and such as to preclude the possibility of an a discussion in each House, and the greatest bitterness and violence evinced in both--every pro, 'I am afraid, sir, you won't be able to _see_ the Commons' 'Never mind,' said he; 'they shall _hear_ ly he thundered forth the Speech so that not a as lost

There has been a reconciliation between the Wellingtonians and the old Tories, and they are now firmly knit in opposition to the present Government Winchilsea, as the last Tory who stuck to Lord Grey, renounced him in a hot speech, which evidently annoyed Lord Grey veryone in reply to hiood-natured and well-ewater House before the Queen and all the Royal Family Aubin, who had acted Don Ruy, was sent to Rome, so Francis Leveson took the part I was disappointed, though all the company were or pretended to be in ecstasies The rhy, and with the exception of Miss Kemble (as not so effective as I expected) and Craven, the actors were execrable

[Page Head: PREVENTION OF CHOLERA]

News came the day before yesterday that Marshal Diebitsch had died of the cholera It was suspected that he had nally in his caainst the Poles that his military reputation is tarnished; and it is known that his recall had been decreed, and that Count Paskiewitch was to succeed him The alarm about the cholera still continues, but the Governer on one hand of the cholera and the loss to trade on the other A board of health has been fore of Physicians, Sir Williaor, and Mr Stewart; and they in their first sitting advised that all the precautions established by our Orders in Council against the plague should be adopted against the cholera This opinion was given under the authority of Dr Warren, who, it appears, exercises the same ascendency in this Board that he had previously done in the College of Physicians on the same subject The fact is that he takes the safe side They have nothing to do with trade and commerce, which must shi+ft for themselves, and probably the other members will not take upon the measures which, if the disease ever appears here, and should they be relaxed, will expose the physicians to the odiu been instrumental to its introduction We, however (Auckland, Poulett Thomson, and I), are resolved to make the Cabinet take upon the the per the continuance of the malady It is remarkable that there never wasepidemic, but thousands of colds, sore throats, fevers, and such like; and a lish cholera, and another is ill of it, but their disorders seeh soot their cholera from Russia, but their cases spread alarht his Bill in last night, in a good speech as his friends, and a dull one as his enen policy in a poor speech, which just did to show his bitterness and as a peg for Grey to hang a very good reply upon The Duke of Wellington spoke afterwards; not entle_ of all Lord Grey had done about Belgiuiuoing as Minister to Naples, not having a guinea The E here, and Henry Webster is to be his conductor

June 30th, 1831 {p155}

At Court yesterday to swear in the Duke of Leinster, Mr Justice Vaughan, and Sir E Hyde East Lord Ponsonby was there, just returned from Brussels The first ti at a Council since they came into the Cabinet

July 3rd, 1831 {p155}

Went to Oatlands on Saturday, returned on Monday; nobody there but Eone in aieties (well reretted) to its present quiet state The Belgians have not yet made up theiror no king The Reforer excites so much interest

nobody spoke well but Lord Porchester

July 5th, 1831 {p156}

The night before last Lord Harewood attacked Broughaistrate without consulting him as Lord-Lieutenant As usual his own party say he ood case, and the others that he ham does not dislike such scrapes, and is so confident in his own ingenuity that he never doubts of getting out of them Lyndhurst attacked hiht the debate went on languidly, except a splendid speech from Macaulay and an answer (not bad, they say) fro to talk over the coronation, for in consequence of what the Duke of Wellington said in the House the night before he thinks there must be one The object is to make it shorter and cheaper than the last, which occupied the whole day and cost 240,000

July 8th, 1831 {p156}