Volume II Part 28 (1/2)

Laid up ever since that dinner at Dwarris's with the gout Frederick Fitzclarence has been coave him; they found it very probable that the House of Commons would refuse to vote the pay of it--a trifle in itself, but indicative of the spirit of the ti O'Connell made a speech of such violence at the Trades Union the other day--calling the House of Coreat deal of talk about taking it up in Parlia his expulsion, which, however, they have not had the folly to do The Irish Bill was to coht The sense of insecurity and uneasiness evidently increases; the Governh tone, but is not at all certain of its ability to pass the Coercive Bills unaltered, and yesterday there appeared an article in the 'Times' in a style of lofty reproof and severe ad as it was reat sensation; always struggling, as this paper does, to take the lead of public opinion and watching all its turns and shi+fts with perpetual anxiety, it is at once regarded as undoubted evidence of its direction and dreaded for the influence which its powerful writing and extensive sale have placed in its hands It is no se to the power of the press to see that an article like this makes as much noise as the declaration of a powerful Minister or a leader of Opposition could do in either House of Parliae Head: DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S VIEW OF AFFAIRS]

Yesterday ton ca which he entered upon the state of the country I told him my view of the condition of the Government and of the House of Commons, and he said, 'You have hit the two points that I haveago, and asked him at the time how he expected to be able to carry on the Governive any answer, except that it would all do very well However, things are not a bit worse than I always thought they would be As they are, I mean to support the Govern I have to look to is to keep my house over my head, and the alternative is between this Govern the Government, but then there is so much passion, and prejudice, and folly, and vindictive feeling, that it is very difficult to get others to do the saht on soh they say that there are 150 of that party in the House of Co as possible [While I a is coht Althorp made a very bad speech and a wretched statereeable, and the debate looked ill till Stanley rose andO'Connell to dust and attacking him for his 'six hundred scoundrels,' from which he endeavoured to escape by a miserable and abortive explanation

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I told the Duke what Macaulay had said to Denison: 'that if he had had to legislate, he would, instead of this Bill, have suspended the laws for five years in Ireland, given the Lord-Lieutenant's proclao there' He seemed very well pleased at this, and said, 'Well, that is the way I governed the provinces on the Garonne in the south of France I desired thethe law of the land, and when they asked me in whose name criminal suits should be carried on (which were ordinarily in the name of the E, I said no, that ere treating with the E they would be in a scrape; neither should it be in the Ee him, but in that of the Allied Powers' In this I think he rong (_par parenthese_), for Napoleon was acknowledged by all the Powers but us, and ere treating with him, and if he permitted the civil authorities to administer the law as usual, he should have allowed theal form Their civil administration could not affect any political questions in the slightest degree

March 4th, 1833 {p364}

Sir Tho would certainly go _ his Ministers, particularly Graha of madrin at them and shake their fists when their backs are turned; so he is extravagantly civil when his Ministers are with him, and exhibits every mark of aversion when they are away Peel reat majority

March 13th, 1833 {p364}

The second reading of the Coercive Bill has passed by a great ht Althorp deeply offended Peel and the Tories by hurrying on the Church Refor taken two days after They asked a delay of four or five days, and Althorp refused He did very wrong; he is either bullied or cajoled into al the Radicals want of this sort, but he is stout against the Tories The delay is required by decency, but it ought to have been enough that Peel and the others asked it for hiht to soften the asperities whichsurvive the battles of last year aswhat he may consider the prejudices of the vanquished party It orse than i an opportunity of being gracious which he ought to have seized

[Page Head: LORD BROUGHAM'S PRIVY COUNCIL BILL]

I have been again worried with a new edition of Brougha Lord Lansdowne to _do_ anything This is the way Broughaoes to work:--He resolves to alter; he does not condescend to communicate with the Privy Council, or to consult those who are conversant with its practice, or who have been in the habit of ad justice there; he has not time to think of it himself; he tosses to one of his nu for hih notion, and tells hioes to work, always keeping in view the increase of the dignity, authority, and patronage of the Chancellor, and careless of the Council, the King, and the usages of the Constitution What is called _the Bill_ is then, for form's sake, handed over to the Lord President (Lord Lansdowne), with injunctions to let nobody see it, as if he was conspiring against the Council, secure that if he endered by Lord Lansdowne's opposition hehe pleases Lord Lansdowne sends it toAct of Parliament), with a request that I will return it '_by the bearer_,' with any remarks I may have to ht this with the Chancellor

[2] [This was the Bill for the establishment of a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which eventually became the Act 3 & 4 Will IV, cap 41, and definitively created that tribunal Mr Greville objected to several of the provisions of the arded them as an unnecessary interference of Parlian in his Council The Sovereign ht undoubtedly have created a Committee of the judicial members of the Privy Council: but the Bill went further, and by extending and defining the power of the Judicial Committee as a Court of Appeal it undoubtedly proved a very useful and important measure]

March 15th, 1833 {p365}

Ministerial changes are going on; Durham is out, and to be made an earl Yesterday his elevation was known, and it is ah that the same day an incident should have occurred in the House of Lords exhibiting in a good light the worthiness of the subject, and how much he merits it at the hands of Lord Grey

March 29th, 1833 {p365}

Lord Goderich is Privy Seal,[3] and Stanley Secretary for the Colonies, after iven to Stanley that he should not ain but as Secretary of State It was not, however, specified as to make room for him The Cabinet settled that it should be Goderich, when Durhaed with the office of breaking it to Goderich with the offer of an earldo the pill, but Goderich would not hear of it, said it would look like running away from the Slave question, and, in short, flatly refused Stanley threatened to resign if he was not pro to Windsor) persuaded Lord Grey to let hi, and inforement was notacquiesced, and at the same time a similar representation was made to Goderich, who after a desperate resistance knocked under, and said that if it 's express commands

[3] [Down to this time Lord Goderich had been Secretary for the Colonial Department in Lord Grey's Government]

March 30th, 1833 {p366}

Saw Madame de Lieven yesterday, who toldThe Sultan after the battle of Koniah applied to the Emperor of Russia for succour, who ordered twelve sail of the line and 30,000 o to the protection of Constantinople At the same time General Mouravieff was sent to Constantinople, with orders to proceed to Alexandria and inform the Pacha that the Emperor could only look upon him as a rebel, that he would not suffer the Ottoman Empire to be overturned, and that if Ibrahim advanced 'il aurait affaire a l'Ely sent to Ibrahim to suspend his operations, and Mouravieff returned to Constantinople Upon the demand for succour by the Sultan, and the Emperor's compliance with it, notification was iven to the Russian commanders to retire as soon as the Sultan should have no further occasion for their aid So satisfactory was this that Lord Grey expressed the greatest anxiety that the Russian aryptians They did arrive--at least the fleet did--and dropped anchor under the Seraglio At this juncture arrived Admiral Roussin in a shi+p of war, and as Ambassador of France He immediately informed the Sultan that the interposition of Russia was superfluous, that he would undertake to conclude a treaty, and to answer for the acquiescence of the Pacha, and he sent a project one article of which was that the Russian fleet should instantly withdraw To this proposition the Sultan acceded, and without waiting for the Pacha's confirmation he notified to the Russian Aer any wish for the presence of the Russian fleet, and they accordingly weighed anchor and sailed away This is all that is known of the transaction, but Madame de Lieven was loud and vehement about the insolence of Roussin; she said the Emperor would demand 'une satisfaction eclatante'--'le rappel et le desaveu de l'amiral Roussin,' and that if this should be refused the Russian Areat anxiety to see the end of the business, for on it appears to depend the question of peace or ith France She said that the day before Naence of this event arrived, which Palmerston communicated to him The Turk heard it very quietly, and then only said, 'Et ou etait l'Angleterre dans tout ceci?'

[Page Head: PRECARIOUS STATE OF THE GOVERNMENT]

I have heard to-night the Goderich version of his late translation He had agreed to remain in the Cabinet without an office, but Lord Grey insisted on his taking the Privy Seal, and threatened to resign if he did not; he was at last _bullied_ into acquiescence, and when he had his audience of the King his Majesty offered hiive He said he had made the sacrifice to please and serve hi An earldom--he refused; the Bath--ditto; _the Garter_--that he said he would take It was then discovered that he was not of rank sufficient, when he said he would take the earldom in order to qualify himself for the Garter, and so it stands There is no Garter vacant, and one supernuh and Lord North, viscounts, and Sir Robert Walpole (all Commoners) had blue ribands!

London, April 28th, 1833 {p368}