Volume II Part 29 (2/2)

June 15th, 1833 {p379}

The day before yesterday I had occasion to see the Duke of Wellington about the business in which we are joint trustees, and e had done I said, 'Well, that business in the House of Lords turned out ill the other day' 'No; do you think so?' he said, and then he went into the matter He said that he was coave to his question a few nights before; that his party in the House of Lords would not be satisfied without dividing--they had been impatient to attack the Government, and were not to be restrained; that on the question itself they were _right_; that so far fro harm to the Governht turn it to account in the House of Commons, and so far it was of use to the proof to their supporters that the House of Lords ht demand of their supporters in the other House that they should enable theood measures, and they keep the House of Commons in harmony with the House of Lords He said the Government would make no Peers, and that they _could not_; that the Tories were by no htened or disheartened, and ain; in short, he seemed not dissatisfied hat had already occurred, and resolved to pursue the sanant at the idea of being compelled to keep quiet, and that if they were to be swamped the sooner it was done the better, and that they would not give up their right to deal with any question they thought fit from any motive of expediency whatever

I don't knohat to make of the Duke and his conduct The Catholic question and the Corn Laws and Canning rise up before me, and make me doubt whether he is so pure in his views and so free froht and hoped he was When Lords Grey and Brougha after the defeat, they did not talk of Peers, and only proposed the short answer to the Lords, to which he consented at once His Majesty was very indignant with the Duke, and said it was the second tiot him into a scrape, he had made a fool of hiain Sonation is simulated; the man is, I believe, more foolish than false

June 19th, 1833 {p380}

The King dined with the Duke at his Waterloo dinner yesterday, which does not look as if he had been so very angry with him as the Government people say The Duke had his s mended for the occasion, whether in honour of his Majesty or in consequence of HB's caricature I don't know

I had a long conversation with Sir Willoughby Cotton on Sunday about Jamaica affairs He is Coain He told me what he had said to Stanley, which was to this effect: that the coreater by far than they had expected; that they had looked for a loan of fifteen millions at two per cent interest, but that the plan would be iar could not be cultivated after slavery ceased; that the slave would never understand the system of modified servitude by which he was to be nominally free and actually kept to labour, and that he would rebel against the istrate who tried to force hiistrate would never be able to persuade the slaves in their new character of apprentices to work as heretofore, and the military ould be called in to assist the He asked Stanley if he intended, when the military were called in, that they should fire on or bayonet the refractory apprentices He said no, they were to exhort theave hi, and that the more the soldiers exhorted the ard tothan not, thought they would not et me out, but that the Council considered itnot to force out the Clerk of his Privy Council, but that if anything ht be sure of getting leave again in a month or six weeks

[20] [This refers to Mr Greville's holding the office of Secretary of the Island of Jamaica with permanent leave of absence The work of the office was done by a deputy, as paid by a share of the emoluments which were in the shape of fees]

June 26th, 1833 {p381}

[Page Head: IRISH CHURCH BILL]

Thisat six saw my mother and Henry start for the stea with them, and was destined once more to see Rome and Naples, which I fear will never be Last as reat noise It was on that clause of the Irish Church Bill which declared that the surplus should be appropriated by Parliaht fit to leave out the clause The Tories supported his--Abercro the nu--148--but the fury it excited a many of the friends of Government is incredible, and the Tories were very triu at all conciliated The Speaker said he should not be surprised to see the Bill thrown out by the junction of the Tories and Radicals on the third reading, which is not likely, and the suppression of this clause, which after all leaves the h the House of Lords It is, however, very questionable whether they were right in withdrawing it, and Tavistock told ht_ it was ill done, and had given great offence Somehow or other Stanley, with all his talents,(what the violent Whigs suspect hi) half a Tory Measures are concocted upon ultra principles in the Cabinet, and then as his influence is exerted, and his wishes are obliged to be consulted, they are ives a character of vacillation to the conduct of Governree of weakness and infir or popular or respectable nobody, however, can say that they are obstinate, for they are eternally giving way to somebody In the House of Lords there was a sharp skirh Parliamentary words passed between these 'noble friends' on the Local Courts Bill The Tories did not go down to support Lyndhurst, which provoked hiham was nettled by his and old Eldon's attacks on the Bill

There is great talk of a letter which the King is said to have written to the bishops--that is, to the Archbishop for the edification of the episcopal bench It is hardly credible that he and Taylor should have been guilty of this folly, after the letter which they wrote to the Peers a year and a half ago and the stir that it ton Monk Lewis's journals and his two voyages to the West Indies (one of which I read at Naples), with liberty to publish theh for him He says Murray offered hi so htthem now that people are full of interest about the West India question

I was very well amused last week at the bazaar in Hanover Square, when a sale was held on four successive days by the fine ladies for the benefit of the foreigners in distress It was like a masquerade without masks, for everybody--men, women, and children--roved about where they would, everybody talking to everybody, and vast fauise of barter The Queen's stall was held by Ladies Howe and Denbigh, with her three prettiest ot dressed like a soubrette and looking like an angel They sold all sorts of trash at enormous prices, and made, I believe, four or five thousand pounds

I went on Monday to hear Lushi+ngton speak in the cause of Swift and Kelly He spoke for three hours--an excellent speech I sat by Mr

Swift all the tiar, and I'ton abused hihed

June 28th, 1833 {p383}

[Page Head: THE KING WRITES TO THE ARCHBISHOP]

The King did write to the Archbishop of Canterbury a severe reproof to be coainst his Governuese), in which the interests of the Church were in no way concerned He sent a copy of the letter to Lord Grey, and Brougham told Sefton and Wharncliffe the contents, both of who has been said upon the subject in the House of Lords The Archbishop, the most timid of mankind, had the prudence (I a the letter to the bishops, and held a long consultation with the Archbishop of York as to thedocument If he had communicated it, he would as a Privy Councillor have been responsible for it, but what answer he , so unconstitutional, so foolish; but his Ministers do not seenal proof of his disposition to support thee an end to their notion that he is hankering after them, it may be of use, and it is probably true that he does not wish for a change, but on the contrary dreads it He naturally dreads whatever is likely to raise a storm about his ears and interrupt his repose

Lyndhurst is in such a rage at his defeat in the House of Lords on the Local Courts Bill that he swore at first he would never coain What he said--that 'if they had considered it a party question the result would have been very different,' which Broughaainst the Govern hiht about it I understand the lawyers that the Bill is very objectionable, and calculated to degrade the profession I sat by Talleyrand at dinner the day before yesterday, who told ood deal about Mirabeau, but as he had a bad cold, in addition to his usualup his words from the bottomest pit of his stomach, it was next to impossible to understand him He said Mirabeau was really intimate with three people only--hi was the negotiator of the Court and medium of its co the provisional Governiven to Louis XVIII

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