Volume III Part 28 (2/2)

Noes--old Park and Alderson--would not sendthat it was unconstitutional; all the others did[8] Old Park is peevish and foolish The Ministers are coh upon their hands; the war in Spain, and approaching downfall of the Christino cause, will be a blohich will shake Palmerston's credit severely, and many think will force him to retire, which, however, I do not expect Then the nervousness in the City about the old, the cessation of orders from America, and the consequent interruption to trade, and dismissal of thousands of workmen who have been thrown out of e winter It is rereat is the i labourers, that none of those who have been in the receipt of the highest wages have saved anything against the evil days hich they are menaced Rice affected to be very cheerful yesterday, and said it would all coood deal of alarm, however, prevails in what are called practical quarters

Then there is a split a the Radicals, some of whom are dissatisfied that Government will not take up their views, and others are affronted at the personal neglect or incivility which they have experienced As the Ministers disclai upon their support, they think it necessary in proof of the first to exclude them from any participation in those social civilities which Ministers usually dispense to their adherents, and as these patriots are not free fros of pride and vanity which are found in other nant, at such unworthy usage; they will, however, se before Parliament meets, for they must support the present Government, and Government will perhaps be a little more cordial, as they can't do without these allies

[8] [The lists of sheriffs for the ensuing year are coes to the Clerk of the Council in the Court of Exchequer on the morrow of St

Martin]

November 17th, 1836 {p373}

I have had two other conversations with Esterhazy at different tiht much _baisse_, but I do not knohether it is a proof of it that he could not prevail upon his Majesty to enter upon foreign politics with him He repeated to me what he had said before of the necessity of a strict and cordial union between Austria and England, and the disposition of the former not to contest our supremacy and influence in the Peninsula, but he harps upon the _athered from him, and have heard from other quarters, that Metternich's influence is er ruled by him as heretofore, and that there is not the same union: but there would appear to be a very coether froreat measure from the respect and attachment which they all feel for the memory of the late E the condition of the I on idiocy, not likely to live above four or five years at the outside, and his uncles all y; the next heir, the brother of the Emperor,[10] is a man of competent sense, but the late Emperor's brothers he describes to be all superior men

[9] [The Emperor Ferdinand, here described, filled the throne until 1848, when he abdicated in the great convulsion of that year; he spent the rest of his life in retireue, but he survived this prediction nearly forty years]

[10] [The Archduke Franz Joseph, father of the present Ee Head: THE DUKE OF REICHSTADT]

He told reat deal about the Duke of Reichstadt, who, if he had lived, would have probably played a great part in the world

He died of a preht on apparently by over-exertion and over-excitement; his talents were very conspicuous, he was _petri d'ambition_, worshi+pped the memory of his father, and for that reason never liked his hts were incessantly turned towards France, and when he heard of the days of July he said, 'Why was I not there to take ratitude to his grandfather, hile he scrupulously observed all his obligations towards Louis Philippe, could not help feeling a secret pride in the aspiring genius and ambition of Napoleon's son He ell educated, and day and night pored over the history of his father's glorious career He delighted in iratiating himself with the soldiers Esterhazy toldpassion of his soul overpowering the usual propensities of his age He was to make his first appearance in public at a ball at Lady Cowley's (to which he had shown great anxiety to go), and was burning with i with the beauties he had admired in the Prater He went, but there he met two French marshals--Marmont and Maison He had no eyes or ears but for the he devoted himself to these h he kneell enough all the odium that attached to Marmont, he said to hi the acquaintance of one who had been a his father's earliest co details of his earlier days Mariven hiy

CHAPTER xxxII

Crisis in the City--The Chancellor of the Exchequer--A Journey to Paris--Lord Lyndhurst in Paris--Princess Lieven--Parties in France--Berryer--The Strasburg Conspirators--Rotten state of France--Presentation at the Tuileries--Ball at the Tuileries-- Bal Musard--Lord Granville--The Duc de Broglie--Position of the Duc d'Orleans--Return to England--Conservative reaction-- Sheil's tirade against Lord Lyndhurst--Lyndhurst as a Tory leader--Angry Debates on Church Rates--The Governnation--Sir R Peel's prospects--The King and Lord Aylmer--Death of Mrs Fitzherbert--Ministerial Compromise--West's illness--The King's letter to the Princess--Preparations for the Council--Sir R Peel on the prospects of the New Reign--Prayers ordered for the King's Recovery--Affairs of Lord Ponsonby--Death of King William IV-- First Council of Queen Victoria--The Queen proclaimed-- Character of Williae Head: FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES]

I ave me an account of the alarm which has recently pervaded the City about es, the efflux of gold, and the confusion produced by the embarrassments of the Great Northern and Central Bank These financial details are not peculiarly interesting in theht they throw upon the capacity of our rulers, and the esti the greatcan in fact be lower than it is Robarts, a staunch Whig and thick and thin supporter of Government, told me that he was quite unequal to the situation he held; that these embarrassments had been predicted to hio by practical men; that the most eminent bankers in the City--Patterson the Governor of the Bank, Grote, Glyn, himself, and others--had successively been consulted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and they had all expressed the saiven the sa chain of reasoning founded upon the most fallacious premises, columns of prices of stocks and exchequer-bills in former years, and calculations and conjectures upon these data, which the keen view and sagacious foresight of these nitude of their i habits make them so familiar with the details) detected and exposed, not without sos both of resent to his own theories in preference to their practical conclusions What they originally advised Rice to do was to raise the interest on exchequer-bills, which he refused, and afterwards was compelled to do Robarts said he had no doubt that if Peel had been in office he would have shown himself equal to cope with the difficulty which Rice had proved hie of Bilbao will have given Paln and our financial affairs the Ministers will not have an easy session of the next

[1] Mr Spring Rice was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Melbourne's second Ade under the title of Lord Monteagle of Brandon

Dover, January 12th, 1837 {p377}

Having resolved, after o to Paris, here I a find that it blows a hurricane, and there is little or no chance of being able to cross to-morrow; for all I know I may be kept here for the next three days

January 13th, 1837 {p377}

I , but was persuaded not to start by the mate of the Government packet, and, like a fool, I listened to hi