the Clerkship of the Council. He entered in 1821
upon the duties of Clerk of the Council in Ordinary, which he
discharged for nearly forty years. During the last twenty years
of his life Mr. Greville occupied a suite of rooms in the house
of Earl Granville in Bruton Street, and there, on the 18th of
January, 1865, he expired. I was with him on the previous evening
until he retired to rest; from that sleep he never woke.

No additions whatever have been made to the text of these
Journals. The passages occasionally interposed in a parenthesis,
at a later date, to correct or comment upon a previous statement,
are all by the hand of the Author. So likewise are the notes
distinguished by no mark. For the notes included in brackets []
the Editor is responsible.

Henry Reeve.
October 1st, 1874

Contents of the First Volume

CHAPTER I.

Queen Charlotte--Duchesses of Cumberland and Cambridge--
Westminster Election--Contest between Sir Francis Burdett and
Sir Murray Maxwell--London Election--Oatlands--The Duke of
York--Duchess of York--Ampthill--Tixall--Mr. Luttrell--Lady
Granville--Teddesley--Macao--Burleigh--Middleton--Lady Jersey--
The New Parliament--Tierney and Pitt--Princess Lieven--Madame
de Stael on the French Revolution--Westminster Election--
Hobhouse Defeated--Scarlett's Maiden Speech--Influence of
Party--Play--The Persian Ambassador at Court--Prince Leopold--
Woburn--Anecdote of the Allies--Death of George III.--Illness
of George IV.--Queen Caroline--Fleury de Chabaulon--The Cato
Street Conspiracy--George IV. at Ascot--Marchioness of
Conyngham--Queen Caroline in London--Message to Parliament--
Debates--Insubordination in the Guards--Wilberforce's Motion--
Proceedings against the Queen--'Les Liaisons dangereuses'--The
Queen's Trial--The Duke of Wellington on the Battle of Waterloo
and the Occupation of Paris.
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CHAPTER II.

Popularity of George IV.--The Duke of York's Racing
Establishment--Clerk of the Council--Lord Liverpool and Mr.
Sumner--Lady Conyngham--Death of Lady Worcester--Her
Character--Ball at Devonshire House--The Duke of York's
Aversion to the Duke of Wellington--The Pavilion at Brighton--
Lord Francis Cony