hateley--Irish Church Bill--Payment of Catholic Clergy--Peel
and Lord John Russell--Factious Conduct of Tory Peers--The
King's Violence--Debate on the Corporation Bill.
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CHAPTER XXIX.
Resistance of the Lords--Duke of Richmond--Happiness--Struggle
between Lords and Commons--Peel keeps aloof--Inconsistency of
the Whigs on the Irish Church Bill--Violent Language in the
Lords--Lord John Russell and Peel pass the Corporation Bill--
Dissolution of the Tory Party foreseen--Meeting of Peers to
consider the Amendments--King's Speech in Council on the
Militia--Lord Howick's Bitterness against the Lords--Lord
Lyndhurst's Opinion of the Corporation Bill--The King's
Language on the Regency--Talleyrand's View of the English
Alliance--Comparison of Burke and Mackintosh--The St. Leger--
Visit of Princess Victoria to Burghley--O'Connell's Progress
through Scotland--Mackintosh's Life.
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CHAPTER XXX.
Emperor Nicholas's Speech at Warsaw--His Respect for Opinion in
England--Burdett proposes the Expulsion of O'Connell from
Brooks's--Club Law--George Villiers at Madrid--Lord Segrave
Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire--Dispute between France and
America--Allen's Account of Mackintosh and Melbourne--
Prolongation of a Patent--Should Dr. Arnold be made a Bishop?--
Frederic Elliot--O'Connell's mischievous Influence--Bretby--
Chesterfield MSS.--The Portfolio--Lord Cottenham and Lord
Langdale--Opening of Parliament--The Judicial Committee--
Poulett Thomson at the Board of Trade--Mr. Perceval's
Interviews with the Ministers--Prospects of the Tories--Lord
Stanley's Relations to them--Holland House Anecdotes--
Mischievous Effects of the Division on his Address--The Youth
of Macaulay--Brougham and Macaulay--Lord William Bentinck--
Review of Sir R. Peel's Conduct--Dr. Hampden's Appointment--The
Orange Lodges.
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CHAPTER XXXI.
Moore and O'Connell--Defeat of the Opposition--The Carlow
Election--Lord Alvanley's Speech to the Tory Peers--Norton _v._
Lord Melbourne--Catastrophe after Epsom--Mendizabal and Queen
Christina--Lord John Russell's Moderation in the Ecclesiastical
Commission--Theatricals at Brid
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