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CHARLES C. F. GREVILLE, Esq.
Clerk of the Council to Those Sovereigns

Edited by
HENRY REEVE
Registrar of the Privy Council

IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. III.

Second Edition

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1874

Contents of the Third Volume

CHAPTER XXI.

Dinner at Greenwich--Monk Lewis--The King's Letter--Lord
Althorp's Finance--Salutes to the Royal Family--Death of Lord
Dover--His Character--Lyndhurst and Brougham on the Local
Courts Bill--Charles Napier captures the Miguelite Fleet--The
Irish Church Bill--The Duke of Wellington and the Bonapartes--
Blount's Preaching--Sir Robert Peel on Political Unions--Mr.
George Villiers appointed to Madrid--Duke of Richmond--
Suspension Clause in Irish Church Bill--Apprenticeship Clause
in West India Bill--State of House of Commons--Lucien and
Joseph Bonaparte--Lord Plunket--Denis Lemarchant--Brougham and
Sugden--Princess Lieven--Anecdotes of the Emperor Nicholas--
Affairs of Portugal--Don Miguel at Strathfieldsaye--Prorogation
of Parliament--Results of the Reform Bill.
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CHAPTER XXII.

The Speaker a Knight of the Bath--Lord Wellesley Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland--M. Thiers in England--Prince Esterhazy's Opinion of
the State of England--Queen of Portugal at Windsor--The Duke of
Leuchtenberg--Macaulay and Sydney Smith--Brougham's Anecdotes
of Queen Caroline--Judicial Committee of the Privy Council--Sir
Stratford Canning and M. Dedel--Sydney Smith and the 'Siege of
Saragossa'--Edward Irving--The Unknown Tongues--Tribute to Lord
Eldon--W. J. Fox--Lord Tavistock on the Prospects of his
Party--Moore at the State Paper Office--Russia and England--
Belvoir Castle--The Duke of Wellington at Belvoir--Visit to
Mrs. Arkwright--Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Misses Siddons--A
Murder at Runton--Sandon--Lord and Lady Harrowby--Burghley--
Railroads talked of--Gloomy Tory Prognostications--State of
Spain--Parliament opens--Quarrel of Sheil and Lord Althorp--
Unpopularity of Lord Palmerston--Mrs. Somerville--O'Connell's
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