[Footnote 23: John Henry, first Viscount, formerly M.P. for
Bury St Edmunds.]

[Footnote 24: Sir John Cam Hobhouse, a Radical, and a friend
of Byron, at whose wedding he acted as best man; he was
imprisoned in 1819 for breach of privilege. He was elected
M.P. for Westminster in 1820 as Burdett's colleague, and
afterwards for Nottingham and Harwich. Commissioner of Woods
and Forests (the old Houses of Parliament being burned down
during his term of office), and later President of Board of
Control. Created Lord Broughton, 1851.]

[Footnote 25: Stephen Lushington, advocate in the old
Ecclesiastical Court, M.P. for Ilchester and the Tower
Hamlets, and a Judge in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty
Courts from 1828 to 1867.]

[Footnote 26: Stephen Woulfe, M.P. for Carlisle,
Solicitor-General, and subsequently Attorney-General, for
Ireland, becoming Chief Baron in 1838.]

[Footnote 27: On 10th March a heated debate took place in the
French Chamber on the question of the Queen of the Belgians'
dowry, a Deputy calling for the production of King Louis
Philippe's rent-roll, and a complete statement of his income.]

_The King of the Belgians to the Princess Victoria._

LAEKEN, _31st March 1837._

MY BELOVED CHILD,--Your dear letter of the 28th gave me the greatest
pleasure. I was sure from your constant affection for us that you
would feel much interested in the event of the 24th. It was a moment
of some anxiety, but all passed over very well. Your Aunt is going
on very well, and the little cousin[28] also. He is smaller than his
brother was, but promises to be like him; the features are much the
same, the shape of the forehead and mouth. The elder Prince was
much interested about his _frere_, and anxious to see him; at first,
however, he declared after a long contemplation, "_pas beau frere!_"
Now he thinks better of him, but makes a very odd little face when he
sees him. The name of the little one will be Philippe Eugene Ferdinand
Marie Clement Baudouin (Baldwin)--a name of the old Counts of
Flanders--Leopold Georges. My Aunt, who is his godmother, wished
he should be called Philippe in honour of his grandfather, and
as Philippe _le Bon_ was one of the most powerful Princes of this
country, I gave him the name with pleasure. Eugene is her own name,
Ferdinand that of Chartres, Marie of the Queen and also of Princess
Marie, Clement o