n against Lord W. Bentinck's Prohibition of Suttee heard
by the Privy Council--O'Connell and the Cholera--Irish Tithe
Bill--Irish Difficulties--Mr. Stanley--Concluding Debates of
the Parliament--Quarrel between Brougham and Sugden--Holland
and Belgium--Brougham's Revenge and Apology--Dinner at Holland
House--Anecdotes of Johnson--Death of Mr. Greville's Father--
Madame de Flahaut's Account of the Princess Charlotte--Prince
Augustus of Prussia--Captain Hess--Hostilities in Holland and
in Portugal--The Duchesse de Berri--Conversation with Lord
Melbourne on the State of the Government.
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CHAPTER XIX.

Foreign Difficulties--Conduct of Peel on the Resignation of Lord
Grey--Manners Sutton proposed as Tory Premier--Coolness between
Peel and the Duke--Embargo on Dutch Ships--Death of Lord
Tenterden--Denman made Lord Chief Justice--Sketch of Holland
House--The Speakership--Horne and Campbell Attorney- and
Solicitor-General--The Court at Brighton--Lord Howe and the
Queen--Elections under the Reform Act--Mr. Gully--Petworth--
Lord Egremont--Attempt to reinstate Lord Howe--Namik Pacha--
Lord Lyndhurst's Version of what occurred on the Resignation of
Lord Grey--Lord Denbigh appointed Chamberlain to the Queen--
Brougham's Privy Council Bill--Talleyrand's Relations with Fox
and Pitt--Negro Emancipation Bill--State of the West Indies--
The Reformed Parliament meets--Russian Intrigues--Four Days
Debate on the Address--Peel's Political Career.
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CHAPTER XX.

Appointment of Sir Stratford Canning to the Russian Embassy--
Cause of the Refusal--Slavery in the West Indies--The Reformed
Parliament--Duke of Wellington's View of Affairs--The Coercion
Bill--The Privy Council Bill--Lord Durham made an Earl--Mr.
Stanley Secretary for the Colonies--The Russians go to the
Assistance of the Porte--Lord Goderich has the Privy Seal, an
Earldom, and the Garter--Embarrassments of the Government--The
Appeal of Drax _v._ Grosvenor at the Privy Council--Hobhouse
defeated in Westminster--Bill for Negro Emancipation--The
Russians on the Bosphorus--Mr. Littleton Chief Secretary for
Ireland--Respect shown to the Duke of Wellington--Moral of a
'Book on the Derby'--The Oaks--A Betting Incident--Ascot--
G