e Great Seal--
Character of the New Ministers--Prospects of the Opposition--
Disturbances in Sussex and Hampshire--Lord Grey and Lord
Brougham--Lord Sefton's Dinner--The New Ministers sworn at a
Council.
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CHAPTER XIII.

A Proclamation against Rioters--Appointments--Duke of Wellington
in Hampshire--General Excitement--The Tory Party--State of
Ireland--More Disturbances--Lord Grey's Colleagues--Election at
Liverpool--The Black Book--The Duke of Wellington's Position
and Character--A Council on a Capital Sentence--Brougham in the
House of Lords--The Clerks of the Council--Lord Grey and Lord
Lyndhurst--The Chancellor of Ireland--Lord Melbourne--Duke of
Richmond--Sir James Graham--Lyndhurst Lord Chief Baron--Judge
Allan Park--Lord Lyndhurst and the Whigs--Duke of Wellington
and Polignac--The King and his Sons--Polish Revolution--
Mechanics' Institute--Repeal of the Union--King Louis
Philippe--Lord Anglesey and O'Connell--A Dinner at the
Athenaeum--Canning and George IV.--Formation of Canning's
Government--Negotiation with Lord Melbourne--Count Walewski--
Croker's Boswell--State of Ireland--Brougham and Sugden--Arrest
of O'Connell--Colonel Napier and the Trades Unions--The Civil
List--Hunt in the House of Commons--Southey's Letter to
Brougham on Literary Honours--The Budget--O'Connell pleads
guilty--Achille Murat--Weakness of the Government--Lady Jersey
and Lord Durham--Lord Duncannon--Ireland--Wordsworth.
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CHAPTER XIV.

Introduction of the Reform Bill--Attitude of the Opposition--
Reform Debates--Peel--Wilberforce and Canning--Old Sir Robert
Peel--The City Address--Agitation for Reform--Effects of the
Reform Bill--Brougham as Chancellor--Brougham at the Horse
Guards--Miss Kemble--Vote on the Timber Duties--Lord
Lansdowne's Opinion of the Bill--Reform Bill carried by one
Vote--The King in Mourning--The Prince of Orange--Peel's
Reserve--Ministers beaten--Parliament dissolved by the King in
Person--Tumult in both Houses--Failure of the Whig Ministry--
The King in their Hands--The Elections--Illumination in the
City--The Queen alarmed--Lord Lyndhurst's View of the Bill--
Lord Grey takes the Garter--The King at Ascot--Windsor under
William IV.--Brougham at Whitbread