By the Late
CHARLES C. F. GREVILLE, Esq.
Clerk of the Council

IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I.

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1885

'PLERAQUE EORUM, QUAE RETULI QUAEQUE REFERAM, PARVA
FORSITAN ET LEVIA MEMORATU VIDERI, NON NESCIUS SUM; SED
NEMO ANNALES NOSTROS CUM SCRIPTURA EORUM CONTENDERIT, QUI
VETERES POPULI ROMANI RES COMPOSUERE. INGENTIA ILLI
BELLA, EXPUGNATIONES URBIUM, FUSOS CAPTOSQUE REGES, AUT,
SI QUANDO AD INTERNA PRAEVERTERENT, DISCORDIAS CONSULUM
ADVERSUM TRIBUNOS, AGRARIAS FRUMENTARIASQUE LEGES, PLEBIS
ET OPTIMATIUM CERTAMINA, LIBERO EGRESSU MEMORABANT. NOBIS
IN ARTO ET INGLORIUS LABOR.... NON TAMEN SINE USU FUERIT,
INTROSPICERE ILLA, PRIMO ADSPECTU LEVIA, EX QUIS MAGNARUM
SAEPE RERUM MOTUS ORIUNTUR.'
TACITUS, _Ann. iv. cap._ 32.

PREFACE
OF THE EDITOR

TO THE SECOND PART OF THIS JOURNAL.

When the first portion of the Memoirs of the late Mr. Charles
Greville, consisting of a Journal of the Reigns of King George
IV. and King William IV., was given to the world in the autumn of
the year 1874, it was intimated that the continuation of the work
was reserved for future publication. Those volumes included the
record of events which Mr. Greville had noted in his Diary from
the year 1818 to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in
the year 1837, a period of nineteen years. As they were published
in 1874, an interval of thirty-seven years had elapsed between
the latest event recorded in them and the date at which they
appeared. The reigns of George IV. and William IV. already
belonged to the history of the past, and accordingly I did not
conceive it to be my duty to suppress or qualify any of the
statements or opinions of the Author on public men or public
events. I am still of opinion that this was the right course for
a person charged with the publication of these manuscripts to
pursue. I have seen it stated that the first edition of these
Journals contains passages which have been suppressed in the
later editions: but this is an error. The first edition contained
a good many mistakes, which were subsequently pointed out by
cr