n the Irish Church
Bill, 10; on Portuguese affairs, 11, 26; and the Bonaparte
family, 26; subsequent account of attempt to form a Government,
48; compared with Lord Grey, 73; speech on the admission of
Dissenters to the University, 73; presents the Oxford petition,
79; and the Whigs, 82; installed as Chancellor of the
University of Oxford, 95; First Lord of the Treasury, and
Secretary of State for the Home Office, 149; arrangement for a
provisional Government, 149; at the public offices, 1834, 154;
account of crisis of 1834, 162; inconsistencies of, 172; on the
division on the Speakership, 216; on Lord Londonderry's
appointment, 227; anecdote of Lord Brougham, 232; on Spain,
270; on the Walcheren expedition, 271; policy of, on the
Corporation Bill, 283; letter to the Duke of Cumberland, 320;
speech in answer to Lord Lyndhurst, 362; meeting of Tory Peers,
397; crowned by the Duchess of Cannizzaro, 406; quarrel with
the Duke of Clarence, 406

Western, Lord, evidence of, iii. 112

West India Body, consternation of the, ii. 350; deputation of
the, 350

West India Bill, prospects of the, iii. 13. For debates on the,
_see_ Commons, House of

West Indies, Lord Chandos's motion on the state of the, ii. 116;
project of emancipation, 347; alarm in the, 352; difficulties
attending emancipation, 360; committee on affairs of the, iii.
266; decision on the office of Secretary of the Island of
Jamaica, 279

Westmeath, Marchioness of, pension, i. 157, 160

Westmeath _v._ Westmeath, appeal before the Judicial Committee,
iii. 119, 124; decision in, 140

Westminster election, 1818, contest, i. 3; in 1819, 17, 19; in
1833, ii. 370; in 1837, iii. 398

Wetherell, Sir Charles, account of, i. 194; speech on the Reform
Bill, ii. 123; supports Sir E. Sugden's motion, 314

Wharncliffe, Lord, interview with Radical Jones, ii. 200;
overtures for a compromise on the Reform Bill, 211; character
of, 213; draws up a declaration for signature in the City, 214;
disappointment of, 218; final interview of, with Lord Grey,
220; correspondence of, with the Duke of Wellington, 221;
interview of, with the King on the proposed new Peers, 231,
233; memorandum laid before the King, 252; as chief of a party,
289; in communication with Lord Lyndhurst and Lord
Ellenborough, 290; defends his policy, 292; paper on the Tory
party, 343; on the prospects of the country, iii. 54; joins the