k on Baron Smith--Lord Althorp's Budget--The Pension
List--Lord Althorp as Leader of the House--Sir R. Peel's
Position in the House--Meeting of Supporters of Government--Mr.
Villiers on the State of Spain--Predicament of Horne, the
Attorney-General.
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CHAPTER XXIII.

Spain--Russia and Turkey--Sir R. Peel's Pictures--Peel and
Stanley--Lord Brougham's Judicial Changes--Lord Brougham's
Defence--Admission of Dissenters to the Universities--Lord
Denman's Peerage--Growing Ascendancy of Peel--An Apology for
Lord Brougham--Personal Reflections--Crime in Dorsetshire--
Spain and Portugal--Procession of the Trades' Unions--Lady
Hertford's Funeral--Petition of the London University for a
Charter--Repeal of the Union--Excitement of the King--Brougham
and Eldon at the Privy Council--Duke of Wellington's Aversion
to the Whigs--Lord Brougham and Lord Wynford--Fete at
Petworth--Lord Brougham's Conduct on the Pluralities Bill--
Crisis in the Cabinet--Prince Lieven recalled--Stanley, Graham,
and the Duke of Richmond resign on the Irish Church Bill--
History of the Crisis--Ward's Motion defeated by moving the
previous Question--Affairs of Portugal--Effects of the late
Change--Oxford Commemoration--Peel's Declaration--Festival in
Westminster Abbey--Don Carlos on his way to Spain--Stanley's
'Thimble-rig' Speech--Resignation of Lord Grey--Mr. Greville's
account of the Causes of his Retirement--The Government
reconstituted by Lord Melbourne--Lord Duncannon Secretary of
State.
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CHAPTER XXIV.

Taylor's 'Philip Van Artevelde'--Goodwood--Earl Bathurst's
Death--Death of Mrs. Arbuthnot--Overtures to O'Connell--Irish
Tithe Bill--Theodore Hook's Improvisation--Lord Westmeath's
Case in the Privy Council--First Council of Lord Melbourne's
Government and Prorogation--Brougham's Vagaries--Lord Durham's
Exclusion--The Edinburgh Dinner--Windsor and Meiningen--Spencer
Perceval--Lord Grey's Retirement--The Westmeath Case again--The
Queen's Return--Melbourne and Tom Young--Holland House--
Reflections--Conversation on the Poets--Miscellaneous Chat--
Lord Melbourne's Literary Attainments--Lord Holland's Anecdotes
of Great Orators--Execution of Charles I.--Lord Melbourne's
Opinion of Henry VIII.--The