-The Second Reform Bill--Violence
of Lord Durham--More Body-snatchers--Duke of Richmond and Sir
Henry Parnell--Panshanger--Creation of Peers--Division of
Opinion--Negotiation to avoid the Creation of Peers--Lord
Wharncliffe's Interview with the King--Opposition of the Duke
of Wellington--The Waverers resolve to separate from the Duke.
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CHAPTER XVII.

Measures for carrying the Second Reading of the Reform Bill in
the House of Lords--The Party of the Waverers--The Russo-Dutch
Loan--Resistance of the Tory Peers--Lord Melbourne's Views on
the Government--Macaulay at Holland House--Reluctance of the
Government to create Peers--Duke of Wellington intractable--
Peel's Despondency--Lord Grey on the Measures of Conciliation--
Lord Wharncliffe sees the King--Prospects of the Waverers--
Conversations with Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston--Duke of
Richmond on the Creation of Peers--Interview of Lord Grey with
the Waverers--Minute drawn up--Bethnal Green--The Archbishop of
Canterbury vacillates--Violence of Extreme Parties--Princess
Lieven's Journal--Lord Holland for making Peers--Irish National
Education--Seizure of Ancona--Reform Bill passes the House of
Commons--Lord Dudley's Madness--Debate in the Lords.
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CHAPTER XVIII.

Debate in the House of Lords--Lord Harrowby's Position--Hopes of
a Compromise--Lord Melbourne's View--Disturbances caused by the
Cholera--The Disfranchisement Clause--The Number '56'--Peers
contemplated--The King's Hesitation--'The Hunchback'--Critical
Position of the Waverers--Bill carried by Nine in the Lords--
The Cholera in Paris--Moderate Speech of Lord Grey--End of the
Secession--Conciliatory Overtures--Negotiations carried on at
Newmarket--Hostile Division in the Lords--Lord Wharncliffe's
Account of his Failure--Lord Grey resigns--The Duke of
Wellington attempts to form a Ministry--Peel declines--
Hostility of the Court to the Whigs--A Change of Scene--The
Duke fails--History of the Crisis--Lord Grey returns to
Office--The King's Excitement--The King writes to the
Opposition Peers--Defeat and Disgrace of the Tories--
Conversation of the Duke of Wellington--Louis XVIII.--Madame du
Cayla--Weakness of the King--Mortality among Great Men--
Petitio