ica affairs. He is Commander-in-Chief, just come home,
and just going out again. He told me what he had said to Stanley,
which was to this effect: that the compensation would be esteemed
munificent, greater by far than they had expected; that they had
looked for a loan of fifteen millions at two per cent interest,
but that the plan would be impracticable, and that sugar could
not be cultivated after slavery ceased; that the slave would
never understand the system of modified servitude by which he was
to be nominally free and actually kept to labour, and that he
would rebel against the magistrate who tried to force him to work
more fiercely than against his master; that the magistrate would
never be able to persuade the slaves in their new character of
apprentices to work as heretofore, and the military who would be
called in to assist them could do nothing. He asked Stanley if he
intended, when the military were called in, that they should fire
on or bayonet the refractory apprentices. He said no, they were
to exhort them. He gave him to understand that in his opinion
they could do nothing, and that the more the soldiers exhorted
the more the slaves would not work. With regard to my own
particular case he was rather encouraging than not, thought they
would not molest me any more,[10] that the Assembly might try and
get me out, but that the Council considered it matter of loyalty
to the King not to force out the Clerk of his Privy Council, but
that if anything more was said about it, and I went out to
Jamaica, I might be sure of getting leave again in a month or six
weeks.

[20] [This refers to Mr. Greville's holding the office of
Secretary of the Island of Jamaica with permanent leave
of absence. The work of the office was done by a
deputy, who was paid by a share of the emoluments which
were in the shape of fees.]

June 26th, 1833 {p.381}

[Page Head: IRISH CHURCH BILL.]

This morning at six saw my mother and Henry start for the
steamboat which is to take them abroad. I wish I was going with
them, and was destined once more to see Rome and Naples, which I
fear will never be. Last week was marked by a division in the
House of Commons which made a great noise. It was on that clause
of the Irish Church Bill which declared that the surplus should
be appropriated by Parliament, and Stanley thought fit to leave
out the clause. The Tories supported him; the Radicals and ma