ockey Club,
to which he has sent a sum of L300, with a promise of its annual
repetition.

[3] [Afterwards the Emperor Alexander II. of Russia. He
ascended the throne in 1855 and perished by
assassination in the streets of St. Petersburgh on the
13th March, 1881.]

[Page Head: MACAULAY ELECTED FOR EDINBURGH.]

Macaulay is gone to Edinburgh to be elected in the room of
Abercromby, so he is again about to descend into the arena of
politics. He made a very eloquent and, to my surprise, a very
Radical speech, declaring himself for Ballot and short
Parliaments. I was the more astonished at this, because I knew he
had held very moderate language, and I remembered his telling me
that he considered the Radical party to be reduced to 'Grote and
his wife,' after which I did not expect to see him declare
himself the advocate of Grote's favourite measure and the darling
object of the Radicals.

June 7th, 1839 {p.215}

Macaulay's was a very able speech and a good apology for the Whig
Government, and as he has always been for Ballot, he is not
inconsistent. On Sir H. Fleetwood's motion the other night (for
giving votes for counties to ten-pound householders), John
Russell spoke out, though in a reforming tone, and threw the
Radicals into a paroxysm of chagrin and disappointment. The
Tories had heard he was going to give way, and Peel, who is
naturally suspicious and distrustful, believed it; but when he
found he would not give way, nor held out any hopes for the
future, Peel nailed him to that point and spoke with great force
and effect. This debate was considered very damaging to Whigs and
Radicals, and likely to lead to a dissolution--first, of
Parliament, and then of Government. But the Radicals are now
adopting a whining, fawning tone, have dropt that of bluster and
menace, and, having before rudely insisted on a mighty slice of
the loaf, are now content to put their tails between their legs
and swallow such crumbs as they can get. Peel has written and
published a very stout letter, in reply to a Shrewsbury
declaration presented to him, in which he defends his recent
conduct, and declares he will never take office on any other
terms.

[Page Head: THE WHIGS SUCCUMB TO THE RADICALS.]

Notwithstanding Lord John Russell's speech on Fleetwood's motion,
and Melbourne's anti-movement declaration in the other House,
they have to their eternal disgrace succumbed to the Radicals,
and been