Part 24

His subsequent connexion with the Waterloo campaign may be briefly summed up in the statements that he led the advanced guard of the British army all the way from Waterloo to the gates of Paris; and that, on the restoration of Louis XVIII., his brigade formed part of the allied army of occupation in Picardy--services less brilliant perhaps than those which have just been described, yet certainly most useful and important.

But the reception accorded to 'the Warrior of the West' by his native town, after the battle of Waterloo, should not pass unnoticed. Towards the latter part of July (the 27th was, I believe, the day) Vivian returned home for a short time; and when it was known that he was approaching Truro, which was _en fête_ on the occasion, numbers of the inhabitants went out to meet him, and, taking the horses out of his carriage, dragged it in triumph through the streets. Several of the townsfolk had assembled at Mr. Vivian's house, to greet the victorious hero on his return. Amongst them was the writer's mother--then quite a young girl--whom the tall, strong man lifted up in his arms as if she had been an infant, and embracing her, exclaimed to those around him, 'There! believe me, that's the first kiss I've had since the battle of Waterloo!' His speech to the populace on this occasion could not be reported, for the air was rent by their shouts; and I should judge, from the contemporary accounts, that a similar enthusiasm prevailed on the occasion of the public dinner which was given to him at the Truro Assembly Rooms on the 31st July.

The army returned to England in 1818; and with it Vivian, who now found himself, for the first time in twenty-three years, unemployed. Great reductions in the military establishments, of course, took place; and on the 10th September, 1821, the 18th Hussars was, amongst other regiments, disbanded. On this occasion he was presented by the _soldiers_ with a silver trumpet purchased out of the proceeds of the sale of horses which had been captured by the regiment during the Peninsular campaign.

It seems hardly necessary to dwell upon the facts of his having been despatched in 1819 to Newcastle-on-Tyne, and thence to Glasgow, for the purpose of quelling riots which had broken out at those places; it will suffice to mention that the service was promptly and efficiently performed.

The University of Oxford in the following year accorded to him the high honour of the degree of D.C.L., which, however, for some reason, he does not seem to have taken until fourteen years afterwards. In 1820 he was elected a Member of Parliament for his native town, and represented it for five or six years.

In 1827 he received a Colonelcy of the Life Guards; and in the following year he was created a baronet--a coat of arms full of heraldic allusions to his distinguished career being at the same time granted to him.

For the five years, 1825-30, Vivian represented Windsor in the House of Commons; but the failing health of Lady Vivian, and his appointment to the command of the forces in Ireland, caused him to retire from Parliament. It is said that during this period he was offered the post of Secretary-at-War, but that he declined it on account of his preference for the more active duties of his profession. Whilst in Parliament he seldom failed to speak on all military questions; he also took part in the debates on Catholic Emancipation (of which he was a supporter), and on the distress which prevailed in the country in 1830. Polwhele thought highly of his fluent eloquence; and I am told by Mr. H. S. Stokes that Vivian was remarkably successful in his addresses to election mobs. In this year he attained the rank of Lieutenant-General; and about the same time William IV. made him a Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Order of Guelph.

In 1833 (the first Lady Vivian having died) Vivian married a second time; the lady of his choice being Lætitia, third daughter of the Rev. J. A. Webster, by whom he had one daughter, Lalage. Four years afterwards he again entered Parliament, this time as a representative of the Eastern Division of Cornwall; having, however, been previously made a Privy Councillor in 1834, and having filled, with distinction, for four or five years the historic post of Master-General of the Ordnance.

Little remains to be told of his history. On his retirement from the above post, he was created a peer, and took his seat in the Upper House as Baron Vivian of Glynn and Truro, the patent being dated 11th August, 1841. His last-earned honour he did not enjoy for more than a year; for, on the 20th August, 1842, he died suddenly at Baden-Baden.

On the 13th of the following month the little town of Truro presented a doleful contrast to that which it bore some twenty-seven years before, when her brave son returned in the full flush of victory. All business was entirely suspended in order that the townsfolk might receive, at the town quay, Vivian's mortal remains; they were brought up the river from Falmouth, and carried to the church, which was draped in black. He was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery, in the same vault with his father and mother, against the eastern wall of the enclosure; but no inscription marks the spot. His epitaph which was in St. Mary's Church (now the new cathedral), need not be inserted here, for his career has been described in the foregoing pages, and it will be perhaps sufficient to quote the description of his character as summarized by Dr. Wolcot--no lenient critic:

'An excellent officer, and, better still, a kind, brave, honourable, and good man.'

FOOTNOTES:

[156] Engraved by Meyer. A copy of the print hangs in the Museum of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, a building which now occupies the site of the Vivians' Truro residence and Copper Office.

[157] Sir Joshua also immortalized the fair Betsy Cranch by a portrait of her, painted in her prime, in 1763.

[158] Hussey was a name early celebrated in the annals of England; _e.g._, a Sir William Hussey was Lord Chief Justice in the reign of Edward IV.

[159] Gourgaud, Napoleon's aide-de-camp, as well as other French military critics, ascribe their loss of the battle of Waterloo mainly to the charge of Vivian's brigade on the flank of the Old Guard, after the repulse of the middle guard. 'These three thousand cavalry,' says Gourgaud, '_prevented all rallying_.'

[160] He rode on this occasion a milk-white troop-horse of the 10th Hussars.

[161] Colonel Lord Robert Manners.

INDEX.

A

Acland, Sir Thomas Dyke, i. 98.

Acton Church, Godolphin tombs at, i. 353.

Adams, Mr., the astronomer, ii. 226 _note_.

Africa, remarks on access to the interior of, and its probable results, ii. 216, 217.

Albalanda family, i. 194, 195.

Albercombe, ii. 6 _note_.

Alford, Dean, his lines on Martyn, ii. 239.

ALLEN, RALPH, his birthplace and parentage, i. 3. appointment to the Post Office, 4. detects a Jacobite plot, 4. marries Miss Earl, 4. invents cross-posts, 5. his enormous profits by it, 5-8. his Coombe Down quarries, 8. Mayor of Bath, 8. portraits of him, 8, 17. builds mansion at Prior Park, 9. his literary and social friends, 9. his connexion with Fielding, 9. do. with Pope, 3, 10, 16-18. do. with Warburton, 10. do. with General Wade, 4, 13. do. with Pitt, 13-15. his second wife, 14. his political views, 16. raises a corps of volunteers, 16, _note_. his generosity, 17-19, _note_. house at Weymouth, 18. house at Bathampton, i. 18. his building propensities, 19. his son Philip comptroller of the Bye-Letter Office, 22. buried at Claverton, 22. his personal appearance, 23. his character, 24, 25. his descendants, 25, 26.

Almanza, battle of, ii. 174. its peculiar features, 175.

Alverton (Penzance), i. 293.

Amerideth, Judith, i. 351.

Amherst, General, at Louisbourg, i. 224.

Anderson, his opinion of George Grenville as a poet, ii. 83.

Anne, Queen, Godolphin's administration of her affairs, i. 379.

Anson, Lord, his jealousy of Admiral Boscawen, i. 215, 216 _note_, 220.

ANSTIS, JOHN, his extraction, i. 29. his birthplace, 30. his various appointments, 30-32. his works on Heraldry, 30, 31. created Garter King at Arms, 30. his fragments of a history of Cornwall, 31. do. of Launceston, 31. his MSS. and other works, 31. his imprisonment, 31, 32. his death and burial-place, 32. his son and successor in office, 32. his portraits, 33. his wife, 33. buys Tremodret, 46 _note_. See also _Errata and Addenda_.

Antrewan family, i. 344.

Apreece, Mrs., i. 269.

Argallez, or Arallas, manor of, ii. 285.

Arthur. King, xiv.

ARUNDELLS. Their origin and early importance, i. 19, 42. settlement in Cornwall, 37, 41, 77. origin of the name, 39, 40; ii. 5, 39. their connexion with the Grenvilles, i. 87. do. with Lanherne, 45. of Tolverne, 99-102, 195. their connexion with Tolverne, 46. Sir John, of Tolverne, ii. 124. of Trerice, i. 76-99. their connexion with Trerice, 46. of Wardour, their origin, etc., 56, 57. Sir Ralph, 41. John, builder of part of St. Columb church, 41. often Sheriffs of Cornwall, 41. Sir John, the magnificent, 43. his will, 43. Roger (temp. Will. I.), 45. William, 45. John (temp. Richard II.), 47. his descendants, 54. his violation of a nunnery, 47. his shipwreck and death, 48. Thos. Walsingham's account, 47. Froissart's account, 48. Sir John (temp. Hen. IV. and V.), 50-101. Sir John (temp. Hen. VI.), his riches, 50. John, Bishop of Exeter, 50. John, Bishop of Chichester, 53. Sir John, knight-banneret of Therouenne, 54. his wife and daughter, 55. Mary, the authoress, 55. Sir John, patron of Father Cornelius, 55. his daughters, Dorothy and Gertrude, 56. his son, 72. Sir Thomas, Count of the Empire, and first Baron Arundell of Wardour, 58. Humphrey, leader of the Cornish rebellion, 59. George, a recusant, 73. Sir Oliver de, i. 80. Sir John, of Trerice (temp. Hen. V.), 80. besieges St. Michael's Mount, 81. is killed on the sands there, 81. Sir John, 'Jack of Tilbury,' 82-103. buried at Stratton, 87. his son Roger, 85. his grandson John, 85. Raynulfe (temp. Hen. III.), 87, 101 _note_. Sir Thomas, a Commissioner for the suppression of religious houses, 88. his grant from Henry VIII. of the Scilly Isles, 90. committed to the Tower, 88. executed on Tower Hill, 89. Sir John (temp. Elizabeth), 90. Sir John, 'John for the King' (temp. Chas. I.), defender of Pendennis Castle, 91, 95, 97. his gallant letter to Fairfax, 93. Richard, Lord Arundell of Trerice, 91, 95, 96. Lord John, his son, 97. the Honble. Richard, M. P., 98. his appointments, 98. Lady Francis, during the earthquake of 1750, 98. Sir Thomas, of Tolverne, 101. Thomas, Esq. (will dated 1552), 102. John (will dated 1598), 102. Sir Thomas, of Tolverne (temp. James I.), 102. Colonel John (temp. Charles II.), 102. THE MINOR, 103. Robert, of Menadarva, 103. Francis, of Trengwainton, 104. Captain Francis (temp. Commonwealth), 104. of Trevithick, 105. Thomas (temp. 1620), 105. decay of the family, 105. William, marries Dorothy Palæologus, 106. Charles, one of the last of the name, 106. See also _Errata and Addenda_.

Arwenack, i. 92.

Arwenack, ii. 117, 119, 120, 126, 127, 130 _note_, 148.

B

Bacon, Lord, on Biographies, x. his observation on the last fight of the _Revenge_, ii. 98. ii. 148 _note_.

Bael, Jemima, ii. 153.

Baker, his opinion of Foote, i. 312.

Ballard, his reference to Anne Killigrew, ii. 195.

Barfell (see _Varfel_).

Barrowby, Dr., his description of Foote, i. 316.

Bartolozzi, his portrait by Opie, ii. 245 _note_.

BASSET FAMILY, ii. 5, 39, 281, 283. their Norman origin, i. 111-112. Cove, alias Portreath, 115-134. Sir Arthur, 118 _note_. Francis, Baron de Dunstanville and Basset, 111, 112, 130-136. Frances, Baroness, 136. Sir Francis, M.P., Sheriff and Vice-Admiral of Cornwall, and Governor of St. Michael's Mount, 118. his letters to his wife, 92, 120, 121. Colonel Francis, a Puritan, 123. Francis, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1708, 123, 197. Francis, M.P. (temp. 1730), 125. George, M.P., son of Sir John Basset, of Umberleigh, 118. General Sir Thomas, 118 _note_. Gilbert, 113 _note_. Gustavus Lambert, 130, 136. William, of Ipsden, 113. J., (temp. 1435), 115. Sir John (temp. 1478), 114. J. P. (temp. 1734), 116. John, the Rev., 128. John, M.P., his son (died 1843), 128. John, of Tehidy, sells St. Michael's Mount, ii. 285 _note_. John, Sheriff of Cornwall, (temp. Hen. VII.), i. 117, 174. John, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis, 122. Sir Lawrence (temp. 1277), 115. Osmund (temp. Will. I.), 112. Osmund (temp. Hen. I.), i. 111. Ralph (temp. Edward I.), 114. Sir Ralph, father of Osmund, Justiciary of Hen. I., 111. Thomas, his son, Justiciary of Hen. III., 113. Thurstan, 111. William (temp. Hen. IV.), 114. Sir William (temp. 1382), 115. William (temp. Edw. III.), 114.

Bateman, Viscount, an early friend of Opie, ii. 251.

Bath (see _Allen_).

Bathampton Church, restored by Ralph Allen, i. 22. a tablet there to his memory, 22.

Bathurst, Dr., Bishop of Norwich, i. 131.

'Bayliffe of Blackmore,' The, i. 195.

Beaumont, Rev., his life of Dean Grenville, ii. 80 _note_.

Beddoes, Dr., i. 255.

Bedruthan steps and sands, ii. 310.

Beling, Richard, assumes name of Arundell, i. 58.

Berippa, Manor of, ii. 285.

Berkeley House, i. 372 _note_.

Berkeley, Lord and Lady, i. 372.

Bernard, his remarks on Incledon, ii. 91.

Betham, Elizabeth, i. 144.

Bevill family, i. 344; ii. 5, 6, 10, 30, 281.

Bevill, Mary, i. 87.

Bewes family, their connexion with Anstis, i. 33.

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, xii., 288, 353 _note_; ii. 5.

Bideford, ii. 4.

Blagge, pedigree of the family, i. 370 _note_.

Blagge, Margaret (see _Margaret Godolphin_), i. 362.

Blazey, St., i. 3.

Bligh (or Blygh) of Bodmin, i. 140. Admiral Sir Richard Rodney, i. 140.

BLIGH, ADMIRAL WM., i. 139-147. a Cornish circumnavigator, 139. his birthplace and parentage, 140. sails with Captain Cook in the _Resolution_, 140. becomes a lieutenant in the navy, 140. commands the _Bounty_, and sails for Otaheite, 141. is seized and cast adrift by his crew, i. 141. reaches Timor, 141. reaches England, 142. his skill, resource, and courage, 142. account of the voyage, 142 _note_. is made Post Captain, and appointed to the _Providence_, 142. sails for the Society Islands, 142. receives gold medal of the Society of Arts, 142. at the mutiny at the Nore, 143. his naval services, 143. receives Nelson's thanks at Copenhagen, 143. is elected F.R.S., 143. is appointed Governor of New South Wales, 143. his arbitrary temper leads to his deposition and imprisonment, 144. is made Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 144. dies at Farningham, 144. his wife, 144. his children, 145, 146. his character, 145. his interview with George III., 145. his house at Farningham, 146. his ghost! 147.

Blowing-house, ii. 245 _note_.

Blue-Stocking Club, its origin, i. 239.

Boaden, his account of Opie, ii. 276.

Boase, G. C., xii.

Boase, Rev. C. W., his Registers of Exeter College, xii., ii. 5.

Bodmin, i. 368.

Bochym, Robert, of Bochym, i. 64.

Boconnoc Park, ii. 43 _note_.

Bodrugan, ix.

Bolton, Charles I., Duke of, i. 176.

BONAVENTURA, THOMASINE, i. 151-157. her connexion with the City of London churches, 151, 152. do. with Stratton Church, 153. her college and chantry, 153-156 _note_. her birthplace, 154. her first husband, 154. builds a bridge to his memory, 155. her second husband, i. 155. her third husband, 156. is Lady Mayoress of London, 156. retires to Week St. Mary, 156. her fancied relation to John Dineham, 157. Carew's account of her bounteous charity, 157. makes her will in 1510, 156. suppression of her chantry, 157.

Bone, C. K., i. 166.

BONE, HENRY, R.A., i. 161-166. his parentage, 161. as china-painter, 161, 162. marries Elizabeth Vandermeulen, 163. first exhibits at the Royal Academy, 163. large size of his enamels, 163, 164. is elected a R.A., 164. sells one of his enamels for 2,200 guineas, 164. his series of historical portraits, 164. his various residences in London, 164 _note_. receives the Academy pension, 165. sales of his works, 165. his death, 165. his family, 165. his character, 166. J. J. Rogers's list of his works, 166. his portraits, 166; ii. 245 _note_. Henry Pierce, i. 165. Peter, 166. Robert Trewick, 166. Thomas, 166. W., 166. Walter, 161. See also _Errata and Addenda_.

Bonython, xiv. and _note_, i. 99, 347.

Borlase, Captain in King Charles I.'s army, ii. 39 _note_. Colonel William, i. 171. John, of Pendeen, i. 172, 173. Dr. J. B., i. 253. Humphry, created a peer by James II., i. 172. Dr. Walter, i. 178, 179.

BORLASE, REV. DR. WM., i. 169-187. origin of the family, 170. meaning of the name, 171. his birthplace and parentage, i. 172. his youth and education, 174, 175. goes to Exeter College, Oxford, 175. his sketch of Oxford in his own days, 175. his journey to Cornwall with Sir John St. Aubyn, 176; ii. 287. is presented to Ludgvan, 176, to St. Just, 179. his favourite authors, 177. his correspondents, 181. his mode of studying the Cornish antiquities, 177. his wife, 177. his companions, 180. his squabble with Rev. John Wesley, 179. elected F.R.S., 181. prints his Cornish Antiquities, 182. do. his account of the Scilly Islands, 182. do. his 'Natural History of Cornwall,' 182. is made LL.D., 183. his old age and last pursuits, 183. his death and epitaph, 185. his family, 185. his view of Godolphin Hall, 341. Burgess, i. 171 _note_.

Bosaverne, Thomasine, an ancestress of Richard Lander, ii. 201.

Boscastle, ii. 4.

BOSCAWENS, THE, i. 99, 191-206, 345. their origin, 192.

BOSCAWEN, ADMIRAL, i. 191, 202, 205, 206-237. his birthplace and youth, 207. his portrait, 207. enters the navy, 207. his determined courage, 209. at Porto Bello, 210. at Carthagena, 211. marries Frances Evelyn Glanville, 213. elected M.P., 214. captures the French frigate _Medea_, 214. is wounded off Cape Finisterre, 215. Anson's jealousy of him, 215, 216 _note_, 220. sails for Port Louis and Pondicherry, i. 217. is made Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, 219. his action with the French off Cape Ray, 220. takes M. Hocquart prisoner for the third time, 221. commands a squadron in the Bay of Quiberon, 222. attacks and captures Louisbourg, 223 _et seq._, 227 _et seq._ rejoicings thereupon in London, 225. receives the thanks of Parliament, 226. action with the French in Lagos Bay, 229 _et seq._ his tactics, 231 _note_. his later honours, 233. at Quiberon again, 234. his death, epitaph, and character, 234-237.

Boscawen, Capt. in King Charles I.'s army, ii. 39 _note_. Charles, barrister, i. 193. Edward (temp. Charles II.), i. 196. Edward Hugh, M.P., i. 202. Elizabeth, Duchess of Beaufort, i. 204. Edward, fourth Viscount and first Earl, i. 202. Evelyn, sixth Viscount, i. 206. Frances (Honble. Mrs. J. Leveson Gower), i. 204. George Evelyn, third Viscount Falmouth, i. 133, 202, 203. General John, i. 200. Honble. George, at Dettingen and Fontenoy, i. 200. George Henry, fifth Viscount and second and last Earl, i. 205. Henry de (1292), i. 193.

BOSCAWEN, THE HON. MRS. i. 133. the 'blue-stocking,' 205. her fondness for the sea, 237. her parentage, 238. her character, 238. her membership of the Blue-stocking Club, 239. Boswell's opinion of her, 239. her vivacity, 240. her politics, 240. her latter days and death, 241-243. her remarks on Opie's portrait of Lady Jerningham, ii. 261. Hugh (temp. Will. III.), Baron Boscawen Rose and Viscount Falmouth, i. 197. Sir Hugh, M.P. (1626), i. 196. Hugh, second Viscount, i. 198. Hugh, M.A., i. 192. Hugh (temp. Mary), i. 192 _note_, 195. John de, i. 194. John Francis, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1861, i. 130. Lawrence (temp. Hen. VII.), i. 194 _note_. Lieutenant, at Tel-el-Kebir, i. 211 _note_. Mary, i. 200. Nicholas, D.D., Dean of Buryan, i. 199. Nicholas, a Parliamentarian, i. 196. Colonel Nicholas, at battle of Braddock Down, ii. 286. Richard (temp. Hen. VII.), i. 195. Rose, i. 193. Street, Truro, i. 196. William, the author, i. 200. William Glanville, i. 202.

_Bounty_, Mutiny of the, i. 139-141.

Boyer, Mayor of Bodmin, i. 70.

Braddock Downs, i. 91. battle of, 121; ii. 43, 286.

Braham, his relations to Incledon, ii. 98, 101.

Brande, the chemist, on Davy's death, i. 248.

Bray family, i. 114, 171.

Bread-fruit, i. 140, 142.

Breage, i. 340, 377.

Bridges, Sir Egerton, his account of young Sidney Godolphin, i. 360.

Brierly, Mr. O. W., his picture of the last fight of the _Revenge_, ii. 26.

Brinn, ii. 30.

Bristol china, i. 161.

Bristol, Cornish at the siege of, ii. 52 _note_.

Brompton, Chronicum of Johannis de, ii. 281.

Browne, Sir Thomas, on our forefathers, viii.

Browne, Sir William, caricatured by Foote, i. 329.

Brunel, his opinion of Trevithick's genius, ii. 323.

Buckingham, Duke of, his quarrel with Harry Killigrew, ii. 179.

Bude, i. 82.

Budock, St., the church, ii. 116, 118 _note_, 119.

Bullers, The, ii. 283.

Bunn, Mary, first wife of Opie, ii. 255.

Bunsby, Richard, i. 154.

Burdo, Adolphe, his description of the Niger, ii. 205.

Burgoyne, General, i. 294.

Buryan, i. 193, 194 _note_, 199 and _note_.

Bynnamy, ii. 6 _note_.

Byron, Honble. Ada, i. 98.

Byron's poem, 'The Island,' i. 143. Lord, his verses on Davy, i. 271.

C

Camden on the origin of the St. Aubyns, ii. 281.

Campbell, Duncan, the Scotch pirate, i. 82.

Carankan family, i. 345.

Cararthyn family, i. 345.

Cardew, Dr. Cornelius, i. 250, 253; ii. 225 _note_.

Carews, The, xiv. i. 345.

Carew, Sir Gawen, i. 61. Sir Peter, i. 68; ii. 121. Richard, on the Arundells, i. 79, 83-86, 90, 102. marries an Arundell, i. 86. his account of Thomasine Bonaventura's chantry and college at Week St. Mary, i. 157. do. of Sir William Godolphin, i. 346. do. of Sir Francis Godolphin, i. 347. on the Grenvilles, ii. 3, 4, 7, 9, 13, 17 _note_. his account of Sir Hy. Killigrew, ii. 141. do. of Sir Wm. Killigrew, ii. 154. do. of Thomas St. Aubyn, ii. 284. Thomas, his lines on Tom Killigrew's wedding, ii. 167.

Carlyon, Clement, M.D., his description of Henry Martyn as a schoolboy, ii. 224.

Carminow, Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Arundell, i. 77.

Carminows, The, i. 99-101, 140 _note_, 192 _note_, 195, 344.

Carnbrea Castle, i. 114 and _note_.

Carnbrea, ii. 310, 312.

Carteret family, ii. 37.

Carveth, i. 114.

Castle, Mrs. Boddam, her Killigrew portraits, ii. 132, 136. her double descent from the Killigrews, ii. 136. her Killigrew plate, ii. 136.

Cawse, John, a pupil of Opie, ii. 273 _note_.

Chamond, i. 102.

Chamonds, the, ii. 281.

Champernon, ix.

Chantry, his bust of Davy, i. 257.

'Chantries, Cornish,' i. 200 note.