CHAPTER XIII.

A Proclamation against Rioters--Appointments--Duke of Wellington in Hampshire--General Excitement--The Tory Party--State of Ireland--More Disturbances--Lord Grey's Colleagues--Election at Liverpool--The Black Book--The Duke of Wellington's Position and Character--A Council on a Capital Sentence--Brougham in the House of Lords--The Clerks of the Council--Lord Grey and Lord Lyndhurst--The Chancellor of Ireland--Lord Melbourne--Duke of Richmond--Sir James Graham--Lyndhurst Lord Chief Baron--Judge Allan Park--Lord Lyndhurst and the Whigs--Duke of Wellington and Polignac--The King and his Sons--Polish Revolution-- Mechanics' Institute--Repeal of the Union--King Louis Philippe--Lord Anglesey and O'Connell--A Dinner at the Athenæum--Canning and George IV.--Formation of Canning's Government--Negotiation with Lord Melbourne--Count Walewski-- Croker's Boswell--State of Ireland--Brougham and Sugden--Arrest of O'Connell--Colonel Napier and the Trades Unions--The Civil List--Hunt in the House of Commons--Southey's Letter to Brougham on Literary Honours--The Budget--O'Connell pleads guilty--Achille Murat--Weakness of the Government--Lady Jersey and Lord Durham--Lord Duncannon--Ireland--Wordsworth. Page 73