CHAPTER XIV.

Visit to Broadlands--The American Treaty--Lord Palmerston on the American Treaty--The Stade Dues--The Withdrawal from Cabul--The Queen at Sea--Woburn--Baroness Lehzen--Lord Ponsonby--Turkey--The Grove, Lord Clarendon--Public Scandals--Bishop Blomfield's Charge--Puseyism--Mr. Thomas Grenville--Anecdote of Porson--Death of Mr. Irby--Anecdote of Lord North--Lord Melbourne ill--Macaulay's Lays of Rome--Canadian Affairs--A Council--Bad State of the Country--Mr. Grenville's Conversation--A Happy Family--The Reform Bill of 1832--End of the China War--Judge and Jury Court--Lord Ellenborough's Proclamation--Lord John Russell on the American Treaty--Madame d'Arblay's Journal--Lord Ellenborough--Manuscript of Antonio Perez--Lord Palmerston and the 'Morning Chronicle'--Moderate Whig Views--The Whigs and O'Connell--The Bedchamber Dispute--Sir David Dundas--Summary of the Year 1842 104