The “Pope” of Holland House
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
The “Pope” Of Holland House—A Memoir Of John
Whishaw, By W. P. Courtney
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CHAPTER I
1813
Autographs for Mrs. Smith—4
lectures at Cambridge—Madame de Staël—Foreign
politics—Buonaparte—
Edinburgh Review—Sir Humphry and Lady
Davy—Mungo Park—The Allies—Sir
James Mackintosh—Madame de Staël’s “L’Allemagne”—Terms offered to France—Accounts
from Paris
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CHAPTER II
1814
Smithson Tennant and Hobhouse’s
travels—Bacon and Chemistry—The Allies—Madame de
Staël—The Bourbons—Madame d’Arblay’s
book—Ricardo—Princess
Charlotte—Lord Cochrane—
Edinburgh Review—Lord Holland and
Mr. Allen in Paris—Lady Holland’s
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account of Society in Brussels—Mr.
Allen on Napoleon and the Slave Trade—Accounts from
Paris—
Edinburgh Review—The
Simplon—The Princess of Wales and Dr.
Holland—Lady Holland’s account of Rome and the
Society there—Lady Mackintosh’s account of a visit paid to
Napoleon in Elba by Mr. Vernon and Mr.
Douglas—Dr. Holland’s account of his travels
with the Princess of Wales and Murat’s Court
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CHAPTER III
1815
The Property tax—
Edinburgh
Review—Politics—Mungo Park—The Corn
Laws—Buonaparte’s landing—Lord
Castlereagh—Life of Mungo Park—“King
of Clubs”—Foreign politics—Battle of Waterloo—Death of
Whitbread—Brougham—Miss
Edgeworth and Park’s Journal—Letter from the
Edgeworths—The Allies—Duke of
Wellington—Louis XVIII. and the Slave
Trade—Treatment of
Napoleon—Politics—Sheridan—Lafayette—Duke
of Wellington’s conduct in
Paris—Napoleon’s voyage to St. Helena—Holland
House—Canova—Binda—Sir
Samuel Romilly’s visit to Paris—Dr.
Holland—Bishop of Gloucester—Lines at Holland
House—Sismondi’s account of
Napoleon—Dr. Holland—Duke
of Norfolk—Lord Holland and Duke of
Wellington—Lord Castlereagh and the Catholic
Question—
Edinburgh Review
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CHAPTER IV
1816
Ney and the Duke of
Wellington—Brougham—Lord
Lansdowne—“Paul’s”
letters—Lines on Scott’s “Waterloo” by Lord Erskine—Debate on the treaties—Lord and
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Lady Byron—Ricardo and the
currency—Politics and the income tax—Benjamin
Constant—Brougham and the
Regent—Princess Charlotte’s household—Lord
Byron—Lady Caroline Lamb—“Glenarvon”—Binda—Benjamin
Constant—The Hope pictures— “Childe Harold”—Ricardo—A Whig
marriage—Southey’s poem on Waterloo—Lord
Byron—Pozzo di Borgo—“Tales of
my Landlord”—Spa Fields visit—Theatricals at Holland House
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CHAPTER V
1817
Politics—The Congo—“Paul’s”
letters—“Tales of my Landlord”—The
Edgeworths—Politics—Lord
Byron’s journal—The Luddites—Death of Francis
Horner—Suspension of Habeas Corpus—“Old
Mortality”—
Edinburgh
Review—
Quarterly
Review—Autographs for Mrs.
Smith—Brougham and Lord Jeffrey
and Lord Byron—French Politics—Embassy to
China—Ricardo—Leonard
Horner—Letter from Sydney Smith—African
discoveries—Mill on
Ricardo—Lord Byron’s
“Witch’s Tragedy”—Cobbett—Lord
Amherst—Madame de Staël—Manchester
riots—Miss
O’Neil—Canning—Dr.
Watson—Miss Mercer—Death of Mr.
Edgeworth—Talma—Byron and
Moore—Horner’s
letters—Chiswick—Death of Madame de Staël—J.
L. Mallet—Paris society and fashions—Death of Princess
Charlotte—“Childe Harold”
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CHAPTER VI
1818
“Rob Roy”—New
books—Travels—Ritchie, the African
traveller—Politics—“Beppo”—Romilly and the Westminster
Election—The “Saints”—Politics
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CHAPTER VII
1819
Deaths of Sir Samuel and Lady
Romilly—Italy—Don Juan—Marriage of
Lord Brougham—Peterloo and the Manchester
magistrates—Holland House—The young
Romillys—Sir Manasseh
Lopez—Hobhouse—Question of the Prince’s
divorce—Hobhouse in Newgate
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CHAPTER VIII
1820
The King’s health—Gray’s Inn—Charge against the
Queen—Burckhardt’s
book—Hobhouse—Hunt—Scott
and the “Monastery”—Lord
Lansdowne—Brougham—The Queen—Journey to
Scotland—Dugald Stewart—Dr.
Chalmers—The Queen’s
trial—Politics—Warburton and
Electricity—Murray’s new
books—Canning’s
resignation—Bowood—Peel
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CHAPTER IX
1821
Wilberforce—Fox—Poem by
Southey—Grampound
Bill—Politics—Cambridge—Tierney—The Catholic
Disabilities Bill—Mr. Coutts’s will—“Marino Falieri”—Death of
Napoleon—The Coronation—Epigrams of Lord
Byron—Death of the Queen—“The
Pirate”
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CHAPTER X
1822
Nassau Senior—“Nigel”—“Italy”—Politics—Miss
Edgeworth—Miss Aikin—Mr.
Coke’s Marriage—Duel in Scotland—The
Edgeworths—Excursion to Bury—
Ickworth—Crabbe—Politics—Ricardo
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CHAPTER XI
1824-1833
Tour of “Fashionables” in America—The
Freischütz—Death of the Emperor Alexander—Failures of
banks—
Edinburgh
Review—Lord John Russell—Calne
election—State of the country—Reform—Lord
Althorp—Death of Lady Spencer—House of
Lords—Reform and the King—Sir James Mackintosh—Factories
Commission
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CHAPTER XII
1833-1835
Grote and the Bank Charter—Society at Lansdowne and Holland
Houses—Miss Aikin’s Book—The Irish Church
Temporalities Bill—Lord Grey—The Factory
Bill—Politics—Corporations—The Government—Archbishop
Whately and
Swedenborg—Scarlett—Lines of
Sir Walter Scott
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CHAPTER XIII
VARIOUS LETTERS WRITTEN TO MR. WHISHAW BETWEEN 1806-1840
From Sir James Mackintosh, 1806, from Bombay, where he was
Chief Justice (describing our rule and conquests, an “Avatar” and
“Maia” and Indian theology)—From Sir James Mackintosh,
1811, on the Regency, and referring to his historical projects and Asiatic
researches—From Dr. Holland, 1812, describing our army in the
Peninsula—From Henry Warburton, 1814, on his Geological discoveries
in Suffolk—From J. L. Mallet, 1815, on
Napoleon—From Francis Horner, 1816, from Pisa,
on literary subjects—From Sydney Smith, 1818, on
Hone and Lord Ellenborough and Sir J.
Mackintosh at
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Haileybury—From
Sydney Smith, 1818, on Canning and an anonymous
pamphlet—From Lady Mackintosh, 1828, on Politics—From
H. Hallam, 1828, on Murray’s publishing
firm, and Politics—From Hallam, on Politics—From
Lady Mackintosh, 1829, from Paris, the Abbé
Gregoire, and the Bourbons—From J. L. Mallet, 1831,
on Politics—From Sydney Smith—“King of Clubs”
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CHAPTER XIV
“The King Of Clubs,” By W. P. Courtney
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List of Illustrations
The Library At Holland House
Frontispiece
After the painting by C. R. Leslie.
David Ricardo
Facing p. 57
From an engraving by Hodgetts, after T.
Phillips.
From an engraving by Worthington, after
Fabre.
Henry, Third Marquis Of Lansdowne
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From an engraving by Bromley, after Sir Thomas
Lawrence.
From a wax portrait by Percy, executed in 1812.
From Britten’s “Beauties
of England” (Wiltshire).
From a sketch made Dec. 28, 1838, by Mrs. Needham (neé Bosanquet).
From a sketch by Mme. Meunier-Romilly, of Geneva.
From an engraving by Ridley, after
Opie.
