Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Richard Lalor Sheil to Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, [January 1829]
My dear Sir Charles,
Pardon me for not having immediately answered your kind
invitation. I intended to pay my respects to-day, and to say that I should wait
on you. I saw Colonel Gosset, this
morning, who says that Lord Anglesey goes
on Monday. Lord Melville has refused the
Government of Ireland. It is not known who will be appointed. Brougham omitted, from bad health, to attend two
meetings of the Opposition. Lord Holland
has written to Blake to say that the
lukewarm are excited by Lord Anglesey’s recall. It
is considered a most improper proceeding. Lord Holland has
written a tract on
Lord Bexley’s attack on the
Catholic religion!
Present my compliments to Lady
Morgan, and believe me,
Most truly yours,
Anthony Richard Blake (1786 c.-1849)
He was Chief Remembrancer of the Irish Exchequer and privy councillor, one of the first
Catholics to hold high office in modern Ireland.
Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the
Edinburgh
Review in which he chastised Byron's
Hours of Idleness; he
defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
(1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).
Henry Richard Fox, third baron Holland (1773-1840)
Whig politician and literary patron; Holland House was for many years the meeting place
for reform-minded politicians and writers. He also published translations from the Spanish
and Italian;
Memoirs of the Whig Party was published in 1852.
Sir William Gosset (1782 c.-1848)
After military service he was MP for Truro (1820-26), private secretary to the Marquess
of Anglesey in Ireland, and Sergeant at Arms in the House of Commons.
Henry William Paget, first marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854)
Originally Bayly, educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; he was MP
(1790-1810), commander of cavalry under Sir John Moore, lost a leg at Waterloo, and raised
to the peerage 1815; he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1828-29, 1830-33).
Richard Lalor Sheil (1791-1851)
Irish barrister and playwright; author of
Adelaide, or the
Emigrants (1814),
The Apostle (1817), and other tragedies.
He was an Irish MP (1830-50).
Nicholas Vansittart, first Baron Bexley (1766-1851)
Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he was a Pittite MP for Hastings (1796-1802), Old
Sarum (1802-12), East Grinstead (1812), and Harwich (1812-23); he was Chancellor of the
exchequer (1812-23).
