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INDEX.
The figures in italics refer to the notes only.
A
Abbot, Charles, Speaker, i. 4, 298; ii. 70; on Peel’s first speech, 1. 122;
created Lord Colchester, i. 262
Abercorn, Duke of, i. 310
Abercromby, M.P. for Edinburgh, i. 36
Abercromby, Hon. James (created Lord Dunfermline), Speaker, i. 36, 113, 120, 121,
128, 191, 247, 336; ii. 37, 120, 148, 276, 309, 331; “factious and
violent,” i. 217; christened “Young Cole” by Brougham, i. 327;
Brougham’s fellow-counsellor, ii. 2; “my Scotch master, jemmy,” ii.
259; appointed to the Mint, ii. 279; Grey on, ii. 296; Creevey’s “old and
tried friend,” ii. 312
Abercromby, Hon. Mrs. James, ii. 309, 312, 322
Abercromby, Sir Ralph, Commanderof the Army in Egypt, 1. 48
Aberdeen, George, 4th Earl of, i. 173
Abinger, Lord (Sir James Scarlett), Lord Chief Boron of the Exchequer, i. 12; ii. 2,
56, 115, 148, 226, 298, 301, 310, 312
Abisbal, General (Spain), ii. 74
Acheson, Lord (afterwards Earl of Gosford), ii. 191
Adair, Sir Robert (the target of Canning’s satire), i. 22; ii. 6, 148, 154,
211, 312
Adam, Rt. Hon. William, Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales and Lord Chief
Commissioner to the Scottish Jury Court, i. 39, 107, 213, 253
Addington, Rt. Hon. Henry. See Sidmouth, Viscount
Adelaide, Queen, ii. 83, 216, 217, 224, 262; her dislike of Duchess of Kent, ii.
238; at Olivia de Ros’ wedding, ii. 263; her antipathy to the Whigs, ii. 298; her
fixed impression, ii. 300
Adkin, Tom, i. 99
Adour, Congreve rockets at the passage of the, i. 147
Age, the, ii. 96, 200
Agricultural depression, ii. 55, 94, 147
Alava, Representative of Spain at Bourbon Court, i. 277, 279, 289; ii. S3, 102, 226,
236, 263, 307
Albemarle, Countess of (née Hunloke), ii. 33
Albemarle, George, 3rd Earl of, ii. 33
Albemarle, William, 4th Earl of, i. 163, 336; ii. 6, 97, 224, 329; a saying of
William IV., ii. 226; the King and the Reform Bill, ii. 244; Mrs. Fitzherbert’s
letters, ii. 319, 320
Albuera, i. 185
Aldborough, Lady, i. 281; ii. 319, 331
Aldborough, Suffolk, ii. 227
Aldborough, Yorkshire, ii. 227
Alexander, Master in Chancery, ii. 68
Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, offers mediation between England and France, i. 15;
his visit to London, i. 187, 194; a favourite with the Whigs, i. 191; Napoleon on King
of Prussia and, i. 196; a remonstrance, ii. 4; Lord Holland’s peace-offering, ii.
15; the revolution
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in Spain, ii. 53; Lady Londonderry’s transfer, ii. 58
“All the Talents” Ministry, formed by Grenville, i. 40, 42, 75, 81, 84
Allen, M.D., John, i. 260, 264; ii. 39, 155, 156, 322, 329
Allen, Lord, ii. 288, 312, 314
Allies, in Paris, i. 187; in Belgium, i. 218
Almeida, i. 88
Alten, General Sir Charles, i. 222, 235
Althorp, Viscount (3rd Earl of Spencer), “Clunch,” i. 157, 264; ii. 47,
71, 120, 216, 246, 249, 255, 260, 297; candidate for Cambridge, i. 75-77; his motion
about Prince of Wales’ outfit, i. 216; letter to Creevey, ii. 17; his first
budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 218, 221; Stanley’s obstinacy about
Irish tithes, ii. 252; the scene between Durham and Grey, ii. 265; resigns on Coercion
Bill, ii. 282, 283; remains in office, ii. 284; succeeds to Earldom, ii. 295, 296, 321
Alvanley, Lord, ii. 59, 129, 167; challenges O’Connell, ii. 304
Amelia, Princess, her illness and death, i. 98, 135
America, war with, i. 165, 166-173; peace, i. 211, 212
Amherst, Lord, i. 337
Amiens, treaty of, i. 10
Andover, Viscountess (afterwards Lady Digby), ii. 36, 112
Andrews, Miles Peter, i. 63
Anglesey, Marchioness of, ii. 181, 188
Anglesey, Marquess of, ii. 162, 181, 188, 231; recalled by Wellington from Lord
Lieutenancy of Ireland, ii. 174, 193-195; his proclamation against Catholic meetings,
ii. 177; his view of Ireland, ii. 182; his leg’s grave at Vittoria, ii. 189; Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland again, ii. 265; and Sir John Lade, ii. 335
Angoulême, Duchess of, i. 246
Annual Register, i. 339; ii 84
Anson, George, ii. 74, 214, 254
Anson, Hon. Mrs. George (née Forester), ii. 214, 254
Anson, Lady, ii. 35, 36, 80, 331; letter to Creevey on the battue at Holkham, ii. 52
Antalda, Marquis of, ii. 14
Antrim, Countess of, 1. 18
Antrim, Randal, 4th Earl of, i, 18
Antrim, Alexander, 5th Earl of, i. 18
Appleby, Creevey M.P. for, i. 298
Arbuthnot, ii. 121
Arbuthnot, Mrs., ii. 286
Argyll, Duke of, ii. 226, 241, 322, 323
Armstrong, Colonel, ii. 289, 290
Arran, Earl of, it. 243
Arundel, Earl of (afterwards 13th Duke of Norfolk), i. 245
Ashley, Lady Emily (née Cowper), ii. 198
Ashton, Mr., i. 171,172
Assaye, battle of, ii. 152
Athol, James, 2nd Duke of, 1. 38
Athol, John, 3rd Duke of, i. 37
Athol, John, 4th Duke of, i. 38, 336; ii. 157
Auckland, William, 1st Lord, i. 114
Auckland, George, 2nd Lord, i. 114, 120; ii. 2,95, 114,281; appointed by Grey First
Lord of the Admiralty, ii. 276-278; his hand forced by Brougham, ii. 283
Audley, Lord, i. 337
Augusta, Princess, ii. 262
Austerlitz, battle of, i. 44, 45, 49
Austin, Mr., i. 302
Austria, i. 213, 218; ii. 140
Austria, Prussia, and England v. France, i. 44
B
Babbage, ii. 329
Bacon, Lady Charlotte, ii. 60
Bacourt, M. de, ii. 270
Badajos, siege of, i. 145
Baden, Princess of, i. 270
Bagot, Lord, i. 337
Bagot, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, executor of Queen Caroline’s will, ii. 25, 339
Baillie, Dr., i. 245, 266
Baird, Sir David, i. 173
Balfour of Balbirnie, Miss Katherine (Mrs. Edward Ellice), ii. 273
Ballisteros, General (Spain), ii. 74
Bamfyld, Sir Charles, i. 47
Bank Note Bill, i. 145, 146, 163
Bank of England, suspension of cash payments by, i. 292
Bankes, Mr., i. 136, 162, 272; ii. 12, 34, 156
Bankhead, Dr., ii. 44
Barham, Mrs., i. 18
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Baring, Alexander, ii. 11, 55,90,244
Barnard, Lord, i. 122
Barnes, Editor of the Times, ii. 237, 257
Barnes, General Sir Edward, Adjutant-General, i. 224, 225, 230, 231, 238, 277, 279,
282, 283, 285; ii. 46, 220; wounded at Waterloo, i. 234, 235; on Lord Hill, i. 278
Barras, i. 6
Barrington, Lady Caroline (nee Grey), ii. 327
Barry, Sir Charles, ii. 322
Barrymore, Lord, i. 78
Barthelemy, M., the banker, i. 7
Bath, Marquess of, i. 337; ii. 73
Bathurst, Countess, i. 324; ii. 320
Bathurst, Earl, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, i. 166, 214, 273, 324;
ii. 10, 27, 112, 113, 117
Bathurst, Lady Georgiana, ii. 154
Bathurst, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Bragge, President of Board of Control, and Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, i. 114, 166; ii. 10, 12
Bathurst, Seymour, i. 335
Battue, an early example of the practice, ii. 51, 52
Beauchamp, Earl and Countess, ii. 105
Beauclerk, Lord H., i. 190
Beauclerk, Mrs., i. 182
Beaufort, Duchess of, i. 324
Beaufort, Duke of, i. 324; ii. 101, 165
Beauharnais, Viscount, i. 6
Beaumont, Marquis of, ii. 3
Bedford, Duchess of, ii. 275, 303
Bedford, John, 4th Duke of, it. 329
Bedford, Francis, 5th Duke of, ii. 109
Bedford, John, 6th Duke of, i. 22, 94, 99, 111, 121, 308, 317; ii. 150, 155, 275,
297; on parliamentary reform, i. 95
Bedford, Francis, 7th Duke of. See Tavistock, Marquis of
Bedlam, ii. 79
Belfast, Lady, ii. 97
Belfast, Lord, ii. 97, 107
Belgrave, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 48
Belgrave, Lord, ii. 48
Belhaven, Lady, i. 309
Bellamy, Mr., ii. 50
Bellew, Mr., ii. 179
Bellingham, Mr. Perceval’s murderer, i, 245
Bennet, Hon. H. G., i. 157, 160, 305, 306, 319, 329, ii. 2, 29, 34, 64, 71; Creevey
on, i. 36; his letters to
Creevey, i. 185, 187, 191, 194, 211, 213, 215, 240, 256, 264, 294;
his wife’s veto, i. 210; “this is scandalous,” i. 342
Bennet, Hon. Mrs. H. G. (née Russell), i. 210, 296
Bentham, ii. 51
Bentinck, Lord George, ii. 100
Benvenuto Cellini, Roscoe’s Life of, ii. 163
Berenger, de, i. 203
Beresford, General, at Albuera, i. 185
Beresford, Lord, ii. 126
Beresford, Rt. Hon. John, Chairman of the Revenue Board of Ireland, i. 42
Bergami, Bartolommeo, Queen Caroline’s courier, i. 301, 312, 322, 324, 331,
335; ii. 24, 73
Bergami, Victorine, ii. 24
Berkeley, Admiral Sir Maurice Frederick (afterwards Lord Fitzhardinge), i. 147; ii.
185, 188
Berkeley, Captain, ii. 81
Berkeley, Hon. —, i. 247
Berkeley, Lady, i. 49
Berkeley, Lady Charlotte (née Gordon-Lennox), ii. 185
Berkeley, Thomas, 6th Earl of, i. 67
Berri, Due de, i. 223, 225
Berri, Duchesse de, ii. 252
Berry, Miss, ii. 255
Berthier, General, i. 5, 225
Bertrand, M., ii. 26
Bessborough, Frederick, 3rd Earl of, i. 62, 254; ii. 110, 171
Bessborough, John, 4th Earl of. See Duncannon, Lord
Bessborough, John, 5th Earl of, ii. 268
Bessborough, Lady, i. 62
Bessborough Estates, Ireland, ii. 171
Bettesworth, R.N., Captain, ii. 276
Bexley, Lord. See Vansittart, N.
Bickersteth, ii. 303
Bingham, General, ii. 259
Binning, Lord, i. 206
Birch, Mr., ii. 213
Black, Sergeant, ii. 11o
Blackburne, John, M.P. for Lancashire, ii. 94
Blackwood, Mrs. (née Sheridan), afterwards Lady Dufferin, lastly Countess of
Gifford, i. 39
Blake, Mr., ii. 169
Bland, Thomas, ii. 326
Blaquiere, M., ii. 61
Blessington, Lady, ii. 86, 288
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Blessington, Lord, ii. 288
Blomfield, C. J., Bishop of London, ii. 195
Bloomfield, Lieut.-General Sir Benjamin (afterwards Lord), George IV.’s
Private Secretary, etc., i. 66, 68, 73, 150; ii. 26, 31, 58;British Minister at
Stockholm, ii. 43; “ruined from that moment,” ii. 105
Bloomfield, son of above, ii. 58
Blount, Stephenson, ii. 329
Blucher, his likeness to Lord Grey, i. 196; Wellington and, i. 228; his reported
defeat by Napoleon, i. 231; at Ligny, i. 236; at Laon, i. 280
Bolton, Judge, ii. 45
Borghese, Pauline, Princess, ii. 26,
Borgo, Pozzo di, ii. 307
Boston, Lord, ii. 97
Bould, Miss, ii. 47
Boulton, Mr., i. 172
Bourmont, General, deserts to Blucher at Waterloo, ii. 202, 252
Bourrienne, M., Life of Napoleon, ii. 202, 203, 207
Bouverie, Mrs., i. 13, 82
Bowes, i. 128
Boyce, a Protestant squire of Wexford, ii. 183
Boyd, Benfield and Co., i. 35, 37
Boyle, Lady Augusta (afterwards FitzClarence), ii. 300
Bradshaw, Mr., i. 111
Brand, Tom (22nd Lord Dacre), ii. 311
Brandling, M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1. 23
Brandling, Charles, i. 108
Brandling, Miss Fanny, ii. 210, 278, 285
Brandling, Ralph, i. 109
Brandling, William, ii. 278
Brandon, Lady, ii. 160
Brandon, Rev. Wm. Crosbie, D.D., Lord, ii. 160
Brass Founders’ Procession, i. 334
Braybrooke, Lord, ii. 280
Briggs, Captain, i. 312
Brighton, past and present, Creeveyon, ii. 325
Brogden, Mr., i. 22; ii. 10
Brooke, Sir Charles, i. 279
Brougham, Henry, i. 128, 159, 308, 324. 331. 335: ii. 2, 5. 9. 10. 34-36, 56, 58,
60-62, 72, 76, 79,
95, 99, 103. 113, 119, 120, 123, 152, 155, 159, 195, 196, 209,
218, 222, 255, 261, 267, 278, 282, 295; his review of Lauderdale’s book in
Edinburgh Review, i. 30; Grey on, i. 108; ii. 140, 184; M.P. for Camelford, i. 153;
candidate for Liverpool, i. 156, 171, 173; Creevey’s distrust of, i. 168-171; ii.
23, 89, 129, 130, 136, 137, 149; his “volley of declamation,” i. 172; the
weapon ready, i. 175; and Queen Caroline, i. 177, 199, 204, 295, 296, 301-303, 316-319,
326, 329. 338, 341; ii. 2, 11, 13, 18, 23, 146; letter from Lady C. Lindsay, i. 183; on
Newcastle-on-Tyne, i. 186; his article on Norway in Edinburgh Review, i. 186; his
profound resources, i. 197; blames Whitbread, i. 204; speech on Treaty of Paris, i.
249, 250; “has done everything with no help,” i. 257; on Tierney, i. 264;
Duke of Kent and Madame St. Laurent, i. 270; “quite silent,” i. 272; his
prophecy about Creevey’s Thetford seat, i. 274; feels the loss of Romilly, i.
293; Fox’s proposed epitaph, i. 299; his offer to Lord Liverpool on Queen’s
behalf, i. 301-303; his speeches on the Pains and Penalties Bill, i. 310, 321, 322;
Lady Charlotte Greville and, i. 314, 323; the “Coles,” i. 327; on Oldi and
Mariette as witnesses, i. 328; and the Duke of Roxburgh, ii. 3; his depression, ii. 15;
his plans to rouse the North for the Queen, ii. 18; the Queen’s illness, death,
and funeral, ii. 20, 21, 25; “he absolutely hated her,” ii. 24;
Napoleon’s appeal, ii. 26; Lauderdale on, ii. 28, 154; speech for reduction of
taxation, ii. 33; Lady Holland and, ii. 37; his bid for Westmorland farms, ii. 51; and
Canning, ii. 64, 66, 68, 121, 125; Lady Jersey and, ii. 71, 73, 133, 223;
Creevey’s Reform pamphlet, ii. 93; Dandy Raikes’ quarrel with, ii. 106,
107, 109; his “perfidy” to Lambton, ii. 126; declines post of Chief Baron
of the Exchequer, ii. 129; “another instance of his hypocrisy,” ii. 130;
denounced by “the Malignants,” ii. 136, 149; Lambton’s peerage, ii.
142; “acting without the slightest
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tincture of interest,” ii. 145; “the
Arch-fiend,” ii. 137; Grey and Cleveland, ii. 149, 150; Burdett on, ii. 153; his
Cabinet dinner, ii. 154; candidate for Westmorland, ii. 165; his literary schemes, ii.
206, 207; on Napoleon, ii. 207; Lord Chancellor, ii. 214; “Vaux et præterea
nihil,” ii. 216; and Sefton, the Times’ attacks on Grey, ii. 219, 220;
Eldon and, ii. 224; “an intriguing, perfidious rogue,” ii. 227; on the
batch of new peers, ii. 230; Lady Grey on, ii. 231; “Old Wickedshifts,” ii.
236, 274, 275; and the Reform Bill, ii. 237, 247, 292; and the Duchess of Kent’s
absence from William IV.’s Coronation, ii. 237, 238; his demand for new peers,
ii. 241, 245; William IV. and, ii. 246, 260, 297, 298; Gascoigne’s motion to
reduce Ordnance Vote, ii. 265; “Beelzebub,” ii. 272, 292; and Mrs. Petre,
ii. 276; indignant with Grey, ii. 277; Roscoe, ii. 280; forces Auckland’s hand,
ii. 283; “drove Grey from office,” ii. 285; his defence, ii. 287, 288, 294;
attacks Durham in Edinburgh Review, ii. 289; “letters of a perfect
Bedlamite,” ii. 298, 300; his “insincere jaw,” ii. 305; some
correspondence of George III., ii. 318; his spiteful motives, ii. 329; his letters to
Creevey, i. 119, 134, 144, 145. 154, 155, 174. 178-183, 186, 192, 194, 195, 201, 202,
204, 206, 211, 243, 245, 247, 252, 258, 261, 294, 297, 319; ii. 16, 19, 24, 44, 45, 66,
114, 146, 206, 208, 235
Brougham, Lady (Mrs. Spalding, née Eden), ii. 70, 71, 72, 89, 107, 120
Brougham, James, ii. 229, 271
Brougham, William, ii. 220
Brown, Mrs. (Lord Thurlow’s daughter), i. 60
Brozam, Count, A.D.C. to the Czar, i. 281
Bruce, Lavalette, ii. 64, 74
Brudenel, Lord, ii. 75
Brunswick, Duke of, i. 183, 184; killed at Quatre Bras, i. 230
Brussels, before Waterloo, i. 218, 219; Creevey at, i. 205-273, 292-295
Buckingham, George, 1st Marquess of, i. 27
Buckingham Palace, ii. 151, 307
Buckingham, Richard, 2nd Marquess of (afterwards 1st Duke of), i. 215; ii. 221;
“is trying hard for office,” i. 217; duel with Sir Thomas Hardy, i. 256;
the Queen’s trial, i. 316; his letter to Canning, ii. 69
Buckinghamshire, Earl of, i. 159
Buggin, Lady Cecilia, Duchess of Inverness, ii. 230, 243, 258, 329
Buggin, Sir George, ii. 243
Bulow, Herr, ii. 262
Bulteel, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 233, 306
Bulteel, Mr., ii. 233, 243
Buonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon
Burdett, Sir Francis, i. 60, 97, 249; ii. 72, 74, 198, 199; v. agriculturists, i.
194; on Roman Catholic question, i. 100; ii. 67; Creevey on, i. 107; on Reform, i. 128;
imprisoned in lower,i. 131, 133; and Brougham, i. 202, 203, 249; ii. 153; refuses
peerage, ii. 321; his letters to Creevey, i. 3, 132
Burford, Earl of (afterwards 9th Duke of St Albans), ii. 73
Burgess, Whitbread’s solicitor, i. 241
Burgh, Sir Ulysses de, i. 281
Burghersh, Lady, i. 197
Burgos, siege of, i. 173
Burgoyne, i. 120
Burke, Chief Justice, ii. 175, 183, 188
Burke, Edmund, i. 108, 162
Burn, Mr., ii. 179
Burrell, Walter, M.P. for Sussex, ii. 34
Burton, A.D.C. and Secretary to Lord Anglesey, ii. 188
Bury, Lady Charlotte, Memoirs and Correspondence of Queen Caroline, ii. 333
Bury, Lord, ii. 75
Bute, John, 1st Marquess of, i. 228
Butler, Lady Eleanor, ii. 185
Butler, Lady Mary, i. 107
Byng, G. (“Poodle”), i. 128, 204; ii. 96, 230, 279, 290, 314, 330, 333
Byng, Hon. Mrs., ii. 314
Byron, Lord, Hours of Idleness, i. 75; Lady C. Lamb’s Glenarvon and Vivian, i.
255; at Geneva, i. 258, 267; on Dr. John Allen, i. 260; a rejected poem, i. 294
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C
Cabarenne, Madame (previously Comtesse de Fontenay, then Madame de Tallien, lastly
Princess de Chimay), i. 6, 7
Caithness, Lord, i. 257
Calcraft, John, i. 46, 113, 128, 333; ii. 16, 106, 114, 160, 213
Callander, Caroline Henrietta (Mrs. T. Sheridan), i. 39
Calthorpe, Lord, i. 336
Cambray, taken by storm, i. 239; Creevey at, i. 275
Camelford, Lord, i. 60
Cameron, James, ii. 187
Campbell, Lady Charlotte, i. 177, 199; ii. 288
Campbell, Lady Mary, Baroness Stratheden, ii. 312
Campbell, Lord Chancellor, on Twiss, ii. 12
Campbell, Sir Colin, ii. 75, 153
Campbell, Sir John (afterwards Baron), ii. 312
Canada Bill, ii. 334
Canning, Colonel, Wellington’s A.D.C., killed at Waterloo, i. 230
Canning, George, i. 262, 342; ii. 46, S3. 59. 6i, 85, 90, 201; and Addington, i. 8;
Creevey on, i. 9; on Fox and Pitt, i. 20; satirises Adair, i. 22; illness of George
III., i. 27; Foreign Secretary, i. 93; ii. 49, 52; quarrel and duel with Castlereagh,
i. 93, 96-98, 106, 108; ii. 297; Whitbread on, i. 99, 109; Grey on, i. 108, 159; ii.
118, 140; on Coke, i. 108; Brandling all for, ibid.; his rhetorical flourishes, i. 123;
the Walcheren Expedition, i. 124; “every Frenchman that falls,” etc., i.
134; disbands his troop, i. 151; and Wellesley, i. 154, 157,161-163; the Liverpool
seat, i. 155, 156, 169, 171-173; and Brougham, i. 156, 178, 206, 209, 253; ii. 64-66,
68, 121, 125, 129; the Roman Catholic question, i. 158; ii. 103, 108; Sheridan on, i.
164; “on the skirts of the party,” i. 175; Ambassador to Lisbon, i. 207,
287; ii. 35; Peel’s election for Oxford, i. 263; Governor-General of India, ii.
43-45, 69, 70, 75 called “Merryman” by Brougham, ii. 50, 51; “has his
hands full,” ii. 55; and George IV.,
ii. 59, 110, 111; his irritability, ii. 63; and Lord
Kensington’s son, ii. 73; Cobbett’s Life of, ii. 94; and Hobhouse, ii. 99;
his and Huskisson’s Corn Bill, ii. 100, 101, 122; his illness, ii. 106; Premier,
forming his Cabinet, ii. 111-117, 125, 145, 146; the Penryn case, ii. 119; and
Wellington, ii. 121, 124, 135; death and funeral, ii. 125, 126; monument, ii. 133
Canning, Miss, ii. 48
Cantillon, attempts to assassinate Wellington, i. 273
Caparo, Duke of, ii. 14
Carlisle, Countess of, i. 184
Carlisle, 6th Earl of, i. 27, 78, 121; ii. 123, 306
Carlisle, 7th Earl of, ii. 223, 276, 278, 307
Carnac, Mr., ii. 328
Carnac, Mrs., ii. 80
Carnarvon, Lord, i. 308, 318, 324; ii. 6, 39, 79
Caroline, Queen, in the House of Commons, i. 123; the Commission on, i. 176-181; and
Brougham, i. 177. 199, 204, 295, 296, 301-303, 3l6-319. 320, 329, 338, 341; ii. 2, 11,
13, 18, 23, 146; at Vauxhall, i. 182, 184; the drawing-room, i. 187; and Grey, i. 193;
at the Opera, i. 195, 196; “carries everything before her,” i. 196;
declines increased allowance voted by Parliament, i. 199, 204; the thanksgiving at St.
Paul’s, i. 202; a divorce impossible, i. 209; her intended return to Kensington
Palace, i. 212, 253; is offered £50,000 to renounce title and live abroad, i. 295, 301,
302; her trial, i. 295, 303-342; ii. 6; popular sympathy, i. 298, 299; her
Solicitor-General, Denman, q.v.; her name excluded from the Liturgy, i. 303, 304, 306;
ii. 9, 10, 12; Grey’s and Lambton’s interview with, ii. 7; Brougham
testifies to his belief in her innocence, ii. 11, 13; proposed subscription for, ii.
15; buys Cambridge House, ibid.; excluded from the Coronation, ii. 16, 18; proposed
visit to the North, ii. 19, 20; her death and funeral, ii. 21-26; Lord Bath on, ii. 73
Carrington, Lord, i. 99, 111, 214
Cartwright, General, i. 150
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Cartwright, John, the “Father of Reform,” i. 202
Casimir, M., ii. 226
Castlereagh, Viscountess, ii. 43
Castlereagh, Viscount, loses Co. Down on seeking re-election as Pitt’s War
Minister, i. 43, 63; quarrel and duel with Canning, i. 93, 96-98, 106, 108; ii. 297;
Grey on, i.’ 107; his claims on the House of Commons, i. 122; the Walcheren
Expedition, i. 123, 124; ministerial changes, i.157, 165; Foreign Secretary, i. 175;
“he cannot but be in a scrape,” i. 185; Ward on, i. 189; increase of
Princess of Wales’ allowance, i. 198, 200, 201; red hot on war with France, i.
214; Brougham’s speech on Treaty of Paris, i. 250; “appealing to
posterity,” i. 262; his supposed influence over Prince Leopold, i. 266; Lady
Holland on, i. 266; Creevey on, i. 287; ii. 10; the King’s message about the
Queen, i. 303; “smiling as usual,” i. 306; roughly handled at Covent
Garden, i. 338; a scene in the House of Commons, i. 342; Tierney and Napoleon, ii. 4;
Dublin’s applause, ii. 30; replies to Brougham’s motion for reduction of
taxation, ii. 33, 34; his suicide, ii. 38,40-47; his successor Canning, ii. 49, 63,
119; his keynote non-intervention, ii. 52, 53
Cathcart, Lord, i. 86, 281, 282
Catholic Association, the, ii. 193, 195
Caton, Mr., of Philadelphia, ii. 249
Cator, Captain of an Indiaman, i. 279
Cator, Miss, i. 276, 279; ii. 248
Caulincourt, M., i. 190
Cavendish, Charles (Baron Chesham), i. 207
Cavendish, Lord George, i. 100, 111, 122, 265; ii. 34, 88; nominal leader of the
Whigs, i. 112, 247, 257; Bennet on, i. 257
Cavendish, William, i. 126
Caxton, ii. 207
Cazes, M. de (Decazes), i. 272; ii. 4
Cellini, Benvenuto, ii. 163
Chalmers, Dr., Professor of Moral Philosophy in St. Andrews, afterwards of Theology
in Edinburgh, ii. 84
Chaloner, ii. 34
Chalons, ii. 80
Chantrey, ii. 322
Charlemont, Lady, i. 147; ii. 324
Charlemont, Lord, i. 147, 148, 150
Charleroi, capture of, i. 223, 229
Charles X., 11. 253, 315
Charleville, Lord, ii. 312
Charlotte of Wales, Princess, the Prince Regent’s treatment of, i. 176,
178-180, 182; Brougham’s advice to, i. 198; her illness, i. 184, 207; marriage,
i. 258, 259; death, i. 266, 268; ii. 325
Charlotte, Queen, i. 184, 194, 197, 281, 284
Chateaubriand, i. 214
Chatham, Earl of, i. 85; ii. 318; the Walcheren Expedition, i. 95-97, 107, 129-131,
133
Chesham, Charles, Lord, i. 207
Chesterfield, Countess of (Hon. Anne Forester), ii. 214
Chesterfield, Earl of, ii. 199, 214
Chichester, Earl of, i. 113
Chifnay, Mr., ii. 210
Chimay, Prince de, i. 7
Cholmondeley, Lady Charlotte (afterwards Seymour), i. 266
Cholmondeley, Marchioness of, i. 196
Cholmondeley, Marquess of, i. 320
Church of England, Hume’s attack on, ii. 66
Churchill, Lady, ii. 243
Churchill, Lord, ii. 167
Cintra Convention, i. 89, 93
Civil List Bill, 1831, ii. 218
Civil Offices Pensions Act, 1817, ii. 34
Clanricarde, 1st Marquess of, ii. 188
Clanwilliam, Earl of, ii. 60
Clare Election, ii. 193
Clare, Lady, i. 47, 49
Clare, Lord, ii. 29, 47, 64, 198
Clarendon, Earl of, Queen Caroline’s executor, ii. 25
Clarke, Mr., i. 112
Clarke, Mrs. Mary Anne, and the Duke of York, i. 97, 112, 113, 115, 193, 310; ii. 2,
278
Clavering, General, i. 61
Cleveland, Duchess of, Lady Darlington (Mrs. Russell alias Funnereau), i. 184; ii.
86, 89, 109, 131, 132, 165, 208, 243; and Mrs. Taylor, ii. 90; Creevey on, ii. 92
Cleveland, 1st Duke of, 3rd Lord
Darlington, “Niffy-Naffy,” i. 243, 308; ii. 109, 113, 130, 131, 149,
150, 207-209, 230,
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243; his marriage, i. 184; ii. 86; five seats to dispose of, ii.
90; raves about Canning, ii. 116; Grey and, ii. 122; his Winchelsea seat, ii. 165;
Wellington and, ii. 153
Cleveland, Lord William Powlett, 3rd Duke of, ii. 130-132, 201
Clifden, 2nd Viscount, ii. 217
Clifden, 3rd Viscount, ii. 217
Clifford, Charlotte, Baroness (afterwards Duchess of Devonshire), i.264
Clifford, Lieutenant (Lord?), i. 264
Clifford, Lord de, i. 308, 336
Clifton, Lord, i. 184
Clincial thermometer, Dr. Currie’s, i. 2
Clinton, Lord, ii. 13
Cloncurry, Lord, ii. 194
Clowes, Mrs., i. 60
Cobbett, William, i. 89; ii. 252; imprisoned for libel, i. 133; his letter to
Creevey, i. 134; “a foul-mouthed malignant dog,” i. 334; on agricultural
depression, ii. 55; Lift of Canning, ii. 94; his “blackguard language,” ii.
251; and Lord Radnor, ii. 278
Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, i. 89, 132, 133
Cochrane, Admiral Lord (afterwards 10th Earl of Dundonald), i. 128; tried for Stock
Exchange conspiracy, i. 202, 203
Codrington, Admiral, ii. 231
Coercion Bill, ii. 282, 285, 288, 294
Coke, Miss, ii. 36
Coke, Sir Edward, Chief Justice, ii. 111
Coke, Thomas, of Holkham (created Earl of Leicester), i. 122, 297; ii. 76,276, 294;
Canning’s “landed grandee,” i. 108; marries Lady A. Keppel, ii. 36;
furious about Lady Mary Keppel’s marriage, ii. 97 j “our worthy King
Tom,” ii. 111; created Earl, ii. 295; Creevey on, ii. 331; on Lady Holland, ii.
333
Coke, Thomas William, 2nd Earl of Leicester, ii. 36, 76, 332
Colborne, Sir John (afterwards Lord Seaton), Governor-General of Canada, ii. 334
Colchester, riot at Queen’s funeral at, ii. 32
Colchester, Lord. See Abbot, Charles
Cole, Hon. Sir Lowry, commanded 4th Division in Peninsular War,
i. 277, 283; ii. 9; Governor of Mauritius, ii. 12
Cole, Lady Frances (née Malmesbury), i. 277-279
Collier, Lady, i. 254
Collingwood, Lord, Memoirs, ii. 161
Colvill, General, i. 239 Commission on, Royal Navy, i. 33; Public Expenditure, i.
136; Queen Caroline, 1. 176, 177, 181; Flogging, ii. 310
Condé, Prince de, i. 225
Congleton, Lord, i. 31, 164
Congreve, Sir William, inventor of rockets, i. 147, 150
Conroy, Mr., ii. 332
Consort, Prince, ii. 52
Conway, Field Marshal, ii. 13
Conyngham, Lady Elizabeth (Marchioness of Huntley), i. 333; ii. 73, 96;
Conyngham, Lady Elizabeth Denison, 1st Marchioness of, i. 229, 333; ii. 157; George
IV.’s relations with, ii. 1, 20, 30, 31, 43, 45, 58, 77, 89, 104, 105, 108, 120,
148; her portrait by Lawrence, ii. 16; her friend Lady Glengall, ii. 29; “shows
but little in public” at Dublin, ii. 30, 31; her opposition Ball at the Opera
House, ii. 38; Duke of Sussex and his sisters, ii. 48; at Ascot, ii. 77; “a
blow-up between Prinney and,” ii. 89; “she hates Kingy,” ii. 96; her
paramount influence at Court, ii. 103
Conyngham, Lord, i. 320; ii. 29, 59, 60, 103, 279, 326
Conyngham, Lord Albert Denison, ii. 58
Cook, Captain, killed at Trafalgar, i. 69
Cooke, “Kangaroo,” ii. 109
Copenhagen Expedition, i. 85, 86
Copley, Maria (afterwards Lady Howick and Countess of Grey), ii. 31, 48, 295; her
letters to Creevey, ii. 59, 64
Copley, Sir John (afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, ii. 113, 114
Copley, Sir Joseph, ii. 306
Cork, Edmund, 7th Earl of, i. 56
Cork, Lady, i. 56
Corn Laws, ii. 94, 100, 101, 158, 166
Cornwall, Mr., ii. 132
Cornwallis, Marchioness, i. 168
Corry, James, ii. 169, 177, 181, 188
Cotton, Sir Charles, i. 89
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Courier, i. 179
Courtenay, Mr., i. 184
Courvoisier, valet, murders his master, Lord William Russell, ii. 109, 329
Coutts, Mr., i. 209; ii. 3, 8
Coutts, Mrs. (afterwards Duchess of St. Albans), ii. 120, 217
Covent Garden theatre, i. 97
Coventry, George William, 8th Earl of, i. 56; ii. 268
Coventry, Lady Mary Augusta (afterwards Holland), ii. 268
Cowley, Lady (Olivia de Ros), ii. 204, 237, 263, 320
Cowley, Lord (Sir Henry Wellesley), i. 218; ii. 263, 320
Cowper, Lady (afterwards Palmerston), i. 255, 259; ii. 129, 167, 226, 241, 268, 307,
325
Cowper, Lady Emily (Countess of Shaftesbury), ii 198
Cowper, Lord, i. 82, 259, 313, 317, 318, 336; ii. 6, 9, 39, 79, 88, 129, 167, 226,
230, 241
Cox and Greenwood, ii. 242
Cradock, Colonel, i. 281; ii. 96, 306
Crampton, Surgeon-General, ii. 169, 181
Craufurd, Madame, ii. 288
Craven, Countess of, ii. 310
Craven, Earl of, i. 247; ii. 212
Craven, Hon. Berkeley, i. 296, 330; ii. 13, 14, 139
Craven, Hon. Keppel, i. 309, 311; ii. 14
Craven, Hon. Maria. See Sefton, Lady
Craven, Lady Louisa (afterwards Johnstone, then Oswald), ii. 311
Craven, Mrs., ii. 320
Creevey, Miss, ii. 143, 310
Creevey, Mrs. (formerly Mrs. Ord), i. 12, 18, 22, 108, 120, 148-150; at Brighton, i.
47-50; and Sheridan, i. 52; Lord Thurlow, i. 60; at Brussels, i. 205-272; her death, i.
275, 295; letters—from Earl Grey, i. 1; from Sheridan, i. 39; to Creevey, i.
65-73, 80; from Mrs. Fitzherbert, i. 69; to Miss Ord, i. 82, 84; from Creevey, i.
121-132, 136-143, 145, 156-173, 195; from Lady Holland, i. 151, 184, 189, 205, 246,
254, 265
Crewe, Lord, ii. 36
Crockford’s, ii. 151
Croker, J. W., on Brougham, ii. 23; his dispute with Hume, ii. 35; his
article in Quarterly Riview on O’Meara’s A Voice from
St. Helena, ii. 65; “the three C’s,” ii. 94; his account of
Liverpool’s illness, ii. 105; a P.C., ii. 160; a slender chance of being M.P.
again, ii. 221
Croker Papers, i. 31; ii. 23, 31, 211
Cromwell, Oliver, ii. 171
Cross, Mr., K.C., ii. 125
Cumberland, Duchess of (Princess Frederica of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, widow, firstly,
of Prince Frederick of Prussia, and secondly, of Prince Frederick William of
Salmo-Braunfels), i. 205
Cumberland, Duke of, i. 146, 148-150, 205, 276, 298, 339; ii. 196, 197, 210, 245,
322
Cumberland Hussars, at Waterloo, i. 148, 232, 234
Curran, J. P., Irish Master of the Rolls, 1. 61, 107
Currency question, the, ii. 94, 97
Currie, Dr. J., of Liverpool, his clinical thermometer, i. 2; his letters to
Creevey, i. 2, 12, 30; from Creevey, i. 4, 9, 11-16, 19, 24, 27 33. 78, 80
Cuthbert, Lady Fanny, ii. 60
D
Dacre, Thomas, 20th Lord, i. 337; ii. 95, 223, 278
Dacre, Thomas, 22nd Lord, ii. 311
Daly, Mr., i. 128
Damer, Mrs. (née Conway), ii. 13, 14. 319
Danglas, Boissy, i. 7
Danton, i. 7
D’Aremberg, Duc, i. 225
D’Aremberg, Prince, ii. 167
D’Arenberg, Prince, ii. 71
Darlington, Lady. See Cleveland, Duchess of
Darlington, Lord. See Cleveland, Duke of
Darnley, Lord, i. 283, 329; ii. 79
Dartmouth, Earl of, i. 337
Davenport, M.P. for Cheshire, ii. 34
Davie, Sir John, 8th baronet of Creedy, Devon, ii. 65
Dawson, Mr., ii. 167
Dawson-Damer, Mrs., ii. 320
Dawson-Darner, Rt. Hon. G., ii. 304, 320
Day, Mr., i. 66, 68
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Decazes, M., i. 272; ii. 4
Delaney, General, i. 34, 247
Delawarr, Lord, i. 337
Denison of Denbies, William Joseph, ii. 24, 43, 105, 107, 109, 120, 148 Denman, Lord
Chief Justice, i. 297; ii. 208, 317, 331; Queen’s Solicitor-General in her trial,
i. 303, 304, 308, 310, 311, 317, 326, 328, 331, 333-335. 341; 23; his reception by the
populace, ii. 18; present at the Queen’s death, ii. 21
Denmark, Princess of, i. 272
Dent, “Dog,” ii. 58
Derby, James Stanley, 4th Earl of, i.88
Derby, Edward, 12th Earl of, i. 27, 29, 100, 112, 114, 120, 128, 130, 260, 305, 308,
318, 326, 329, 331; ii. 37. 57. 76. 83, 94, 203; letter to Creevey, ii. 40; the railway
movement, ii. 87; and William IV., ii. 226
Derby, Edward Smith, 13th Earl of, i. 171-173; ii. 76, 88
Derby, Edward, 14th Earl of, ii. 40, 76, 128, 203, 226, 269, 282, 284, 295, 297,
299, 309; Secretary for Ireland, ii. 219, 265; and Durham, ii. 264; M. P. for Cheshire,
ii. 255; resigns, ii. 273, 276; split between Russell and, ii. 273, 274
Derby, Eliza Farren, Countess of (wife of 12th Earl), i. 112, 305, 318, 326, 329,
331; ii. 57, 71, 75, 83
Derby, Countess of (wife of 13th Earl), i. 171-173
d’Erlon, Marshal, at Waterloo, i. 238, 242
Devereux, Mr., ii. 179
Devonshire, Charlotte, Baroness Clifford, Duchess of (wife of 4th Duke), i. 184
Devonshire, Lady Georgiana Spencer,
Duchess of (1st wife of 5th Duke), i. 71
Devonshire, Lady Elizabeth Foster, Duchess of (2nd wife of 5th Duke), i. 84, 254
Devonshire, William, 4th Duke of, 1. 184
Devonshire, William, 5th Duke of, i.31, 84, 120, 182, 184
Devonshire, William Spencer, 6th Duke of, i. 184, 257; ii. 241, 303, 310; declares
for Reform, ii. 6; proposed subscription for Queen Caroline, ii. 12; protest against
Creevey’s exclusion from office, ii. 115; his coach at
Doncaster races, ii. 129
Digby, Admiral Sir Henry, ii. 36, 111
Digby, Aurora (Lady Ellenborough), ii. 80
Digby, Lady (Viscountess Andover), ii. 36, 112
Dillon, Lord, ii. 255
Dillon, Miss, i. 190
Dimont, Queen Caroline’s femme de chambre, i. 314, 315, 335
Dino, Madame de, ii. 217, 236, 241, 249, 253, 262, 269-271, 279, 302
Dinorben, Lady, i. 80
Dinorben, Lord, i. 80; ii. 70
Dogherty, Irish Solicitor-General, ii. 188
Donne, W. Bodhani, editor of Correspondence of George III. with Lord North, ii. 318
Donoughmore, 1st Earl of, i. 48, 138, 317, 326, 328; ii. 177, 189; his recollections
of Ireland, ii. 178-180
Dorchester, Lord, i. 63
d’Orleans, Duc, i. 244; ii. 253, 269,270
Dorneburg, General, Commander of Mons garrison, i. 221, 222
D’Orsay, Count, ii. 254, 288
Dorset, Duchess of, i. 67
d’Otranto, Joseph Fouche, Duc, i. 7, 214
Douglas-Hamilton, Lady Charlotte (Duchess of Somerset), ii. 64
Douro, Lord, ii. 209
Douro, Wellington’s passage of the, i. 101-105, 109
Dover, Lord, ii. 257
Downshire, Marchioness of, i. 49, 62, 65, 66, 68, 73, 147
Downshire, Marquess of, i. 128; ii. 79
Downton borough, Wilts, Creevey and James Brougham returned for, ii. 229
Drury Lane theatre, and Whitbread, i. 241
Dublin, i. 42; Creevey’s visit to, ii. 168, 187
Du Cane, ii. 230
Ducie, Lord, ii. 230
Dudley, John William Ward, 1st Earl of, i. 111, 112, 140, 151, 162, 174, 262; ii.
68, 100, 152, 158, 159. 205, 243, 255; and Jekyll, i. 189; Rogers, the dead poet, i.
255;
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Foreign Secretary, ii. 134; “a Ward in Chancery,” ii.
141
Duff, Captain, killed at Trafalgar, i. 69
Dufferin, Lady (ne’e Sheridan), i. 39
Duncannon, Viscountess (Lady Maria Fane), ii. 73, 171-173, 176, 182
Duncannon, Viscount (4th Earl of
Bessborough), ii. 9, 16, 223, 254; a conversation between Tierney and, i. 327; Mrs.
Murphy’s letter, ii. 110; “now counts noses on the other side,” ii.
116; his Bessborough estates, ii. 171-176, 182; Durham and Lady Jersey, ii. 219; the
Reform Bill draft, ii. 264; and Anglesey’s views on Ireland, ii. 265; Home
Secretary, ii. 285
Duncombe, Tom, ii. 78, 167, 288, 290
Dundas, Henry. See Melville, Viscount
Dundas, Lord, i. 46, 158; ii. 231
Dundas, Mrs. (née Williamson), ii. 81
Dundas, Tom, i. 338; ii. 34, 81, 179
Dundass, a Richmond surgeon, i. 28
Dundonald, Admiral Lord Cochrane,f, i. 128; tried for piracy, i. 203
Dunfermline, Lord. See Abercromby, Hon. James
Dunmore, 4th Earl of, ii. 843
Dunning, Mr., i. 162
Du Paquier, Louis XVIII.’s valet, ii. 26
Durham, Countess of (Lady Louisa Grey), ii. 7, 10,15, 83, 92, 95, 217, 266
Durham, John George Lambton, 1st
Earl of (“King Jog”), i. 265, 332, 335. 342; ii. 9-12, 1S, 32, 34. 39.
56, 71, 80-82, 91, 147, 154, 196, 201, 217, 219, 223, 229, 252, 291, 294, 305, 309;
interview with Queen Caroline, ii. 7; Miss Copley on, ii. 31; a victim of temper, ii.
49. 57; letter to Creevey, ii. 54; a scene with Creevey, ii. 91, 92; his debts, ii.
120; Brougham’s perfidy, ii. 126; his peerage—an appeal to Brougham, ii.
142; and Reform, ii. 230, 247, 264, 292; peer-making, ii. 241; the Times’ attack
on Grey, ii. 257, 294; scene between Grey and, ii. 265; furious for dissolution, ii.
266; his exclusion from Grey’s cabinet, ii. 277; a quarrel with Brougham, ii.
289; his
Glasgow dinner, ii. 297; accepts the Canada mission, ii. 332, 334;
interview with Queen Adelaide, ii. 335
Durham, Mrs., Creevey’s landlady, ii. 223, 229, 260, 281
Duval, Justice, i. 327
Duvernay, the opera dancer, ii. 273
E
East India Company, i. 88, 120, 130, 134. 143. 291; ii. 327
East Tetford, disfranchised, ii. 158
Eaton, Mr. and Mrs., i. 12
Ebrington, Viscount, ii. 310
Eckersley, Mr., i. 279
Eden, Hon. George (afterwards 2nd Lord Auckland), i. 114, 120; ii. 2, 95. 114
Eden, Sir William, ii. 107
Edinburgh mail, the, ii. 291
Edinburgh Review, i. 30, 119, 186, 205, 248; ii. 39, 99, 150, 167, 289
Edwardes, Mr., ii. 72
Edwards, box-keeper of Drury Lane theatre, Sheridan’s valet, i. 59
Egremont, Earl of, i. 337; ii. 164
Egypt, Napoleon’s claims on, i. 14
Eldon, Earl of, i. 109, 119, 136, 214,257, 261; ii. 78, 135, 300; and George IV., i.
157, 159, 298; Roman Catholic question, i. 166; ii. 112; jealous of Mrs. Leach, i. 258;
the Pains and Penalties Bill, i. 308, 314, 317, 325, 329, 333, 335; some sharp words
with Liverpool, 1. 323. 339; Grey’s palaver with, i. 337; Canning and, ii. 43,
68; “the most noble of all the beasts,” ii. 49; Lord Portsmouth’s
case, ii. 63; resigns, ii. 95, 113; the patronage question, ii. 103; “lock the
door on Eldon and Co.,” ii. 114, 115, 117; Brougham and, ii. 121, 224;
“whining at his unhappy fate,” ii. 152
Elizabeth, Princess, 3rd daughter of George III., wife of Frederick, Landgrave of
Hesse-Homburg, i. 339
Ellenborough, Lady (née Digby), ii. 80
Ellenborough, Lord, i. 40, 75, 181; ii. 79, 80, 197
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Ellesmere, Earl of (Lord F. Leveson), i. 185; ii. 59, 64, 188
Ellice, General, ii. 267
Ellice, Lady Hannah (née Grey), ii. 273
Ellice of Invergarry, Edward, ii. 273, 310
Ellice of Invergarry, Mrs. Edward (née Balfour), ii. 273, 310
Ellice of Invergarry, Mrs. Edward (previously Mrs. A. Speirs), ii. 273
Ellice, Rt. Hon. Edward (“Bear”), ii. 74, 93, 107, 115, 230, 243, 250,
257, 268, 273, 276, 328, 331, 332, 336; in Paris with Madame de Lieven and Louis
Philippe, ii. 309
Elliot, Mr., i. 21- 214
Ellis, Agar, ii. 217
Ellis, Charles Rose (Earl of Seaford), i. 97, 151
Elvas, i. 88
Ely, flogging of mutinous militiamen at, i. 33
England, at war with France, i. 10; and the independence of Greece, ii. 133
Enniskillen, Earl of, i. 377, 323, 336, 337
Entertaining Knowledge, Library of, ii. 206
Erroll, Lord and Lady, ii. 181
Erskine, Captain, i. 234 Erskine, Lord, i. 3, 75, 119, 181, 209, 308, 318; ii. 6; on
Russia’s offer of mediation, i. 15; v. Windham, i. 19; letter to Creevey, i. 136;
and Alexander I., i. 195; K. T., i. 211; “The Green Man and Still,” i. 212;
“the most beautiful speech possible,” i. 317; a fainting fit, i. 335;
greatly applauded, i. 338; on Francis and Junius, ii. 8; “very old and
forlorn,” ii. 68
Essex, Countess of (Catherine Stephens), ii. 286
Essex, Earl of, i. 99, 111, 296; ii. 38, 154, 230, 269, 270, 272, 285, 286, 306,
313, 321, 329, 330; his letters to Creevey, ii. 290, 323
Esterhazy, Prince, ii. 96, 213, 236, 262, 263, 267
Esterhazy, Princess, ii. 199
F
Fagal, General, i. 220, 222, 286
Fane, John, M.P. for Oxfordshire, ii. 34
Fane, Lady Maria (Lady Duncannon), ii. 171-173
Fawkes, Mr., ii. 55
Featherstone, Sir H., i. 295
Felice, Madame, ii. 14
Fellowes, Rev., the Queen’s chaplain, ii. 17
Ferdinand of Wurtemberg, Prince, i. 69
Ferdinand VII. of Spain, i. 248; ii. 63-64. 90
Fergus, Provost of Kirkcaldy, ii. 85
Ferguson, Cutlar, Judge Advocate-General, ii. 330
Ferguson, Major-General R. C, i. 105, 109, 122, 158, 212, 337; ii. 2, 34, 36, 42,
71, 107, 148, 151, 156, 276; his motion for production of Milan Commission, i. 312; the
railway movement, ii. 87
Ferguson, Miss, ii. 3
Ferguson, Mrs., ii. 230
Ferguson of Raith, General Sir Ronald, ii. 45, 47, 84
Ferguson, Robert, ii. 47
Fesch, Cardinal, ii. 39
Fife, Lord, i. 244
Filanqueri, i. 88
Firmacon, Madame de, ii. 96
Fitzallen, Lord, ii. 314
FitzClarence, Lady Frederick (Lady Augusta Boyle), ii. 300
FitzClarence, Lord Frederick, ii. 83, 300. 335
Fitzclarence, Miss, ii. 224
Fitzgerald, “Fighting,” ii. 128
Fitzgerald, Hon. W. Vesey (afterwards Lord), ii. 50, 147, 160, 167, 193
Fitzgerald, Lady Cecilia. See Foley,
Lady Fitzgerald, Lady Olivia (afterwards Kinnaird), i. 273; ii. 102
Fitzhardinge, Admiral Sir Maurice Frederick Berkeley, Lord, i. 147; ii. 185, 188
Fitzharris, Lord, i. 33
Fitzherbert, Mrs., i. 4, 47-50, 65-72, 82, 138, 139, 163, 176, 179; ii. 212, 319,
320
Fitzpatrick, General Richard, i. 13, 94, 121, 157. 183
Fitzroy, Lady Mary (née Gordon-Lennox), ii. 185
Fitzroy, Lord Henry, i. 164
Fitzroy, Sir Charles, ii. 185
Fitzwilliam, Countess of, i. 332
Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl of, i. 27, 29, 31,
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109, 166, 263, 303, 308, 313, 332, 336; ii. 6, 11, 15, 91, 109,
135, 155, proposed subscription for Queen Caroline, ii. 12; his coach at Doncaster, ii.
120; Madame de Lieven’s compliments, ii. 130; and Brougham, ii. 133
Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl of. See Milton, Viscount
Flahault, General de, i. 250; ii. 271
Flahault, Madame de (afterwards de Souza), i. 251, 326
Fleury, Duchesse de, ii. 138
Flint, Sir Charles, ii. 74
Floridas, the, seized by U.S.A., i. 279
Fludyer, Mr., ii. 187
Flynn, Captain, i. 323, 329
Foley, Lady (Lady Cecilia Fitzgerald), ii. 102, 204, 209
Foley, Lord, i. 296, 317, 331, 335,338; ii. 205, 209, 226, 230, 253, 333
Foljambe, Savile, ii. 277
Folkestone (née Mildmay), Viscountess (Lady Radnor), i. 190, 272; ii. 280, 319
Folkestone, Viscount (afterwards 3rd Earl of Radnor), i. 125, 160, 213, 257; ii. 34,
249, 317; and Mrs. Clarke, i. 112, 115, 116; ii. 278; letters to Creevey, i. 96, 190,
271; “will take his line,” ii. 5; Canning’s tirade against, ii. 68;
Creevey and James Brougham returned for Downton by favour of, ii. 229
Follett. Sir William, Solicitor-General, ii. 311
Fonblanque, M., i. 49, 150; ii. 312
Fontenay, Comtesse de (afterwards de Tallien), i. 6, 7
Foote, the actor, i. 327
Forbes, Lord, i. 161; ii. 178, 181
Ford, Mrs., ii. 286
Fordyce, John, Receiver-General of Land Tax, Scotland, i. 34, 35
Fordyce, Mrs. (née Maxwell), i. 34
Forester, Hon. Anne (Lady Chesterfield), ii. 214
Forester, Hon. Isabella (Mrs. Geo. Anson), ii. 214
Forester, Lord, ii. 214
Forester, Mr., i. 184
Forster, Mr., i. 168
Forsyth, Mr., ii. 40
Fortescue, George, ii. 64
Fortescue, Lady, i. 329
Fortescue, Lord, i. 308, 329
Foster, J., Chancellor of Exchequer, Ireland, i. 31
Fouché, Joseph, Duc d’Otranto, i. 7, 214
Fox, Charles, ii. 155, 268, 310, 329, 332
Fox, Charles James, at Talleyrand’s, i. 5; “Liberty asleep in France,
but dead in England, i. 9; speech on Russia’s offer of mediation, i. 16; his
“palaver about a military command for the Prince of Wales,” i. 18; “a
proscribed victim of fortune,” i. 20; Windham’s enmity, i. 21;
“devotion to Fox,” i. 22; alliance with Pitt, i. 23, 27, 37; letter to
Creevey, i. 23; speech on the St. Vincent enquiry, i. 24; Sheridan’s project, i.
25; George III. v., i. 26; ii. 318; Prince of Wales’s relations with, i. 27, 28,
31, 46, 47, 82, 146; and Fordyce, i. 34, 35; his conduct in the Athol business, i. 37;
Romilly’s support, i. 41; Graham Moore on, i. 78; his illness and death, i. 79,
80-84; the highest of “All the Talents,” i. 84; Whitbread on, i. 92;
Creevey on, i. 143; Brougham compares Pitt and, i. 172; his friend Fitzpatrick, i. 183;
the Fox dinner at Newcastle, i. 187; his great influence, i. 290; proposed epitaph, i.
299, 300; at Lady Olivia Fitzgerald’s wedding, ii. 102; Grey, Grenville, and, ii.
117, 119
Fox Club, ii. 6
Fox, Henry (afterwards 4th Lord Holland), ii. 268
Fox, Lady Mary, ii. 268, 310, 332
Fox, Mrs., i. 70, 300
France, the king guillotined, i. 1; in 1802, i. 4; war with England, i. 10; her
aggressive policy, i. 14; Alexander I.’s offer of mediation, i. 15; Austria,
Prussia, and England v., i. 44; her Spanish South American colonies, i. 86-88; Cintra
Convention, i. 89; the Hundred Days, Waterloo, i. 213-238; and Greek independence, ii.
133
Franceschi, General (France), i. 101
Francis I. of Austria, i. 99
Francis, Lady, ii. 8
Francis, Sir Philip, i. 61, 112, 147, 149, 150; Junius, ii. 8
Franklin, John, ii. 264
Fraser, Dr., i. 68
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Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, i. 339
Frederick of Prussia, Prince, i. 205
Frederick William of Salmo-Braunfels, Prince, i. 205
Frederick William III., of Prussia, i. 45, 187, 19s, 196, 197
Freeman, ii. 289
Freemantle, Rt. Hon. Sir William Henry, i. 127, 162, 214, 217, 272, 282
French, at the Douro, i. 101-104
French, Lord, ii. 179
Frere, ii. 315
G
Galileo, ii. 207
Galway, 1st Viscount, 11, 56
Garth, Captain, ii. 196, 197, 200
Garth, General, ii. 196, 200
Gascoigne, General, M.P. for Liverpool, i. 155, 169, 173, 253; his motion to reduce
Ordnance Vote, ii. 265
Gell, Sir William, i. 309, 311, 323, 330
Genlis, Madame de, ii. 96
George II., i. 51, 339; ii. 246
George III., and Addington, i. 8; France’s aggressive policy, i. 14; against
Prince of Wales, i. 17; for Duke of York, i. 17, 107; “will never more exercise
the Royal function,” i. 25; v. Fox, i. 26, 28; his illness, i. 27, 28, 36, 65,
119, 135, 142, 145, 146; and Pitt, i. 27; determined on a Tory Cabinet, i. 39; v. Roman
Catholic Emancipation, i. 43, 84; at Weymouth, i. 48, 63; has recourse to the Whigs, i.
74; “has not yet sent for Wardle,” i. 97; Princess Amelia’s illness
and death, i. 98, 135; his letter to Perceval, i. 99; Canning and Castlereagh, i. 106;
his popularity, i. 113; “the Gentleman at the end of the Mall,” i. 118,
132; the Walcheren Expedition, i. 131; the Princess Charlotte, i. 176; his death, i.
295, 296; Princess Elizabeth’s marriage, i. 339; shut up for 10 years, ii. 16;
“Old Nobbs,” ii. 119; parting with Lord North, ii. 246; Coke’s
violent speech against, ii. 294; some correspondence with Lord North, ii. 318
George IV., i. 4, no, 257; ii. 75, 79
90, 115, 117, 120, 208; proposed substitution of Council for
Viceroy in Ireland, i. 16; and George III., i. 17; a military command for, i. 18; his
attachment to the old nobility, i. 26; “a Regency must be resorted to,” i.
27; and Fox, i. 27, 28, 46, 47, 82, 146; a kind of Cabinet, i. 31; invites Creevey to
dinner, i. 32; and the Whigs, i. 39, 62, 76, 177, 178; Romilly, i. 40; Creevey’s
account of, i. 46-51, 57-59- 62, 63; and Sheridan, i. 57, 58; Warren Hastings, i. 59;
and the Duke of York, i. 63, 113, 140, 209, 305, “had got more wine than
usual,” i. 65; Mrs. Creevey on, i. 65-73, 147, 149; the air-gun, i. 66; Mrs.
Fitzherbert, i. 66, 82, 139; his grief at Nelson’s death, i. 70; Rev. W.
Price’s letter to, i. 76; Tufnell and Colchester, i. 81; his threat to Perceval,
i. 111; appointed Regent—changed attitude towards Ministers, i. 135-137, 142,
144, 145, 153; Bank Note Bill, 1. 145; at Brighton, i. 146-150; Wellington and the
Peninsular War, i. 147, 149; Viotti, the violinist, i. 148; on Sir Willoughby Gordon,
i. 150, 151; end of Creevey’s intimacy with, i. 151; the Dandy ball incident, i.
152; reconstructs the Cabinet, i. 153-163; Grey and Grenville, i. 153, 157; sends for
Wellesley, i. 156; for Moira, i. 158, 160, 164, 165; scandalous treatment of Princess
of Wales, i. 176-188, 193, 201, 203, 212, 253; Brougham’s support of the
Princess, i. 177, 178-183; “our magnanimous regent,” i. 187; Whitbread on,
i. 191; visit of foreign royalties, i. 187-197; Princess Charlotte’s engagement,
i. 197; ill, i. 207, 259, 266, 297; ii. 104, 105, 109, 146; M. A. Taylor, i. 211; ii.
116; for war with France, i. 214; Bennet on, i. 241; and Ossulston, i. 244; his
nickname for Dean Legge of Windsor, i. 247; “has left off his stays,” i.
263; Duke of Kent on, i. 268; Folkestone on, i. 272; Wellington on, i. 279; Brougham
on, i. 294; succeeds to throne, i. 295; hostility to, i. 299; excludes Queen’s
name from Liturgy, i. 302-304; Sam Spring, i. 310; the
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chambermaid’s evidence, i. 313; wants to go to Hanover, i.
314; divorce clause abandoned, i. 319; his intended changes, i. 320; Hutchinson and
Donoughmore at Windsor with, i. 326, 328; “greatly deceived,” i. 333; his
coronation, ii. 1; insults Prince Leopold, ii. 7, 8; “has slept none,” ii.
16; his unpopularity, ii 18; his Knights of the Thistle, ii. 19, 27; squabbles with his
Ministers, ii. 20; Lady Jersey’s relations with, ii. 25; determined to marry
again, ii. 28; the print of his sacred feet, ii. 29; in Ireland, ii. 30, 31; Lady
Conyngham’s opposition ball, ii. 38; Castlereagh’s death, ii. 43; in
Edinburgh, ii. 45; his sisters and Lady Conyngham, ii. 48; and the Whigs, ii. 56, 118;
Lord Albert D. Conyngham, ii. 58; the reference in his speech to Spain, ii. 61, 62;
Lord Bath’s blue ribbon, ii. 73; at Ascot races, ii. 77, 88; “getting very
old and cross,” ii. 83; quarrel with Lady Conyngham, ii. 89, 96; distrusts
Canning, ii. 103; the Roman Catholic question, ii. 108, 198, 200; instructs Canning to
form a ministry, ii. 11o, i11, 113; Canning’s death, ii. 122, 125; Snip Robinson,
Premier, ii. 123, 142; his “good friend Wellington,” ii. 124, 159; Herries,
Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, ii. 128; and Brougham, ii. 129, 146; on Navarino, ii.
140; and Lady Conyngham, ii. 148; “crept into town,” ii. 155; Buckingham
Palace, ii. 156; and Ferguson, ii. 157; Bishop of Winchester’s reproof, ibid.; on
Creevey, ii. 160; reports about his health, ii. 187; Captain Garth’s case, ii.
196; v. the Pope, ii. 197; his horse “the Colonel,” ii. 199, 210; on the
Wellington-Winchilsea duel, ii. 200; and Grey, ii. 201; his last illness and death, ii.
210, 211, 325; the Ordnance Department tents, ii. 233; preserved all Mrs.
Fitzherbert’s letters, ii. 320; Sir John Lade and, ii. 335
Gerard, General, ii. 202
Gerobtzoff, Madame, i. 57, 72
Gibbon, Edward, ii. 257
Gibbs, i. 132
Gifford, Countess of, i. 39
Gifford, Sir Robert (afterwards Lord), ii. 95
Giles, Mr., M.P., i. 99, 111
Gillespie, Rev., i. 320
Gilray, ii. 29
Gladstone, Bart., Sir John, i. 120, 169, 211, 253
Gladstone, W. E., i. 353
Glasgow, 4th Earl of, ii. 300
Glenelg, Lord, ii. 313, 326, 334, 335
Glengall, Lady, ii. 29, 38, 60, 107
Glengall, Lord, ii. 107
Glenlyon, Lord, ii. 157
Gloucester, Duchess of, i. 333; ii. 7, 197, 262
Gloucester, Duke of (“Slice”), i. 179, 184, 193, 308, 332, 333; ii. 71,
275; declares himself a Radical, ii. 6, 7; a proverbial bore, ii. 9; a scene between
Wellington and, ii. 67; dangerously ill, ii. 299
Goderich, J. Robinson, Viscount, Premier, ii. 97, 120, 123, 128, 133, 154;
“will cry himself out of office,” ii. 129; “a minister pour
tire,” ii. 135; resigns, ii. 141, 144; in favour of new peers, ii. 241
Goderich, Lady, ii. 305
Goldsmith, Lewis, ii. 324
Goodall, Provost of Eton, ii. 263
Goodwood, ii. 162
Gordon, Colonel Sir Willoughby, Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, i. 49, 150, 332;
British Minister at Troppau, ii. 4
Gordon, 4th Duke of, i. 168
Gordon, Hon. Sir Alexander, i. 173,319
Gordon, James, i. 319
Gordon, Jane, Duchess of, i. 34,168
Gordon, Mr., ii. 254
Gore, Charles, ii. 329, 332
Gosford, 3rd Earl of, ii. 191
Goulbourn, Henry, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 212, 302
Gower, Lord (afterwards 2nd Duke of Sutherland), ii. 47, 48
Grafton, Duke of, i. 168, 308; ii. 79, 133
Graham, Rt. Hon. Sir James, First Lord of the Admiralty, ii. 234, 305; the Reform
Bill draft, ii. 264; resigns office on Irish Church Bill, ii. 273, 276;
“canting,” ii. 274;
Grey complains bitterly of, ii. 282
Grammont, Antoine, Due de, H. 307
Granard, 2nd Earl of, i. 161
Granard, 6th Earl of, i. 161
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Grant, Rt. Hon. Charles, Lord Glenelg, President of the Board of Control, ii. 159,
213, 234, 269, 296
Grant, Robert, Governor of Bombay, ii. 234
Grantham, Lord, i. 336
Granville, Countess, i. 184, 254; ii. 60, 96, 306
Granville, Earl, i. 216, 255, 322; ii. 306
Grattan, i. 114, 121, 216, 228; ii. 175. 178, 179. 181, 183
Great Northern Railway, ii. 291
Greathead, Mr., i. 230
Greece v. Turkey, ii. 133
Greenwood, i. 34; ii. 242
Gregory, Under Secretary for Ireland, ii. 177
Grenfell, Charles, ii. 226, 252, 290, 312
Grenfell, Pascoe, ii. 218
Grenville, C, ii. 167
Grenville, Lord, i. 4, 114, 121, 142, 144, 146, 158, 164-166,181; leader of the Old
Whigs, i. 3, 21; for Fox, i. 28; ii. 119; v. Pitt, i. 28; forms a coalition Cabinet,
“All the Talents,” i. 75; ii. 117; resigns on Roman Catholic question, i.
84; the extreme members of the Opposition, i. 87; the anti-war party’s rage, i.
93, 94; Ministers’ offers to, i. 106, 110; and Brougham, i. 119; Tierney, i. 127;
Wellesley, i. 129, 130; his offer to Whitbread, i. 137; refuses to reinstate Duke of
York as Commander-in-Chief, i. 140; declines office under Prince Regent, i. 153; Prince
Regent on, i. 157; against war, i. 162; called by Brougham “Bogey,” i. 179,
216; and “Snoutch,” i. 247; Alexander I. and, i. 195; Grey’s
firmness, i. 214; called “the Stale” by Bennet, i. 217; supports Pains and
Penalties Bill, i. 336; Grey and Whitbread, ii. 118
Grenville, Tom, i. 4, 21, 28, 255
Gresley, Lady Sophia, ii. 81
Gresley, Sir Roger, ii. 81
Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke, Clerk of the Council (“Punch”), ii.
59, 79, 142, 169, 214, 223, 226, 233, 236, 241, 261, 312, 314, 330
Greville, Lady Charlotte, i. 215, 225-227, 278, 279, 289, 314; ii. 48, 160, 236
Greville Memoirs, ii. 211, 215
Grey, 1st Earl, i. 196; ii. 273
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, i. 13, 23, 27. 29, 30, 47. 87, 94, 108, no, 120, 128, 130,
137, 142-144. 154, 158, 159, 166, 173, 192, 217, 242, 243, 256, 265, 308, 318, 319,
333; ii. 6,9, 10, 15, 35,37, 57. 79. 81, 83, 116, 124, 142, 154, 201, 210, 223, 229,
234, 260, 268, 284, 307, 309, 321; his letter to Mrs. Ord (Creevey) on execution of
Louis XVI., 1. 1; the Prince of Wales and Fox, i. 26; commission on Army abuses, i. 34;
on continental confederacies, i. 44; Prince of Wales on, i. 72, 157, 164; the reports
of Pitt’s illness, i. 80; one of his best speeches, i. 81; Ministers’
offers to, i. 106, 109, 163, 165; the Holland campaign, i. 107, 121-123, 129, 162; and
Whitbread, i. in, 139, 183; and Ponsonby, i. 117; his speech against Wellington, i.
123; Tierney’s influence, i. 124-126; a job by Bishop Mansel’s brother, i.
129; on Creevey, i. 139; declines to reinstate Duke of York as Commander-in-Chief, i.
140; “will be passed over,” i. 146; refuses office under Prince Regent, i.
153; and Brougham, i. 174, 193, 253; ii. 129, 133. 140, 149, 184, 219, 220, 285, 287,
289, 292, et seq.; semi-pacific, i. 179; the Fox dinner at Newcastle, i. 187; and
Alexander I., i. 195; and Napoleon, i. 196, 240; and Grenville, i. 214, 247; on the
Divorce question, i. 259; spies and informers exposed by, i. 263; Wellington on, i.
287; ii. 121; Pains and Penalties Bill, i. 299, 310, 313, 317, 325, 326, 329, 331, 332,
334, 336, 337; ii. 7; proposed epitaph for Fox, i. 300; on the Queen’s letter to
the King, i. 306; Francis and Junius, ii. 8; Whitbread, Canning and, ii. 118; his son
and Lord Darlington, ii. 122; the Old Whig Guard represented by, ii. 130; on Lady
Londonderry’s dress, ii. 132; and the Malignants, ii. 135; on the Turkish scrape,
ii. 139, 140; his speculations on the new Government after Goderich’s
resignation, ii. 141; on Wellington’s Cabinet, ii. 144,
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145, 151; his new “Wellington” coat, ii. 155; and Duke
of Sussex, ibid.; his panegyric on Peel, ii. 196; and Roman Catholic Emancipation, ii.
199; and Rosslyn as Privy Seal, ii. 202; Premier, appoints Creevey Treasurer of
Ordnance, ii. 215; William IV. and, ii. 216, 231, 246, 274, 276, 286; and Lord Durham,
ii. 217, 232, 265, 277, 291; the Pension list, ii. 218; the Tims’ attacks on, ii.
219, 220, 257; on Stanley, ii. 219; his advice to Sir John Shelley, ii. 222; dismissal
of Seymour and Meynell from the King’s household, ii. 225; his appeal for a
dissolution, ii. 227-229; reduction of Creevey’s salary, ii. 228; K.G., ii. 232;
down with influenza, ii. 233; the Reform Bill, ii. 236, 237, 247, 264; insists on Lord
Hill voting against Wellington, ii. 240; the proposed peer-making, ii. 241, 243, 244;
withdraws his resignation, ii. 244, 245; Creevey’s retirement, ii. 249;
Stanley’s obstinacy about Irish tithes, ii. 252; whist at Windsor Castle, ii.
262; Palmerston’s intimacy with Lady Jersey, ii. 269; his change of tone towards
Talleyrand, ibid.; and J. Parkes, ii. 271; Creevey’s heartwhole devotion to, ii.
272; Creevey’s forecast, ii. 279; appoints Creevey to the Greenwich Hospital
estates, ii. 281; complains of Stanley and Graham, ii. 282; resigns, ii. 282; his
farewell speech, ii. 283; his passion for dancing, ibid.; Essex and, ii. 290; in
retirement, ii. 292-301; O’Connell’s abuse of, ii. 306; Queen
Victoria’s voice and speech, ii. 323; letters to Creevey, i. 45, 74; ii. 125,
133, 139, 144
Grey, 3rd Earl. See Howick, Lord
Grey, Countess, i. 80, 82, 91, 163; ii. 155, 184, 210, 215, 217. 219, 225, 243, 248,
254, 262, 263, 267, 271, 273, 276, 283, 285, 287, 290, 292, 294. 295. 306
Grey, Frederick, ii. 292
Grey, General Charles, i. 80; ii. 243, 262
Grey, Harry, i. 69; ii. 292, 328
Grey, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 81, 83, 306
Grey, Lady Georgians, ii. 243, 262, 292, 306, 323
Grey, Lady Hannah (afterwards Bettesworth, then Ellice), ii. 273
Grey, Lady Louisa (afterwards Durham), i. 265; ii. 7, 10, 15, 83, 92, 95. 276
Grey, Mrs., i. 128; ii. 91, 140
Grey of Morrick, Colonel, ii. 294
Griffiths, Lieut. (Guards), wounded at Waterloo, ii. 233
Gronow, Captain, ii. 273
Grosvenor, Bob, ii. 81, 100, 128
Grosvenor, Earl (afterwards 2nd Marquess of Westminster), ii. 260
Grosvenor, General, ii. 57
Grouchy, Marechal, i. 237
Guiche, Madame de, ii. 288
Guilford, Earl of, i. 31, 257, 322; ii. 246, 318
Gully, John, prize-fighter, i. 64; ii. 157. 210
Gurwood, Wellington Despatches, ii. 314. 315
Gwydyr, Dowager Lady (Lady Willoughby d’Eresby), i. 311
Gwydyr, Lord, ii. 104
H
Habeas Corpus, i. 263
Hadley, Lord, i. 76
Halford, Sir Henry, i. 130; ii. 234, 243, 262
Halket, General, i. 222
Hallam, Henry, ii. 272
Hallyday, Lady Jane, ii. 75
Hamick, Bart., Sir—, Lord Grey’s doctor, ii. 329
Hamilton, Colonel, at Waterloo, i. 220, 225, 229-231, 238; wounded, 234, 235; at
Cambray, 277
Hamilton, Mrs. (née Ord), i. 220,225, 278, 283, 286
Hamilton, 9th Duke of, i. 309; ii. 64
Hamilton, Lady, i. 70, 340
Hamilton, Lady Anne, i. 302, 309; ii. 17, 24
Hamilton, Lady Charles Douglas- (afterwards Duchess of Somerset), ii. 64
Hamilton, Lord Archibald, i. 85, 122, 128, 309; ii. 9, 50, 64
Hammersley, i. 34
Hammond, General, i. 150
Hamond, Sir Andrew, i. 277
Hanbury-Williams, Sir Thomas, ii. 38, 39
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Hansard, i. 81
Hardinge, Sir Henry, ii. 157
Hardy, Lady, i. 256
Hardy, Sir Thomas, i. 256
Hare, i. 61, 84
Harewood, Earl of, ii. 32
Hargrave, Mr., i. 194
Harper, General (America), i. 279
Harrington, 2nd Earl of, i. 57
Harrington, 3rd Earl of, i. 56, 330; ii. 191
Harrowby, Countess of, i. 324
Harrowby, 1st Earl of, i. 166, 314, 324, 328; ii. 242, 244
Harvey, Mr., i. 238
Harvey, Mrs., i. 276, 279
Harvey, Sir John, ii. 328
Hastings, 1st Marquess of, ii. 285
Hastings, Warren, i. 59, 61
Hastings, Mrs. Warren, i. 59
Hatherton, Lord, ii. 288, 305
Hawarden, Lady, ii. 174
Hawkesbury, Lord. See Liverpool, Earl of
Hay, Lord, killed at Quatre Bras, i. 230
Hayter, his picture of the Queen’s trial, ii. 70, 330
Headfort, Marquess of, i. 244; ii. 326
Heathcote, Gilbert, ii. 75
Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, ii. 218
Heber, Mrs., ii. 218
Heber, M.P. for Oxford, ii. 64
Henry, Mr., ii. 236
Herries, J. C., Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 128, 140
Hertford, Isabella, Marchioness of, i. 82, 148, 189, 214; ii. 1, 148, 320
Hertford, Marquess of, i. 214, 320; ii. 13, S6, 94. 101, 221, 225, 227
Hervey, Lord, i. 277, 281; ii. 87, 267
Hesse-Homburg, Frederick, Landgrave of, i. 8S9; ii. 17, 20
Heywood, Arthur, ii. 268
Heywood, Samuel, i. 130, 171
Hieronymus, Queen Caroline’s major-domo, ii. 17
Hill, Lord Arthur (afterwards Lord Sandys), i. 236, 238, 239, 283; ii. 87, 198, 210
Hill, Lord, Commander-in-Chief,
“Daddy,” i. 277, 278; ii. 154. 157; votes against Wellington, ii. 240;
on Queen Victoria, ii. 330
Hill, Miss, i. 277
Hinchcliffe, Mr., ii. 36
Hobart, Secretary for Ireland, ii. 179
Hobhouse, John Cam (afterwards Lord Broughton), ii. 64, 81, 83, 99; and General
Mina, ii. 74; on Creevey’s Reform pamphlet, ii. 99; Woods and Forests, ii. 285
Holland, Lady, “Madagascar,” i. 82, 158, 208, 249, 273, 300, 330, 341;
ii. 4. 9. 1S. 26, 37, 56, 58, 69, 74, 86, 209, 269, 284, 309, 311, 312, 322, 329; her
letters to Mrs. Creevey, i. 151, 184, 189, 205, 246, 264; her “nutshell,”
ii. 154; “I tell you she’s 57,” ii. 156; and Sefton’s flowers,
ii. 256; ’ eating like a horse,” ii. 267; her “procession,” ii.
313; evidently failing, ii. 314; her flattery, ii. 333
Holland, Lord, i. 114, 120, 159; ii. 3. 4. 9. 39. 74. 128, 129, 155, 209, 303, 312,
313, 332. 333; Whitbread on, i. 100; Creevey on, i. 143; on the state of public
affairs, i. 144; and Wellesley, i. 154; “quite inimitable,” i. 157;and
Alexander I., i. 195; ii. 115; on Napoleon, i. 196; his letters to Creevey, i. 206,
239, 263, 264, 292; his love of tennis, i. 246; his daughter’s death, i. 260; the
Pains and Penalties Bill, i. 308, 325, 334; Wellington’s scrape, ii. 6; his
apology to the Emperor of Russia, ii. 15; his Bill to enable Duke of Norfolk to
officiate as Earl Marshal, ii. 78; denounced by the Malignants, ii. 136; defends the
Navarino business, ii. 141; the Reform Bill, ii. 236, 247; on peer-making, ii. 241; his
agreeableness, ii. 267, 272; making offers to Lord Howick, ii. 295; the repository of
Brougham’s confidential letters, ii. 301
Holland, Henry, 4th Lord, ii. 268
Holmes, William, ii. 213, 221
Hood, Viscount, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Caroline, ii. 3, 18, 20, 21
Hood, Viscountess, ii. 17, 24
Hope, M.P. for Lancashire, i. 36, 280, 281
Hoppner, his portrait of Berkeley and
Keppel Craven, ii. 14
Horn, John, of Cambridge, i. 170
Hornby, Mrs., i. 17
Hornbys of Knowsley, the, i. 172,203
Home, Mr., Surgeon of Newcastle-on-Tyne, i. 186
Horner, Francis, i. 99, 112, 157, 249; his motion on McMahon’s salary, 355
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i. 162; Western on, i. 251; on the Sinking Fund, i. 252; his
death, i. 278
Horton, Mr., i. 172
House of Commons, tone of debates in, i. 21
Houses of Parliament, burnt, ii. 288
Houston, Lady Jane, 1. 148; ii. 203
Howard, Bernard. Set Norfolk, 12th Duke of
Howard, Lord, ii. 9
Howard of Effingham, Lord, i. 336
Howick, Lady (Maria Copley), i. 80, 295. 306. 310
Howick, Lord (afterwards 3rd Earl of Grey), i. 80; ii. 31, 59, 81, 122, 165, 243,
295, 296, 300, 310, 321, 336
Howman, a witness in the Queen’s trial, i. 329, 335
Howorth, Mr., i. 78
Howth, Lord, ii. 188
Hughes, Colonel J., ii. 230, 231
Hughes of Kinmel (afterwards Lord Dinorben), 1. 80; ii. 70
Hughes of Kinmel, Mrs. (afterwards Lady Dinorben), i. 80
Hugomont, i. 237, 239
Hume, Dr., i. 239; ii. 209, 303
Hume, Joseph, ii. 35, 50, 63, 66, 74, 76, 251, 252, 303
Hundred Days, the, i. 213, 218
Hunloke, Miss Charlotte (Countess of Albemarle), ii. 33
Hunt, Henry, “Orator,” ii. 55
Huntly, Marchioness of (Lady E. Conyngham), i. 333; ii. 33
Huntly, 9th Marquess of, i. 125, 333
Huskisson, Rt. Hon. William, Secretary to the Treasury, i. 36, 151, 162, 165; First
Commissioner Woods and Forests, i. 207; ii. 70; Canning and, ii. 99-101, 122; the Corn
Bill, ii. 122; his load of unpopularity, ii. 141; and Wellington’s Cabinet, ii.
144, 145; “fell 50 per cent. in last night’s jaw,” ii. 152; resigns
on Corn Laws, ii. 158, 159; on Stanley, “the Hope of the Nation,” ii. 203;
killed at Liverpool, ii. 213
Hutchinson, Hon. Christopher H., M.P. for Cork, i. 161; ii. 28
Hutchinson, Lord, on substitution of Council for Viceroy in Ireland, i. 16;
Commander of Army in Egypt, i. 48; the true account of Austerlitz, i. 49; Mrs.
Creevey’s “chief
flirt,” i. 73; “Wellington ought to be hanged,”
i. 130; and the Prince Regent, i. 138, 141, 142, 146, 149; the Russian accounts of
their victories, i. 170; and Queen Caroline, i. 302; ii. 28; interview with the king,
i. 326; and Creevey, i. 334. 335; Creevey’s visit to, ii. 174-177
I
Ibrahim, General (Turkey), ii. 133
Influenza, prevalence of, ii. 233, 252, 317
Inverness, Duchess of (Lady Cecilia Buggin, Duchess of Sussex), ii. 230, 243. 258,
329
Irby, Mr., ii. 100
Ireland, anomaly of the Lord Lieutenancy, i. 16; Creevey’s visit to and
impressions of, ii. 168-192; Donougnmore’s recollections of, ii. 178-180;
Anglesey’s view of, ii. 182
Irish Church Reform, ii. 254-256, 273, 274
Irving, Edward, 11. 75, 85
Isle of Man, i. 37; Receiver-Generalship offered to Creevey, ii. 249, 250
Italy, Napoleon in command of the army in, i. 6
J
Jacobins, masters of Paris, i. 214, 217
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, i. 205
Jeffrey, Rev.—, i. 319
Jekyll, i. 189
Jenkinson, Lady Selina (afterwards Lady Milton), ii. 277
Jerningham, Mrs., ii. 319, 320
Jersey, Frances, Countess of, ii. 1, 25
Jersey, Sarah Sophia, Countess of, i. 189, 297, 318, 324, 326, 332; ii. 39, 113,
132. 150, 160, 234, 270; Alexander I. waltzing with, i. 197; the “Lady
Augusta” of Glenarvon, i. 254; and Brougham, i. 259, 295; ii. 73, 133;
Creevey’s visit to Middleton, i. 295, 296; “herself is a host,” ii.
9; and Mrs. Brougham, ii. 71; scene between Durham and, ii. 219; mad against Reform,
ii. 223; and Wellington, ii. 232; Palmerston and, ii. 268, 269; Lady Pembroke v., ii.
312
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John Bull, ii. 2
Johnson, Dr. S., London, i. 134
Johnson, Mrs., ii. 75
Johnson, Sir John, Superintendent-General and Inspector-General of Indian affairs in
British North America, ii. 64
Johnstone, Bart., Sir G. F., ii. 311
Johnstone, George, i. 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70
Johnstone, Lady Louisa, ii. 311
Johnstone, Miss, i. 65-68
Jordan, Mrs., ii. 300
Jourdan, Camille, i. 7
Juarenais, Madame de, i. 233, 234
Juarenais, Marquis de, i. 231, 233, 234
Junius, Letters of, ii. 8
Junot, General, i. 89
Juvenal, 3rd Satire, i. 134
K
Karaiskaki, General (Greece), ii. 133
Kean, ii. 76
Keith, Lady, ii. 269, 270
Keith, Lord, i. 149
Kemeys-Tynte, Mr., ii. 313
Kempt, General Sir James, Commander 8th Brigade at Waterloo, ii. 254, 258. 259, 267
Kennedy, Mr., ii. 224
Kensington, Lady, ii. 71
Kensington, 2nd Lord (“Og, King of Bashan”), i. 78, 111, 112, 114; ii.
39, 62, 71, 196; Creevey and the Lord Mayor’s invitation card, i. 338; on France
and Louis XVIII., ii. 61; story of the Duke of Buckingham, ii. 69; tenders his
son’s resignation to Canning, ii. 72; the facts of the Garth case, ii. 197
Kent, Duchess of, i. 282, 283, 284; ii. 83, 210; and Queen Victoria, ii. 228, 257,
324-326; absent from William IV.’s coronation, ii. 237, 238; Creevey, ii. 277;
her fêtes at Kensington, ii. 310; Creevey plays whist with, ii. 327, 328; and Conroy,
ii. 332
Kent, Duke of, i. 113, 115, 276, 297; Creevey’s notes on a conversation with,
i. 269-271; ii. 325; his mother’s illness, i. 282; his appearance, i. 283;
Wellington’s jokes about, i. 284
Kenyon, Lord, i. 308
Keogh, a Dublin silk mercer, ii. 178, 179
Keppel, Lady Anne (Countess of Leicester), ii. 36, 97
Keppel, Lady Mary (afterwards Stephenson), ii. 97
Kerr, Lord Mark, i. 18
Kerry, Earl of, ii. 208, 254
Kerry, Knight of, ii. 112, 114, 181
Kew, Mr., ii. 50
Kilkenny, the Catholic meeting at, ii. 182
King, Lady, ii. 71, 72
King, Lord, ii. 10, 64, 71, 72, 79
Kingston, Earl of, ii. 30, 79
Kinnaird, Hon. Douglas, ii. 74, 98, 102
Kinnaird, Lady Olivia (Fitzgerald), i. 273; ii. 102
Kinnaird, Lord, i. 114, 246, 258, 262; ii. 232; against Prince Regent and Bank Note
Bill, i. 146; his arrest by Napoleon, i. 244; takes Lady C. Lamb’s Glenarvon to
Mrs. Creevey, i. 254; and the Antiquary, i. 255; Wellington and the Marine incident, i.
272, 276; the plot in Prince of Orange’s favour, 1. 286; Byron’s poem
rejected by Murray, i. 294; his fatal illness, ii. 101
Kirkwall, Lord (afterwards 5th Earl of Orkney), ii. 96
Knatchbull, Mr., ii. 302
Knight, Mr., a barrister, ii. 197
Knighton, Sir William, i. 129; ii. 104, 120; George IV.’s executor, ii. 233
L
Labedoyere, General, i. 246
Lade, Sir John, Queen Victoria’s generosity to, ii. 335, 336
La Fayette, i. 7; ii. 178
Lamb, George, ii. 39, 201
Lamb, Hon. William. See Melbourne, Viscount
Lamb, Lady Caroline (ne’e Ponsonby), Glenarvon: The Fatal Passion, i. 254
Lamb, Mrs. George, ii. 2, 39
Lambton, Hedworth, ii. 329
Lambton, John George. See Durham, Earl of
Lambton, Lady Louisa (née Grey). See Durham, Countess of
Lambton, Mrs. William, ii. 83
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Lancey, de, i. 238
Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Fox, ii. 96, 214
Langdale, Lord and Lady, ii. 322
Langford, Lord, i. 294
Lansdowne, Henry Petty, 3rd Marquess of, i. 10, 128, 163, 259, 308, 318, 326, 329,
336, 340; ii. 35, 74, 95, 112-116, 122, 126, 142, 154, 303, 322; Chancellor of the
Exchequer in “All the Talents,” i. 42; amendment censuring Pitt, i. 74;
opposed at Cambridge by Palmerston and Althorp, i. 75-77; Whitbread on his leadership
of the House of Commons, i. 100, 112; succeeds to Earldom, i. 100, 113; and Creevey, i.
122, 141; Grey’s view of Canning, i. 159; Alexander I. and, i. 195; Wellington
on, i. 286; a furious speech, i. 325; Wellington’s scrape, it. 6; Soult’s
offer of Murillos, ii. 70; Althorp on, ii. 117, 121; Goderich put over him, ii. 123;
and Herries, ii. 128; denounced by the Malignants, ii. 136; in favour with George IV.,
ii. 140, 141; Sefton on, ii. 144; “Roscius,” ii. 234; Auckland’s
appointment to the Admiralty, ii. 277
Lansdowne, Marchioness of, i. 2 6
Lansdowne, 2nd Marquess of, i. 36, 100, 113, 130
Laon, i. 280
Las Casas, ii. 61
Lascclles, Lord, i. 294
Latouche, David, his motion v. Catholic petition to Irish House of Commons, ii. 178
Lauderdale, 8th Earl of, i. 13, 130, 184, 208, 209, 213, 253, 256, 297; ii. 26, 151;
and Brougham, i. 30; ii. 28, 154; the Queen’s trial, i. 317, 323, 332, 335; K.T.,
ii. 27; negotiates between George IV. and Lady Conyngham, ii. 89
La Vallette, i. 246
Lawley, M.P. for Warwickshire, ii. 34
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, his portrait of
Lady Conyngham, ii. 34
Leach, Mrs., i. 258
Leach, Vice-Chancellor, i. 298, 312, 333; ii. 96, 217
Leamington, Creevey’s opinion of, ii. 213
Leconfield, 1st Lord, ii. 165
Lee, spokesman at Covent Garden, i. 97
Leeds, Duke of, ii. 156
Legge, Dean of Windsor, “Mother Frump,” i. 247
Legh of Lyme, M.P. for Newton, i. 233
Leicester, Countess of (Lady Anne Keppel), ii. 36
Leicester, Rev.—, ii. 170
Leicester, 1st Earl of. Set Coke, Thomas
Leicester, Thomas William, 1st Earl of, ii. 36, 76, 332
Leigh, Egerton, of the West Hall, Cheshire, ii. 148
Leigh, Marianne (Hon. Mrs. James Abercromby), ii. 148
Leinster, Duchess of, ii. 191
Leinster, Duke of, i. 308, 310; ii. 6, 31. 79. 154, »8ii 190. 238
Le Marchant, Brougham’s secretary, ii. 237
Lemon, Miss, ii. 36, 65
L’Enfant, Council of Pisa, i. 293
Lennox, Lady Louisa, ii. 87
Lennox, Lord William, ii. 75
Leopold, King of the Belgians, ii. 71, 73. 257
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Prince, i. 358, 266, 270; ii. 7, 83, 210
Leveson, Lady Francis (née Greville), ii. 48, 59”
Leveson, Lord Francis (afterwards Earl of Ellesmere), i. 185; ii. 59, 64, 188
Leveson-Gower, Lord Francis, Secretary for Ireland, ii. 160, 169
Leveson-Gower, Lord Granville, i. 206
Leycester, i. 126
Liancourt, M., i. 5
Lichfield, Lady, ii. 277
Liddell, ii. 81
Lieven, Prince de, ii. 167, 262, 279
Lieven, Princess de, i. 326; ii. 15, 104, 129, 130, 167, 196, 262, 279, 290, 309
Ligny, L 236
Lindley, Hester (Mrs. R. B. Sheridan), i. 4, 39, S2, 54. 55. 60. 72, 80-82
Lindley, Mr., i. 54, 55
Lindsay, Lady Charlotte, i. 182, 183, 199, 322, 330; ii. 3, 255
Lindsay, Mr., i. 323
Lister, ii. 74
Littleton, created Lord Hatherton, ii. 288, 305
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Liverpool, Sir Charles Jenkinson, 1st Lord Hawkesbury. and 1st Earl of, his speech
on Russia’s offer of mediation, i. 15; War Minister, i. 96; Wellington’s
letter on the Portuguese soldiers, i. 128, 131; interview with Prince Regent, i. 157;
Canning and, i. 159; ii. 69, 103; Prime Minister, i. 165, 166, 175; his letter in reply
to Princess of Wales’ remonstrance, i. 177; entertains foreign royalties, i. 194;
and Sheridan, i. 195; “Jenky,” i. 211, 260; ii. 46; the Princess of
Wales’ intended return to Kensington Palace, i. 212; for peace, i. 214; Roman
Catholic Emancipation, i. 293; Queen Caroline’s increased allowance, i. 301-304;
Pains and Penalties Bill, i. 304, 308, 309, 318, 329, 338; the divorce part of the
Bill, i. 317; sharp words with Eldon, L 323, 339; the Italian witnesses, i. 325, 336;
and Grey, i. 332, 336, 337; Wellington’s scrape, ii. 6; the Queen’s Will,
ii. 22; the King’s Knights of the Thistle, ii. 27; trying to keep peace with
Spain, ii. 62 j the Corn Laws, ii. 101; an apoplectic stroke, ii. 105, 108
Liverpool, Charles Cecil Cope, 3rd Earl of, ii. 277
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, ii. 87, 203, 213
Llandaff, Lord, Memoirs, i. 264; ii. 181
Lloyd, ii. 36
Loch, Mr., K.C., i. 108
“Loco Motive machine,” ii. 203
Loison, General, i. 103
Londonderry, Charles William, 3rd Marquess of, Wellington’s Adjutant-General
in the Peninsula, ii. 81, 93, 113, 131. 135. 153
Londonderry, Frances Anne, Marchioness of, ii. 58, 80, 81, 91, 93
Lonsdale, Countess of, ii. 127
Lonsdale, 2nd Earl of, i. 254, 317, 323; ii. 127, 147
Lories, Baron, i. 227
Lothian, 5th Marquess of, i. 18
Louis XVI., guillotined, i. 1
Louis XVIII., and Fouche, i. 8; restored to throne, i. 187, 190; visits London, i.
187; Ney’s offer about Napoleon, i. 214; Soult resigns War Ministry, i. 220;
words, not
deeds, i. 223; and Baron Lories, i. 227; well received at Le
Cateau, i. 239; proposals to dethrone, i. 286; Tierney’s “frightful
intelligence,” ii. 4; the operation of signing papers, ii. 26; Kensington in a
fury v., ii. 61; Erskine’s wish, ii. 68
Louis Philippe, ii. 270, 309
Lowe, Sir Hudson, Quarter-Master-General, i. 224; his marriage, i. 247; Wellington
on, i. 288, 289; O’Meara’s letter to, ii. 40; and Major Poppleton, ii. 47
Lowther, Lord, ii. 107, 147
Lucien Buonaparte, i. 215, 226
Lugano witnesses, the, i. 316, 317
Lushington, Dr., i. 328; ii. 89, 312; present at Queen Caroline’s death, ii.
21; the Queen’s funeral, ii. 22, 24; Phillimore put over his head, ii. 140
Lushington, Mrs., ii. 89
Luttrell, Henry, ii. 58, 167, 196, 223, 236, 269, 272, 314
Lutren, Madame, Queen Victoria’s governess, ii. 323
Lyndhurst, Lady, ii. 198, 223
Lyndhurst, Lord (Copley), ii. 95, 113, 114, 244, 298, 300-302, 323, 324
Lyttelton, Lord and Lady, ii. 255
M
Macaulay, Lord, on Twiss, ii. 12;
Lansdowne and, ii. 208; his “memorable words,” ii. 238; Creevey on, ii.
254
Macdonald, James, i. 120, 162, 321, 328; ii. 35, 120, 229, 254
Macdonald, Marshal, i. 221
Macdonald, Norman, it 180
Mack, General (Austria), i. 44
McKenzie, Mr., ii. 139, 143
Mackintosh, Sir James, i. 3, 254; ii.12, 85, 141; in Paris, i. 5-7; and Perry, i.
298; Fox’s epitaph, i. 299, 300
McMahon, Colonel Sir John, Prince Regent’s private secretary, etc., i. 39, 66,
71, 81, 82, 110, 111, 136, 140, 162, 179; ii. 105
Maddock, Mr., i. 12
Madrid, occupied by Wellington, i. 173
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Library, ii. 2S0
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Magnetism (mesmerism), exhibition of, ii. 331
Magra, ii. 175
Mahon, Lord, i. 86
Mahon, The O’Gorman, ii. 194
Maitland, General Sir Peregrine, i. 230; ii. 185
Maitland, Lady Julia, ii. 60
Maitland, Lady Sarah (née Gordon-Lennox), ii. 185
Malignants, the, ii. 135, 136; quarrel with Brougham, ii. 149
Mallet du Pan, M., i. 288
Malmesbury, 1st Earl of, i. 277
Malta, i. 10, 14
Manchester, 6th Duke of, ii. 307
Mann, Sir Horace, Minister at Florence, ii. 261
Manners, Jack, i. 244
Manners, Lady Louisa, ii. 75
Manners, Lord Chancellor (Ireland), i. 314; ii. 63
Manning, Mr., i. 125
Mansel, Bishop, i. 129
Mansfield, Lord, i. 337
Manson, General, i. 61
Manvers, Earl and Countess, ii. 254
Marble Arch, ii. 308
March, Lord, i. 222
Marcot, M., i. 265
Marie Antoinette, ii. 300
Mariette, i. 328
Marinet, i. 272, 276
Marjoribanks, S., ii. 316
Markham, Mr., i. 68
Marlborough, Duke of, i. 13, 77; ii. 163, 267
Marmont, General, i. 173, 190, 225; ii. 247
Martin, Harry, Master in Chancery, i. 136; ii. 68, 247
Martin, Harry, the regicide, ii. 247
Martyn, i. 100, 112
Mary, Queen, ii. 165
Maryborough, Lord, ii. 124
Mathews, i. 54
Maude, ii. 115
Maule, Solicitor to Treasury, i. 323
Maxwell of Monreith, Miss Catherine (Mrs. Fordyce), i. 34
Maxwell, Sir William, of Monreith, M.P., i. 1ll, 122, 128
Maynooth College, ii. 175, 179, 180, 192
Meath, Lord, ii. 31
Mecklenberg-Strelitz, Duke of, i. 906
Melbourne, Viscount (Hon. William Lamb), i. 354, 255, 311; ii. 39,
167, 213, 216, 219, 226, 264, 269, 308, 321, 322, 328, 329; in
favour of disfranchisement, ii. 158, 159; his crim. con. case, ii. 160; letters of
introduction for Creevey, ii. 168; Secretary of State, ii. 234; and William IV., ii.
282-284, 286, 296, 297; and Brougham, ii. 287, 288; action against, ii. 311; “all
good nature and gaiety,” ii. 313; and Queen Victoria, ii. 325, 327, 332;
“the rickety nature of his Cabinet,” ii. 331; Sir John Lade and, ii. 335
Melbourne, Viscountess, i. 255; ii. 164
Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, i. 10; First Lord of the Admiralty, i. 32;
impeachment of, i. 33-36; his court in Scotland, i. 85; and Brougham, i. 119; a great
favourite with Prince of Wales, i. 159; the Queen’s funeral, ii. 22; K.T., ii.
27; resigns on Canning becoming Premier, ii. 112
Mermet, General, i. 101
Methodism, rapid growth of, i. 113
Methuen, Lady, ii. 280
Methuen, Paul, Lord, ii. 279
Meux, H., ii. 235
Meynell, Captain, dismissed from
William IV.’s household, ii. 225
Miguel, Dom, King of Portugal, ii. 263
Milan Commission, i. 326, 335; ii. 157
Milbank, Lady Augusta, ii. 81, 82, 92, 230
Milbank, Mr., ii. 81, 92
Mildert, Wm. Van, Bishop of Durham, ii. 131
Mildmay, Sir Harry, i. 152, 190
Mill, ii. 51
Mills, John, ii. 12, 15, 81-83, 92, 1OO
Milton, Lady, ne’t Jenkinson (afterwards Foljambe), ii. 277
Milton, Viscount (afterwards 5th Earl of Fitzwilliam), i. 109, 118, 122, 125, 157,
166, 257, 263; ii. 129, 277
Mina, General Espoz y, Commander of a Corps under Wellington in Peninsular War, ii.
74, 75
Minto, Lord, ii. 322
Miocci, i. 335
Miranda, General, i. 86
Missionary in Demerara, trial by court-martial of, ii. 77
Moira, 1st Earl of, i. 161
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Moira, 2nd Earl of, i. 16, 31, 113, 146, 149, 157-161, 164, 165
Moldavia, ii. 139
Molesworth, Sir William, ii. 317
Moliere, Bourgeois Gentilhomme, i. 183
Molyneux, Colonel the Hon. Henry, ii. 198, 290
Molyneux, Lady Georgiana, ii. 56
Molyneux, Lady Louisa, ii. 137, 261, 310; her letters to Creevey, ii. 263, 330, 333
Molyneux, Lady Maria, ii. 137, 143, 223
Molyneux, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
George Berkeley, ii. 187, 253, 254, 268, 290
Molyneux, Viscount, i. 171; ii. 232, 268
Monck, i. 217
Monckton, i. 56
Monk, Sir Charles, i. 108
Monson, Lady (afterwards Lady Warwick), i. 247
Monson, Lord, i. 247
Montalembert, Baron, i. 149
Monteagle, Lord (Spring Rice), ii. 107, 108, 112, 114, 180, 269, 276, 295, 298
Montgomery, ii. 198
Montholon, M., ii. 26
Montron, M., ii. 137, 138, 167, 316
Moore, R.N., Captain Graham, i. 12, 18, 133; his letters to Creevey, i. 17, 24, 77.
94, 95
Moore, General Sir John, i. 11, 18, 90, 93-95. 978; ii. 315; his letters to Creevey,
i. 17, 29
Moore, Lady, i. 17
Moore, Peter, i. 256
Moore, Thomas, i. 255; ii. 89, 232, 272, 286
Morant, Mrs., i. 67, 68
Morelaix, Abbe, i. 7
Morillo, ii. 74
Morley, Countess of, ii. 243, 306
Morley, Earl of, ii. 69, 243, 306
Morning Chronicle, i. 4, 132, 177, 179, 269; ii. 316
Morning Herald, ii. 220
Morning Post, i. 4; ii. 220
Morpeth, Lord, 6th Earl of Carlisle, i. 27, 78, 121; ii. 123, 306
Morpeth, Lord, 7th Earl of Carlisle, ii. 223, 276, 278, 307
Morris, General, ii. 168
Morris, Lieut.-Colonel, ii. 169
Morritt of Rokeby, “Avoirdupois,” ii. 125, 126
Morritt of Rokeby, “Troy,” iL 126
Motteux, M., ii. 167
Mountague, Lord, his fountain at Cowdray, ii. 163
“Mountain, the,” name assumed by Radicals, i. 124, 175, 182, 210, 212,
215, 216, 247, 253, 257, 265, 290, 299, 341; ii 136
Mountcharles, Earl of, Under Secretary Foreign Affairs, ii. 103, 148
Mulgrave, Countess of, ii. 330
Mulgrave, Earl of, i. 96; ii. 241, 276, 296, 303
Municipal Reform Bill, ii. 308
Munster, Earl of, ii. 300, 323’
Murat, King of Naples, i. 213, 218
Murillos, offered by Soult for £100,000, ii. 70
Murphy, Mrs., ii. 110
Murray, General Sir George, i. 272, 279, 283, 285
Murray, General Sir John, i. 185
Murray, John, and Byron, i. 294; the Quarterly Review on O’Meara’s book,
ii. 65; on the Ladies of Llangollen, ii. 185
Murray, Lady Augusta, Duchess of Sussex, 1f. 243
N
Napier, Peninsular War, i. 1O1, 314,
Napoleon Buonaparte, Mackintosh and, i. 5; suppresses the Sections, i. 6; commander
of army in Italy, ibid.; his fits of passion, i. 7; his restless ambition, 1. 10, 14,
24, 29; and Lord Whitworth, i. 10, 13; and Addington, i. 11; swept through the Black
Forest, i. 44; Austerlhz, i. 49; his armies in all parts of Europe, i. 86; Spain, i.
86, 88, 90; “a temperate hardy knave,” i. 96; overshot his mark, i. 175;
abdicates, i. 187, 187, 189, 191, 239; the difference between Emperor of Russia and
King of Prussia, i. 196; his popularity, i. 196; escapes from Elba, i. 213; Ney’s
offer, i. 214; Waterloo, before and after, i. 219, 231, 237, 240; Kinnaird’s
arrest, i. 244; at St. Helena, i. 266, 288; and Blucher at Laon, i. 280; Sir Hudson
Lowe, i. 288; Tierney and, ii. 4; Princess Borghese’s appeal, it 26;
O’Meara’s book, ii. 39,42; Castlereagh one of
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his imbetiies, ii. 43; Major Poppleton, ii. 47; Las Casas’
book, ii. 61; and Montron, ii. 137, 138; and General Gerard, ii. 202; Brougham on, ii.
207
Nash, the architect, ii. 156
Navarino, battle of, ii. 134, 139-143
Navy Estimates, ii. 35
Nelson, Earl, i. 69, 70, 73; ii. 161
New Zealand, king of, i. 330
Newcastle, Duke of, L 337; ii. 227
Newcastle-on-Tyne, i. 186
Newport, Sir John, i. 127
Newton, Lord, i. 333
Ney, Marshal, i. 190, 214, 246
“Nimrod,”ii. 291
Nivelle, battle of, i. 187, 235
Nollekens, sculptor, i. 184
Non mi ricordo, i. 322
Norfolk, 11th Duke of, “the Jockey,” i. 3, 15S. 168, 169, 186, 212, 245,
252; ii. 71
Norfolk, Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of, “Scroop,” i. 168-170, 245, 313.
322. 335. 336. ii. 35, 71, 78, 104, 162, 195, 196, 303, 310, 329, 335; deprives Creevey
of Thetford seat, i. 274, 275; Prince of Wales’ advice to Sam Spring, i. 310;
letter to Creevey, i. 325; Pains and Penalties Bill, ibid.; in pursuit of Creevey, i.
337; denounced by O’Connell, ii. 188
Norfolk, 13th Duke of (Earl of Arundel), i. 245
North, Lord, ii. 246, 318
Northumberland, Duchess of, ii. 140
Northumberland, 5th Duke of, i. 278
Northumberland, 6th Duke of, i. 31, 100, 110, 296, 336; ii. 157; Viceroy of Ireland,
ii. 174, 193
Norton, Hon. Mrs. (née Sheridan),
afterwards Lady Stirling-Maxwell of Keir,i. 89; ii. 305, 311
Norton, Mr., ii. 311
Nugent, Earl, ii. 89
O
O’Callaghan, ii. 98
O’Connell, David, the Clare election, ii. 167, 193; Creevey on, ii. 183, 251;
denounces Duke of Norfolk on Catholic question, ii. 188; his “Catholic
cookery,” ii. 199; his
arrest, ii. 216: Stanley and, ii. 219; challenged by Alvanley, ii.
304, 305
Oldenburg, Duchess of, i. 195
Oldi, Madame, i. 328, 339; ii. 14
Olivia of Cumberland, Princess (Olive Wilmot Serres), i. 339, 340; ii. 7
O’Meara, A Voice from St. Helena,i. 224, 288; ii. 39, 42, 47, 65
Omnibus, Creevey’s first experience of an, ii. 262
Oporto, i. 101
Orange, Prince of, King of Holland, i. 197, 217, 222, 285, 286; Commander-in-Chief
of British forces in Brussels, i. 224
Orangemen (Ireland), ii. 174, 177
Ord, Charles, i. 224, 230, 231
Ord, Miss (Mrs. Hamilton), i. 220, 225, 228, 277, 283, 286
Ord, Miss Elizabeth, i. 232, 267, 283, 295; letters from Creevey to, i. 296, 299,
305-318, 320-342; ii. 1-15, 20, 23-28, 31-39, 42, 46-49, 53, 56-58, 65, 67-92, 98-102,
104-112, 114, 120-134, 137, 141-143, 147-157, 159-167, 169-192, 194-205, 208-214,
215-238, 240-336
Ord, the Misses, i. 17, 47, 147, 149, 224, 229, 276, 277
Ord, Mr., i. 4, 121
Ord, Mrs., i. 1, 128
Ord, William, ii. 279
Ordnance Office, Creevey appointed treasurer of, ii. 215
O’Reilly, George IV.’s doctor, ii. 211
Orkney, Earl of, ii. 96
Orleans, Duke of, i. 244; ii. 253, 269, 270
Ormonde, 16th Earl of, ii. 185
Ormonde, 17th Karl of, ii. 186
Osbaldislon, Mr., ii. 200
Ossory, Archdeacon of, ii. 175
Ossory, Lord, i. 157
Ossulston, Lady, ii. 9
Ossulston, Lord (afterwards 5th Earl of Tankerville), i. 111, 121, 122, 150, 151,
168, 210, 243-245, 254, 295. 331: 9. 36. 39. 112, 152, 211
Oswald of Auchencruive, Alexander, ii. 811
Oswald, Lady Louisa, ii. 311
Ouvrad, the banker, i. 7
Owen, Mr. and Mrs. Smythe, ii. 170
Oxford, Countess of, i. 3, 60, 255; ii. 60
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P
Paget, Lord and Lady William, ii. 181
Paget, Sir Arthur, ii. 315
Pains and Penalties Bill, i. 304-342
Palfy, Count, i. 45
Palk, Miss Elizabeth Mallet (afterwards Lady Seymour), i. 266
Palmerston, Lady, ii. 268
Palmerston, Viscount, ii. 199, 213, 226, 310; opposes Petty at Cambridge, i. 75, 76;
Secretary at War, ii. 123; votes for disfranchisement, ii. 158; and Lady Jersey, ii.
268, 269; and Mrs. Petre, ii. 276; Grey and, ii. 286; dismissed by Wellington, ii. 298;
“Cupid,” ii. 307; on Queen Victoria’s great merits, ii. 324
Paoli, Sefton’s valet, ii. 256
Papal States, the, i. 213
Paripol, the dancer, ii. 283
Paris, treaty of, i. 249; awaiting Napoleon s entry, i. 220, 221
Parkes, Joseph, of Birmingham, an organizer and demagogue, ii. 270
Parliamentary Reform, i. 263; ii. 51, 97-99, 251
Parnell, Charles Stewart, i. 164
Parnell, Henry Brook (Lord Congleton), i. 31, 164
Parr, Dr., i. 3; ii. 17
Patronage, ii. 103, 215
Paull, his exertions to obtain Wellesley’s impeachment, i. 226; his suicide,
i. 226; ii. 41
Payne, George, i. 113; ii. 80, 313, 316
Pearce, Henry, “the Game Chicken,” champion of England, i. 64
Pechell, Captain, i. 312
Peel, Sir Robert, “Spinning Jenny,” i. 126; ii. 141, 275; his first
speech, i. 122; M.P. for Oxford, i. 263; Creevey on, ii. 12, 43-45, 100; Brougham on,
ii. 50, 145; for Spain against France, ii. 62; Ward on, ii. 69; and Canning, ii. 103,
112, 133; and George IV., ii. 110; resigns office, ii. 112, 113; Sefton on, ii. 117;
his difficult position, ii. 146, 147; his “preconceived prejudices,” ii.
152; the Roman Catholic question, ii. 174, 194, 244, 246; Home Secretary, ii. 195;
Grey’s panegyric on, ii. 196, 198; Reform, ii. 233; consulted by Grey about the
coronation, ii. 234; a
most remarkable declaration from, ii. 246; and William IV., ii.
284; his absence in Rome, ii. 296, 298, 299; “the humbug of Jenny,” ii.
302; predicted failure, ii. 303; his Scotch sentiment, etc., ii. 317; “every word
was gospel” ii. 334
Pelham, Bishop, i. 323
Pellew, Admiral, i. 95
Pembroke, Countess of, ii. 312
Peninsular War, i. 87, 153, 157, 160, 175
Penryn borough, bribery and corruption in, ii. 119; disfranchised, ii. 158
Pension lists, ii. 218
Pepys, ii. 280
Perceval, Spencer, i. 96, 99, 100, 109-111, 114, 119, 124, 126, 133, 136-138, 146,
175; ii. 227; assassinated, i. 145, 153; ii. 50
Percy, Colonel the Hon., A.D.C. to Sir John Moore and Wellington, carried
Wellington’s despatches to London after Waterloo, i. 278
Percy, Earl, i. 76, 100, 110
Perry, editor of Morning Chronicle, i. 132, 298
Persia, Russian successes in, ii. 139
Petre, Lady, i. 108, 325
Petre, Lord, i. 37, 108, 167, 168, 252; ii. 79, 234
Petre, Mrs., ii. 276, 288
Petworth, Creevey’s description of, ii. 163
Philips, Sir R., i. 112
Phillimore, ii. 140
Phillips, George, i. 274; ii. 64
Picton, General, i. 238
Pierrepont, M., i. 152
Pieton, Madame, i. 69
Piggott, i. 108
Pillet, General, i. 255
Piltown (Ireland), ii. 172, 173
Piré General, Red Lancers, i. 231
Pitt, William, i. 3, 4, 12, 22, 69, 73, 161, 263; in retirement, i. 8, 10; his
intolerance of Addington, i. 9, 23; his treatment of Sir John Moore, i. 11; returns to
House of Commons, i. 14; his speech for war, i. 15, 16, 20; and Fox, i. 21, 23; Lord
St. Vincent, i. 24; his last administration, i. 26, 27, 31; and George III., i. 27; in
a dilemma, i. 28; fears of French invasion, i. 29; Brougham on, i. 30, 119, 120, 134,
172; his schemes
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of reform, i. 32; Melville’s impeachment, i. 33; Roman
Catholic question, i. 33, 43; Boyd, Benfield & Co., i. 35-37; Beresford and, i. 42;
Castlereagh and, 143; the capitulation of Ulm his death-blow, i . 44; his illness, i.
74; and death, i. 79; ii. 119; his despotic authority, i. 260; Maynooth college, ii.
175, 179, 180; and the Catholic delegates, ii. 179
Plato, Bipontine edition of, i. 293
Platoff, i. 196
Plunket, Lord, ii. 181, 188, 189, 261
Plymouth, Lord, i. 337
Pole, Sir Charles, i. 114, 122
Police, origin of the, i. 304
Ponsonby, Frederick, i. 107, 238
Ponsonby, John, 5th Earl of Bessborough, ii. 268
Ponsonby, Lady, i. 110, 111; ii. 243
Ponsonby, Lady Betty, ii. 186
Ponsonby, Lord, i. 110, 111, 128; ii. 243
Ponsonby, Major-General the Hon. Sir William, i. 242
Ponsonby, Miss, ii. 185
Ponsonby, Rt. Hon. George, Leader of Whigs in House of Commons, i. 91, 94, 107, 117,
121, 122, 124, 125, 128, 141, 154, 162, 164, 165, 217, 251, 257
Ponsonby, Sir John, of Cumberland, ii. 171
Poppleton, Major, ii. 47
Porchester, Lord, i. 124, 128
Portarlington, 4th Earl of, ii. 320
Porter, Colonel, i. 22; ii. 10
Portland, Duke of, i. 81, 85, 86, 96, 106, 145, 331
Portsmouth, Lord, insane, ii. 63
Portugal, i. 130, 134, 147-149, 160; her “soldiers the fighting-cocks of the
army,” i. 128
Portugal, King of, ii. 310
Powell, Mr., i. 322, 329; ii. 329
Power of Kilfane, John, ii. 176, 182-184
Power of Kilfane, Mrs., ii. 175
Powlett, Lady Caroline, ii. 100
Powlett, Lord (afterwards 3rd Duke of Cleveland), ii. 100, 107, 126, 130-132, 201
Poyntz, Miss, i. 264; ii. 47
Pozzo di Borgo, M. and Mdme, ii. 307
Pretyman, George (afterwards Tomline), Bishop of Lincoln, i. 202
Price, Rev. W., i. 76
Property tax, i. 211, 250
Prussia, i. 213, 218
Pruth river, ii. 139
Pyrenees, the, i. 186, 187
Q
Quarterly Review, ii. 65
Quatre Bras, i. 230
R
Radicals, named “the Mountain,” q.v.; schism between Whigs and, i. 260
Radnor, 2nd Earl of, i. 89, 96
Radnor, 3rd Earl of. See Folkestone, Viscount
Raganti, i. 326
Raglan, Lord, ii. 74, 289
Raikes, “Dandy,” ii. 106-109
Railway movement, the great, ii. 87
Raine, Jonathan, ii. 115
Ramsay, General Norman, ii. 193
Ramsden, Lady, ii. 93
Ramsden, Mr., ii. 34
Ramthorne, i. 172
Ranelagh, Lord, ii. 210
Rastelli, i. 325, 326
Rawdon, Hon. John, ii. 285
Redesdale, Lord, i. 314; ii. 157
Reeves, ii. 261
Reform, i. 263; Act, i. 274; ii. 221, 223; Creevey’s letters on, ii. 93,
97-99, Bill, ii. 12, 225, 227, 228, 230. 233. 235, 236, 238, 240-247, 251, 292
Retrenchment and Reform, ii. 272
Ribblesdale, Lord, ii. 305, 307
Ricardo, ii. 55
Richelieu, Duc de, i. 285, 287; ii. 290
Richmond, Dowager Duchess of, ii. 38, 87, 185
Richmond, Duchess of, ii. 88, 162
Richmond, 3rd Duke of, ii. 162
Richmond, 5th Duke of, i. 223, 229, 337; ii. 162, 246, 264, 273, 274, 276, 297, 305
Ridgway, ii. 93, 97, 98
Ridley, Sir M., i. 197, 217, 326; ii. 37, 81
Ripon, Lord, ii. 273
Rivers, Lord, i. 196
Robespierre, i. 7
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Robinson, J. See Goderich, Lord
Roden, Lord, i. 320
Roder, General, i. 223
Roebuck, Mr., ii. 317
Rogers, Miss, ii. 272, 285, 286, 322
Rogers, Samuel, the dead poet, i. 255, 256, 334. 335: ii. 195, 196, 272, 285, 286,
305, 312, 322, 323; Human Life, 1. 294; Lady Holland’s cat, ii. 58;
Creevey’s opinion of, ii. 162; a blue dinner at, ii. 275; Lady Holland’s
procession, ii. 313
Rolle, Lord, i. 261
Roman Catholic question, i. 31, 43, 47, 84, 100, 148, 153, 157, 158, 166, 245,293;
ii. 12, 31, 67, 94, 103, 108, 112, 116, 167, 170, 174-176, 178-180, 188, 193
Romilly, Sir Samuel, Solicitor-General, in “All the Talents,” i. 5, 122,
130, 278, 290; Prince of Wales’ offer of a seat in House of Commons, i. 40, 63;
Grey on, i. 108; calls Erskine “The Green Man and Still,” i. 212; his
suicide, i. 243, 293; ii. 41, 44; on Tierney, i. 265; “in high force,” i.
272; and Duke of Roxburgh, ii. 3
Romney, George, his works at Petworth, ii. 165
Ros, Lord de, ii. 78, 198, 237, 238, 254, 312
Ros, Olivia de (Lady Cowley), ii. 204, 237. 263, 320
Roscoe, William, historian, Creevey’s election agent at Liverpool, i. 169-171,
211; Leo: Lorenzo de Medici, ii. 256, 280
Roscommon, Countess of, ii. 3
Rose, Mr., i. 36
Rosebery, Lady, ii. 36
Rosebery, 4th Lord, i. 335; ii. 36
Rosebery, 5th (and present) Lord, Napoleon, the last Phase, it. 40
Rosslyn, Earl of, i. 305, 326, 333; ii. 26, 79, 99, 150, 153, 154; and Brougham, ii.
129; Lord Lieutenant of Fife, ii. 153, 155; Privy Seal, ii. 202
Rothschild, ii. 90
Roxburgh, Duke of, Queen Caroline’s Grand Chamberlain, ii. 3
Royal Exchange, burnt, ii. 334
Royal Naval Commission, i. 33
Russell, Francis, ii. 74, 100, 167
Russell, Lady John, widow of 2nd Lord Ribblesdale, ii. 305, 307, 328, 331
Russell, Lady William (née Rawdon), ii. 285
Russell, Lord John, i. 157, 309, 333; ii. 34. 51, 79, 112, 114, 133, 261, 268, 275,
276, 296, 307, 328; Creevey’s Reform letters addressed to, ii. 93, 97-99; motion
for disfranchisement of Penryn borough, ii. 119; Reform, ii. 217, 221, 264; split
between Stanley and, ii. 273, 274; offer to Howick, ii. 295; “the conceited
puppy,” ii. 297; “the Widow’s Mite,” ii. 305
Russell, Lord William, i. 210, 277, 278; ii. 114, 155, 275, 285; murdered by his
valet, ii. 109, 329
Russell, Miss, ii. 80
Russell, Mrs., alias Funnereau. See Cleveland, Duchess of
Russia, i. 213, 218; and Greek independence, ii. 133; and Turkey, ii. 139; her
successes in Persia, ibid.
Rutland, Duke of, i. 323; ii. 101, 110, 135, 195, 199
Ryder, Hon. Henry, Bishop of Lichfield, ii. 170
S
St. Albans, Duchess of (Mrs. Coutts, née Conway), ii. 120, 217, 324
St. Albans, 9th Duke of, ii. 73, 120, 217
St. Antonio, Countess, ii. 141
St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of, i. 10
St. Laurent, Madame, i. 268-271
St. Leger, General, i. 195, 199, 201-203, 322
St . Paul’s Cathedral, thanksgiving for peace on 7th July at, i. 202
St. Vincent, Earl, 1st Lord of the Admiralty, i. 24, 68
Salamanca, Battle of, i. 128, 173; ii. 247
Salisbury, Dowager Marchioness of, ii. 166, 210, 230, 234, 263
Salisbury, Marquis of, ii. 37, 73
Salisbury, Sarah, Marchioness of, i. 197, 236; ii. 37, 67, 108, 197
Salmo-Braunfels, Prince Frederick William of, i. 305
Sambre, Napoleon’s passage of the, i. 233, 240
San Sebastian, fall of, i. 187, 187
Sandys, Lord (Lord Arthur Hill), i. 236, 238, 239, 282; ii. 87, 198, 210
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Savory, i. 66-68
Saxe-Coburg, Princess of, i. 271
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of (Prince Leopold), i. 358, 266
Saye and Sele, Lord, ii. 107
Scarlett, Sir James. See Abinger, Lord
Scheldt Expedition, i. 125, 133
Scotsman, ii. 45
Scott, Harry, i. 80, 81
Scott, Sir Walter, Antiquary, i. 255; Rob Roy, i. 264; George IV.’s visit to
Edinburgh, ii. 45; Rokeby, ii. 125; Life of Napoleon, ii. 203
Seaford, Lord (Charles Rose Ellis), i. 97
Seaton, Lord, Governor-General of Canada, ii. 334
Seaton, Mr., ii. 40
Sebastiani, General, i. 250; ii. 307
Sebright, Sir John, i. 114; ii. 198
Sections in France, the, i. 6
Sefton, Countess of (Hon. Maria Craven), ii. 9, 71, 83, 89, 197, 198,
209, 212, 219, 223, 233, 252, 256, 275, 310, 315. 320, 322, 324, 326; and William
IV., ii. 308
Sefton, Dowager Lady, i. 57, 148
Sefton, 1st Earl of (“the Pet”), i. 57, 121, 155, 159, 171, 200, 203,
208, 211, 261, 262, 267, 294, 300, 303. 305, 312, 317, 318. 326-331; ii. 3-5,10,11,15,
32-37i 39i 40, 56, 62, 64, 65, 69, 72, 75, 76, 79, 84, 87-89, 93, 97, 99, 101, 102,
108, 112, 114, 117, 118, 121, 151, 154, 159, 166, 168, 196, 198, 199, 204, 210, 211,
215, 223, 226, 237, 243, 249, 252, 260, 26l, 267, 274, 277, 279, 281, 286, 288, 301,
304, 308, 312, 317, 328; Creevey’s great ally, ii. 136-139; Grey on, ii. 141; his
letters to Creevey, ii. 144, 156, 170, 186, 200, 214, 250, 268, 269, 271; and Brougham,
ii. 142, 143, 219, 222, 227, 230, 236, 245, 275. 287, 297, 298, 300; cracking his jokes
at the expense of Huskisson and Dudley, ii. 152; and Lady Holland, ii. 155, 256; on
Rogers, ii. 162; and Lord Egremont, ii. 164; correspondence between Anglesey and
Wellington, ii. 194; breaks the bank at Crockford’s, ii. 195; Lambton’s
nonsense, ii. 217; ill with influenza, ii. 233, 234; Lord Foley’s family, ii.
253; a story of Grey, ii. 283; wins £600 at whist,
ii. 289; and Lady Grey, ii. 290; contrast between Grey and, ii.
299; Charles X., ii. 315, 316; and Sir John Lade, ii. 335
Sefton, 2nd Earl of, ii. 232
Sefton, 3rd Earl of, ii. 232
Serres, Olive Wilmot, claims to be Duke of Cumberland’s daughter, i. 339, 340
Seymour, Lady (née Palk), i. 266; ii. 310, 322
Seymour, Lady Charlotte (tiee Cholmondeley), i. 266
Seymour, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Henry, i. 266
Seymour, Lord (afterwards 12th Duke of Somerset), ii. 191, 310
Seymour, Lord Hugh, i. 266
Seymour, Miss, ii. 47
Seymour, Sir Horace Beauchamp, i. 266; ii. 225
Shaftesbury, 6th Earl of, ii. 222
Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of, ii. 198
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, ii. 275
Shaw, Colonel, ii. 267, 328
Shelley, P. B., ii. 79, 100
Shelley, Sir John, ii. 222, 225
Sheridan, Charles, i. 53
Sheridan, Mrs. R. B., i. 4, 39, 52, 54, 55, 60, 72, 80-82; ii. 278
Sheridan, R. B., i. 4, 22, 46, 73, 78, 141, 142, 146, 149, 157, 162, 165, 195, 202,
204; ii. 317; his plan to substitute Council for Viceroy in Ireland, i. 16;
Creevey’s distrust of, i. 21, 25; his diabolical project, i. 25; and Prince of
Wales, i. 25, 26, 32, 51-60, 68; his speech v. Melville, i. 33; The Rivals, i. 55;
Treasurer of the Navy in “All the Talents,” i. 81; ill, i. 84; on
Grenville’s resignation, i. 85; the Regency Bill, I. 138; and Whitbread, i. 159,
164, 180; Madame de Stael and, i. 189; his death, i. 256; and Lord Dacre, ii. 278; his
letters to Creevey, i. 38, 39, 138; to Mrs. Creevey, i. 39
Sheridan, Thomas, i. 38, 39, 51, 190
Sheridan, Mrs. Thomas, i. 38, 39
Shiel, ii. 181, 183
Shoenfeld, ii. 96
Sicard, Brougham’s courier, i. 297
Sidmouth, Rt. Hon. Henry Addington, Speaker, created Viscount (nicknamed “the
Doctor”), i. 4, 43, 97, 114, 122, 123, 130, 147; Premier, i. 8; and Pitt, i. 9,
20, 23,
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26; war-clouds, i. 10; and Napoleon, i. 11; “this accursed
apothecary,” i. 14; and his colleagues, i. 19; Prince of Wales and, i. 25, 159,
194. resigns, i. 26, 28; Privy Seal in “All the Talents,” i. 75; Home
Secretary, i. 166; for peace, i. 214; Queen Caroline’s trial, i. 314;
Tierney’s attempt to enlist Creevey in support of, ii. 10; “was never
sober,” ii. 31
Sidney, Sir Henry, ii. 165
Sierra Morena, i. 130
Sieyes, Abbé. i. 190
Simmonds, Dr., i. 28
Siniavin, Admiral (Russia), i. 89
Six’s iron index, i. 2
Slang, ladies’ use of, ii. 86
Slave trade, i. 120, 167, 214
Smiles, Dr., Memoir of John Murray, ii. 186
Smith, Adam, i. 264
Smith, Alderman Christopher, ii. 76
Smith, Bobus, ii. 275
Smith, Cullen, ii. 314
Smith, Rev. Sydney, i. 166; ii. 79, 148, 243, 255, 268, 269, 323, 329
Smith, Sir William, i. 81
Smith, Thomas Assheton, ii. 49
Smyth, Jack, i. 230
Sneyd, Rev.—(Brighton), i. 60
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, ii. 206
Somerset, Lady Charlotte Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of (wife of 11th Duke), ii. 64
Somerset, Duchess of (née Sheridan), wife of 12th Duke, Queen of Beauty at Eglington
Tournament, i. 39
Somerset, 11th Duke of, i. 336; ii. 64, 191
Somerset, 12th Duke of, ii. 191
Somerset, Lord Charles, ii. 132, 165
Somerset, Lord Fitzroy (Lord Raglan), ii. 74, 254, 289
Soult, Marshal, i. 101, 102, 186, 220; ii. 70
South American Colonies of Spain, i. 86, 87
Southey, Robert, ii. 147
Souza, Madame de (formerly Flahault), i. 6, 7, 251
Souza, M. de, Portuguese Ambassador, i. 62
Sovilliano, i. 88
Spain, i. 86-88, 90, 105; ii. 61, 62; French invasion of, ii. 52
Spalding, Mrs. (née Eden). See Brougham, Lady
Speirs, Mrs. Alexander (afterwards Ellice), ii. 273
Speirs of Elderslie, Alexander, ii. 273 Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl of, i. 77,
214, 305, 308; ii. 208, 255, 295
Spencer, 3rd Earl of. See Althorp, Viscount
Spencer, Hon. and Very Rev. George,
Superior of the Order of Passionists, ii. 208
Spencer, Lord Robert, i. 13, 77, 121; ii. 148, 162, 196
Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle, ii. 107, 108, 112, 114, 180, 269, 276, 295, 298
Spring, Sam, waiter at Cocoa Tree Club, i. 310
Stael, Albert de, ii. 39
Stael, Albertine de, i. 184
Stael, Madame de, i. 184, 189; her house at Geneva, i. 258
Stafford, Lady, i. 274; ii. 48
Stafford, 2nd Marquess of, 1st Duke of Sutherland, i. 27, 194, 216, 245, 322, 328,
336; ii. 48, 69
Standish, ii. 312
Stanhope, 3rd Earl of, i. 377, 308
Stanhope, Hon. Augustus, ii. 191
Stanhope, Hon. James Hamilton, i. 277, 278; ii. 112
Stanhope, Mrs., ii. 112
Stanhope of Revesby Abbey, Banks, i. 277
Stanistreet, i. 208
Stanley, Lord, 13th Earl of Derby, i. 171; ii. 76, 88
Stanley, Edward, 14th Earl of Derby, ii. 40, 76, 128, 203, 226, 269, 282, 284, 295,
297, 299, 309; Secretary for Ireland, ii. 219, 265; and Durham, ii. 264; M.P. for
Cheshire, ii. 255; resigns, ii. 273, 276; split between Russell and, ii. 273, 274
Stanley, Lady Mary (afterwards Lady Wilton), i. 305
Stanley, Mrs. Edward (née Dillon), ii. 226, 255
Star, i. 179
Statesman, i. 107; ii. 94
Stephens, Catherine (Lady Essex), vocalist and actress, ii. 286
Stephenson, Henry Frederick, natural son of Duke of York, ii. 6, 47, 97, 107, 126,
155, 329
Stephenson, Lady Mary (née Keppel), ii. 97, 109
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Stepney, Tom, i. 149, 150
Stevenson, the American Minister, ii. 322
Stirling-Maxwell of Keir, Lady, i. 89
Stormont, Viscount, i. 31
Strafford, Lord, ii. 310
Strachan, Admiral Sir Richard, i. 95, 97, 129, 131. 133
Strathaven, Lady, ii. 148
Stratheden, Baroness, ii. 312
Strickland, i. 186
Stuart, Lady Elizabeth, i. 326
Stuart, Mr., ii. 45
Stuart, Mrs. Eliza (afterwards Molyneux), ii. 253
Stuart de Rothesay, Lord (Sir Charles Stuart), British Minister at Brussels, i. 210,
227, 228; ii. 144, 154, 157
Sturges, i. 20
Suchet, General, i. 185
Suffolk, 15th Earl of, ii. 112
Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, ii. 157
Sunderland, Lord, i. 266
Surrey, Earl and Countess of, ii. 48
Sussex, Duke of, i. 297; ii. 3, 6, 75, 109, 155. 229, 231, 258, 322, J23, 329;
“talked very sad stuff,” i. 192; absent from Queen Caroline’s trial,
i. 308; his stories of his cousin Olivia ot Cumberland, ii. 7; Creevey’s
tête-à-tête with, ii. 47; “it had been a molancholy day,” ii. 79; his two
marriages, ii. 243
Sussex, Lady Augusta Murray, Duchess of, ii. 243
Sussex, Lady Cecilia Buggin, Duchess of (created Duchess of Inverness), ii. 230,
243, 258, 329
Sutherland, Dowager Duchess of, i. 245; ii. 306
Sutherland, 1st Duke of, i. 27, 194, 216, 245, 322, 328, 336
Sutherland, 2nd Duke of, ii. 47, 48, 323
Sutherland, Harriet Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of, ii. 306, 323
Sutton, Charles Manners, Speaker (Viscount Canterbury), i. 114, 271
Suwarrow, Madame, i. 283
Swift, Dean, ii. 181
T
Tabley, Lord and Lady de, ii. 170
Taglioni, ii. 252, 283
Talavera, i. 95, 105, 107, 123
Talbot, ii. 198
Talleyrand, his Paris house, i. 5; demands evacuation of Malta, i. 10;
Napoleon’s abdication, i. 239; his reputed son, General de Flahault, i. 251; ii.
271; Napoleon’s Memoirs, ii. 26; and Montron, ii. 137, 138; and his niece, Madame
de Dino, ii. 217, 236, 241, 262; cordiality between England and France, ii. 218;
Creevey and, ii. 249; Lady Grey’s hatred of, ii. 263; Grey’s changed tone
towards, ii. 269; Lady Keith, ii. 270; kept away from Oxford, ii. 279; Grey dining
with, ii. 286; on Melbourne, ii. 309
Tallien, Jean Lambert de, i. 7
Tallien, Madame de (previously Comtesse de Fontenay), i. 6, 7
Tankerville, Armandine, Countess of (née de Grammont), ii. 98, 152, 307
Tankerville, Charles, 4th Earl of, i. 36, 158, 237
Tankerville, Charles Augustus, 5th Earl of. See Ossulston, Lord
Tankerville, Emma, Countess of (née Colebrooke), i. 36
Tarleton, General Sir Banastre, i. 126, 156, 169
Tarragona, siege of, i. 185
Tavistock, Marquess of (7th Duke of Bedford), his speech on Whitbread’s death,
i. 242; Bennet on, i. 257; to move a vote of censure, ii. 5, 11; “infinitely
below himself,” ii. 12; Castlereagh and, ii. 38, 42; at Newmarket, ii. 79; half a
buck from, ii. 91; Church Reform Bill, ii. 255; split between Stanley and Russell, ii.
274; Creevey on, ii. 321; and Queen Victoria, ii. 322, 324
Taylor, Michael Angelo, his house in Whitehall a rendezvous of the Whigs, i. 118,
160, 161, 199, 211, 212; ii. 2, 3, 19, 24, 42-44, 60, 61, 65, 89-91, 100, 105, 106,
116,152, 155. 213, 215. 284
Taylor, Mrs. M. A., i. 137, 140, 141; ii. 3, 28, 29, 38, 58, 60, 65, 81, 89-91, 95,
113, 119, 120, 121,123, 129, 132, 148, 160, 165, 184, 194, 208, 209, 219, 267
Taylor, Sir Herbert, ii. 124; the Garth case, ii. 197, 200
Tempest, Bart., Sir Harry Vane, of Wynyard, ii. 58
Tempest, Mr., ii. 93
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Tennant, Dr., i. 2
Tennyson, Clerk to the Board of Ordnance, ii. 233, 241, 252
Thackeray, W. M., Vanity Fair, i. 218
Thanet, Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of, i. 120, 257, 295, 317, 318, 328, 336; ii. 6,
9, 11, 15, 62; Creevey’s opinion of, 1. 125; ii. 36; compares Prince Regent with
Mohere’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme, i. 183; his illness, i. 243; Creevey M.P. for
Appleby by favour of, i. 298; Queen Caroline’s trial, i. 308, 313; his bet with
Sefton, i. 328; the Whigs little better than old apple-women, i. 331; a curious fact
about Junius, ii. 8; letter to Creevey, ii. 51; wins £40,000 at Paris Salon, ii. 67;
his death, ii. 85, 165
Thayer, Miss, i. 190
Thermometer, Dr. Currie’s clinical, i. 2
Thetford, Creevey M.P. for, i. 3, 169
Thomas, Captain, killed at Waterloo, ii. 223
Thompson, B., ii. 302, 303
Thompson, Powlett, ii. 269, 322
Thornhill, Colonel, ii. 188
Thorpe, Lord Mayor, i. 340
Thorpe, Miss, i. 340
Thurlow, Lord, i. 30,114; and Horne Tooke, i. 60; Creevey on, i. 61; and
Johnstone’s port wine, i. 64
Tierney, George, “Mother Cole,” or “Old Cole,” i. 68, 71,
94, 100, 122, 123, 137, 162, 191, 200, 256; ii. 120, 157, 281, 313; incessantly
intriguing, i. 22; and Whitbread, i. no, 121, 242; on Grey and Whitbread, L 111 1
proposes Petty or Cavendish as Whig leader, i. 112; “personal questions never
answer,” i. 114; “will end in smoak,” i. 124; the thanks of
Parliament to Wellington, i. 126; his tricks, i. 127; “is doing very well,”
i. 217; his temporising plans, i. 247; his style in speaking, i. 248; “expert,
narrow, and wrong as ever,” i. 251; selected as leader of Whigs, i. 265, 278,
290; ii. 106; Wellington on, i. 278; his motion on the Bank forgeries, i. 292; his
nickname, i. 327; Creevey’s attack on, i. 329, 330, 336; Brougham his
fellow-counsellor, ii. 2; and Decaze, ii. 4; his
inveterate folly, ii. 5; attempts to enlist Creevey as
Addington’s supporter, ii. 10; “the Venerable,” ii. 123; P.C., ii.
141
Tighe, Lady Louisa, ii. 184, 185
Tighe, Mrs., ii. 87
Tighe of Woodstock, Hon. W. F., ii. 182, 184, 185
Times, ii. 15, 48, 219, 220, 223, 237, 257. 308, 310, 3l6
Tindal, i. 328
Titchfield, Lord, ii. 71, 100
Tomline, George (previously Pretyman), Bishop of Lincoln, i. 202
Tooke, Horne, i. 60, 61
Tories, under Pitt, i. 3; and Roman Catholic Emancipation, ii. 193
Torres Vedras, i. 131
Towneley, Charles, ii. 312
Towneley, Lady Caroline (née Molyneux), ii. 312
Townshend, Lord John, i. 13, 125, 184
Trafalgar, i. 44, 69
Traveller, i. 342
Trippe, Baron, i. 221
Tufnell, i. 81
Tullamore, Lord, ii. 288
Turkey, and Greece, ii. 133; and Russia, ii. 139
Twiss, Horace, ii. 12
Tynte, Mr. Kenneys, ii. 313
Tyrone, Earl of (1st Marquess of Waterford), ii. 127
Tyrrell, John, ii. 236
Tyrwhitt, Sir Thomas, Black Rod, i. 329, 340, ii. 120; the Queen’s trial, i.
306; George IV.’s illness, ii. 104, 197
U
Ulm, capitulation of, i. 44, 45
Ultras, the, ii. 147
Useful Knowledge, Library of, ii. 206
Uxbridge, Earl of (afterwards 2nd Marquess of Anglesey), i. 830; ii. 231
V
Valenciennes, i. 282, 283
Van de Weyer, Belgian Minister, ii. 329
Van Merlen, General, i. 230
Vane, Mr., ii. 96
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Vane-Tempest, Bart., Sir Harry, ii. 58
Vansittart, N. (afterwards Lord Bexley), “Mouldy,” i. 114, 262, 342; ii.
129; on Whitbread’s death, i. 242; his attempt to punish Creevey, ii. 9
Vaughan, “Hat,” i. 208, 236
Verbyst, i. 293
Vernon, Edward Venables, Archbishop of York, i. 328, 337
Vernon, Sir Charles, i. 162; ii. 63
Verona Congress, ii. 52, 60, 62
Victor, Marshal, i. 190, 223, 225
Victoria, Queen, ii. 1, 51, 228, 257, 310, 321-336; her accession, ii. 322; her
reception of Lyndhurst, ii. 323; Melbourne’s health, ii. 325; Creevey presented
to, ii. 326; Hayter the artist, ii. 330; Melbourne on, ii. 332; and Durham, ii. 335 ,
her generosity to the Fitzclarences and Sir John Lade, ii. 335. 336
Vienna Congress, i. 213
Villa Real, Marquess, ii. 167
Villeneuve, Admiral, i. 69
Villiers, John, i. 136, 140
Villiers, Viscount, ii. 311
Vimeira, battle of, i. 237
Viotti, the violinist, i. 148
Vitry, i. 280
Vittoria, battle of, ii. 193
Vivian, Sir Hussey, afterwards Lord, i. 309
Voeykoff, Mdlle., i. 69
Voltaire, i. 2
W
Waithman, Robert, i. 129-131, 341; ii. 18
Walcheren Expedition, i. 93, 95, 96, 118, 124, 127, 129, 13l, 250
Waldegrave, Countess, i. 246
Waldegrave, Earl, i. 246; ii. 267
Walker, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 186
Wallachia, ii. 139
Walpole, George, i. 47
Walpole, Horace, ii. 163, 261, 267
Walpole, Sir Robert, ii. 246, 267
Walsham, Lady, ii. 235
Walter, M.P. for Berkshire, proprietor of Times, ii. 308
Ward, John William. See Dudley, 1st Earl of
Ward, Lord, 2nd Earl of Dudley,ii. 333
Ward, Robert, i. 45
Wardle, Colonel, i. 97, 112, 113, 115, 116
Warner, i. 66, 68
Warren, Charles, lawyer, i. 60, 113; ii. 8
Warrender, Lady Julia (née Maitland), i. 209; ii. 60
Warrender, of Lochead, Sir George, 4th Baronet, i. 127; ii. 60, 74, 167, 211
Warrender, Sir John, 5th Baronet, i. 209; ii. 60, 76
Warwick, Lord, i. 247; ii. 7
Waterford, Marchioness of, ii. 127
Waterford, 1st Marquess of, ii. 127
Waterloo, i. 179, 230
Waters, Colonel, i. 101
Watley, Colonel, i. 67
Waverers, the, ii. 244
Wear, Whitbread’s valet, i. 242
Webster, Lady Frances, i. 255
Webster, Sir Godfrey, i. 255
Weekly Political Register, Cobbett’s, i. 89, 132, 133
Weissenberg, Herr, ii. 262
Wellesley, Marchioness of, i. 70; ii. 248
Wellesley, Marquess of, i. 95, 113, 164, 175; ii. 285, 288; the Copenhagen
Expedition, i. 85; attacks on his Indian administration, i. 86, 90; the revolution in
Spanish South America, i, 86, 118; Whitbread hostile to, i. 88; Foreign Secretary, i.
96, 118; “the Atlas of the falling State,” i. 123; Portuguese soldiers, i.
130; resigns office, i. 153, 175; and Lord Holland, i. 154; Prince Regent and, i. 154,
156-159, 161, 163; “our new patron,” i. 157; Prime Minister, i. 158, 163;
and Sheridan, i. 159; and Canning, i. 161, 162; Paull, i. 226; “there seems an
idea of,” ii. 16, 20; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, ii. 63, 267, 328; Reform Bill,
ii. 247; letter to Creevey, ii. 327
Wellesley, Sir Henry, Lord Cowley, i. 218; ii. 263, 320
Wellington, Duke of, “the Beau,” i. 95. 3. 132, 148, 217, 260, 267, 303,
307. 337; ii. 18, 20, 42, 44, 79, 117, 140. 234. 269, 273, 284, 303; Secretary for
Ireland, i. 86; 2nd Peninsular War, i. 87-90, 93; 3rd Peninsular War, passage of the
Douro, i. 101-105, 109; Talavera, i. 107, 123, 125; Perceval’s
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notice of thanks, i. 124-127; a pension for, i. 128;
“Portuguese are now the fighting cocks of the army,” i. 128; Hutchinson on,
i. 130; Torres Vedras, i. 131; Siege of Badajos, i. 145; Congreve’s rockets, i.
147; siege of Burgos, i. 173; on General Murray’s operations, i. 185; in winter
quarters on French soil, i. 187; the thanks of the House of Commons, i. 198; British
Plenipotentiary at Vienna Congress, i. 213; predicts a Republic in Paris, i. 215, 226;
in command of the Allies in Belgium, i 218; composition of his forces, i. 219;
Waterloo, i. 221-231, 235-239; Lord Holland v., i. 246; Kinnaird and the Marinet
incident, i. 273, 276; extracts from Creevey’s journal about, i. 276-289; on the
English Princes, i. 277; on Tierney, i. 278; on the Prince Regent’s figure, i.
279; Duke of Kent, i. 282, 284; Richelieu, i. 285; on Grey and Lansdowne, i. 286;
Canning’s and Whitbread’s sparring bout, 287; withdraws Army of Occupation,
i. 288; on Lowe, i. 289; his “scrape” when Lord Lieutenant of Hants, ii. 6;
violent against Queen Caroline, ii. 14; ill, ii. 49; the Verona Congress, ii. 52, 60;
France v. Spain, ii. 64; and Duke of ¥«rk, ii. 67; and Canning, ii. 103, 111, 121, 135;
resigns Command-in-Chief, ii. 104, 123; Creevey’s confidence in, ii. 110; resigns
office, ii. 112, 113; “curious times these, Duke!” ii. 121; and Brougham,
ii. 122; correspondence with George IV. as to Command-in-Chief, ii. 123, 124;
Commander-in-Chief, ii. 131, 135; identifying himself with the Old Tories, ii. 131;
Lady Jersey and, ii. 133, 232; Goderich’s resignation, ii. 141; Prime Minister,
ii. 144, 153, 196; stands firm, ii. 147; Grey satisfied with, ii. 151; “will do
capitally,” ii. 152; and the new Buckingham Palace, ii. 156; his view of Corn
Laws, ii. 158; Huskisson’s resignation, ii. 158, 159; and George IV., ii. 159;
his “horrible appointments,” ii. 160; and the Roman Catholic question, ii.
170, 190, 193, 194,
198, 199; recalls Anglesey from Ireland, ii. 174.193-195; and Lady
Louisa Tighe, ii. 184; his intentions about Ireland, ii. 186; duel with Winchilsea, ii.
199, 200; a fall from his horse, ii. 201; Brougham on, ii. 208; in tip-top spirits, ii.
210; and William IV., ii. 212, 296, 298; at opening of Liverpool and Manchester
Railway, ii. 213; on Brougham as Chancellor, ii. 218; and Sir John Shelley, ii. 222;
George IV.’s executor, ii. 233, 320; the Ordnance tents, ii. 233; Lord Hill votes
against, ii. 240; fails to form Ministry, ii. 244, 246, 247; mobbed, ii. 248; the Irish
Church Bill, ii. 258; at Lord Cowley’s wedding, ii. 263; Chancellor of Oxford
University, ii. 279; Mrs. Arbuthnot’s death, ii. 286; removes Duke of Clarence
from office of Lord High Admiral, ii. 300; his evidence before Flogging Commission, ii.
310; Mrs. Fitzherbert, ii. 319, 320
Wellington Despatches, Civil and Military, i. 87, 128, 131, 185, 373, 304; ii. 53,
123, 124, 314, 315, 324
Werncck, i. 44
Western, Charles Callis (“Squire Western”), created Baron Western of
Ravenhall, i. 114, 313, 339; ii. 5, 236, 310; on the Castlereagh-Canning duel, i. 98;
Folkestone and Mrs. Clarke, i. 115, 116; on Brougham’s Treaty of Paris speech, i.
249; “no superior mind amongst us,” i. 251; on agricultural depression,
etc., i. 252; Queen Caroline’s trial, i. 310; on the abandonment of the Divorce
clause, i. 319; on Cobbett, i. 334; at the Lord Mayor’s dinner, i. 340; his
letters to Creevey, i. 98, 249, 251, 319, 334
Westmacott, editor of The Age, ii. 200
Westminster, 2nd Marquess of, ii. 260
Westminster Review, ii. 98
Westmorland, Earl of, i. 159; ii. 105, 112, 128, 171
Wetherell, Sir Charles, Attorney-General, ii. 224, 248
Wharncliffe, Lord, ii. 242, 244
Whateley, Councillor, ii. 231
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Whetham, General, i. 150
Whigs, under Grenville, i. 3; schism between Radicals and, i. 260; their fusion with
the Canningite Ministry, ii. 135
Whishaw, J., i. 5, 111, 138, 250
Whitbread, Lady Elizabeth, i. 109, 157, 196; ii. 153
Whitbread, Miss, i. 139
Whitbread, Samuel, i. 13, 14, 34. 114, 128, 139, 141, 156, 157, 173, 182, 185, 207,
217; ii. 117; Sheridan and Adair, i. 22; impeachment of Melville, i. 33, 88; the Boyd,
Benfield and Co. incident, i. 35, 36; opposes war policy of Government, 1. 88; Cintra
Convention, i. 89; and Sir Arthur Wellesley, i. 103-105; discusses nothing but politics
with Creevey, i. 109; and Tierney, i. 11o, 112; the “old trader,” i. 118;
Ponsonby and, i. 121; “stout and strong,” i. 123; the Walcheren Expedition,
i. 131; Creevey’s advice as to Office, i. 137, 140; his offer to Creevey, i. 142,
143; his projected exclusion from the Cabinet, i. 158, 183; and R. B. Sheridan, i. 159,
164, 165, 180; Brougham, i. 177; the only peacemaker, i. 179; his two capital blunders,
i. 181; correspondence with Tom Sheridan, 1. 190; Princess Charlotte and Prince of
Orange, i. 197; against grant to Wellington, i. 198; Princess of Wales’ letter
to, and his reply, i. 200, 201; his strange backwardness about Westminster, i. 204;
“all for Boney,” i. 214; commits suicide, i. 240-244, 249; ii. 41, 42, 44;
a sparring bout with Canning, i. 287; Grey and, ii. 118; his letters to Creevey, i.
88-90, 94, 99, 111, 117, 193, 195, 199
Whitbread, Samuel, son of above, ii. 71
Whitbread, William, ii. 71
Whitworth, Lord, British Ambassador at Paris, stormy interview with Napoleon, i. 10;
leaves Paris, i. 13; his liaison at St. Petersburg, i. 67
Wilberforce, William, M.P. for Hull, i. 36, 99; an inimitable speech for peace, i.
15; and Brougham, i. 30; Sydney Smith on, i. 167; his
opinion of Whitbread, i. 242; on exclusion of Queen
Caroline’s name from Liturgy, i. 306; and Lord John Russell, i. 309; a frustrated
intention, ii. 76
Wilbraham, i. 298
Wilde, Sir Thomas (afterwards Lord Truro), i. 328; present at Queen Caroline’s
death, ii. 21, 22; her funeral arrangements, ii. 24
Wilkie, Sir David, ii. 322
William IV., Duke of Clarence, i. 46, 47, 50, 62, 190, 277, 314; ii. 3, 99, 325;
letter to Creevey, i. 32; present at the Pearce-Gully prize-fight, i. 64; and the Bank
Note Bill, i. 146; Duke of Kent on, i. 268-270; ill, i. 272; “that Prince of
Blackguards,” i. 298; his vote v. Queen Caroline, i. 339; “our Billy is a
wag,” ii. 104; £9000 a year for, ii. 106; and Lady Sefton, ii. 212; his wish to
be comfortable, ii. 224; dismisses Seymour and Meynell from his household, ii. 225;
“I beg you won’t kneel, Lord Derby,” ii. 226; Grey’s appeal for
dissolution, ii. 227-229; at the Opera, ii. 228; his greeting to Creevey, ii. 229; and
Grey, ii. 231, 244-246, 274, 276, 286; his Coronation, ii. 235; and the Duchess of
Kent, ii. 238; peer-making, ii. 241, 244, 245; the Reform Bill, ii. 244, 264; commands
Wellington to form administration, ii. 244; and Brougham, ii. 246, 318; his gracious
behaviour to Creevey, ii. 258-260; “exactly so, Ma’am,” ii. 262; at
Olivia de Ros’ wedding, ii. 263; sends for Melbourne, ii. 282-284, 285, and
Coke’s speech against George III., ii. 294; dismisses Melbourne, sends for
Wellington, ii. 296-298; reprimanded and removed (when Duke of Clarence) from office of
Lord High Admiral, ii. 300; his 70th birthday, ii. 308; his death, ii. 321; his last
act, ii. 322; his generosity to Sir John Lade, ii. 335
Williams, John, ii. 39
Williams, Owen, i. 99, 111
Williams, Sir Thomas Hanbury, ii. 38, 39
Williamson, Sir Hedworth, ii. 81
Willoughby, d’Eresby, Lady (Dowager Lady Gwydyr), i. 311
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Wilmot, a house-painter at Warwick, i. 339
Wilson, the artist, ii. 322
Wilson, M.P. for City, i. 278
Wilson, General Sir Robert (“Jaffa” Wilson), i. 240; ii. 26, 32, 64, 68,
95, 107, 269; History of the British Expedition to Egypt, i. 312; letter from Taylor
to, ii. 90
Wilson, Harriet, i. 294
Wilson, Richard, ii. 300
Wilson, Sir M., ii. 114
Wilton, Lady Mary Stanley, Countess of, i. 305; ii. 48, 81, 83, 203 f, ii. 81, 82,
100, 128, 129
Wilton, 3rd Earl of, ii. 81, 82, 100, 128, 129
Winchester, Lord Mayor, ii. 308
Winchilsea, Countess of, (née Bagot), ii. 329
Winchilsea, 9th Earl of, his duel with Wellington, ii. 199, 200 Windham, Mr., i. 9,
19-21, 38; ii. 55
Windsor, Mrs., i. 47
Winslow, Lord, i. 62
Wolcott, John, “Peter Pindar,” The Lousiad, ii. 29
Wood, Alderman, his support of Queen Caroline, i. 202, 302, 318; ii. 14, 17, 18
Wood, Mr., Lord Grey’s Secretary, ii. 242, 249, 250
Woodville, Mrs., i. 279
Woronzow, Count, i. 283-285
Wortley, i. 160; ii. 103
Wrights, the, i. 112, 113, 115
Wyatt, the architect, ii. 289
Wykeham, Miss, i. 272
Wyndham, General Sir Henry, ii. 165
Wyndham, Hon. Charles, ii. 164
Wyndham, Hon. Mrs. (daughter of Lord Charles Somerset), ii. 165
Wyndham, Hon. William, ii. 164
Wyndham, Miss, ii. 164
Wynn, Rt. Hon. Charles W.
Williams, i. 128, 194, 214, 271; ii. 70, 113
Wynn, Sir W. W., i. 282; ii. 31
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Yarborough, Lord, i. 308
Yarmouth, Earl of, i. 150; ii. 191; Castlereagh’s second in duel with Canning,
i. 97; Sheridan and, i. 146, 195; Prince Regent and, i. 149; the Courier, i. 179;
“preaches peace at the corners of all the streets,” i. 214
York, Duchess of, i. 182, 183, 305; ii. 27
York, Duke of, i. 17, 81, 34, 44, 53, 123, 146, 150, 294, 297; ii. 3, 7,
61, 79, 89, 100, 157, 325; Commander-in-Chief, i. 63; Prince of Wales and, i, 63,
159; Mrs. Clarke, i. 97, 112, 115, 124, 151, 310; ii. 2; motion to reinstate as
Commander-in-Chief, i. 140, 147; his debts, i. 209; “so tipsy,” i. 184;
Duke of Kent on, i. 268, 271; “won’t live long,” i. 298; Queen
Caroline’s trial, i. 314, 339; Lauderdale’s story, ii. 27; at Ascot, ii.
77; the insidious Scroop, ii. 78; his natural son, ii. 97; building a new palace, ii.
99; his death and funeral, ii. 104, 106
Yorke, Mr., i. 127, 137
Young, Mr., Lord Melbourne’s
Secretary, ii. 311
Younger, an English merchant from Riga, ii. 290
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