1 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 88. Edited by his Widow.
2 (Return)Alison's "History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon," vol. ii. p. 421.
3 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 86.
4 (Return)"The Government," writes a Cabinet Minister to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, "is in a very strange and, I must acknowledge, in a precarious state."--Lord Sidmouth to Earl Talbot, Pellew's "Life of Lord Sidmouth," vol. iii. p. 310.
5 (Return)A good account of it may be found in Pellew's "Life of Lord Sidmouth," vol. iii. p. 312.
6 (Return)Thistlewood's Trial, p. 37. Alison's "Europe," vol. ii. p. 425.
7 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 37.
8 (Return)The Duke of Clarence.
9 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 88.
10 (Return)"Every one," the Duke of Wellington acknowledged, "had his secret persuasion and his wish, that with such a case against her she would never come here."--R. Plumer Ward's "Diary," vol. ii. p. 65.
11 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 3.
12 (Return)"Wilberforce's Life," by his Sons, vol. v. p. 54.
13 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Eldon," vol. ii. p. 5.
14 (Return)"Letters," p. 251. Alison states that attempts were made to form a new Ministry, with Lord Wellesley at the head--"History of Europe," vol. ii. p. 457. This, however, as has been shown (antep. 9), is incorrect.
15 (Return)Lord Sidmouth's intelligence led him to expect daily a revolutionary movement.--"Life," by Dean Pellew, vol. iii. p. 325.
16 (Return)The minister of religion exceeded the democratic baronet in the violence of his denunciations of the ruling powers, a fair example of which may be found in the followingmorceau:--"Kings, princes, dukes, lords, commons, parliaments, archbishops, bishops, prelates, rectors, high-constables, constables, sheriffs, deputy-constables and bailiffs, are all corrupt, and the time is near at hand when they will be upset. The people should riseen masseto suppress such a tyrannical Government as the one of this country, and it will not be long, but very soon, that it shall be overturned, and many a bloody battle may be fought, and many a one incarcerated in prison, before it shall be accomplished."
17 (Return)Lady Conyngham.
18 (Return)Sir Francis Burdett.
19 (Return)Pellew's "Life of Lord Sidmouth," vol. iii. p. 328.
20 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 3.
21 (Return)"Wilberforce's Life," by his Sons, vol. v. p. 55.
22 (Return)Ibid.
23 (Return)"Life," vol. v. p. 56.
24 (Return)The Queen perpetrated one of her characteristic jests when this question was being furiously debated: "The praying," she observed, "makes me very hungry, and when I am in the Liturgy I shall be famished."
25 (Return)Ibid. p. 58.
26 (Return)Letter to Samuel Roberts, Esq., "Life," vol. v. p. 62.
27 (Return)Letter to Samuel Roberts, Esq., "Life," vol. v. p. 65.
28 (Return)"Wilberforce's Life," vol. v. p. 68.
29 (Return)Ibid. p. 69.
30 (Return)"Letters," p. 255.
31 (Return)"Life of George IV.," p. 425.
32 (Return)Alison's "Europe," vol. ii. p. 549.
33 (Return)"Life," vol. v. p. 77.
34 (Return)Ibid. p. 78.
35 (Return)Phipps's "Memoirs of R. P. Ward," vol. ii. p. 61.
36 (Return)"Life," vol. v. p. 78.
37 (Return)Lord Dudley's "Letters," p 242.
38 (Return)"Sidmouth's Life," by Pellew, vol. iii. p. 330. Alison's "Europe," vol. ii. p. 461.
39 (Return)Phipps's "Memoirs of Robert Plumer Ward," vol. ii. p. 56.
40 (Return)Phipps's "Memoirs of Robert Plumer Ward," vol. ii. p. 58.
41 (Return)"Life," vol. v. p. 72.
42 (Return)Phipps's "Memoirs of Ward," vol. ii. p. 63.
43 (Return)"Life," by Dean Pellew, vol. iii. p. 330.
44 (Return)Whatever may be thought of the testimony of the Italian witnesses, that of the English officers examined was above suspicion. Their evidence, an impartial historian has acknowledged, proved her guilty of conduct that rendered her "unfit to be at the head of English society, and amply justified the measures taken to exclude her from it."--Alison's "Europe," vol. ii. p. 466.
45 (Return)Dean Pellew's "Life of Lord Sidmouth," vol. iii p. 333.
46 (Return)"Memoirs," by Phipps, vol. ii. p. 70.
47 (Return)Ibid. p. 73.
48 (Return)Phipps's "Memoirs of R. Plumer Ward," vol. ii. p. 73.
49 (Return)Ibid. p. 77.
50 (Return)"Memoirs," by Phipps, vol. ii. p. 91.
51 (Return)Ibid. p. 93.
52 (Return)Alison's "Europe," vol. ii. p. 467.
53 (Return)"Memoirs," by Phipps, vol. ii. p. 101.
54 (Return)"Memoirs," by Phipps, vol. ii. p. 95.
55 (Return)"Wilberforce," vol. v. p. 81.
56 (Return)This exhibition the Bishop of Llandaff stigmatizes as "a mockery of religious solemnity, at which every serious Christian must shudder."--Pellew's "Life of Sidmouth," vol. iii p. 336.
57 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 36.
58 (Return)Dean Pellew's "Life of Lord Sidmouth," vol. iii. p. 337.
59 (Return)Dean's Pellew's "Life of Lord Sidmouth," vol. iii. p. 340.
60 (Return)Lord Nugent.
61 (Return)Lord Dudley's "Letters," p. 301.
62 (Return)"Life," by Twiss, vol. ii. p. 40.
63 (Return)"Life," by Twiss, vol. ii. p. 41.
64 (Return)Lord Castlereagh's father having recently died, he had succeeded to the title.
65 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 43.
66 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 48.
67 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 91.
68 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 94.
69 (Return)Alison's "History of Europe," vol. ii. p. 486.
70 (Return)This officer took a prominent part in the disturbances created by the populace of London on the passage of the Queen's remains through the metropolis, to be embarked for the Continent.
71 (Return)This is incorrect. His lordship subsequently succeeded his brother as Marquis of Londonderry, when he threw up his appointment as ambassador at the Court of Austria rather than serve under Mr. Canning.
72 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 106.
73 (Return)Ibid., p. 107.
74 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 114.
75 (Return)Lord Dudley's "Letters," p. 295.
76 (Return)Alison's "History of Europe," vol. ii. p. 489.
77 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 61.
78 (Return)Right Hon. William Sturges Bourne, Secretary of State in 1827.
79 (Return)Son of the Earl of Haddington. In 1833, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
80 (Return)Viscount Folkestone, the present Earl of Radnor.
81 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 63.
82 (Return)Ibid., p. 64.
83 (Return)The well known figure in Hyde Park, erected in honour of the Duke of Wellington.
84 (Return)See his letter to Lady Bankes, Twiss, vol. ii. p. 71.
85 (Return)Knighton's "Memoirs," p. 118.
86 (Return)"Memoirs of Sir William Knighton, Bart."
87 (Return)Ibid.
88 (Return)His best advocate will be found in "The Castlereagh Despatches," in twelve volumes, edited by his brother, the late Marquis.
89 (Return)Alison's "History of Europe," vol. ii. p. 526.
90 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 73.
91 (Return)Lockhart's "Life," vol. v. p. 195.
92 (Return)Lockhart's "Life," vol. v. p. 215.
93 (Return)Lord Dudley's "Letters," p. 351.
94 (Return)Lord Dudley's "Letters," p. 356.
95 (Return)Lord Liverpool.
96 (Return)The Duke of Wellington.
97 (Return)The enclosures have not been preserved.
98 (Return)Lord William Bentinck.
99 (Return)Enclosures not preserved.
100 (Return)Afterwards, in 1839, created Lord Beauvale; he was for some years Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary at Vienna.
101 (Return)Sir Charles Stuart, created in 1828 Lord Stuart de Rothesay.
102 (Return)In 1828 created Baron Heytesbury.
103 (Return)The late Lord Raglan.
104 (Return)Afterwards created Viscount Goderich and Earl of Ripon.
105 (Return)Created Baron Fitzgerald in 1826.
106 (Return)Created Baron Glenelg in 1836.
107 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 76.
108 (Return)Lord Dudley's "Letters," p. 321.
109 (Return)In 1839 created Baron Monteagle.
110 (Return)The Duke of Wellington, Lord Maryborough, and the Marquis Wellesley.
111 (Return)Mr. Plunket.
112 (Return)William Wellesley Pole, created in 1821 Baron Maryborough.
113 (Return)Canning and Wynn.
114 (Return)Lord Londonderry.
115 (Return)Mr. Francis Freeling, in 1828 created a Baronet--Secretary to the Post Office.
116 (Return)The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
117 (Return)Not preserved.
118 (Return)Sir Robert Wilson.
119 (Return)Lord Eldon.
120 (Return)Hansard.
121 (Return)Twiss's "Life of Lord Eldon," vol. ii. p. 86.
122 (Return)Ibid., p. 87.
123 (Return)Lord Maryborough succeeded the Marquis Cornwallis.
124 (Return)Canning.