The Creevey Papers
Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 8 March 1815
“March 8, 1815.
“. . . I must repeat my intreaties that if you can at
all make it convenient to come even for a fortnight this session after Easter,
you should do so. Whitbread cannot tell
you how much you are wanted, because he is quite satisfied all is right when he
is there himself. . . . All our friends are jibbing on the Scotch job, except
the Mountain. To hear Whigs speak for a measure that goes directly to augment
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the power of the Crown in the very
worst direction, viz. great increase of judicial
patronage, is a little spleening. . . . Adam* and Lauderdale talk
them over, tho’ they all know that Adam was a
principal means of keeping them out of place. This is a subject too irritating,
by God, to think of. What think you, too, of Adam keeping
his household office about the P., tho’ a puisne judge? Were I in Parlt., I should
undoubtedly bring forward a specific and personal question upon it. But why
does not Folkestone? I hope to God he
will.”
William Adam (1751-1839)
Scottish barrister, Whig MP (1784-1812) and ally of Charles James Fox (whom he once
wounded in a duel); he was privy councillor (1815) and a friend of Sir Walter Scott.
William Pleydell- Bouverie, third earl of Radnor (1779-1869)
Son of the second earl (d. 1828); educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he was Whig MP
for Downton (1801) and Salisbury (1802-28), and an associate of Sir Francis Burdett and
Samuel Whitbread.
Thomas Erskine, first baron Erskine (1750-1823)
Scottish barrister who was a Whig MP for Portsmouth (1783-84, 1790-1806); after defending
the political radicals Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall in 1794 he was lord chancellor in the
short-lived Grenville-Fox administration (1806-07).
James Maitland, eighth earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839)
Scottish peer allied with Charles James Fox; he was author of
An
Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth, and into the Means and causes of
its Increase (1804) and other works on political economy.
Samuel Whitbread (1764-1815)
The son of the brewer Samuel Whitbread (1720-96); he was a Whig MP for Bedford, involved
with the reorganization of Drury Lane after the fire of 1809; its financial difficulties
led him to suicide.
