The Creevey Papers
Vol. II. Contents
THE CREEVEY PAPERS
A SELECTION FROM THE CORRES-
PONDENCE & DIARIES OF THE LATE
THOMAS CREEVEY, M.P.
BORN 1768—DIED 1838
EDITED BY
THE RIGHT HON. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL
BART., M.P., LL.D., F.R.S.
IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. II.
WITH PORTRAITS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1904
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CONTENTS TO VOL. II.
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CHAPTER I.
1821.
Queen Caroline’s establishment—The summary
prorogation—The pretender Olivia—Lady
Holland at home—Brougham fulfils a
pledge—Dinner with the Queen—Lord Holland’s
apology—The Queen excluded from the Abbey—The north to be roused—The
Queen’s death—Suspicions about Brougham’s
honesty—An honourable executor—Lord
Lauderdale—George IV. in Ireland—End of the
Royal visit
1-32
CHAPTER II.
1822.
Creevey’s activity—In the Whig camp—“A Voice
from St. Helena”—The frequency of
suicide—Castlereagh’s death—George
IV. in Scotland—The Duke of
Sussex—Canning assumes the
lead—Lord Thanet on the
situation—Canning’s voice,
Castlereagh’s hand—Mr.
Cobbett’s views—Knowsley revisited
33-58
CHAPTER III.
1823-1824.
A young lady’s letters—Criticism upon
Canning—Two very different dukes—The Duke of
Buckingham—Social scheming—Tittle-tattle—At
Crockford’s—Royal Ascot—Newmarket—A visit
to Lambton—Captain FitzClarence’s
opinions
59-83
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CHAPTER IV.
1825-1826.
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Two Scottish divines—The birth of
railways—Creevey’s seat in
jeopardy—Lambton
revisited—Creevey as an author—Lady
Grey’s views—Lord J. Russell on
Reform—Canning and the Opposition—The Corn Laws
84-102
CHAPTER V.
1827.
Liverpool’s last illness—Brougham
receives a challenge—Creevey enjoys his freedom—A Cabinet
crisis—Mischievous times—Brougham in the thick of
it—Coalition—Creevey’s
objections—Wellington and
Grey—Death of
Canning—Grey and
Brougham—Lowther Castle—The
Goderich Ministry—Party politics in the north—The
affair of Navarino
103-134
CHAPTER VI.
1827-1828.
Return to Croxteth—Rumours of war—Lord
Grey’s speculations—Sefton and
Brougham—What is Brougham
after?—General distress in the country—A quarrel—Overtures to the
Whigs—Rival marquesses—The Duke of Sussex and the
Whigs—Lord Hill puts down his
foot—Huskisson
resigns—Collingwood’s
memoirs—Petworth—Creevey out in the cold—The
Clare election
135-167
CHAPTER VII.
1828.
An obsequious cicerone—The Bessborough
estates—Lord Hutchinson—Power of
Kilfane—Impressions of Ireland—Lord Donoughmore’s
recollections—Irish society—Dan O’Connell—The
Tighes of Woodstock—Creevey’s
indiscretion—The Viceregal Lodge—Carton
168-192
CHAPTER VIII.
1829.
Catholic emancipation—The Garth scandal—A party
at Lady Sefton’s—Intrigues in the Opposition—First
trip on the railway—A spendthrift peer
193-205
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CHAPTER IX.
1830-1831.
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Brougham’s literary schemes—Lord
Douro’s engagement—Death of George
IV.—Death of Huskisson—Lord
Grey’s administration—A party in Downing
Street—Queen Adelaide’s Drawing-room—The first
draft of Reform—Stirring times—The second reading carried—The Bill in
Committee—Creevey returns to Parliament—The Prime
Minister—Influenza—The race for honours—Coronation gossip—The
Reform agitation
206-239
CHAPTER X.
1832-1833.
The prospects of the Bill—A party at Lady
Grey’s—Lord Grey resigns—The Reform
Bill passed—The end of the old order—The Reformed Parliament—Affairs in
Arlington Street—Miss Berry’s
dinner-party—Roscoe as historian—King
William’s levee
240-260
CHAPTER XI.
1833.
The Court at Windsor—Private political history—Lord
Holland’s ability—Gossip—Joseph
Parkes
261-271
CHAPTER XII.
1834.
Creevey’s office
threatened—Rogers’s dinner-party—Competition for
office—Oxford declines
Talleyrand—Creevey’s new
post—Anecdote about Lord
Grey—Brougham blamed for the
crisis—Lord Grey’s opinion of
Brougham—A breeze with
Brougham—The Road at its prime—Lord
Grey in retirement—Overtures to Lord
Howick—Melbourne’s
dismissal—Character of Lord Sefton—Visit at
Howick—At Holland House again
272-303
CHAPTER XIII.
1835-1836.
Creevey as an onlooker—Lady Grey at
home—“Bear” Ellice—Action against
Lord Melbourne—Cassiobury—Death of Charles
X
304-316
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CHAPTER XIV., And Last.
1837-1838.
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Death of Mrs. Fitzherbert—and of William
IV.—The young Queen—Brighton revisited—The Marquess
Wellesley—Dinner with the Duke of
Sussex—Holkham—Lady Charlotte Bury’s
book—“Where shall I go next?”
317-336
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
VOL. II.
Mrs. Creevey
Frontispiece
From a Picture in the possession of Mrs. Blackett Ord,
Whitfield, Northumberland
TO FACE PAGE
From the Picture by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, F.R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery
From the Mezzotint by T.
Hodgetts, after J.
Graham
The Third Marquess Of Lansdowne
116
From the Picture by H.
Walton, in the National Portrait Gallery
From the Picture by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, P.R.A., at Christ Church, Oxford
From the Picture by Sir Edwin
Landseer, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery
Daniel O’connell, M.P.
194
From the Picture by B.
Mulrenin, R.H.A., in the National Portrait Gallery
From the Picture by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, P.R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery
The Countess Grey and two Children
244
From the Mezzotint by Samuel
Cousins, R.A., after Sir Thomas
Lawrence, P.R.A.
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TO FACE PAGE
From an Engraving try S. W.
Reynolds, after J.
Opie, R. A.
From the Picture by Sir Thomas
Lawrence, P.R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery
