A Proclamation against Rioters--Appointments--Duke of Wellington in Hampshire--General Excitement--The Tory Party--State of Ireland--More Disturbances--Lord Grey's Colleagues--Election at Liverpool--The Black Book--The Duke of Wellington's Position and Character--A Council on a Capital Sentence--Brougham in the House of Lords--The Clerks of the Council--Lord Grey and Lord Lyndhurst--The Chancellor of Ireland--Lord Melbourne--Duke of Richmond--Sir James Graham--Lyndhurst Lord Chief Baron--Judge Allan Park--Lord Lyndhurst and the Whigs--Duke of Wellington and Polignac--The King and his Sons--Polish Revolution-- Mechanics' Institute--Repeal of the Union--King Louis Philippe--Lord Anglesey and O'Connell--A Dinner at the Athenaeum--Canning and George IV.--Formation of Canning's Government--Negotiation with Lord Melbourne--Count Walewski-- Croker's Boswell--State of Ireland--Brougham and Sugden--Arrest of O'Connell--Colonel Napier and the Trades Unions--The Civil List--Hunt in the House of Commons--Southey's Letter to Brougham on Literary Honours--The Budget--O'Connell pleads guilty--Achille Murat--Weakness of the Government--Lady Jersey and Lord Durham--Lord Duncannon--Ireland--Wordsworth. Page 73 CHAPTER XIV. Introduction of the Reform Bill--Attitude of the Opposition-- Reform Debates--Peel--Wilberforce and Canning--Old Sir Robert Peel--The City Address--Agitation for Reform--Effects of the Reform Bill--Brougham as Chancellor--Brougham at the Horse Guards--Miss Kemble--Vote on the Timber Duties--Lord Lansdowne's Opinion of the Bill--Reform Bill carried by one Vote--The King in Mourning--The Prince of Orange--Peel's Reserve--Ministers beaten--Parliament dissolved by the King in Person--Tumult in both Houses--Failure of the Whig Ministry-- The King in their Hands--The Elections--Illumination in the City--The Queen alarmed--Lord Lyndhurst's View of the Bill-- Lord Grey takes the Garter--The King at Ascot--Windsor under William IV.--Brougham at Whitbread's Brewery and at the British Museum--Breakfast at Rogers'--The Cholera--Quarantine--Meeting of Peers--New Parliament meets--Opened by the King--'Hernani' at Bridgewater House--The Second Reform Bill--The King's Coronation--Cobbett's Trial--Prince Leopold accepts the Crown of Belgium--Peel and the Tories--A Rabble Opposition--A Council for the Coronation. Page 121 CHAPTER XV.