Brougham, Lord, attack upon, in 'Quarterly Review,' i. 16; speech on the Queen's trial, 35; letter to the Queen, 57; character of, 117; qualities of, ii. 18, 33; appointed Lord High Chancellor, 65; discontent of, 65; social qualities of, 69; anecdote of, 106; quarrel with Sugden, 106; correspondence with Southey on rewards to literary men, 112; speech on Chancery Reform, 118; domestic kindness of, 120; origin of representation of Yorkshire, 125; as Lord Chancellor, 128; at the Horse Guards, 129; as a judge, 145; at dinner at Hanbury's brewery, 148; at the British Museum, 149; claims the old Great Seal, 188; intention of sitting at the Privy Council, 223; speech on the Russian Loan, 244; quarrel with Sugden, 312; anecdote of, 314; Bill for creating a new Court of Appeal, 342; Bill objected to, 344; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Bill, 365; sits on the case of Drax _v._ Grosvenor, 370; as Chancellor, iii. 22; anecdotes of Queen Caroline, 36; and Sir William Horne, 67; meets Sir Thomas Denman in Bedfordshire, 71; judicial changes, 71; defence of himself, 72; apology for, 76; speech on Lord Wynford's Bill for the observance of the Sabbath, 83; on the Pluralities Bill, 86; on the Irish Church, 94; and the 'Times,' 96; Lord Chancellor in Lord Melbourne's Administration, 113; and Lord Westmeath, 119; conduct in the Westmeath case, 119, 124; versatility of, 121; lines applied to, 121; Greek epigrams, 121; ambition of, 122; in Scotland, 133; communicates to the 'Times' the fall of Lord Melbourne's first Administration, 145; resigns the Great Seal, 156; takes leave of the Bar, 156; asks for the Chief Baronship, 157; anecdote, 232; conduct of, in the case of Swift _v._ Kelly, 260, 267; on the London University Charter, 261; judgment in the case of Swift _v._ Kelly, 274; on the Corporation Bill, 286; violence in the House of Lords, 303; illness of, 329; and Macaulay, 337, 338; at Queen Victoria's first Council, 408 Brummel, 'Beau,' i. 282 Brussels, disturbances at, ii. 40 Buccleuch, Duke of, subscription to election expenses, iii. 182 Budget, the, 1831, ii. 113 Buller, James, death of, ii. 59 Buelow, Baron von, on English affairs, iii. 211 Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, iii. 348 Bunsen, Baron, i. 315; career of, 327; on Roman affairs, 389 Burdett, Sir Francis, returned for Westminster, 1837, iii. 398 Burghersh, Lord, at Florence, i. 299; amateur opera, 301 Burghersh, Lady, intercedes for a prisoner at the Old Bailey, ii. 85 Burghley, party at, iii. 53 Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, writings of, iii. 209; compared with Mackintosh, 314 Burke, Sir G., conversation with, on O'Connell, ii. 111 Buxton, Fowell, dinner at the brewery, ii. 148 Byng, Right Hon. George, Lord of the Treasury, iii. 95 Byron, Lord, Moore's Life of, i. 272; character of, 273 Cambridge, H.R.H. the Duchess of, reception of, i. 2