Crisis in the City--The Chancellor of the Exchequer--A Journey to Paris--Lord Lyndhurst in Paris--Princess Lieven--Parties in France--Berryer--The Strasburg Conspirators--Rotten State of France--Presentation at the Tuileries--Ball at the Tuileries-- Bal Musard--Lord Granville--The Due de Broglie--Position of the Duc d'Orleans--Return to England--Conservative Reaction-- Sheil's Tirade against Lord Lyndhurst--Lyndhurst as a Tory Leader--Angry Debate on Church Rates--The Government on the Brink of Resignation--Sir R. Peel's Prospects--The King and Lord Aylmer--Death of Mrs. Fitzherbert--Ministerial Compromise--Westminster Election--Majority of the Princess Victoria--The King's Illness--The King's Letter to the Princess--Preparations for the Council--Sir E. Peel on the Prospects of the New Reign--Prayers ordered for the King's Recovery--Affairs of Lord Ponsonby--Death of King William IV.-- First Council of Queen Victoria--The Queen proclaimed-- Character of William IV. Page 376 A JOURNAL of the REIGN OF KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH CHAPTER XXI. Dinner at Greenwich--Monk Lewis--The King's Letter--Lord Althorp's Finance--Salutes to the Royal Family--Death of Lord Dover--His Character--Lyndhurst and Brougham on the Local Courts Bill--Charles Napier captures the Miguelite Fleet--The Irish Church Bill--The Duke of Wellington and the Bonapartes-- Blount's preaching--Sir Robert Peel on Political Unions--Mr. George Villiers appointed to Madrid--Duke of Richmond-- Suspension Clause in Irish Church Bill--Apprenticeship Clause in West India Bill--State of House of Commons--Lucien and Joseph Bonaparte--Lord Plunket--Denis Lemarchant--Brougham and Sugden--Princess Lieven--Anecdotes of the Emperor Nicholas-- Affairs of Portugal--Don Miguel at Strathfieldsaye--Prorogation of Parliament--Results of the Reform Bill. June 29th, 1833 {p.001} I am going, if not too lazy, to note down the everyday nothings of my life, and see what it looks like. We dined yesterday at Greenwich, the dinner given by Sefton, who took the whole party in his omnibus, and his great open carriage; Talleyrand, Madame de Dino, Standish, Neumann, and the Molyneux family; dined in a room called 'the Apollo' at the Crown and Sceptre. I thought we should never get Talleyrand up two narrow perpendicular staircases, but he sidles and wriggles himself somehow into every place he pleases. A capital dinner, tolerably pleasant, and a divine evening. Went afterwards to the 'Travellers,' and played at whist, and read the new edition of 'Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann.' There is something I don't like in his style; his letters don't amuse me so much as they ought to do.