Results of this Tour--Ireland--The Irish Church--Decline of Sir Robert Peel's Popularity--Position of Sir Robert Peel--King of Hanover in London--The Duke of Wellington on the Duke of Marlborough--Anecdote of Talleyrand--Debates on Ireland--Parliament Prorogued--The Queen's Yacht--Review of the Session--The Queen at Eu--Agreement there--The Queen of Spain's Marriage--Miss Berry and Lord Orford--Ranke and Macaulay at Kent House--A Council on Crutches--Chatsworth--Prosecution of O'Connell--Society--O'Connell--Lord Brougham's Action against Fonblanque--Death of Hon. Edward Villiers--The Irish Trials--Law against Betting--The Education Question--The Duc de Bordeaux's Visit--Lord Melbourne after his Illness--King George II. robbed--Royal Visit to Chatsworth--The _Times_ on the Duc de Bordeaux's Visit--The Westminster Play--Lord Melbourne--Our Relations with Rome--The Dublin Jury Lists--Lord Ellenborough and the Court of Directors--O'Connell's Remedies for Irish Discontent. _London, August 1st, 1843._--With this tableau of Baden life and manners my journalising ended. There certainly was no such variety in it as to require any further notice, and there was no necessity for my describing the beautiful scenery amidst which I continued to wander. I stayed on at Baden to meet the Granvilles, who arrived from Switzerland on Friday 14th, to my great joy. I remained till Wednesday 19th, when I took the diligence to Iffetsheim, steamed down the Rhine, embarked at Ostend on Saturday 22nd, had a rough, disagreeable passage to Dover, and got to London on Sunday morning. On Monday went to Goodwood, which was very good, and returned to take up my abode in London on Saturday 29th. This expedition answered to me even better than I had any idea it would. There were no difficulties or drawbacks of any kind. It acted on my mind as a moral alterative; the new scenes, the constant movement and occupation, did me a world of good. I felt in all ways better and happier while I was there, and I hope that it will not be without a certain beneficial effect for the future. The interest and the pleasure produced by this short excursion confirm my resolution to do something of the same sort in some direction or other every year, and always, if I can, to avoid _the season_ in London. I continued to the last to enjoy the beauties of Baden, and it was only the day but one before I left it that I walked under and over the rocks by the old Castle, one of the most striking and beautiful of all the celebrated localities. The scenery of the Rhine appeared to me exceedingly tame and uninteresting after that around Baden. There was nobody in Germany for me to discuss politics with; but at Baden the English newspapers arrived so regularly that I could follow the march of affairs here, and read all the debates.