TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES The Third Part of The Greville Memoirs contains two volumes, of which this is the first. The second volume is available from Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40681 All spellings are as they appeared in the original text save for those that were obviously printer's errors. All phrases that are in languages other than English have been italicised for consistency. The oe ligature is replaced by the separate letters oe. There are two styles of footnotes used in this work. Footnotes enclosed in square brackets [ ] are by the editor. Footnotes not enclosed in square brackets are by the author. 1 [This note is by the editor.] 2 This note is by the author. THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS (THIRD PART) VOL. I. PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON _THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS_ (_THIRD PART_) A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA FROM 1852 TO 1860 BY THE LATE CHARLES C. F. GREVILLE, ESQ. CLERK OF THE COUNCIL IN TWO VOLUMES--VOL. I. LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1887 _All rights reserved_ PREFACE OF THE EDITOR TO THE THIRD PART OF THIS JOURNAL. It appears to be unnecessary and inexpedient to delay the publication of the last portion of these papers, which contain some record of the events occurring between the year 1852 and the close of the year 1860, a period already remote from the present time, and relating almost exclusively to men of the last generation. I have little to add to the notices prefixed by me to the two preceding portions of this work, but I am grateful for the length of days which has enabled me to complete the task confided to me by Mr. Greville three and twenty years ago, and to leave behind me a record of that delightful company to which I was bound by the closest ties of intimacy and friendship. On looking back upon the first half of the present century, I believe that we were too unconscious of the exceptional privileges we enjoyed, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate the remarkable gifts of the statesmen, the orators, the historians, the poets, and the wits who shed an incomparable lustre on the politics, the literature, and the social intercourse of those years. Of these personages some traces are to be found in the preceding volumes and in these pages.