Chapter XXXIII: Appendix: The Royal Precedency Question (3)

Victoria, Her Majesty Queen, accession of, i. 2; praise of, 14,
20; audience to Princesse Lieven, 15; interview of, with the
Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, 20; visit to Queen
Adelaide, 21; cordiality to Lord Melbourne, 22; picture of
first Council of, 83; at a ball at the Palace, 91; Coronation
of, 105, 106; two sermons, 116; and Lord Melbourne, 130; life
at Windsor, 146; resignation of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, 200;
the Bedchamber difficulty, 201-206; declaration of marriage of,
247; opens Parliament (1840), 253; Marriage of, 266; goes to
the Ancient Concert, 275; at a ball at Lansdowne House, 282;
shot at, 288; on the Eastern Question, 323; visit to Nuneham
and Oxford, ii. 13; visit to Chiswick, 14; visit to Woburn, 26;
council for appointing ministers in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, 37; admirable behaviour of, 38; appointments in
the Household (1841), 42, 43; reception of the new Ministers,
44; birth of the Prince of Wales, 51; the new Ministers, 84;
shot at, 96; first visit to Scotland, 108; visit to the Château
d'Eu, 196, 200; visit to Chatsworth, 215; fancy ball, 283;
absence in Germany, 292; sends for Lord J. Russell, 317; Lord
J. Russell's audience, 322, 323; letter on Lord Palmerston's
despatch, 424; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434;
good order of private affairs of, iii. 67; correspondence on
the Spanish marriages, 168; visit of the Prince of Prussia to,
179; affection of, for the Orleans Royal family, 186; annoyance
of, at Lord Palmerston's conduct, 289; visit to Ireland, 295;
life at Balmoral, 296; on Lord Palmerston's conduct of foreign
affairs, 317; sends for the Duke of Wellington, 388; on the
crisis, 390

'Victoria and Albert,' the, Royal yacht, ii. 196

Vienna, outbreak at, iii. 158

Villiers, Right Hon. Charles P., correspondence with Cobden, ii.
349

Villiers, Hon. Edward, death and character of, ii. 208, 209

Visconti, Madame, i. 365

Wakefield, Mr. Edward Gibbon, appointed by Lord Durham, i. 110

Wakley, Mr., i. 60

Wales, H.R.H. Prince of, birth of, ii. 51; question of promotion
for the officer on guard, 51; question of a baronetcy for the
Mayor of Chester, 52; armorial bearings of, 63; gazetted Duke
of Saxony, 65

Wales, North, excursion to, ii. 15-20; the inhabitants of, 19

Walewski, Count, mission of, i. 315; opinion of Lord Palmerston,
iii. 418

Walpole, Rt. Hon. Spencer, position of, iii. 397; Home Secretary
in Lord Derby's Administration, 451; clause in the Militia
Bill, 449

Walter, John, Mr., returned for Nottingham, i. 391; succeeds to
the 'Times,' iii. 64

Washington, the Treaty of, signed, ii. 101; discovery of a
missing map, 102; attacked by Lord Palmerston, 101, 104-106;
controversy kept up, 109, 111; dissatisfaction of Lord J.
Russell at, 126; ratification of, 147

Wellington, Duke of, the, on operations in Canada, i. 37; on his
Spanish campaigns, 37-41, 46; advice of, to the King of
Hanover, 42; patriotism of, 45; on the Canada Bill, 53;
comparison of, with Hannibal, 57; at the Waterloo dinner, 103;
meets Marshal Soult, 105; and Mr. Croker, 105; equestrian
statue of, 106; contrast to Lord Brougham, 111; panegyric on
despatches of, 120, 121; with Lord Anglesey at Waterloo, 135;
at Orthez, 135; at Salamanca, 136; lost his army, 136;
interview of, with the Duke of Newcastle, 195; assurance of
support to Lord Melbourne after moderation of the latter, 213;
effect of speech of, 214; angry vein of, 225; at the Dover
dinner, 237; Mr. Croker's anecdotes of, 248; serious seizure
of, 267; on the Privilege Question, 270; altered appearance of,
271, 275; at Court, 278; instance of failing memory, 278;
speech on the China question, 286; conversation with, 287;
opposes the Canada Bill, 294; influence of, 296; on Eastern
affairs, 300; illness of, 373; self-reliance of, ii. 34;
irritability of, 43; chattels of, 59; delusions of, 61; meets
the King of Prussia, 77; on events in Afghanistan, 89, 100,
137; at Exeter Hall, 97; opinion of Lord Ellenborough, 139; on
the Duke of Marlborough, 192, 193; Talleyrand and Napoleon,
193; on the evils of the press, 220; deference shown to, at the
Cabinet, 223; increasing irritability of, 223; correspondence
with Lord Haddington, 224; at a review, 243; on the Corn Laws,
351; decorations for the Peninsular soldiers, 434; conversation
with, iii. 55; reasons against taking office, 55; on the
defence of the country, 76; on the Enlistment Bill, 76, 78;
Wyatt's statue of, 91; failing powers of, 97; and Mr. Croker,
98; letter of, on the defence of the country, 107; preparations
of, for the great Chartist meeting, 162; death of Mr.
Arbuthnot, 362; sent for by the Queen, 388; death and character
of, 474

Wells, visit to, iii. 207

West Indies, threatened emancipation of the, i. 84

West India question, the, iii. 175

West India Committee, iii. 187

West India Bill, iii. 193

Westminster Play 'Phormio,' ii. 216

Wharncliffe, Rt. Hon. Lord, Lord President in Sir R. Peel's
Administration, ii. 37; management of the Privy Council Office,
212; contradicts the statement of the 'Times' on the repeal of
the Corn Laws, 312-314; death of, 335

Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, in society, iii. 73

Wheatstone, Mr., i. 79

Whig Government, prospects of the, i. 180; state of the party,
193; split with the Radicals, 192; Government resigns, 199;
defeat of the party at the general election (1841), ii. 21-23;
negotiations with the Peelites (1851), iii, 383; possible
coalition with the Peelites, discussed, 437-440

Wiesbaden, visits to, ii. 171, 285; theatre and society at, 172

'Wilberforce, Life of,' review of, in the 'Edinburgh Review,'
i. 90

Wilberforce, Archdeacon (afterwards Bishop of Oxford), at the
Grange, ii. 264

Wilde, Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice, dinner party at, iii. 125

Wilkie, David, picture of the Queen's First Council, i. 79, 82

William IV., H. M. King, as Duke of Clarence, i. 2; Lord High
Admiral, 3; character of, 3; funeral of, 8

Wilton, visit to, i. 223

Windcliffe, visit to, i. 222

Windsor Castle, invitation to, i. 132; the Queen at, 146; Council
at, 246; dinner at, 246; Mayor of Newport at, 249; anecdote of
M. Guizot, 310; dinner in St. George's Hall, ii. 11; Council
and dinner at, 44, 45

Wiseman, Dr., ii. 25; conversation on relations with the Pope,
iii. 108; manifesto of, 369

Woburn, visit of the Queen to, ii. 26; visit to, 46, 47; party
at, 76; fire at, 76; management of the estate, 110; contrasted
with Bretby, 416

Wolfe, General, anecdote of, ii. 120

Wolff, Dr., i. 88

Wood, Right Hon. Sir Charles, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii.
405; income-tax difficulty, iii. 146

Wood, Mr., President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce,
dismissal of, i. 165

Wood, James, Mr., will case of, ii. 28

Worms, visit to, ii. 287

Worsley, visit to, ii. 303

Wrest, visit to, i. 250-251

Wyatt, Matthew, statue by, of the Duke of Wellington, i. 106

Wye, the river, scenery on, i. 220, 222

Wyse, Right Hon. Sir Thomas, British Minister at Athens, iii.
334; instructions to, in the Greek dispute, 334

York, Archbishop of (Hon. Edward Harcourt), death of the, iii.
102

Zichy-Ferraris, Countess, ii. 91