QUESTION OF THE WHIGS COMING IN-EARL GREY'S VIEWS- THE DUKE OF SUSSEX-PROSPECT OF A CANNING ADMINISTRA- TION HIS POSITION WITH THE PRINCE AND LORD ELDON- PERSONAL MATTERS-REASONS FOR DEMANDING A PATENT OF TO THE READER. THE following instructions were given by Lord Brougham to me, as his executor : "Before the Autobiography can be published, you must see that it is arranged chronologically. "If (writing from memory) I have made mistakes in dates, or in proper names, let such be corrected; but the Narrative is to be printed, AS I HAVE WRITTEN IT. "I alone am answerable for all its statements, faults, and omissions. I will have no Editor employed to alter, or rewrite what I desire shall be published, as EXCLUSIVELY MY OWN. In publishing Lord Brougham's Autobiography, the above explicit directions, have been scrupulously obeyed. BROUGHAM & VAUX, BROUGHAM, January 1871. NOTE то SECOND EDITION OF VOLUME I. MANY inquiries having been made as to the dates at which these Memoirs were written, the following memorandum on the subject is supplied by the present Lord Brougham : "On Saturday, 5th October 1861, Lord Brougham, then in his 84th year (for he was 83 on the 19th September 1861), began with me, at Brougham, to look out all the letters and papers relating to the Princess Charlotte, the Princess of Wales, and the Queen's Trial. On TUESDAY, STH OCTOBER, he began to write upon that subject. "On Thursday the 17th, the narrative of the Trial, and all that related to his connection with the Princess of Wales and her daughter, was sketched out. "On the 29th November we went to Cannes, taking with us all letters and papers, which were there copied and arranged with the narrative. "In September 1862 he began, while at Brougham, the Political part-i.e., Canning and his Government, Lord Grey and his Government, and so on to the end of 1834. "When we went to Cannes in November 1862, all Lord Grey's letters were taken, and from these he made selections. In the autumn of 1863, when at Brougham, he completed this part, by the addition of his own narrative, and letters-letters which he had before that time received from Lady Grey, Lord Grey's widow, and without which he could have done nothing.. "Up to this time he had not written one word of his Early Life; but on being strongly urged to attempt this, both by Mr Elwin (then editor of the 'Quarterly') and myself, he began in November 1863, and, in a search he then made for early materials, he found the MS. of Memnon. This he marked in pencil on the first page, thus: 'At Bm (Brougham), 1792.' He believed he had composed it, entirely forgetting that it was only a translation, probably a task set him by his tutor a very pardonable mistake after a lapse of seventy years. He continued to write at this part of his Early Life, from time to time, TILL NOVEMBER 1867. "BROUGHAM, March 1871." THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HENRY LORD BROUGHAM. CHAPTER X. The Orders in Council. CONTEST WITH THE "( ORDERS IN COUNCIL"-THEIR ORIGIN-THE BERLIN AND MILAN DECREES-THE POLICY OF RETALIATION ADOPTED IN THE ORDERS PREPARATIONS FOR ATTACKING CORRESPONDENCE WITH MERCANTILE MEN MOTION THEM (LORD DUDLEY) AND HIS FOLLOWERS-INSTANCES OF THE POPU- THE repeal of the Orders in Council was my greatest achievement. It was second to none of the many efforts made by me, and not altogether without success, to ameliorate the condition of my fellow-men. In these I had the sympathy and aid of others, but in VOL. II. A |