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The Greville Memoirs
(SECOND PART)
A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN
OF
QUEEN VICTORIA
FROM 1837 TO 1852
BY THE LATE
Charles C. F. Greville, Esq.
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
IN THREE VOLUMES — VOL. I.
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1885
‘PLERAQUE EORUM, QUÆ RETULI QUÆQUE REFERAM, PARVAFORSITAN ET LEVIA MEMORATU VIDERI, NON NESCIUS SUM; SED NEMOANNALES NOSTROS CUM SCRIPTURA EORUM CONTENDERIT, QUI VETERESPOPULI ROMANI RES COMPOSUERE. INGENTIA ILLI BELLA, EXPUGNATIONESURBIUM, FUSOS CAPTOSQUE REGES, AUT, SI QUANDO AD INTERNAPRÆVERTERENT, DISCORDIAS CONSULUM ADVERSUM TRIBUNOS, AGRARIASFRUMENTARIASQUE LEGES, PLEBIS ET OPTIMATIUM CERTAMINA, LIBEROEGRESSU MEMORABANT. NOBIS IN ARTO ET INGLORIUS LABOR....NON TAMEN SINE USU FUERIT, INTROSPICERE ILLA, PRIMO ADSPECTULEVIA, EX QUIS MAGNARUM SÆPE RERUM MOTUS ORIUNTUR.’
TACITUS, Ann. iv. cap. 32.
PREFACE
OF THE EDITOR
TO THE SECOND PART OF THIS JOURNAL.
When the first portion of the Memoirs of the late Mr.Charles Greville, consisting of a Journal of the Reigns ofKing George IV. and King William IV., was given tothe world in the autumn of the year 1874, it was intimatedthat the continuation of the work was reservedfor future publication. Those volumes included therecord of events which Mr. Greville had noted in hisDiary from the year 1818 to the accession of HerMajesty Queen Victoria in the year 1837, a period ofnineteen years. As they were published in 1874, aninterval of thirty-seven years had elapsed betweenthe latest event recorded in them and the date atwhich they appeared. The reigns of George IV. andWilliam IV. already belonged to the history of thepast, and accordingly I did not conceive it to be myduty to suppress or qualify any of the statements oropinions of the Author on public men or public events.I am still of opinion that this was the right coursefor a person charged with the publication of thesemanuscripts to pursue. I have seen it stated that the...