LONDON : SPOTTISWOODES and SHAW,

New-street-Square.

OF THE

OF

DIVINITY SCHOOL

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
MEMOIRS
POLITICAL AND LITERARY LIFE
ROBERT PLUMER WARD, ESQ.
AUTHOR OF THE LAW OF NATIONS,” TREMAINE,”

“DE VERE,” ETC. ETC.
HIS CORRESPONDENCE, DIARIES, AND UNPUBLISHED LITERARY

REMAINS.
“ Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant; secundas res ornant,
adversis perfugium .ac solatium præbent; delectant domi, non impediunt foris ;
pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur." – CICERO, Orat. pro Archiâ.
THE HONOURABLE EDMUND PHIPPS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LIBRARY

WITH SELECTIONS FROM

BY

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

Mr. Ward on the Ordnance Estimates. Personal Altercation with

Whitbread. Debate on the late Treaties. United Service Club.

Tour of Inspection in Ireland. Ditto in South of England.

Letters to Lord Kenyon. The Duke of Wellington succeeds

Lord Mulgrave at the Head of the Ordnance. Letters from Mr.

W. W. Pole, Lords Bathurst and Mulgrave thereon

Page 1

CHAP. II.

Tour of Inspection to Northern District. Recommencement of

Diary. Conversation with Lord Sidmouth. Expected Riots.

Meeting of Parliament. Prince Regent insulted. Apathy of

English People. Too great Reliance on the Exertions of their

Government

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CHAP. III.

Illness of Mrs. Ward. Diary continued. The Duke's Kindness.

Fortifications at Hull. Death of the King. Progress of the

Queen's Trial. Conclusion of Diary

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CHAP. IV.

First Commencement of Novel-writing. “Tremaine" published

by Colburn.

Reasons for preserving Incognito. Letters to

and from Mr. and Mrs. Austen, Robert Southey, the late Dr.

Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, and others. Odd Consequences

of his Incognito. Visits Mulgrave Castle. Letters thence to

Mr. and Mrs. Austen. Other fashionable Novelists in the

Field. Criticism on “Vivian Grey.” “De Vere." Letters

thereon from Canning, from an anonymous Correspondent, and

from B. D’Israeli, Esq.

Page 103

CHAP. V.

Break-up of the Liverpool Government. Extracts from Letters

of the late Duke of Buckingham to Mr. Ward, and from Mr.

Ward to Mrs. Austen. Mr. Ward's Marriage with Mrs. Plumer

Lewin. Office of Auditor of the Civil List, held by him,

abolished. Correspondence with the late Lord Althorpe

thereon

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CHAP. VI.

Mr. Ward's Family Afflictions. Death of his two elder Daughters

and of Mrs. Plumer Ward. Declining Health of younger

Daughter. Goes to Brighton. Marriage with Mrs. Okeover.

Passes Winter at Wiesbaden. Letters from thence. Recon-

ciliation with an old Friend. Various Letters

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CHAP. VII.

Publication of “ De Clifford.” Mr. Ward's Remarks on the Re-

volution of 1688. Letter of the Right Honourable C. W. W.

Wynn. Continuation of Correspondence with Mr. and Mrs.

Austen. Increasing Infirmity of Health. Removal to the

Lieut.-Governor's House at Chelsea Hospital. His Death.

Ilis miscellaneous unpublished Works

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