[44] [The Queen and Prince Albert made their first visit to Scotland by sea, embarking at Woolwich on August 29, and landing at Granton pier on September 1. Her Majesty was received by the Duke of Buccleuch and accompanied by Sir Robert Peel. The Court stayed in Scotland fourteen days. Lord Aberdeen was instructed to write to the Lord Advocate in the following terms: 'The Queen will leave Scotland with a feeling of regret that her visit on this occasion could not be further prolonged. Her Majesty fully expected to witness the loyalty and attachment of her Scottish subjects; but the devotion and enthusiasm evinced in every quarter, and by all ranks, have produced an impression on the mind of Her Majesty which can never be effaced.' Seldom has an official assurance and prediction been more amply justified than this by the experience of forty years.]
[45] [The seat of the Earl of Verulam in Hertfordshire, formerly the residence of Lord Bacon.]
[46] [Lord Hertford's will was disputed and the litigation occasioned some scandalous disclosures of his past life.]
[47] [The Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham, died on September 19, 1841, from lockjaw, caused by a fall from his horse. He was then Governor of Canada, and was temporarily succeeded by Sir Charles Bagot but Sir Charles Metcalfe was appointed to that post in January 1843.]
[48] [Lord Lyndhurst survived, however, more than twenty years. He died in 1863.]
[49] [Felbrigg-Hall, near Cromer, was the residence of the Windham family, and was then occupied by Mr. William Windham, the brother of Mrs. Henry Baring, one of Mr. Greville's most intimate friends.]
[50] [The same mail brought the news (November 22) of the Treaty of Peace with China, the recapture of Ghuznee and Cabul, and the release of the prisoners taken in the Afghan War. Lord Ellenborough, then Governor-General of India, issued a ridiculous proclamation, in which he said that the insult of 800 years was avenged by the carrying off the gates of the Temple of Somnauth as a trophy.]
[51] [Lord Auckland's sister, an old friend of Mr. Greville's. She had been with Lord Auckland in India.]
[52] [This MS. has lately been discovered in Paris (1880).]
[53] [Mr. Algernon Greville was the Duke's Private Secretary.]