in mid-April Anglesey moved his family and entourage from Rome to Naples , there to await the arrival of his yacht from England . the beauty of the place quite exceeded his expectations . I am enchanted , he told Arthur Paget . probably the element ( the water ) has not a little to do with it , but I admire Vesuvius , which smokes and spits a little to please us , and altogether the locale is certainly charming . I am now looking out in earnest for the pearl &amp;hellip; . at present I am not in force . the fact is Italian weather is a humbug and March is ( barring fogs ) as bad at Rome as in London . I fancy this place more . the scene at least is superb , and if it be too cold to go out , one may at least sit and enjoy it behind the windows &amp;agrave; l&apos;abri du vent , and with the benefit of sun , whereas at home every house is constructed and placed so as to have as little as possible of that very agreeable companion . by the end of the month he still delighted in Naples . he told Cloncurry that he enjoyed it as much as his health permitted him to enjoy anything . the pearl , he wrote , is arrived , which is a great resource . Vesuvius seems to be tired ; he is going out fast &amp;hellip; . what a gay , lively people , and what a busy town . at Rome , every other man was a priest : here the priest is superceded by the soldier - a favourable change in my eye , particularly as the troops are very fine . when the sailing season was past , he sent pearl back to England , and returned to Rome for the winter . in late November , he was suffering as usual , but hoped , he told Arthur , to find this place agree with me better than Naples . the journey has been against me , as there has been much rain and damp , but the temperature is high &amp; I have not yet thought of a fire &amp;hellip; . by the by , he added , what good cooks the Neapolitans are . I have a very good one , but alas ! t is all lost upon Maud ! the utmost extent of my eating is a little macaroni , spinage &amp; compote de pommes , with which , however , I quite keep up my condition , altho&apos; I sleep little &amp; wake constantly &amp; in pain . a pleasant life truly ! &amp;hellip; it so happens that I have an Italian who is perhaps the best valet de chambre that ever was . but he has not one word of English . while he was writing this letter he heard of the fall of the whigs , and the temporary assumption of the government by the Duke of Wellington . what a frightful event ! he wrote . I tremble ! what infatuation ! personally I am indifferent , but I really tremble for my country ! I may be mistaken , tho&apos; I can not but fear that the exasperation of the people will be so great at the return of ultratoryism , that the Commons House upon a dissolution , which must be had , will be a mass of radicalism , &amp; then God knows what may happen &amp;hellip; . God grant , however , that I may be a false prophet &amp; that all may go well . Sir R Peel was here , I understand , but an express took him off yesterday . while he was in Naples there had opened a new chapter in the history of Anglesey &apos;s unceasing search for an effective alleviation of his painful malady . none of the numerous conventional remedies to which he had been subjected ever since the symptoms had first shown themselves seventeen years before had had the slightest effect . nor is this to be wondered at , for even today , in the 1960s , no cure has been found for the tic douloureux . as early as 1830 , when Anglesey believed himself to be on the point of death , the new German curative method known as homoeopathy had been brought to his notice . in April of that year his first wife &apos;s brother-in-law , the diplomatist Lord Ponsonby , had written to advise Anglesey to give the system a trial , adding that it was being cultivated with extraordinary success in France and Italy , and that he himself was being treated under a doctor who had studied under its founder , the aged Dr Samuel Hahnemann . this remarkable man of medicine , whom Sir Francis Burdett described to Anglesey a year or two later as more like a God upon earth than a human being , had an increasing number of disciples among unorthodox medical men in the cities of Europe . one of these was the Neapolitan , Dr Giuseppe Mauro , whom Anglesey consulted in May 1834 . Mauro &apos;s first action was to write to his revered master at Ko&quot;then , near Leipzig , asking for advice . in doing so he described his distinguished patient and his symptoms . he told Hahnemann that he found Anglesey a strong , energetic man with a gentle and charming character , even-tempered and sedate , not easily irritated , patient and persevering , but he appears to despair of ever being cured . only the right side of his face was affected , the pain extending from the corner of the mouth and the chin , up to the eye socket and as far back as behind the ear . during an attack the outer skin would become so sensitive that on being touched it felt as if something red-hot were singeing it , and the acts of speaking and swallowing became difficult in the extreme . north and east winds and sudden changes in the weather generally provoked severe bouts of pain . these were always accompanied by an irregularity of the pulse and acute constipation . during a bad attack Anglesey would writhe in silent agony , burying his head in his hands , the torment coming in spasms every three or four minutes , over a longer or shorter period . Hahnemann &apos;s reply to Mauro was to send off some medicines ( which took three months to reach Naples ) and to write personally to Anglesey stressing the need for continual outdoor exercise above all else . in September , Sir James Murray was replaced as Anglesey &apos;s personal physician by Dr Dunsford , an English disciple of Hahnemann &apos;s . he at once took over the correspondence with Hahnemann , but soon came to the conclusion that as soon as it was possible to cross the Alps , Anglesey and his party should take up residence for a period in Ko&quot;then . consequently , at the end of April 1835 , Anglesey , accompanied only by his son Clarence , Dr Dunsford and two servants , arrived within hailing distance of the great Hahnemann himself . the reason for taking Clarence , who was now a young man of twenty-three , was that he too was in need of medical assistance . his complaints were venereal , and Hahnemann refused to prescribe for him without a personal examination . what success Hahnemann had in Clarence &apos;s case is not known , but after a month &apos;s treatment at Ko&quot;then , Anglesey seemed to be well on the way to a cure . this happy but impermanent state of affairs was brought about by a very careful application of the homoeopathic system . at that date the doctrine that likes should be treated by likes , which is its essence , was completely revolutionary . the fact that homoeopathy utterly rejected the weapons commonly used against disease , such as bleeding , mercurialism and purgatives , ensured that every apothecary , as Lord Ponsonby put it , must be its determined foe . but Hahnemann had had extraordinary successes in curing diseases which had quite baffled the conventional remedies , and in Anglesey &apos;s case , by experimenting with selected medicines and meticulously noting their effects , he managed to reduce the frequency and violence of the attacks very considerably over a period of several months . this partial success may well have been due less to the drugs than to the cessation of the debilitating remedies hitherto employed . for instance , Hahnemann told Dunsford that it was never necessary or useful to lessen the amount of blood because it always means a lessening of energy and those forces whose reactions are all the more beneficial the more they are kept intact . this diktat , and others like it , though universally accepted today , sounded like treason in the ears of the orthodox practitioners of the 1830s , but their application was clearly the chief basis of Hahnemann &apos;s success . Anglesey was so impressed by what seemed a miraculous cure , that he gave Dunsford permission to publish an account of it . in this were detailed the various medicines tried and their effects ; Anglesey was pictured as having recovered the stoutness , the vigour and the activity of a young man . for several months he has not felt the coming on of the tic , and he has such confidence in homoeopathy that no relapse can lessen it . though this last statement was an exaggeration , Anglesey was certainly grateful to Hahnemann for giving him the longest periods of freedom from pain he had ever had . it was said that he looked ten years younger and wherever he went praised the miracles which homoeopathy had wrought in him . by June 1835 , when he had returned to England and re-established himself at Beaudesert , he felt that his sojourn abroad had well served its purpose : what he called the wretched nerves of his face were at last quiescent , and he knew once again the blessing of uninterrupted sleep . later in the year , the idea of some sort of public employment was again in the air . Lady Cowper , for instance , told Princess Lieven on September 25th that Anglesey was very much annoyed at not obtaining the Admiralty in place of Lord Auckland , who had gone to govern India . if there was any truth in this , Lord Melbourne &apos;s letter of the following day , offering Anglesey the government of Gibraltar , may have been a sop . it is , he wrote , one of the best military situations which the crown has to bestow - the salary has been settled &amp;hellip; at five thousand pounds yearly , it being understood that the Governor is not hereafter to be absent from his post . it has struck me that altho&apos; very improbable it is not quite impossible that you might be willing to accept of this appointment . the reply was not bereft of asperity : Beaudesert , Sept 27 , 1835 . dear Melbourne , I have received your letter of yesterday . I am not prepared to spend the remainder of my life at Gibraltar , &amp; moreover ( if even residence were not the condition ) , having no taste for a sinecure , I have only to thank you for the offer &amp; to decline it . I remain , dear Melbourne , faithfully yours , Anglesey . soon after his return from Europe , Clarence Paget had become seriously ill with a supposed abscess on the lungs . after months of suffering , his life was almost despaired of when as a last resort it was suggested that the patient should be taken to consult Hahnemann once again . it was no longer necessary to go further than Paris , for by this time the great man had been driven from his native Germany by the antipathy of his orthodox brethren . the main difficulty was how to make the expedition from England without killing the patient before he completed it . the problem was overcome in an interesting manner . fortunately , wrote Clarence in after years , the King &amp;hellip; remembered there was a luxurious old bed travelling-carriage in the royal coach-houses , which had carried his brother , George 4 . , and he kindly placed it at the disposal of my father . into it I was put , more dead than alive , and we got across to Calais , and from thence by easy stages to Paris &amp;hellip; . Dr Hahnemann was immediately summoned - a little wizened old man of seventy ( he was , in fact , over eighty ) , not more than five feet high , with a splendid head , and bent double - with him his wife , a remarkably intelligent French woman , who was very plain , and much younger than the doctor . he gave one the idea of a necromancer . he wrote down every symptom , examined me all over , asked ever so many questions which I had scarcely strength to answer , and took up his gold-headed cane to depart . my father hung upon every word , but could get nothing from him . 