stands in such awe of the Duke, that I don't think
anything serious is to be apprehended from him. There never was
anything so mismanaged as the whole affair of Oxford. First the
letter Peel wrote was very injudicious; it was a tender of
resignation, which being received just after the vote of
Convocation, they were obliged to accept it. Then he should
never have stood unless he had been sure of success, and it
appears now that his canvass never promised well from the
beginning. He should have taken the Chiltern Hundreds, and
immediately informed them that he had done so. Probably no
opposition would have been made, but after having accepted his
resignation they could not avoid putting up another man. It
appears that an immense number of parsons came to vote of whose
intentions both parties were ignorant, and they almost all voted
for Inglis.

[3] [Upon the 4th of February Mr. Peel resigned his seat
for the University of Oxford, in consequence of the
change of his opinions on the Catholic question. A
contest ensued, Sir Robert Harry Inglis being the
candidate opposed to Peel. Inglis was returned by a
majority of 146. Mr. Peel sat for the borough of
Westbury during the ensuing debates.]

[Page Head: SIR E. CODRINGTON AND THE DUKE.]

Codrington was at Brookes' yesterday, telling everybody who would
listen to him what had passed at an interview, that I have
mentioned before, with the Duke of Wellington, and how ill the
Duke had treated him. He said the Duke assured him that neither
he nor any of his colleagues, nor the Government collectively,
had any sort of hostility to him, but, on the contrary, regarded
him as a very meritorious officer, &c. He then said, 'May I,
then, ask why I was recalled?' The Duke said, 'Because you did
not understand your instructions in the sense in which they were
intended by us.' He replied that he had understood them in their
plain obvious sense, and that everybody else who had seen them
understood them in the same way--Adam, Ponsonby, Guilleminot,
&c.--and then he asked the Duke to point out the passages in
which they differed, to which he said, 'You must excuse me.' All
this he was telling, and it may be very true, and that he is very
ill-used; but if he means to bring his case before Parliament, he
is unwise to chatter about it at Brookes', particularly to Lord
Lynedoch, to whom he was addressing himself, who is not li