ued by the Horse Guards
was not sufficient to meet the case, and in these circumstances it was
thought proper that Lord Melbourne should see Lord Hill, and should
express to him the opinion of the Cabinet, that it was necessary that
he should advise your Majesty to take such measures as should have the
effect of removing Lord Cardigan from the command of the 11th Hussars.
The repeated acts of imprudence of which Lord Cardigan has been
guilty, and the repeated censures which he has drawn down upon
himself, form a ground amply sufficient for such a proceeding, and
indeed seem imperiously to demand it.[14]

Lord Melbourne has seen Lord Hill and made to him this communication,
and has left it for his consideration. Lord Hill is deeply chagrined
and annoyed, but will consider the matter and confer again with Lord
Melbourne upon it to-morrow.

[Footnote 12: President of the Board of Trade, afterwards
created Lord Taunton.]

[Footnote 13: "Within the space of a single twelvemonth, one
of his [Lord Cardigan's] captains was cashiered for writing
him a challenge; he sent a coarse and insulting verbal message
to another, and then punished him with prolonged arrest,
because he respectfully refused to shake hands with the
officer who had been employed to convey the affront; he fought
a duel with a lieutenant who had left the corps, and shot him
through the body; and he flogged a soldier on Sunday, between
the Services, on the very spot where, half an hour before, the
man's comrades had been mustered for public worship."--SIR G.
TREVELYAN, _Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay_, chap. viii.]

[Footnote 14: In February he had been acquitted on technical
grounds by the House of Lords of shooting a Captain Harvey
Garnett Phipps Tuckett. He had accused Tuckett of being the
author of letters which had appeared in the papers reflecting
on his character; a duel on Wimbledon Common followed, and
Tuckett was wounded. The evidence, consisting in part of a
visiting card, showed that a Captain Harvey Tuckett had
been wounded, which was held to be insufficient evidence of
identity.]

_Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._

_25th April 1841._

Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty. He is most
anxious upon all subjects to be put in possession of Your Majesty's
full and entire opinions. It is true that this question may materially