over. It appears too that she spoke of the kindness she had
received from her late ministers; and that the Prince's sentiments
are quite as decided.

On Monday we delivered up the seals at our several audiences. Her
Majesty said simply but very kindly to me, 'I am very sorry to
receive them from you.' I thanked her for my father's baronetcy,
and apologised for his not coming to court. She had her glove half
off, which made me think I was to kiss hands; but she simply bowed
and retired. Her eyes told tales, but she smiled and put on a
cheerful countenance. It was in fact the 1st of September 1841 over
again as to feelings; but this time with more mature judgment and
longer experience. Lord Aberdeen and Sir J. Graham kissed hands,
but this was by favour.

The same night I saw Sidney Herbert at Lady Pembroke's. He gave me
in great part the same view of Sir R. Peel's speech, himself
holding the same opinion with Lord Aberdeen. But he thought that
Peel's natural temper, which he said is very violent though usually
under thorough discipline, broke out and coloured that part of the
speech, but that the end in view was to cut off all possibility of
reunion. He referred to a late conversation with Peel, in which
Peel had intimated his intention of remaining in parliament and
acting for himself without party, to which Herbert replied that he
knew of no minister who had done so except lord Bute, a bad
precedent. Peel rejoined 'Lord Grenville,' showing that his mind
had been at work upon the subject. He had heard him not long ago
discussing his position with Lord Aberdeen and Sir James Graham,
when he said, putting his hand up to the side of his head, 'Ah! you
do not know what I suffer here.'

Yesterday Lord Lyndhurst called on me.... He proceeded to ask me
what I thought with respect to our political course. He said he
conceived that the quarrel was a bygone quarrel, that the
animosities attending it ought now to be forgotten, and the old
relations of amity and confidence among the members of the
conservative body resumed. I told him, in the first place, that I
felt some difficulty in answering him in my state of total
ignorance, so far as direct communication is concerned, of Sir R.
Peel's knowledge and intentions; that on Tuesday I had seen him on