22nd of November. The patent of his peerage bore the
same date.]

[23] [The Marquis of Tavistock, Lord John Russell's eldest
brother, afterwards Duke of Bedford. Lord John has
since held almost every Cabinet office: his brother's
notion that his health was unequal to the War Office in
1830 is amusing.]

[24] [The Master of the Rolls was at that time the presiding
Judge of Appeal at the Privy Council, which was
commonly spoken of as 'the Cockpit,' because it sat on
the site of the old Cockpit at Whitehall; but the
business was very ill done, which led Lord Brougham to
bring in and carry his Act for the creation of the
Judicial Committee in 1832--one of his best and most
successful measures.]

He said the Duke of Richmond had done admirably in capturing the
incendiary who has been taken, and who they think will afford a
clue whereby they will discover the secret of all the burnings.
This man called himself Evans. They had information of his
exciting the peasantry, and sent a Bow Street officer after him.
He found out where he lived and captured him (having been
informed that he was not there by the inmates of the house), and
took him to the Duke, who had him searched. On his person were
found stock receipts for L800, of which L50 was left; and a
chemical receipt in a secret pocket for combustibles. He was
taken to prison, and will be brought up to town. Montrond was
very amusing--'You, Lord Brougham, when you mount your bag of
wool?'

November 23rd, 1830 {p.071}

[Page Head: COUNCIL OF THE NEW MINISTERS.]

Yesterday at Court; a great day, and very amusing. The old
Ministers came to give up their seals, and the new Ministers came
to take them. All the first were assembled at half-past one; saw
the King in his closet severally, and held their last Council to
swear in George Dawson a Privy Councillor. Each after his
audience departed, most of them never to return. As they went
away they met the others arriving. I was with the old set in the
Throne Room till they went away, and on opening the door and
looking into the other room I found it full of the others--Althorp,
Graham, Auckland, J. Russell, Durham, &c., faces that a
little while ago I should have had small expectation of finding
there. The effect was very droll, such a complete _changement de
decoration_. When the old Minister