am more than any
other man in the Cabinet, and that altogether he was not
unimportant; so that the ingredients of this Cabinet seem to be
put there to neutralise one another, and to be good for nothing
else; because Durham has an overbearing temper, and his
father-in-law is weak, there must be a man without any other merit
than spirit to curb that temper. He talked of Ireland, and the
difficulty of settling the question there, that the Archbishop of
Canterbury was willing to reform the Church, but not to alienate
any of its revenues. 'Not,' I asked, 'for the payment of a
Catholic clergy?' 'No, not from Protestant uses.' I told him there
was nothing to be done but to pull down the edifice and rebuild
it. He said you would have all the Protestants against you, but he
did not appear to differ. To this things must come at last.
Melbourne is exceedingly anxious to keep Lord Hill and Fitzroy
Somerset at the head of the army, from which the violent of his
party would gladly oust them, but he evidently contemplates the
possibility of having occasion for the army, and does not wish to
tamper with the service or play any tricks with it. It is curious
to see the working and counterworking of his real opinions and
principles with his false position, and the mixture of bluntness,
facility and shrewdness, discretion, levity and seriousness,
which, colouring his mind and character by turns, make up the
strange compound of his thoughts and his actions.

CHAPTER XIX.

Foreign Difficulties--Conduct of Peel on the Resignation of Lord
Grey--Manners Sutton proposed as Tory Premier--Coolness between
Peel and the Duke--Embargo on Dutch Ships--Death of Lord
Tenterden--Denman made Lord Chief Justice--_Tableau_ of Holland
House--The Speakership--Horne and Campbell Attorney- and
Solicitor-General--The Court at Brighton--Lord Howe and the
Queen--Elections under the Reform Act--Mr. Gully--Petworth--
Lord Egremont--Attempt to reinstate Lord Howe--Namik Pacha--
Lord Lyndhurst's Version of what occurred on the Resignation of
Lord Grey--Lord Denbigh appointed Chamberlain to the Queen--
Brougham's Privy Council Bill--Talleyrand's Relations with Fox
and Pitt--Negro Emancipation Bill--State of the West Indies--
The Reformed Parliament meets--Russian Intrigues--Four Days'
Debate on the Address--Peel's Political Career.

London, October 7th, 1832 {p.324}

I went to Newmarket on the 30th of