changes are going on; Durham is out, and to be made
an earl. Yesterday his elevation was known, and it is amusing
enough that the same day an incident should have occurred in the
House of Lords exhibiting in a good light the worthiness of the
subject, and how much he merits it at the hands of Lord Grey.

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March 29th, 1833 {p.365}

Lord Goderich is Privy Seal,[3] and Stanley Secretary for the
Colonies, after much trouble. Last year a positive pledge was
given to Stanley that he should not meet Parliament again but as
Secretary of State. It was not, however, specified who was to
make room for him. The Cabinet settled that it should be
Goderich, when Durham went out, and Palmerston was charged with
the office of breaking it to Goderich with the offer of an
earldom by way of gilding the pill, but Goderich would not hear
of it, said it would look like running away from the Slave
question, and, in short, flatly refused. Stanley threatened to
resign if he was not promoted, and in this dilemma the Duke of
Richmond (who was going to Windsor) persuaded Lord Grey to let
him lay the case before the King, and inform him that if this
arrangement was not made the Government must be broken up. He did
so, and the King acquiesced, and at the same time a similar
representation was made to Goderich, who after a desperate
resistance knocked under, and said that if it must be so he would
yield, but _only_ to the King's express commands.

[3] [Down to this time Lord Goderich had been Secretary for
the Colonial Department in Lord Grey's Government.]

March 30th, 1833 {p.366}

Saw Madame de Lieven yesterday, who told me the story of the late
business at St. Petersburg. The Sultan after the battle of Koniah
applied to the Emperor of Russia for succour, who ordered twelve
sail of the line and 30,000 men to go to the protection of
Constantinople. At the same time General Mouravieff was sent to
Constantinople, with orders to proceed to Alexandria and inform
the Pacha that the Emperor could only look upon him as a rebel,
that he would not suffer the Ottoman Empire to be overturned, and
that if Ibrahim advanced 'il aurait affaire a l'Empereur de
Russie.' Orders were accordingly sent to Ibrahim to suspend his
operations, and Mouravieff returned to Constantinople. Upon the
demand for succour by the Sultan, and the Emperor's compliance
with it, notification was made to all