r.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, gentlemen against whose
private character much had been not unjustly said. Some
of these appointments were strongly objected to in
Parliament.]

July 8th, 1838 {p.110}

Lord Duncannon told me yesterday that Melbourne went to Lord
Durham when he heard he was going to take out Turton, and told
him that the odium of such an appointment would be so great that
it was impossible he could consent to it, and it must not take
place. Durham sulked over it for two days, but finally
acquiesced, and engaged that Turton should only go out as his
private friend. Duncannon added that Durham was much mistaken if
he thought Melbourne would endure this disobedience and breach of
engagement. Durham had made his entry into Quebec on a white
long-tailed charger, in a full general's uniform, surrounded by
his staff, and the first thing he did was to appoint Sir John
Doratt (his doctor, whom he had got knighted before he went)
Inspector-General of Hospitals, superseding all the people there.

July 14th, 1838 {p.110}

[Page Head: THE NAVAL INSTRUCTIONS.]

At Newmarket all this past week. Nothing of consequence occurred
here except the debate in the House of Lords upon Brougham's
motion for the production of naval instructions about Sardinian
ships, which was only lost by the numbers being equal. The Duke
of Wellington, according to his custom, refused to be factious,
and when Melbourne said that it would be highly inconvenient to
produce any instructions, he declared against the motion and left
the House. Brougham was furious, and many of the high Tories
greatly provoked. Brougham said, 'Westminster Abbey is yawning
for him.' Ellenborough, Mansfield, and Harewood stayed and voted,
Aberdeen went away. After all their fury, however, the Tories are
beginning (as I was told last night) to come to their senses. The
Duke was quite in the right; there is no doubt that some very
unwise and improper instructions have issued from the Admiralty,
and their purport has got abroad by the indiscretion of somebody,
but we only know, or rather suspect from public rumour, that such
is the case; they have never been acted upon if they do exist; no
overt act has been done, and the production of this document
might be attended with very seriously inconvenient consequences.
Brougham cares for nothing but the pleasure of worrying and
embarrassing the Ministers, whom he detests with an in