n capacity, from taking this desperate step;
but as there is little doubt that Turton advised him not to issue
the Ordinances, and got into disgrace with him for so doing, it
is possible that they none of them were consulted, or if
consulted did not dare, or did not choose, to give him any advice
whatever. The dignity of the Government now demands that his
insolence and misconduct should be visited with the severest
expression of disapprobation and reproof, and the harshest
measures, even an impeachment, would be fully warrantable, if
harsh measures did not generally defeat their own object. But if
the Government mince matters with him, and evince any fear to
strike, if they do not vindicate their own authority, and punish
his contumacy with dignity and spirit, their characters are gone,
and they will merit all the contempt with which their opponents
affect to treat them.

[4] [Lord Durham's conduct was arrogant and highly
injudicious. On the 9th October he issued a
Proclamation in Canada, in which he censured the
conduct of the Home Government. It is printed in the
'Ann. Reg.' for 1838, Chron. p. 311. In fact his vanity
was wounded, and his mission, of which so much was
expected, had failed. But it will be seen further on
that the first impression produced by his violence was
considerably mitigated. Mr. John Stuart Mill defended
his policy in the _Westminster Review_, and a certain
amount of reaction took place in his favour.]

November 18th, 1838, Wolbeding {p.135}

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Came here to-day and brought Lord Fitzroy Somerset[5] with me,
who told me a great deal about the Duke and their old campaigns.
He never saw a man so cool and indifferent to danger, at the same
time without any personal rashness or bravado, never putting
himself in unnecessary danger, never avoiding any that was
necessary. He was close to the Duke, his left arm touching the
Duke's right, when he was shot in the arm at Waterloo, and so was
Lord Anglesey when he received his wound in the leg. When Lord
Anglesey was shot he turned to the Duke and said, 'By G-- I have
lost my leg.' The Duke replied, 'Have you? by G--.' The only time
the Duke ever was hit was at Orthez, by a spent ball, which
struck him on the side and knocked him down. He and Alava were
standing together having both dismounted, and they were lau