ote to him about it. He disapproved of
it so strongly that the plan was given up. The truth was that he felt
that his power over the Review diminished as mine increased, and he saw
that he would have little indeed if I were editor.

"'I then came into Parliament. I do not complain that he should have
preferred Denman's claims to mine, and that he should have blamed Lord
Lansdowne for not considering him. I went to take my seat. As I turned
from the table at which I had been taking the oaths, he stood as near
to me as you do now, and he cut me dead. We never spoke in the House,
excepting once, that I can remember, when a few words passed between
us in the lobby. I have sat close to him when many men of whom I
knew nothing have introduced themselves to me to shake hands, and
congratulate me after making a speech, and he has never said a single
word. I know that it is jealousy, because I am not the first man whom he
has used in this way. During the debate on the Catholic claims he was
so enraged because Lord Plunket had made a very splendid display, and
because the Catholics had chosen Sir Francis Burdett instead of him to
bring the Bill forward, that he threw every difficulty in its way. Sir
Francis once said to him: "Really, Mr.-- you are so jealous that it is
impossible to act with you." I never will serve in an Administration of
which he is the head. On that I have most firmly made up my mind. I do
not believe that it is in his nature to be a month in office without
caballing against his colleagues. ["There never was a direct personal
rival, or one who was in a position which, however reluctantly, implied
rivalry, to whom he has been just; and on the fact of this ungenerous
jealousy I do not understand that there is any difference of
opinion."--Lord Cockburn's Journal.]

"'He is, next to the King, the most popular man in England. There is
no other man whose entrance into any town in the kingdom would be so
certain to be with huzzaing and taking off of horses. At the same time
he is in a very ticklish situation, for he has no real friends. Jeffrey,
Sydney Smith, Mackintosh, all speak of him as I now speak to you. I was
talking to Sydney Smith of him the other day, and said that, great as I
felt his faults to be, I must allow him a real desire to raise the lower
orders, and do good by education, and those methods upon which his heart
has been always set. Sydney would not allow this, or any other, merit.
Now, if those wh