ng nations, and as having made himself prime minister of England by
the mere force of talent.

ADMINISTRATION OF LORD GODERICH.

It might have been expected that, on the death of Mr. Canning, his
cabinet, which was composed of heterogeneous materials, and kept
together by his influence, would have been broken up. Few changes,
however, took place; and their effect was to bring back some of Mr.
Canning's former friends into office. Lord Goderich became first lord
of the treasury, and Mr. Huskisson succeeded to him in the colonial
department. The Duke of Wellington re-accepted the command of the army,
but without a seat in the cabinet. There was a difficulty in finding
a chancellor of the exchequer; it was declined by Messrs. Tierney,
Huskisson, and Sturges Bourne; but finally accepted by Mr. Hemes,
who had been secretary of the treasury under Lord Liverpool's
administration. The nomination of Mr. Herries, who was brought up in the
Vansittart school, was well nigh the cause of breaking up the cabinet.
The Whigs objected to him on political grounds; and the Marquis of
Lansdowne waited upon the king to tender his resignation. His chief
objection, however, was, that he was said to have been a nominee of the
king; and when it was explained that the recommendation came from Lord
Goderich, and was accepted by his majesty, who was anxious to avoid the
fatigue of new arrangements, his lordship consented to retain office.
This new ministry, the third which the country had seen in the space of
seven months, had within it, however, the seeds of its own dissolution;
and, as will be seen, the year was scarcely out when it was dissolved.

REVIEW OF FOREIGN POLICY.

The foreign policy of Mr. Canning occasioned difficulties with which his
successor was not able to contend. At this time, not only the commerce
of the Levant was destroyed, but all Christendom was shocked by the
atrocious cruelties exercised by the Turks in a war with the Greeks.
Such a state of things could not be suffered long to exist; and when it
was found that the Turkish court was resolved to pursue its own course,
Great Britain, France, and Russia resolved to interfere. A treaty was
signed between these three powers on the 6th of July, in this year,
to defend Greece from the Sultan's power. One of the articles of
this treaty provided, that if the Ottoman Porte did not accept their
intervention, the high contracting powers would establish commercial
rela