ABSTRACT
The day after the Duke received His Majesty’s commands, he wrote to Lord Eldon, declaring his intention of calling on him the next day. By Lord Eldon’s account, the meeting was a somewhat awkward one; the ex-chancellor evidently expecting the offer of some position in the Administration, though too old to resume his seat on the woolsack. The King would have no more trouble about the Catholics; for they would be put down. This Administration was nearly the same as that which had existed under Lord Liverpool; the only important changes being that Mr. Canning and Lord Eldon were absent, and Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Dudley present in their stead. The spirit of the time had changed them; and it was no more the same government that had existed under Lord Liverpool than if it had been composed of other men.
