ABSTRACT
Lord George Bentinck was greatly disturbed by what he conceived to be the unfair and the unwise manoeuvre of the minister. To give the semblance of the personal sanction of her majesty to a measure which, whatever its result, a large portion, of subjects deemed fraught with ruin to their interests; and at one moment he was about to appeal to the speaker on the subject. When the Duke of Richmond inquired of the Duke of Wellington, whether his grace had yet received her majesty's permission to state the reasons which induced the government to resign, and afterwards to resume, office. The friends of the Duke of Wellington explained the strange passages by the circumstance that it was distinctly made known by Sir Robert Peel to his grace. That if they did not undertake the conduct of the government her majesty would be under the necessity of sending for Mr. Cobden and his friends.
