ed hands at Brighton. A letter was written to Lord Liverpool
to announce the appointment. In the meantime Lord Liverpool had
sent a list of persons, one of whom he should recommend to
succeed to the vacancy, and the letters crossed. As soon as Lord
Liverpool received the letter from Brighton he got into his
carriage and went down to the King, to state that unless he was
allowed to have the distribution of this patronage without any
interference, he could not carry on the Government, and would
resign his office if Sumner was appointed. The man was only a
curate, and had never held a living at all. The King 'chanta
palinodie,' and a sort of compromise was made, by which Lady
Conyngham's friend was withdrawn, and the King begged it might be
given to Dr. Clarke, to which appointment Lord Liverpool
consented, although he did not approve of him; he did not,
however, wish to appear too difficult.

[4] [Afterwards Bishop of Winchester. This was the
beginning of the fortune of that amiable prelate, of
whom it must be said that if he owed his early
advancement to a questionable influence, no man has
filled the episcopal office with more unaffected piety,
dignity, and goodness. The difference between George
IV. and Lord Liverpool on this occasion was a very
serious one. The Duke of Wellington referred to it in a
confidential letter to Lord Liverpool, written on the
26th of October, 1821, in the following terms:--'As I
told you at Windsor, the King has never forgiven your
opposition to his wishes in the case of Mr. Sumner.
This feeling has influenced every action of his life in
relation to his Government from that moment; and I
believe to more than one of us he avowed that his
objection to Mr. Canning was that his accession to the
Government was peculiarly desirable to you. Nothing can
be more unjust or more unfair than this feeling; and as
there is not one of your colleagues who did not highly
approve of what you did respecting Mr. Sumner, so there
is not one of them who would not suffer with you all
the consequences of that act.' ('Correspondence of the
Duke of Wellington,' Second Series, vol. i. p. 195;
published in 1867.)]

Lady Conyngham lives in one of the houses in Marlborough Row. All
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