Government
of which Canning was so conspicuous a member, but that he could
not think that to be a new Administration which was composed
(with the sole exception of Canning) of precisely the same
persons of which it consisted before he joined them.

[14] [Mrs. Canning was the younger sister of Henrietta, wife
of the fourth Duke of Portland, both of them being the
daughters and coheiresses of Major-General John Scott
of Balcomie. Lord William Bentinck, the Duke's brother,
was therefore a near connection, and Lord George
Bentinck and Lord John Bentinck, the Duke's sons, were
by their mother's side Mrs. Canning's nephews. Lady
Charlotte Greville, Mr. Charles Greville's mother, was
of course connected with Mrs. Canning in the same
degree as her brother Lord William Bentinck.]

[15] [Lord Liverpool's letter to the King on this
appointment has been published by Mr. Yonge in his Life
of that statesman. He stated strongly to George IV. his
opinion that although Lord William Bentinck was
supported by a powerful party in the Court of
Directors, he thought it would be 'humiliating to the
Government and productive of the very worst effects to
appoint to such a station a man who had taken so strong
a part in Parliamentary Opposition.' George IV. replied
that he thought it 'highly unadvisable that Lord
William Bentinck should be the successor of the Marquis
of Hastings.' (Yonge's 'Life of Lord Liverpool,' vol.
iii. p. 204.) Lord William Bentinck had previously been
Governor of Madras at the time of the mutiny at
Vellore.]

George,[16] after having refused the Private Secretaryship, was
talked over by Canning and accepted it. He tried to gain over
John, but he refused to share it.

[16] [Lord George Bentinck, third son of the fourth Duke of
Portland; born 1802, died 1848; afterwards
distinguished as the leader of the Protectionist
party.]

Canning wished that Manners Sutton should be appointed
Governor-General, in order that Wynn might be made Speaker, and
room made for Huskisson in the Cabinet; but Wynn would not have
given up his situation, and it is very much suspected that if he
had, the strength of Government would have been insufficient to
procure h