Lord Dudley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Lord Goderich, Secretary of State for Colonial
Affairs and War.
Mr. Sturges Bourne, Secretary of State for the Home
Department (this office was shortly afterwards
transferred to the Marquis of Lansdowne)
Mr. Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Wynn, President of the Board of Control.
Lord Bexley, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Mr. Tierney, Master of the Mint.
The Duke of Clarence was named Lord High Admiral.
The Office of Commander-in-Chief remained vacant
during the Administration of Mr. Canning. This
Administration lasted ninety-eight days, until the
death of Mr. Canning.]

[Page Head: MR. CANNING'S ADMINISTRATION.]

June 3rd, 1827 {p.096}

Soon after writing this Lord Lansdowne came into the Cabinet,
together with Tierney and Lord Carlisle, M'Donald and Abercromby
also taking places. They found so many objections to the
unsettled state of the Cabinet, and the provisional arrangements
had brought so much odium and ridicule upon the Government, that
it was thought necessary to settle this matter without loss of
time, but Lord Lansdowne would not consent to take the Home
Office except upon the conditions on which he had before
insisted. He therefore came into the Cabinet without a place. But
it is quite evident that the present state of affairs is far from
satisfactory; the Government is not established on a firm or
secure basis, and the members of it are not altogether satisfied
with each other or themselves. Lord Lansdowne particularly does
not feel comfortable where he is, and does not think that he has
been well treated by his own friends. It seems that when first
overtures were made to him by Canning he called a meeting of his
friends at Lansdowne House, at which he declared his own
sentiments and the conditions on which he would join the
Government. The persons there assembled unanimously agreed with
him, but a few days after a meeting was called at Brooks's which
was more numerously attended, and there certain resolutions were
agreed upon which were not in conformity with the opinions
expressed in Lansdowne House, and these resolutions were
communicated to Canning as the sentiments of the great body of
the Whigs, but without the same being im