esist this nomination, and the consequence of Lord Lansdowne's
remonstrance was the suspension at least of the appointment. Such
is the state of affairs, and not a very agreeable state
certainly.

[19] [Lord Bexley as Mr. Vansittart had been Chancellor of
the Exchequer, from 1812 to 1823.]

The Whigs are satisfied of the candour, fairness, and plain
dealing of Goderich, but dissatisfied with his facility and want
of firmness. The King is grasping at power and patronage, and
wants to take advantage of the weakness of the Government and
their apparent dependence upon him to exercise all the authority
which ought to belong to the Ministers. The Whigs are not easy in
their places. They feel that they are not treated with the
consideration to which they are entitled. But they have got too
far to recede, and they evidently are alarmed lest, if they
exasperate the King, he should accept their resignation and form
a Government by a junta of the old Tories with the rest of his
Administration, by which their exclusion would be made certain
and perpetual. I find that the Duke of Portland was likewise
named by the King himself. They do not object to the Duke, on the
contrary, but they object greatly to his being so appointed. All
this I have from Tierney, who added, if the Duke had been
proposed to the King by Lord Goderich, not a member of the
Cabinet would have objected, but they don't like his being named
by the King. At the end of the Council, on Friday, Lord Anglesey
arrived, having travelled day and night, and brought with him the
Duke of Wellington's acceptance of the command of the army.
Altogether it was a day of unusual interest, and unlike the
dulness of ordinary Councils.

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September 1st, 1827 {p.110}

Since the Council on the 17th the affair of Herries has still
been going on. It appears that when Goderich went into the King
(at the Council) to announce to him the objection that had been
raised, his Majesty was very angry, angry at having been so
committed and at being obliged to give up a nomination he liked.
Herries naturally felt himself very ill treated and nettled by
the attacks upon him in the newspapers. He has ever since
insisted upon being admitted to the Cabinet as the only thing
which could afford due reparation to his honour, and prove that
he had not been rejected for the reasons which had been assigned.
This the Ministers opposed, and it was