ccount of Herries' friends, which seems to me
somewhat doubtful), though he did not wish to be in the Cabinet.
At last, however, Goderich prevailed on Herries to let him
propose him to the King, which was done. The appointment was
particularly agreeable to the King, who wrote a letter with his
own hand to Herries, desiring him to take the place. When
Goderich returned to town, with this letter in his pocket, he
went (before he delivered it) to the Cabinet, and then mentioning
Herries, without saying what had passed, he found that the
Cabinet would not approve of the appointment, on which he went to
Herries, and said that he found that it would not do, and begged
him to allow his appointment to be cancelled. Herries told him
that he had never desired it, and was quite ready to give it up.
As soon as Herries had agreed to give it up Goderich pulls out of
his pocket the King's letter, and says, 'By-the-by, here is a
letter which I ought to have given you before.' When Herries had
read this letter he said, 'This puts me quite in another
situation, and though I am still ready to give up being
Chancellor of the Exchequer, I must have my conduct explained to
the King, and you must take me down to Windsor to-morrow for that
purpose.' This Goderich refused to do, when Herries said he
should go down by himself. He did so, and then passed all which I
have described above in the account of the Council on the 19th. I
ought to have mentioned, as not the least curious circumstance of
the Council, that in the middle of it the King sent for Sir
William Knighton, who was closeted with him for an hour. I see
this account is not altogether the same as the preceding, a proof
of the inaccuracy of anecdotes and historical facts whenever they
differ. This is the true one.

Henry de Ros told me that he saw George Dawson, Peel's
brother-in-law, at Brighton, who told him that he believed there
was nobody the King was more exasperated against than Peel, and
for this reason:--When the late Government (Canning's) was
forming, Peel went to the King, and in reply to his desire that
he should form a part of it told him he could not continue in any
Government the head of which was a supporter of Catholic
Emancipation. The King proposed to him to remain, with a secret
pledge and promise from him that the question should not be
carried. This of course Peel refused, and the King, who construed
his rejection of the disgraceful proposal as conveying a dou