ent himself with
keeping matters quiet in France, without meddling with the
Spanish disputes. He had not yet received any letters from
Palmerston.[13]

[12] [Queen Christina the Regent is here meant. Queen
Isabella II. was a young child.]

[13] [Within a few days of the date of this note the
Ministry of March 1st was formed in France, with M.
Thiers (for the first time) at the head of it. The
avowed object of that Minister was to induce the King
to interfere more actively in Spain in conjunction with
England, 'Nous entrainerons le Roi' was a boast he was
heard to utter. But he utterly failed. Mr. Greville's
prediction turned out to be correct, and in a few
months Thiers was again out of office.]

February 26th, 1834 {p.067}

[Page Head: HORNE AND BROUGHAM.]

Horne, the late Attorney-General, seems likely to fall between
the stools. When Brougham proposed to him to take a puisne
judgeship, he said he had been an equity lawyer all his life, and
had no mind to enter on a course of common law, for which he was
not qualified, and proposed that he should not go the circuits,
and be Deputy-Speaker of the House of Lords. Brougham told him
there would be no difficulty, and then told Lord Grey he had
settled it with Horne, but did not tell him what Horne required.
The general movement was made, and when Horne desired to see Lord
Grey he told him that his terms could not be complied with, so he
became a victim to the trickery and shuffling of the Chancellor,
who wanted to get him out, and did not care how. I hear that his
colleagues are quite aware of all his tricks and his intrigues,
and have not the slightest confidence in him. He thinks of
nothing but the establishment of political power on the basis of
patronage, and accordingly he grasps at all he can. All the
commissions of enquiry which are set on foot afford him the means
of patronage, but I doubt all will not do. He is emasculated by
being in the House of Lords, and he will hardly get anybody to do
his business for him in the House of Commons.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Spain--Russia and Turkey--Sir R. Peel's Pictures--Peel and
Stanley--Lord Brougham's Judicial Changes--Lord Brougham's
Defence--Admission of Dissenters to the Universities--Lord
Denman's Peerage--Growing Ascendency of Peel--An Apology for
Lord Brougham--Personal Ref