were sworn to their respective offices. C.
Greville forgot the duke's privy seal and sent him off without it;
the Queen corrected him and gave it.... Then were read and approved
several orders in council; among which was one assigning a district
to a church and another appointing Lord Ripon and me to act in
matters of trade. These were read aloud by the Queen in a very
clear though subdued voice; and she repeated 'Approved' after each.
Upon that relating to Lord R. and myself we were called up and
kissed hands again. Then the Queen rose, as did all the members of
the council, and retired bowing. We had luncheon in the same room
half an hour later and went off. The Duke of Wellington went in an
open carriage with a pair; all our other grand people with four.
Peel looked shy all through. I visited Claremont once before, 27
years ago I think, as a child, to see the place, soon after the
Princess Charlotte's death. It corresponded pretty much with my
impressions.

SWORN OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL

He secured his re-election at Newark on September 14 without opposition,
and without trouble, beyond the pressure of a notion rooted in the
genial mind of his constituency that as master of the mint he would have
an unlimited command of public coin for all purposes whether general or
particular. His reflections upon his ministerial position are of much
biographic interest. He had evidently expected inclusion in the
cabinet:--

_Sept. 16._--Upon quietly reviewing past times, and the degree of
confidence which Sir Robert Peel had for years, habitually I may
say, reposed in me, and especially considering its climax, in my
being summoned to the meetings immediately preceding the debate on
the address in August, I am inclined to think, after allowing for
the delusions of self love, that there is not a perfect
correspondence between the tenor of the past on the one hand, and
my present appointment and the relations in which it places me to
the administration on the other. He may have made up his mind at
those meetings that I was not qualified for the consultations of a
government, nor would there be anything strange in this, except the
supposition that he had not seen it before. Having however taken
the alarm (so to speak) upon the invitation at that time, and been
impressed