Lord President Marquis of Lansdowne.
Lord Privy Seal Lord Ripon (in 1833).
Chancellor of the Exchequer Viscount Althorp.
Home Secretary Viscount Melbourne.
Foreign Secretary Viscount Palmerston.
Colonial Secretary Viscount Goderich, and
afterwards Mr. Stanley.
Board of Control Mr. Charles Grant.
Board of Trade Lord Auckland.
Admiralty Sir James Graham.
Postmaster-General Duke of Richmond.
Paymaster-General Lord John Russell.
Irish Secretary Mr. Stanley.]

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The other places present a plausible show, but are not well
distributed, some ill filled. Graham Admiralty, Melbourne Home,
Auckland Board of Trade--all bad. The second is too idle, the
first too inconsiderable, the third too ignorant.[19] They have
done it very quickly, however, and without many difficulties. As
to the Duke of Richmond, people are indignant at a half-pay
lieutenant-colonel commanding the Ordnance Department, and as an
acquisition he is of doubtful value, for it seems the Tories will
not go with him, at least will not consider themselves as his
followers; so said Lord Mansfield and Vyvyan.

[19] [This is a remarkable instance of the manner in which
the prognostications of the most acute observers are
falsified by events. The value of Mr. Greville's
remarks on the men of his time consists not in their
absolute truth, but in their sincerity at the moment at
which they were made. They convey a correct impression
of the notion prevailing at that time. Thus Sir James
Graham became unquestionably a very active First Lord
of the Admiralty, Lord Melbourne a 'considerable' Prime
Minister of England, and Lord Auckland a painstaking
and well-informed Governor-General of India.]

November 21st, 1830 {p.067}

The Duke of Richmond's appointment was found so unpalatable to
the army that they have been forced to change it, and he is to be
Master of the Horse instead, which I suspect will not be to his
taste. [He afterwards refused the Mastership of the Horse, and it
ended in his being Postmaster-General, but without