d he had lately come to realize the value of the
services which Canning had rendered to England. We shall see, before
long, that a secession of Canning's followers from the party in power
took place, and that the seceding men were called, and called
themselves, the "Canningites." George already appears to have become a
Canningite.

The King had a good deal of trouble in forming an Administration. Lord
Goderich became Prime Minister, with Lyndhurst again as Lord
Chancellor, and Huskisson in Goderich's former place at the War and
Colonial Office. Lord Goderich, as we have seen, had been sent into
the House of Lords when Canning became Prime Minister. Up to that time
he was Mr. Frederick John Robinson, generally known by the nickname of
"Prosperity Robinson." This satirical designation he obtained from the
fact that while he was President of the Board of Trade, and {66} still
later when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had always made it
his business in each session to describe the country as in a condition
of unparalleled prosperity. More than that, he always insisted on
declaring that the particular schemes of taxation that he brought
forward were destined, beyond all possibility of doubt, to increase
still further that hitherto unexampled prosperity. It had been his
fortune, in his early official career, to propose and carry some
schemes of taxation which met with such passionate opposition in some
parts of the country as to lead to serious rioting and even to loss of
life. But all the time he saw only prosperity as the result of his
financial enterprises, and hence the nickname, which is still
remembered in England's Parliamentary history.

[Sidenote: 1828--The struggle for religious equality]

Lord Goderich was not a man of remarkable political capacity, and he
was a poor, ineffective, and even uninteresting speaker, except when
the audacity of his statements, and his prophecies, and the tumult of
interruptions and laughter that they created, lent a certain
Parliamentary interest to his orations. He had an immense amount of
that sort of courage which, in the colloquial language of our times,
would probably be described as bumptiousness. He had an unlimited
faith in his own capacity, and he saw nothing but success, personal and
national, where observers in general could discern only failure. He
was one of a class of men who are to be found at all times of
Parliamentary history, and who manage someh