or a week. He, Lord Wellesley, and Lord Anglesey form a
discontented triumvirate, and are knit together by the common
bond of a sense of ill-usage and of merit neglected. Wellesley
and Anglesey are not Radicals, however, and blame Brougham's new
tendency that way. Anglesey and Wellesley both hate and affect to
despise the Duke of Wellington,[26] in which Brougham does not
join. They are all suffering under mortified vanity and thwarted
ambition, and after playing their several parts, not without
success and applause, they have not the judgement to see and feel
that they forfeit irretrievably the lustre of their former fame
by such a poor and discreditable termination of their career.
Douro is here, _une lune bien pale aupres de son pere_, but far
from a dull man, and not deficient in information.

[26] Lord Wellesley became good friends with his brother
before his death, and Anglesey has long been the Duke's
enthusiastic admirer and most attached and devoted
comrade.--1850.

Badminton, January 23rd, 1838 {p.049}

The debate in the Lords the other night was very interesting and
creditable to the assembly.[27] Brougham delivered a tremendous
philippic of three hours. The Duke of Wellington made a very
noble speech, just such as it befitted him to make at such a
moment, and of course it bitterly mortified and provoked the
Tories, who would have had him make a party question of it, and
thought of nothing but abusing, vilifying, and embarrassing the
Government. This was what Peel showed every disposition to do in
the House of Commons, where he made a poor, paltry half-attack,
which was much more to the taste of his party than the Duke's
temperate and candid declaration.

[27] [Parliament reassembled on the 16th January. This
debate was on the Address to the Queen on the Canadian
Rebellion. A Bill was at once brought in to give
extended powers to Lord Durham, who was sent out as
Governor General. Mr. Roebuck, as the Agent for Canada,
was heard against the Bill at the bar of both Houses.
The Bill passed, but Lord Durham soon exceeded his
powers under it.]

[Page Head: DEATH OF LORD ELDON.]

Lord Eldon died last week full of years and wealth. He had for
some time past quitted the political stage, but his name was
still venerated by the dregs of that party to whom consistent
bigotry and intolerance are dear.