February 17. Creevey to Miss Ord. [Discussing Liverpool's illness and its consequences.] (Creevey Papers, p. 447.)Google Scholar

February 17. Croker's Diary. [Discussing the political situation. Canning will probably be Prime Minister.] (Croker Papers, i. 362.)Google Scholar

February 17. Peel to Wellington. [Informing him of Liverpool's illness.] (W.N.D., iii. 596.)Google Scholar

February 17. Mrs. Canning to Peel. [Canning is much better, and will see Peel to-morrow.] (W.N.D., iii. 597.)Google Scholar

February 18. Peel to Wellington. [King is still tranquil, but uncertain as to the course he should pursue.] (W.N.D., iii. 596.)Google Scholar

February 18. Peel to Wellington. [An account of his interview with the King at Brighton.] (W.N.D., iii. 597.)Google Scholar

February 18. Croker's Diary. [Talk with Wellington, who agrees that his proper place is the Horse Guards.] (Croker Papers, i. 363.)Google Scholar

February 18. Eldon to Lady F. J. Bankes. [Liverpool's illness; possibility that Canning will succeed him.] (Twiss, Life of Eldon, ii. 583.)Google Scholar

February 19. Creevey to Miss Ord. [Thinks Canning will be Prime Minister.] (Creevey Papers, p. 448.)Google Scholar

February 19. Grey to Howick. [Whigs ought not to join Canning unless Catholic question is to be brought forward as a Government measure.] (G. M. Trevelyan's Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, p. 374.)Google Scholar

February 20. Huskisson to Canning. [Prospects for Corn and Catholic questions.] (Melville, Huskisson Papers, p. 217.)Google Scholar

February 22. E. J. Littleton to Canning. [Sending an account of a Whig Party meeting at which it was decided to support Canning.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 202.)Google Scholar

February 26. Bagot to Binning. [Discussing which office Canning ought to hold with the Premiership, and hoping he would succeed to Liverpool's office of Warden of the Cinque Ports.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 370.]Google Scholar

February 27. Arbuthnot to Bathurst. [Informing him that Wellington will never serve under Canning.] (Hist. MSS. Comm., Bathurst Papers, p. 630.)Google Scholar

February 27. Henries to Knighton. [On the political situation. He is pursuing his vocation “without looking to the right hand or to the left.”] (George IV Corresp., No. 1288.)Google Scholar

February 27. Lowther to Knighton. [“Protestants” reasonably certain of a majority on Catholic question in House of Commons. Many look to Wellington as Prime Minister.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1289.)Google Scholar

March 1. Knighton to Wellington. [King will see him at any time, and is now quite well.] (W.N.D., iii. 603.)Google Scholar

March 1. Croker to Peel. [Growing opposition in House of Lords to Government's Corn Resolutions.] (Croker Papers, i. 361.)Google Scholar

March 1. Princess Lieven to her brother. [Struggle will be between Gothic ideas and modern tendencies and Canning sides with the latter.] (L. G. Robinson, Lieven Letters, p. 91.)Google Scholar

March 3. Canning to Knighton. [Describing debate on Corn Resolutions and discussing prospects for debate on Catholic question.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1292.)Google Scholar

March 3. Canning to Knighton. [On his sleepless night after the House of Commons' debate.] (Memoirs of Sir Wm. Knighton, i. 371.)Google Scholar

March 5. Arbuthnot to Knighton. [Wellington feels that Knighton is his best ally. Canning likely to break up the Government.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1291.)Google Scholar

March 6. Creevey to Miss Ord. [Lady Conyngham on the King's views.] (Creevey Papers, p. 450.)Google Scholar

March 6. Colonel Cathcart to Bagot. [General belief that Canning will become Premier and Chancellor of the Exchequer.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 373.)Google Scholar

March 7. Creevey to Miss Ord. [Catholic question a fight for power, not for the Catholics. “I think Canning must win.”] (Creevey Papers, p. 450.)Google Scholar

March 7.Knighton to ?. [King left Pavilion this afternoon for Windsor.] (Memoirs of Sir W. Knighton, i. 363.)Google Scholar

March 9. Binning to Bagot. [Debate on Catholic question and results of the division.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 375.)Google Scholar

March 10. Arbuthnot to Peel. [Reflections on the political situation; Wellington's views.] (Parker's Peel, i. 452.)Google Scholar

March 12. Bagot to Binning. [On Canning's prospects of the Premiership.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 376.)Google Scholar

March 13. Grey to Holland. [Would be disposed to support Canning if Canning should be allowed to form a Government with a firm assurance of carrying Catholic question.] (Trevelyan, Grey of the Reform Bill, p. 375.)Google Scholar

March 14. Grey to Princess Lieven. [Asks for information about politics; Canning unlikely to be Premier if Tory Party splits.] (Le Strange, Lieven and Grey Corresp., i. 36.)Google Scholar

March 16. Croker's Diary. [Thinks Peel would like Wellington or Bathurst or even Melville as Premier.] (Croker Papers, i. 365.)Google Scholar

March 17. Arbuthnot to Bathurst. [Wellington is quite miserable; everybody takes part against him.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 631.)Google Scholar

March 17. Princess Lieven to Grey. [Political gossip.] (Le Strange, Lieven and Grey Corresp., i. 37.)Google Scholar

March 18. Brougham to Wilson. [Is prepared to give Canning assistance.] (Wilson's Narrative of the Formation of Canning's Ministry, p. 3; Engl. Hist. Review, April 1927, p. 204.)Google Scholar

March 20. Buckingham to Wellington. [Peers ready to support the King in formation of a balanced Government without Canning's assistance.] (W.N.D., iii. 611.)Google Scholar

March 21. Wellington to Buckingham. [Returns Buckingham's letter and rejects his overture.] (W.N.D., iii. 611.)Google Scholar

March 23. Binning to Bagot. [Possibility of a “dummy” Premier; no anti-Catholic Government likely.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 378.)Google Scholar

March 25. Wilson to Erskine. [Communicating for Canning's information the substance of Brougham's letter of 18 March, and promising to send an autograph confirmation from Brougham.] (Wilson's Narrative, p. 5.)Google Scholar

March 25. Lansdowne to Wilson. [Has no objection to Wilson's proposal to communicate to Canning the substance of Brougham's letter of 18 March.] (E. J. Stapleton, Official Corresp. of Canning, ii. 301.)Google Scholar

March 25. Abercromby to Wilson. [A divided Government ought not to be supported.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 220, where the letter is in error attributed to Duncannon.)Google Scholar

March 26. Brougham to Wilson. [Will give a zealous and disinterested support to a Government based on liberal and moderate principles.] (E. J. Stapleton, Official Corresp. of Canning, ii. 300.)Google Scholar

March Lushington to Knighton. [Has counteracted efforts to place Wellington in the Premiership. King's mind must be brought to a right decision—in Canning's favour.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1296; Parker's Peel, i. 454.)Google Scholar

March Althorp to Brougham. [On moving an Address to the King for a Government united on Catholic question.] (Engl. Hist. Review., 04 1927, p. 217.)Google Scholar

March 27. Croker to Hertford. [Progress of Liverpool's illness.] (Croker Papers, i. 366.)Google Scholar

March 28. Canning's Memorandum of his conversation with the King at Windsor. (Stapleton, Canning and His Times, p. 582.)Google Scholar

March 30. Arbuthnot, to Peel. [Wellington thinks the King has told lies about him to Canning.] (Parker's Peel, i. 457.)Google Scholar

March Canning to the King. [Report of debate in House of Commons. King must come to an early decision.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1299.)Google Scholar

March 31. Canning to the King. [Has withheld from Cabinet King's communication respecting the election of a Premier by Cabinet.] (Stapleton, Canning and His Times, p. 586.)Google Scholar

March Wellington to Bathurst. [Plan of electing a Premier will probably be dropped.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 631.)Google Scholar

March Peel to the King. [Has seen Canning and has communicated King's message to him.] (Parker's Peel, i. 457.)Google Scholar

March King to Peel. [Hopes Peel has come to some understanding with Canning relative to organisation of Government.] (Peel, i. 458.)Google Scholar

April 1. Brougham to Wilson. [Whigs must go into opposition to new Government if it is divided on Catholic question.] (Wilson's Narrative, p. 13; A. Aspinall, Brougham and the Whig Party, p. 144.)Google Scholar

April 1. Clancarty to Wellington. [Views on Catholic question.] (W.N.D., iii. 616.)Google Scholar

April Brougham to Lansdowne. [Whigs must re-organise themselves as an Opposition.] (A. Aspinall, Brougham and the Whig Party, p. 145.)Google Scholar

April 2. Peel to Bathurst. [Wellington and Canning are to see each other, and all misunderstanding will be removed.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 631.)Google Scholar

April 3. Bathurst to Wellington. [Canning does not feel propitious to Wellington's appointment as Premier.] (W.N.D., iii. 619.)Google Scholar

April Binning to Bagot. [Intrigues of High Tory Peers.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 383.)Google Scholar

April Croker to Canning. [Showing dependence of any Government on support of aristocracy.] (Croker Papers, i. 367.)Google Scholar

April Canning to Croker. [Challenging view that George IV was as completely in hands of Tory aristocracy as George II was in hands of Whigs.] (Croker Papers, i. 368.)Google Scholar

April Croker to Canning. [On same subject.] (Croker Papers, i. 368.)Google Scholar

April Arbuthnot to Knighton. [On the coming talks between Canning and the Duke.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1304.)Google Scholar

April 5. Croker to Canning. [Aristocracy has no great share of political office in House of Commons.] (Croker Papers, i. 370.)Google Scholar

April Canning to Knighton. [Wellington hoped that Canning would beg him to take the Government.] (Stapleton, Canning and His Times, p. 588.)Google Scholar

April 6. George IV to Knighton. [No advance yet been made, “amidst, perhaps, almost unravelable perplexities.”] (Memoirs of Sir W. Knighton, i. 367.)Google Scholar

April 7. Peel to Croker. [Does not wish to discuss the political situation with him.] (Parker's Peel, i. 469.)Google Scholar

April Croker to Peel. [A further explanation of his recent silence.] (Peel, i. 469.)Google Scholar

April 9. Howard de Walden to Bagot. [Bitterness of ultra Tories against Canning.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 382, where it is dated the 10th.)Google Scholar

April Canning to the King. [Appointment of Wellington to Premiership will not solve the difficulty.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1305.)Google Scholar

April Peel to Eldon. [Explaining why he could not serve under Canning.] (Parker's Peel, i. 460–3. Two letters.)Google Scholar

April 10. Londonderry to Wellington. [King has postponed Londonderry's interview.] (W.N.D., iii. 627.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Londonderry. [Suggesting a reason for the postponement.] (W.N.D., iii. 627.)Google Scholar

April Canning to Wellington. [Inviting him to remain in Cabinet.] (W.N.D., iii. 628.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Canning. [Inquiring who is to be Prime Minister.] (W.N.D., iii. 628.)Google Scholar

April April 10. Canning to Peel. [Would be very glad to see him that evening.] (Parker's Peel, i. 463.)Google Scholar

April Eldon to the King. [Unable to wait upon the King that morning.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1307.)Google Scholar

April 11. Eldon to the King. [Is now able to wait upon the King.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1308.)Google Scholar

April Canning to Wellington. [Explaining that he is to be Prime Minister.] (W.N.D., iii. 628.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Canning. [Declining Cabinet office.] (W.N.D., iii. 629.)Google Scholar

April Beckett to Peel. [Views of “Protestant” Tories.] (Parker's Peel, i. 481.)Google Scholar

April 12. Wellington to the King. [Resigning his offices.] (W.N.D., iii. 630.)Google Scholar

April Huskisson to Croker. [Tories trying to deprive King of his right to nominate the Premier.] (Croker Papers, i. 366.)Google Scholar

April Bathurst to Canning. [Resigning office.] (Parker's Peel, i. 488.)Google Scholar

April Peel to his father. [On his resignation.] (Peel, i. 474.)Google Scholar

April Lord Hotham to Peel. [Approving step he has taken.] (Peel, i. 481.)Google Scholar

April Peel to Robinson. [On his resignation.] (Peel, i. 475.)Google Scholar

April Melville to Canning. [Resigning office.] (Peel, i. 488.)Google Scholar

April Melville to the King. [Resigning office.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1309.)Google Scholar

April Londonderry to Conyngham. [Respecting his postponed audience.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1310.)Google Scholar

April 13. Londonderry to the King. [Resigning office of Lord of the Bedchamber.] (W.N.D., iii. 635. There dated the 12th.)Google Scholar

April Londonderry to Wellington. [Hopes that King might still hold on to his real Protestant friends.] (W.N.D., iii. 631.)Google Scholar

April King to Wellington. [Acknowledging his letter of resignation.] (W.N.D., iii. 631.)Google Scholar

AprilLondonderry's Minute of his audience with the King that day. (W.N.D., iii. 632.)Google Scholar

April Wellington's Memorandum on quitting the Cabinet. (W.N.D., iii. 636.)Google Scholar

April Robinson to Peel. [Reasons for remaining in office.] (Parker's Peel, i. 476.)Google Scholar

April Dawson to Peel. [How House of Commons received news of Peel's retirement.] (Peel, i. 482.)Google Scholar

April Bishop Lloyd to Peel. [On his resignation of office.] (Peel, i. 477.)Google Scholar

April Lord Sefton to Creevey. [On the resignations of the ultras.] (Creevey Papers, p. 454.)Google Scholar

April Grey to Princess Lieven. [Doubts whether Canning will make an overture to Whigs.] (Le Strange, Lieven and Grey Corresp., i. 39.)Google Scholar

April 14. Montrose to the King. [Resigning office of Lord Chamberlain.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1312.)Google Scholar

April 14. Graham to the King. [Resigning office of Vice-Chamberlain.] (Geoge IV Corresp., No. 1313.)Google Scholar

April Dorset to the King. [Resigning office of Master of the Horse.] (Geoge IV Corresp., No. 1314.)Google Scholar

April Shawe's Memorandum of conversation with Wellington. (Wellesley Papers, ii. 164.)Google Scholar

April Sir R. Peel to Peel. [Approving his resignation.] Parker's Peel, i. 475.)Google Scholar

April Croker to Lowther. [Hoping that Duke of Clarence's appointment will cause him not to resign his Lordship of the Treasury.] (Croker Papers, i. 372.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Londonderry. [King is acting on advice of a charlatan.] (Alison, Lives of Castlereagh and Sir C. Stewart, iii. 250 n. The letter was begun on the 13th, and sent as a single letter.)Google Scholar

April Grey to Holland. [Admits his rooted distrust of Canning; would not take office under him, but would support Canning's Government if Catholic question was to be brought forward as a Government measure.] (Trevelyan, Grey of the Reform Bill, p. 375.)Google Scholar

April 15. Vivian to Knighton. [Anglesey ready to support the King.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1315.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Bathurst. [Canning's system is founded on fraud, to which King quietly submits.] (W.N.D., iii. 642.)Google Scholar

April Canning to Bathurst. [Offering him the Home Secretaryship.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 632.)Google Scholar

April Bathurst to Canning. [Declines the offer.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 633.)Google Scholar

April Canning to Peel. [A farewell letter.] (Parker's Peel, i. 464.)Google Scholar

April 16. Harrowby to Canning. [King told Archbishop of Canterbury there was to be a “Protestant” majority in Cabinet.] (E. J. Stapleton, Official Corresp. of Canning, ii. 298.)Google Scholar

April Anglesey to Wellington. [Not yet settled that he shall go to the Ordnance.] (W.N.D., iii. 643.)Google Scholar

April Bagot to Binning. [On the political situation.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 384.)Google Scholar

April Tierney (jun.) to Bagot. [Political news.] (Canning and His Friends, ii. 386.)Google Scholar

April Croker to Lowther. [Regretting that he is out of office.] (Croker Papers, i. 373.)Google Scholar

April 17. Peel to Canning. [Justifying his resignation.] (W.N.D., iii. 644.)Google Scholar

April Sir H. Taylor to Wellington. [Military arrangements in contemplation.] (W.N.D., iii. 645.)Google Scholar

April Mrs. Taylor to Creevey. [Brougham outrageous at idea of Copley being Chancellor.] (Creevey Papers, p. 455.)Google Scholar

April George Villiers to Bagot. [Political news.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 388.)Google Scholar

April Huskisson to Arbuthnot. [Asking him to deliver to Wellington a message of gratitude for past kindnesses.] (Melville, Huskisson Papers, p. 221.)Google Scholar

April Huskisson to Canning. [Reserves to himself the liberty of retiring from Board of Trade if door of higher Departments remains closed against him.] (Huskisson Papers, p. 221.)Google Scholar

April 17. Croker to Daly. [Explaining why he remains in office.] (Croker Papers, i. 374.)Google Scholar

April Arbuthnot to Peel. [They must look to the Press; the Duke must be set right with the world.] (Parker's Peel, i. 482.)Google Scholar

April 18. Althorp to Brougham. [On his attitude to the Government.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 218.)Google Scholar

April Duncannon to Althorp. [The new Government must be supported.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 221.)Google Scholar

April Lord Manners to Archbishop of Canterbury. [Agrees to remain in office until the autumn.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1317.)Google Scholar

April Peel to Croker. [Declining an interview.] (Parker's Peel, i. 470.)Google Scholar

April Londonderry to Wellington. [Military arrangements; King and Catholic question.] (W.N.D., iii. 649.)Google Scholar

April Trench to Wellington. [Archbishop of Canterbury's conversation with the King.] (W.N.D., iii. 651.)Google Scholar

April Mrs. Canning to Lord Ashley. [Would he like a seat at one of the Boards ?] (Hodder's Shaftesbury, i. 64.)Google Scholar

April Lord Ashley to Mrs. Canning. [Declining office.] (Shaftesbury, i. 65.)Google Scholar

April 19. Palmerston to Wm. Temple. [Ministerial arrangements; he is to be Chancellor of the Exchequer at end of Session, and to be in the Cabinet at once.] (Bulwer's Palmerston, i. 186.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Robinson. [Has reason to complain, but will endeavour to soften animosities.] (W.N.D., iii. 652.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Sir H. Taylor. [Declining to discuss military arrangements.] (W.N.D., iii. 652.)Google Scholar

April Francis Leveson-Gower to Wellington. [Asks for advice about taking office.] (W.N.D., iii. 653.)Google Scholar

April Lansdowne's Minute. [Conditions on which Whigs would take office.] (Stapleton, Political Life of Canning, iii. 340.)Google Scholar

April Lansdowne's Memorandum. [Will give Government a cordial support even though his conditions are inadmissible at present.] (Political Life of Canning, iii. 341.)Google Scholar

April Peel to Croker. [Again declining communication.] (Parker's Peel, i. 471.)Google Scholar

April Mrs. Arbuthnot to Peel. [Pray try to do something about the Press.] (Peel, i. 483.)Google Scholar

April Princess Lieven to her brother. [Political gossip.] (L. G. Robinson, Lieven Letters, p. 95.)Google Scholar

April 20. Wellington to Leveson-Gower. [Advice about taking office.] (W.N.D., iii. 654.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Londonderry. [Earnestly recommending moderation and temper, and respect for the King.] (W.N.D., iii. 654.)Google Scholar

April Croker to Peel. [Hoping that the interruption to their friendship may prove but temporary.] (Parker's Peel, i. 471.)Google Scholar

April 21. Peel to Wellington. [News of ministerial appointments.] (W.N.D., iii. 656.)Google Scholar

April 21. Peel to his brother Edmund. [Explaining his resignation.] Parker's Peel, i. 484.)Google Scholar

April Mrs. Taylor to Creevey. [The insurrection at Brooks' Club.] (Creevey Papers, p. 455.)Google Scholar

April Brougham to Creevey. [On the breakdown of negotiations with Canning.] (Creevey Papers, p. 456.)Google Scholar

April Creevey to Miss Ord. [Says Lord Dudley has refused the Privy Seal.] (Creevey's Life and Times, p. 240.)Google Scholar

April 22. Peel to Wellington. [Duke should publish a statement justifying his resignation.] (W.N.D., iii. 656.)Google Scholar

April Westmorland to Wellington. [Whig negotiation renewed.] [W.N.D., iii. 656.)Google Scholar

April Londonderry to Wellington. [News about the ministerial negotiations.] (W.N.D., iii. 657.)Google Scholar

April Wellington to Peel. [Is against rushing into print on subject of his resignation.] (Parker's Peel, i. 484.)Google Scholar

April Bishop Lloyd to Peel. [On the subject of Peel's resignation.] (Peel, i. 478.)Google Scholar

April Campbell to his brother. [On the negotiations with the Whigs.] (Hardcastle's Campbell, i. 440.)Google Scholar

April 23. Brougham to D. of Devonshire. [Consequences of a second breakdown of negotiations.] (A. Aspinall, Brougham and the Whig Party, p. 147.)Google Scholar

April Duncannon to Lambton. [Hopes that all prospect of junction is over.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 220.)Google Scholar

April 24. Canning to the King. [Question of Duke of Devonshire's taking office; Lamb to be Home Secretary if Lansdowne declines office.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1318.)Google Scholar

April Londonderry to Wellington. [Negotiations with the Whigs.] (W.N.D., iii. 658.)Google Scholar

April Cathcart to Bagot. [Ministerial arrangements.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 392.)Google Scholar

April Canning to Wellesley. [Wellesley may have Governor-Generalship of Bengal.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 152.)Google Scholar

April 25. Canning to the King. [Negotiations with Whigs.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1320.)Google Scholar

April Campbell to his brother George. [Negotiations with Whigs.] (Hardcastle's Campbell, i. 443.)Google Scholar

April Tavistock to Althorp. [Attitude to the Government.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 222.)Google Scholar

April 26. Duke of Bedford to Lord John Russell. [Disgusted with politics.] (Walpole's Life of Lord J. Russell, i. 134.)Google Scholar

April 27. Canning to Wellesley. [Sending a list of the ministerial arrangements.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 154.)Google Scholar

April Stapleton to Bagot. [Canning has now settled the Cabinet.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 396.)Google Scholar

April Peel to Wellington. [Ministerial arrangements.] (W.N.D., iii. 658.)Google Scholar

April Brougham to Creevey. [On his exclusion from office.] (Creevey Papers, p. 457.)Google Scholar

April April 27. Huskisson to Gladstone. [Ministerial arrangements.] (Melville, Huskisson Papers, p. 223.)Google Scholar

April Canning to the King. [Duke of Devonshire to take office.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1321.)Google Scholar

April Princess Lieven to her brother. [Political news.] (Robinson, L. G., Lieven Letters, p. 97.)Google Scholar

April Duncannon to Althorp. [Ministerial arrangements.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, pp. 211, 221.)Google Scholar

April Brougham to D. of Devonshire. [On his exclusion from office.] (Aspinall, A., Brougham and the Whig Party, p. 151.)Google Scholar

April 28. Tavistock to Hobhouse. [Intends to take his own line in politics.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 224.)Google Scholar

April Macdonald to the Duke of Devonshire. [Whether Abercromby or Mackintosh is to be Judge Advocate General.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 211.)Google Scholar

April 29. Duke of Bedford to Lord John Russell. [Hope of carrying Catholic question now at an end.] (Walpole, Life of Lord J. Russell, i. 134.)Google Scholar

April 30. Melville to Peel. [On his resignation.] (Parker's Peel, i. 488.)Google Scholar

April Planta to Herries. [Replying to an undated letter in which Herries suggests T. P. Courtenay for the Secretaryship of the Treasury and himself for the Woods and Forests.] (Memoir of J. C. Herries, i. 124–6.)Google Scholar

May 1. Canning to the King. [Report on debate in House of Commons.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1322.)Google Scholar

May 2. EJdon to Lady F. J. Bankes. [King parts with him on friendly terms.] (Twiss, Eldon, ii. 595.)Google Scholar

May 3. Sir George Murray to Wellington. [Regretting Duke's resignation.] (W.N.D., iv. 15.)Google Scholar

May Ashley to Wellington. [Congratulating him on his speech in Parliament.] (W.N.D., iv. 16.)Google Scholar

May Canning to the King. [Report on debate in House of Commons.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1323.)Google Scholar

May 4. Canning to the King. [Report on debate in House of Commons.] (George IV Corresp., 16, No. 1324.)Google Scholar

May The King to Archbishop of Canterbury. [On his Protestant principles.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1325.)Google Scholar

May Palmerston to Temple. [Ministerial arrangements. Fury of the Tories.] (Bulwer's Palmerston, i. 190.)Google Scholar

May 5. Burdett to his wife. [Explaining his support of the Government.] (Patterson, Burdett and His Times, ii. 559.)Google Scholar

May R. P. Ward to Canning. [Attitude of Lord Chandos to the Government.] (Stapleton, Official Corresp. of Canning, ii 313.)Google Scholar

May Canning to Wellington. [On the Duke's speech in House of Lords, 2 May.] (W.N.D., iv. 16.)Google Scholar

May Eldon to Encombe. [Explaining his resignation.] (Twiss, Eldon, ii. 601.)Google Scholar

May 5. Canning to the King. [On King's letter to Archbishop of Canterbury, 4 May.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1326.)Google Scholar

May 6. Wellington to Canning. [Further explanation of his resignation.] (W.N.D., iv. 20.)Google Scholar

May M. A. Taylor to Creevey. [Whigs have not shown him much respect.] (Creevey Papers, p. 458.)Google Scholar

May 8. Tierney (jun.) to Bagot. [Last night's debate in House of Commons.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 397.)Google Scholar

May Canning to the King. [Debate in House of Commons.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1327.)Google Scholar

May 10. Wilson to Brougham. [Brougham's wildness.] (Wilson's Narrative, p. 28.)Google Scholar

May 11. Canning to the King. [Report on debate in House of Commons.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1328.)Google Scholar

May Abercromby to the D. of Devonshire. [Why the Whig junction is still uncompleted.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 212.)Google Scholar

May Althorp to Creevey. [Must support Canning as the least of two evils.] (Creevey Papers, p. 459.)Google Scholar

May Dudley to Bagot. [His rashness in accepting Foreign Secretaryship.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 398.)Google Scholar

May 13. Wellington to Ellenborough. [Will not support Ellenborough's proposed motion in the Lords.] (W.N.D., iv. 30.)Google Scholar

May 15. Canning to Wellesley. [Summarising the recent changes.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 156.)Google Scholar

May Cathcart to Bagot. [Progress of resumed negotiations with Whigs.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 399.)Google Scholar

May 19. Canning to the King. [List of Whigs now taking office.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1331.)Google Scholar

May Littleton to Leigh. [Government's parliamentary position.] (Aspinall, A., Brougham and the Whig Party, p. 280.)Google Scholar

May 20. Princess Lieven to her brother. [Difficulties of Canning's situation.] (Robinson, L. G., Lieven Letters, p. 97.)Google Scholar

May Sir H. Taylor to Wellington. [The Duke's controversy with Canning.] (W.N.D., iv. 33.)Google Scholar

May 21. Goderich to the King. [Debate in House of Lords.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1332.)Google Scholar

May Wellington to Taylor. [Why he resigned his military command.] (W.N.D., iv. 34.)Google Scholar

May The King to Wellington. [Inviting him to resume office of Commander-in-Chief.] (W.N.D., iv. 35.)Google Scholar

May 22. Wellington to the King. [Declining to recall his resignation.] (W.N.D., iv. 36.)Google Scholar

May Canning to the King. [Irish judicial appointments.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1333.)Google Scholar

May Canning to Wellesley. [His parliamentary position; controversy with the Duke; Wellesley's future.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 157.)Google Scholar

May Lyttelton to Bagot. [Government's parliamentary position.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 402.)Google Scholar

May May 28. Canning to the King (2 letters): [Unconciliatory language of Duke's adherents.] (Stapleton, Canning and His Times, p. 599.)Google Scholar

May [Debate in Commons.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1337.)Google Scholar

May Sefton to Creevey. [Defending the Coalition.] (Creevey Papers, p. 459.)Google Scholar

May 31. Creevey to Sefton. [Attacking the Coalition.] (Creevey Papers, p. 460.)Google Scholar

May Canning to the King. [Debate in Commons.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1341.)Google Scholar

May n.d. Lyndhurst to Knighton. [Brougham and professional promotion.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1334.)Google Scholar

May n.d. Lyndhurst to the King. [Brougham and a silk gown.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1335.]Google Scholar

May June 2. Campbell to his brother. [Brougham's patent of precedence.] (Hardcastle's Campbell, i. 445.)Google Scholar

May Wellesley to Canning. [His forthcoming removal from Irish Government.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 190.)Google Scholar

May 3. Stapleton's Memorandum. [Canning's fear of a great struggle between property and population.] (Stapleton, Official Corresp. of Canning, ii. 321.)Google Scholar

May 4. Canning to Bagot. [Offering him Governor-Generalship of Bengal.] (Bagot, Canning and His Friends, ii. 404.)Google Scholar

May 5. Canning to Bagot. [Withdrawing the offer.] (Canning and His Friends, ii. 405.)Google Scholar

May Princess Lieven to her brother. [Wellington has compromised his reputation.] (Robinson, L. G., Lieven Letters, p. 100.)Google Scholar

May 7. Canning to Wellesley. [Provision for Wellesley after his return to England.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 192.)Google Scholar

May Enroll to the King. [Resigning office of Lord of the Bedchamber.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1346.)Google Scholar

May 11. Wellesley to Canning. [Declining the Vienna Embassy.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 197.)Google Scholar

May 12. Goderich to the King. [Corn Bill debate in Lords.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1350.)Google Scholar

May 13. Wellesley to Canning. [Wishes to remain in Ireland until January.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 199.)Google Scholar

May Shawe to Knighton. [Why Wellesley wishes to remain in Ireland till Christmas.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1354.)Google Scholar

May 14. Campbell to his brother. [Corn Bill; Grey's atrocious conduct; “Warwick the King-maker” (Brougham).] (Hardcastle's Campbell, i. 446.)Google Scholar

May 17. Canning to D. of Clarence. [Lord Hertford's proxy given against Government on Corn Bill.] (Stapleton, Official Corresp. of Canning, ii. 323.)Google Scholar

May Canning to Granville. [Corn Bill.] (Official Corresp. of Canning, ii. 324.)Google Scholar

May Canning to the King. [New Corn Bill.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1356.)Google Scholar

May 18. Canning to the King. [Commons' debate.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1357.) Grey to Wellington. [Duke's correspondence with Huskisson on Corn Bill.] (W.N.D., iv. 40.)Google Scholar

May 19. Creevey to Miss Ord. [Althorp and the leadership in the Lords.] (Creevey Papers, p. 462.)Google Scholar

June 19. Canning to the King. [Bedchamber Lords and their Corn Bill votes.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1360.)Google Scholar

June 21. Lambton to his wife. [Grey's hostility to the Government.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 214.)Google Scholar

June 23. Wellington to Cumberland. [Account of the ministerial changes.] (W.N.D., iv. 50.)Google Scholar

June Creevey to Miss Ord. [Conversation with Wellington about Canning.] (Creevey Papers, p. 463.)Google Scholar

June 25. Sir W. Gordon to Wellington. [The Duke's speech in Parliament.] (W.N.D., iv. 53.)Google Scholar

June 28. Cumberland to the King. [Lamenting the recent changes.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1364.)Google Scholar

June Wellesley to the King. [Desiring to remain Lord Lieutenant until January.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 200.)Google Scholar

July 3. Henries to Canning. [Wishes to change his office.] (Memoir of Herries, i. 131.)Google Scholar

July n.d. Herries to Canning. [Further explanation of his wish for some easier office.] (Memoir of Herries, i. 134.)Google Scholar

July 10. The King to Wellesley. [Permitting him to remain in Ireland until January.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 203.)Google Scholar

July 11. Cumberland to Lady Bathurst. [The recent political changes.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 633.)Google Scholar

July 12. Canning to Wellesley. [Anglesey to succeed him in January.] (Wellesley Papers, ii. 202.)Google Scholar

July Binning to Bagot. [Final ministerial arrangements.] (Bagot, ii. 406.)Google Scholar

July 13. Lambton to his wife. [His peerage; Grey's attitude to Government is moderating.] (Engl. Hist. Review, 04 1927, p. 219.)Google Scholar

July 14. Wellington to Maryborough. [Ready to visit the King at any time.] (W.N.D., iv. 63.)Google Scholar

July 15. Arbuthnot to Bathurst. [Ministerial changes; Herries's position; talk with Knighton.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 637.)Google Scholar

July 16. Arbuthnot to Knighton. [Duke's proposed visit to Windsor.] (George IV Corresp., No. 1370.)Google Scholar

July 19. The King to Canning. [Wellington's visit.] (Stapleton, Canning and His Times, p. 600.)Google Scholar

July Wellington to Maryborough. [Going to the Royal Lodge.] (W.N.D., iv. 63.)Google Scholar

July 20. Canning to the King. [Wellington's new political connexions.] (Stapleton, Canning and His Times, p. 600.)Google Scholar

July 22. Bathurst to Lady Bathurst. [Wellington's Windsor visit.] (Bathurst Papers, p. 641.)Google Scholar

The Greville Diary.Google Scholar

The Colchester Diary.Google Scholar

Princess Lieven's Account of Canning's struggle for the Premiership. (Lieven Diary, ed. by Prof. Temperley [1925]. pp. 116–24.)Google Scholar