CHAPTER XXIX.

Resistance of the Lords--Duke of Richmond--Happiness--Struggle between Lords and Commons--Peel keeps aloof--Inconsistency of the Whigs on the Irish Church Bill--Violent Language in the Lords--Lord John Russell and Peel pass the Corporation Bill-- Dissolution of the Tory Party foreseen--Meeting of Peers to consider the Amendments--King's Speech in Council on the Militia--Lord Howick's Bitterness against the Lords--Lord Lyndhurst's Opinion of the Corporation Bill--The King's Language on the Regency--Talleyrand's View of the English Alliance--Comparison of Burke and Mackintosh--The St. Leger-- Visit of Princess Victoria to Burghley--O'Connell's Progress through Scotland--Mackintosh's Life. Page 290