CHAPTER XXII.

Fall of Sir Robert Peel--Lord John's Interview with Peel--Lord John and the Duke--Lord Clarendon and Lord Aberdeen--Favourable Position of the new Ministry--Lord Melbourne's Disappointment--Smooth Water--Generous Conduct of Lord Aberdeen--Restoration of Magistrates removed from the Commission as Repealers--The Irish Arms Bill--Distrust of Lord Palmerston--The Arms Bill given up--The Bishop of Oxford's Exhortations--Differences with France--An Exchange of Appointments--Squabble between Lord George Bentinck and Lord Lyndhurst--Macaulay on Junius--Lord Chesterfield--Bretby and Woburn--Lord John Russell's Moderation--The Spanish Marriage--Bad Faith of the French Government--Unanimous Censure of the Spanish Marriages--Lord Bessborough in Ireland--Correspondence on the Spanish Marriages--Council of the Duchy--The Annexation of Cracow to Austria--Action of Lewis Ferrand--Strange Intrigue imputed to Louis Philippe--Conversation with Count Jarnac on the Spanish Marriages--The Queen and Sir Robert Peel--M. Guizot's Note on the Spanish Marriages--Decoration of the Peninsular Soldiers--State of Ireland _page_ 401

A JOURNAL

OF THE

REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA

FROM 1837 TO 1852.