CONTENTS. IX 



QUESTION OF THE WHIGS COMING IN EARL GREY's VIEWS 



THE DUKE OF SUSSEX PROSPECT OP A CANNING ADMINISTRA- 

 TION HIS POSITION WITH THE PRINCE AND LORD ELDON 



PERSONAL MATTERS REASONS FOR DEMANDING A PATENT OF 



PRECEDENCE STATE OF SPAIN COMMERCIAL CRISIS OF 1825 



LORD HOWICK JOSEPH HUME CANNING^ MINISTRY 



SPECULATIONS ON A COALITION TENDER OF OFFICE SYDNEY 



SMITH DEATH OF CANNING AND ACCESSION OF GODERICH 



THE WELLINGTON MINISTRY OPENING OF UNIVERSITY COL- 

 LEGE IRELAND AND THE CATHOLIC QUESTION DUEL BE- 

 TWEEN SIR ALEXANDER BOSWELL AND MR STUART, 435-516 



