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CHAPTER XVIII. 



POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE QUEEN 

 CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ANOTHER CONTEST FOR WEST- 

 MORLAND STATE OF PARTIES MINISTERIAL DIFFICULTIES 



QUESTION OF THE WHIGS COMING IN EARL GREY'S VIEWS 

 THE DUKE OF SUSSEX PROSPECT OF A CANNING ADMINIS- 

 TRATION 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'S 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 BETWEEN 

 SIR ALEXANDER BOSWELL AND MR STEWART. 



THE unworthy conduct of the Government of George 

 IV., in acting as the ministers of the King's venge- 

 ance against Queen Caroline, had not only tended to 

 lower the character of public men in the eyes of the 

 country, but had weakened the Administration, the 

 leading members of which were looked upon as men 

 who preferred place to character. The bitterness of 

 political animosities was by no means lessened by the 

 death of the victim. The hatred of the King, and 

 contempt for the men who had so disgracefully sub- 

 mitted to be his tools, continued as strong as ever. 

 A Government so circumstanced was powerless to do 



