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he exceedingly overrated ; and I am persuaded that 

 he had no personal feeling whatever against those who 

 made, and those who approved or availed themselves 

 of it. This is manifest, not only from the individuals 

 who did so, such as Lambton, whose peerage was the 

 result of it, but from what took place at its termina- 

 tion. He had the candour afterwards to allow that 

 the junction had entirely broken up the old Tory 

 party, and had paved the way to his own Government. 

 He gave as another reason and which at the time he 

 considered the weightiest that Lyndhurst had taken 

 the Great Seal. But neither he nor the Duke of Bed- 

 ford could get over their objections to Canning, which 

 were of a personal nature with the Duke, on account 

 of Canning's attacks upon his brother Francis, the late 

 Duke ; and with Grey they proceeded on the old Fox 

 feelings towards him. The Duke actually gave his 

 proxy to Wellington ; and Grey attacked Canning so 

 severely that he had actually thoughts of taking a 

 peerage in order to defend himself. ~* This animosity 

 continued during the whole of the Junction ministry, 

 even after Canning's death, on the part of the Duke 

 and Grey. Others, not regular members of our party, 

 had equal objections, my friend Ellenborough among 

 the rest. He attacked me as the author of the Coali- 

 tion or Junction, and so did Londonderry in the Lords 

 and his son in the Commons. I recollect, in defend- 

 ing myself one Monday, saying that, the day before, I 

 had joined in the prayer that the Lords of the Council 

 and ALL THE NOBILITY might be endowed with grace, 

 wisdom, and understanding, but that unhappily this 

 petition had been refused, for I could not to-day find 



* Hansard, New Series, vol. xvii. p. 724, May 10, 1827. 

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