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give me the opportunity. It has often been said that 

 we should, when in power, have made him a bishop ; 

 and Grey is often reported to have declared, that his 

 not being so made was one of the things he most 

 regretted. But this cannot be true, for Grey made 

 (besides his brother) one bishop in England and an 

 archbishop in Ireland. As for me, I was clear against 

 it. I knew that he would have been for some time 

 perfectly decorous and episcopal in the House of 

 Lords, like the cat which was changed into a fine lady, 

 and behaved with perfect propriety till a mouse ran 

 across the floor, when she intuitively darted after 

 it; so in the House of Lords, our friend Sydney, 

 on something coming across him that he could not 

 resist, would have brought our appointment into dis- 

 credit, which, with our feeble position in that House, 

 would have been most perilous. However, I helped 

 him all I could with my colleagues, and would gladly 

 have given him promotion out of my own patronage 

 if I had had any free from party and local claims 

 not to be resisted. I did give him a prebend in St 

 Paul's, many suitors being set aside for him, as it 

 was much run after in consequence of the prefer- 

 ment attached to it. He expressed great thankful- 

 ness for this. 



On Canning's death, Goderich (afterwards Eipon) 

 succeeded, but on the eve of the session the ministry 

 fell to pieces, and w^as succeeded by the Duke's, who 

 exercised entire control over his colleagues. He felt 

 the necessity of strengthening himself. He gave pro- 

 motion to some of us as Abercromby, who was ap- 

 pointed Chief Baron in Scotland; Scarlett, Attorney- 

 General. Huskisson was very indignant at what 



