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had induced him to quit the immediate service of the 

 Sovereign from whom he had received every mark of 

 kindness, or to cease acting in immediate concert with 

 colleagues, in co-operation with whom he had always 

 felt the greatest satisfaction. However much he 

 differed upon a question of public importance, he 

 trusted that would not interrupt the progress of 

 private friendship." 



Upon a later occasion, his Grace availed himself of 

 an opportunity of stating that what he had said upon 

 a former occasion was not without the express sanction 

 of his Sovereign, as, in cases of this sort, where the 

 honour of an individual was concerned, he was anxious 

 for the House to know that he had not stated any- 

 thing without that sanction. " In consequence of 

 despatches from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 

 recommending that a Commission should issue, the 

 subject was taken into consideration, and from that 

 time till he left the Cabinet he had heard nothing 

 further about it." 



When the new Parliament met on the 19th of 

 February, 1835, under the premiership of Sir Kobert 

 Peel, his Majesty opened Parliament in person, and in 

 his speech made special allusion to the country party, 

 and " deeply lamented that the agricultural interest 

 still laboured under depression, and earnestly recom- 

 mended it to the consideration of Parliament, with a 

 view to relief," concluding his speech with a hint 

 against reforms. 



