'I do not choose to see new lights on the Catholic question precisely at that conjuncture when the Duke of York has been laid in his grave and Lord Liverpool struck dumb by the palsy. Would any man, woman, or child believe that after nineteen years' stubborn unbelief I was converted, at the very moment Mr. Canning was Prime Minister, out of pure conscience and the force of truth?'[41] With the resignation of Peel and the other anti-Catholic members of Lord Liverpool's Government, and the formation of the short Canning Ministry, this instalment of Peel's letters comes to an end.[42] We rejoice that the publication of this very interesting correspondence has been entrusted to an editor who is at once so competent and so judicious. FOOTNOTES: [10] _Life of Lord George Bentinck_, p. 304. [11] Lewis's _Letters_, p. 226. [12] _Private Correspondence of Sir R. Peel, 1788-1827_. Ed. by C.S. Parker, M.P., 1891, p. 24. [13] _Ibid._ p. 27. [14] _Hansard_, First Ser. xxi. 663. [15] Butler's _Hist. Memoirs_, ii. 177. [16] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 80. [17] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 83. [18] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 76. [19] _Peel Correspondence_, pp. 217, 218. [20] _Peel Correspondence_, pp. 222-224. [21] _Ibid._ p. 212. [22] _Ibid._ p. 284. [23] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 282. [24] _Ibid._ pp. 114-116, 211, 218. [25] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 60. [26] _Ibid._ p. 275. [27] _Ibid._ p. 96. [28] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 211. [29] _Ibid._ pp. 215, 219, 220. [30] _Peel Correspondence_, pp. 207, 231, 235, 236. [31] _Peel Correspondence_, pp. 87-92. [32] _Ibid._ pp. 244, 265. [33] _Ibid._ pp. 167, 233. [34] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 348. [35] _Peel Correspondence_, pp. 349, 358, 359, 370-371. [36] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 358. [37] _Ibid._ pp. 315-317. [38] Fitzpatrick's _Correspondence of O'Connell_, i. p. 108. [39] _Peel Correspondence_, pp. 416, 418, 419, 422. [40] _Ibid._ pp. 413, 420. [41] _Peel Correspondence_, p. 485. [42] Two more volumes have been published since this Essay was written.--ED. EDWARD HENRY, FIFTEENTH EARL OF DERBY The time has not yet arrived for the publication of a full life of the late Lord Derby, but in submitting to the public a collection of his more important speeches outside Parliament, a short sketch of the chief features of his life and character may not be out of place.