Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1): From the Original Family DocumentsBuckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
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Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1): From the Original Family Documents
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
Great Britain -- History -- George IV, 1820-1830
The long pending arrangement of the junction of Lord Buckingham and
his friends with Ministers, was now drawing to a close; a sense of its
necessity induced Lord Liverpool to renew the negociation, and Mr. W.
H. Fremantle was invited by the Premier to a discussion with him on the
subject. The result of the interview is given by him in the following
report, and the effect of the official arrangements proposed, will
appear in the correspondence which it precedes.
MR. W. H. FREMANTLE'S REPORT OF CONVERSATION WITH LORD LIVERPOOL.
He begun by saying, that the situation of the Government at the
end of the last session was such that he did not know how far
its stability could be depended upon; that a variety of untoward
circumstances had arisen which made their situation precarious,
and under these impressions he did not feel himself authorized or
justified in proposing a connexion with the Government to any
person or party at that time. The case was now altered, for he had
to say that there was no doubt or question as to the continuance of
the Government, and as to the complete confidence and support of
the King, and therefore he wished to make known to me, for the
information of Lord Buckingham and his friends, what steps the
Government were enabled to take with a view of forming a connexion
with them.
The great and material point to which the Government looked was
strength in the House of Commons, and therefore whatever changes
would take place in the Cabinet were to be grounded on this
consideration alone. The vacancies that would take place in the
Cabinet arose from the retirement of Lord Sidmouth, and by the
opening of the Presidentship of the Board of Control. It was
intended, in the event of Lord Hastings' return from India, that
Mr. Canning should succeed him, but not belong to the Cabinet
previous thereto. That Mr. Peel should hold a very prominent
situation (which I took for granted meant Lord Sidmouth's office),
and that the Board of Control or the Secretaryship of War, with a
seat in the Cabinet, could be offered to Mr. Charles Wynn; that
knowing Lord Buckingham's and Lord Grenville's anxious wishes for
Mr. Henry Wynn, the appointment to Switzerland was now open to him,
and a seat at one of the principal Boards for any friend whom Lord
Buckingham might recommend. That it was right to advert to the
situation of Ireland, and I must be aware of the confidential
communication he had had with Mr. Plunket when he was last in
England; that since that time the King had satisfied himself that
measures might be pursued which would keep the Catholic question in
a state in which neither of the contending parties would
preponderate, and that in this spirit of conciliation he had
communicated lately with Mr. Plunket, and had reason to think he
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