[1] [The Duke of Wellington's Administration was at first constituted as follows:-- Duke of Wellington, First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor. Earl Bathurst, Lord President of the Council. Earl of Ellenborough, Lord Privy Seal. Mr. Peel, Home Secretary. Lord Dudley, Foreign Secretary. Mr. Huskisson, Colonial Secretary. Earl of Aberdeen, Duchy of Lancaster. Mr. Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Charles Grant, President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Herries, Master of the Mint. Viscount Melville, President of the India Board. Lord Dudley, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Grant, and Lord Palmerston (Secretary at War, not in the Cabinet) were the four Canningite members who resigned in May following. They were replaced by Lord Aberdeen, Sir George Murray, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, and Sir Henry Hardinge respectively.] All the Ministers (old and new) were at Windsor the other day; but it was contrived that they should not meet, the _ins_ being in one room and Lansdowne and Carlisle in another, and it was afterwards discovered that in a third room by himself was Goderich. This Lord Sefton told me, and he had it from Lord Lansdowne, who had it from the King and confirmed by Lord Conyngham. His Majesty was remarkably civil to Lords Lansdowne and Carlisle. The King had a scene with the Duke of Devonshire, whom he could not persuade to stay in his place, though he tried hard. Scarlett has resigned the Attorney-Generalship, but not very willingly. He wrote to Milton and asked his advice. Milton advised him to resign, and so he did. One thing that has angered the Tories is the Duke's not having consulted Lord Eldon, nor offered him any place; and it seems he is extremely mortified, for though he did not want the seals again, he would have been very glad to take office as President of the Council. [Page Head: IRRITATION OF THE WHIGS.] February 25th, 1828 {p.126}