Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-12-29
Iof State for the Home Department proceeded
| Immediately from the Council to the office.

The runners of the day have produced real
curiosity, being nothing less than the purport, II
not the exact words of the letter addressed 10
Sir Robert Peel by the Duke of Wellington.
Of course we cannot vouch for Its accuracy.
The letter, or extract Of the letter, is said to oe
in these terms:
"I have received our Soveregn's commands
to form a new Administration, which have
promptly obeyed. My opinion has long been,
and still is, that the Office Of Premier should be
held by member of the House OF Commons,
and not Of the House of Lords. eandidly ad
NIT that no one $50 proper as yourself to hold
that situation; therefore beg your immediate re-
turn, and that you will accept that otflce. In
respect to myself have no wish for Office at all;
but if can be of any Use to my Sovereign aud
my country, and if it shall be your wisli will
| fill any Office under your Administration that
you may point out"
THE EXLoRD CHANCELLOR
| Court Of Chancery Monday, Nor. 1.-THE
! Court of Chancery was much more crowded
! than usual when the Chancellor took his seat at
the usual hour.
! The Lord Chancellor, addressing the bar. said
| he found il Unnecessary, with view to the business
of the Court TO state that he was on the point of
givingup the Great Seal 1t would either be
sent for, or he himself would give il up in few
days. He said so now in order to remove all
! doubt if any doubt could remain on the sub
! ject. There was not the least doubt or hesita-
! ton in his mind bnt that the Great Seal would
go from his hands as soon as it was possible for
! him to discharge what remained OF his official
! business. He had. (said his Lordship very em-
phatcally) been utterly amazed, asonished, and
indignant at any person or persons presuming to
doubt that such was his intention. There was
no part Of his public life which gave any indi-
vidua right to Islander him. by suggesting
doubt that under circnmstan eS like the present
I he should hesitate for one moment as to the
no nnfrht t, mr. q o.
peated that he should give up the Great Seal in
SANITY. But he was bound in justice 10 the suit
| ors to remain in Office until he had put them in
the situation they ought to be, and in doing so,
he could not hurry the cases. He should GER
.anly remain to give judgment in the cases he
had heard. The consequence of his not doing
so would be, in a greater or less degree. putting
parties to the expense of a re-hearing before his
successor. He could manage TO get through
these judgments in the course of three or
four days; he could not however, hurry them
earlier, as such course would be ineXpedient
to the cause of justice. He, therefore, calcula-
! ted that by Friday or Saturday at the least it
might be earlier, he should give up the Great
Seal. No power on earth should induce him to
remain in Office longer, under the present cir
cumstances. He had thought il right thus pub
| licly to declare his intention to put stop to the
ridiculous and absurd reports which had gone
! abroad.
! FRANCE.
The new French Ministry is at last gazetted.
The administration which has just gone out
lasted three days! the present must be longer
lived. The Monieur of Wednesday contains
a series OF Royal ORDINANCES, appointing Mar
shall Morter duo de Treviso) Minister of War
and President Ofthe Council, and M. NJ. de Rig
ny, Duchatel, Theirs GuZot to- their former of
fees Uhe Department Of Foreign Affairs, Com
mcrce, the Interior, and Of Public instruction
boH tod m
resume the Ministry Of Finance but being de-
tanned in Strasburg on private business his
formal, personal acceptance of office had not
been received which'circumsiance delayed the
official announcement of his appointment
The general belief was that Admiral Duperic
had refused The Ministry Of Marine. Admiral
RosameI would it was expected, be appointed
to it. Matters in respect of the Ministry have
thus returned to their former channel. The
alarm excited at the prospec! ola Tory Govern
ment in England continued; the funds declined
on the Paris B"urse on Wednesday.
We stated last week, that the Ministry named
by the King Of the French, on Tuesday, NM,
PasSy and Tesle Ministers Of France and Com
merce, resigned. On Monday morning NJ.
Charles Dupin, and al noon the same day the
Due de Bassano and General Bernard, follow
ed their example. The resignation olthe Minis
try is attributed to a disagreement between the
King and his new Prime Minister as to the sys-
ten which was To regulate the policy and acts
OF the new Cabinet. The Duke of Bassano,
though man of years had selected for his col
leagues in the Ministry, G,en who were in the
prime OF life, with view of carrying with vigor
every measure which lie seems to have con-
tempated But in the very outset OF ca
reer by which the restoration OF the revoiu
ton of 1880" was TO be accomplished. he had
to encounter difficulties which he had appa-
rently overlooked when he was induced To
accept Office I he draught OF his political faith
submitted to the King, preparatory to lis inser-
ton in the Monileur, was decidedly objected to-
The duke saw that he was destined to figure as
the mere nominal chief Of the Cabinet, and
finding that some of his colleagues had been
so far disguised with the reception which the
news oftheir appointment had met with in Irany
quarters to have made up their mind without
any ceremony to withdraw, resolved at once on
offering his own resignation. 1t was as well as
the other designations accepted by the King.
The King afterwards sent for Messrs. De Rig
ny, Theirs, Gulzot, and DuchateI, who arrived at
the TuiI leries, and were soon followed by Mar
shall Mortier, the Duke Of Treviso, who was i'm
mediately invested with the offices of Ministers
of w ar and President of the Council. A con-