Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-06-22

! as far as possible, consistently "'''' t''''
mons,ra.ion each Individual appointment in
tho hruseho,d should be entirely acceptable
to voar Maies:y's pcrsonablc feelings.
:On vour Majesty expressing desire
that h. Earl Of Liverpool should hold an
office in the household. Sir Robert Peel re.
oucs.ed your Majesty's permission at once
to offer 10 Lord Liverpool the Office Of Lord
Steward, or any other which lso might pre-.
[ fer.
Sir Robert Peel then observed. that lie
should have every wish to apply similar
principle to the chief appointments which
are filled by the ladies' of your Majcs'y's
household: upon which your Majesty was
pleased to remark 1t you mus: reserve the
whole Of those appointments, and that 1t
was your Mnjesty's pleasure that the whole
should continue as at present. without any
change.
The Duke ofWcliington, in the inter-
view to which your Majesty subsequently
! admitted him, understood also that this was
! your Mairsty's determination, and conc9r.
red with Sir f. Peel IN union that, consId.
ering the great difficulties a, The present cri.
sis, and the expediency OF making every ct
! fort, IN the first instance, 10 conduct the
! public business of the country Will. the n'1
| Of the present Parliament, II was essca;'al
to the success ofthe commission with which
your Majesty had honorcd Sir Rooeri Feel,
that he should have ,ha. public proof OF
your Maicsty's entire support and conf.
dence which would be afforded BY the per.
mission TO make some changes in that p'ri
of your Maics;y's household which your
! Majesty resolved on maintaining entirely
{ without change.
Having had the opportunity, through
your Majcsty's gracious consideration, OF
rcG?cling upon this point, he humb'y Sub.
miis 10 your Majesty that he is reluctantly
compelled, by a sense Of public duty, and
of the Interests ofyour Maj 's'y's service, to
adhere 10 the opinion which he ventured 10
express to your Majesty.
"He truss he may be permitted at the
same tune. 10 express 10 your Majesty his
acknowledgements for the distinct on which
your Majesty conferred upon him, by re.
curing his advice and assistance in the at.
tempt 20 form an administration, and Ills
earnest prayer tina, whatever arrangements
your Majesty may be enabled 10 nuke for
hat purpose may be most conduc We to your
M,jesfy's personal comfort and happiness,
and 10 the promotion of The public welfare.
Eriract from The Stotemsnt Of Lord John
| Russell.
Her Majesty was p'ea>e1, on Fri'lay last,
( after she had recei e the letter oflhe right
honorable gentleman, rcsigning at once the
commission with which Ter Majes'y had
honored him, to order my attendance upon
her Majesty. Her Majes'y sta:ed the cir.
cumstances TO me very much rs the right
honorable gentleman has a,ed them; with
respect to herself exactly as the right Ion.
[ orable gentleman has stated them bu', with
J regard to the proposition Of the right hon.
orabIe gentleman, her Majesty certainly had
not gathered the precise nature of the man.
ner in which the right honorable gentleman
was prepared to use the power which was
to have been granted. Her Majes'y, after
( making these statements to me, was pleased
% ask whether she was justified in making
that refusal and, when stated that lhoughl
her Majcs'y was justified. her Majesty was
! then pleased to observe that, as her Majesty,
while in the possession of the powers of the
Crown. had given her firm support to the
administration, she hoped | would conceive
myself bound now 10 support her in the
choice other personal attendants. Loud
Cheers from the ministerial benches.
Ga The next day, Cabinet Council was
held in Downing street, and her Mnjesy's
conf lcnfial servants, after consideration,
expressed their opinion with regard to these
matters in minute, an extract of which
will now read:
"fIer Majes;y's confidential servants
having taken into consideration the letter ad-
dressed by her NJ ,jesly to Sir Robert Peel
of the same day, are of opinion that. for the
purposeiof giving 10 an administration tha
character Of efficiency and stability and
( those marks Of the constilu iona' support of
the Crown, which are required to enable 1t
to act successfully for the public service, it
is reasonable that the great Offices Of TIL
Court and situations in the household, held
bv members Of Parliament. should be inc!u.
ded in the political arrangements made on
a change of the administration, but they are
not of opinion that similar principle
should be aTpled or extend to the Offices
b, ID by ladies in her Majesty's household"
| (The reading Of the last sentence Of the
minute, which, up to that moment, had been
listened to with marks Of grave attention,
elected hearty shout of laughter from the
Opposition benches.)
HOUSE OF LORDS.