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The Chancellor was told he would not wake for two or three hours, and would then be in a state of excessive irritation, so that he might just as well not see him. May 12. The East Retford question was last night deferred till next session, so we may, I think, finish all our business by about June 10; that is really allowing full time.

This would secure the man till it could be discovered whether there was legal ground to indict him for the letters. This will be done. We then came to the consideration of the East Retford question. All the press were for giving up the Bill. I took some part in the discussion.

The King passed a restless night. He is weaker than he has been yet. East Retford. Salisbury concluded his case. June 11. House. I expected to get away immediately; but Lord Londonderry made a motion for papers, which led to a discussion of an hour and a half. He was put down entirely by Aberdeen, who really, with a bad manner, said very good things.

I have given him the surgeoncy. I told Planta, who is much pleased. The Duke was sent for because the physicians intended to acquaint the King with his danger. He was restless yesterday. The bulletin says he passed a very distressing day. He walked across the room, however, and will probably last some days. In the House, East Retford till 8, when I came away. June 9. A better bulletin.

He betook himself to the Bush, got into financial trouble, and d. by his own hand. An Exile's Farewell, and Whispering in the Wattle Boughs, there is a strong vein of sadness and pathos. Novelist, dau. of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was b. She m. a Captain Gore, with whom she resided mainly on the Continent, supporting her family by her voluminous writings.

He seems equally conversant with revenue, judicial, and military matters. House. E. Retford as usual. The King is much relieved by the draining of the water from the punctures; but the wounds gave him much annoyance last night. The fear is they may lead to mortification. Lord Rosslyn and I go down on Sunday to Windsor to enquire. May 15.

In 1827 a bill for disfranchising Penryn had actually been carried by the house of commons in spite of Canning's dissent, and one for disfranchising East Retford would probably have been carried, but that it was introduced too late.

Littleton proposed this because he wished to disappoint the mischievous designs of some people. It was determined to adhere to the line taken by the Government last year namely, to that of throwing East Retford into the hundred. The Duke was decidedly of opinion that whatever we did we should do from ourselves, and certainly not act in concert with an enemy.

Lowe's historic declaration, made in a speech delivered at Retford, that before Mr. Disraeli had undertaken to pass a Bill creating the Queen Empress of India, two other Prime Ministers had been approached on the subject by Her Majesty, and had declined to be a party to the proceedings. Mr. Lewis was utterly devoid of sense of humour, a poverty that largely accounts for his failure in public life.

The title then went to his next brother, William, who died without issue eight years later. He was the father of Lady Mary. Born in 1665, he was returned to Parliament for East Retford in 1689, but his stay in the House of Commons was brief, for in the following year the peerage descended to him.