Duke of Argyle. Great attention. Scotch jobs.
Gen. Luttral. To be sent for next session. Lord Temple should not
be allowed all the merit of the job that we done for him lately.
Gen. Vaughan. Quebec, or a Command anywhere.
Lord Westcote. Distant hopes of a Peerage.
Mr. Gibbon. Will vacate his seat for an employment out of Parliament:
very much wished by Lord Loughborough."
(N.B.—This Gibbon is the historian.)
[141] "Fortnightly Review," No. I, p. 10.
[142] The necessity of pleasing George III. compelled many Prime Ministers to include his friend Addington in their administrations, and inspired Canning to remark that this Minister was like the small-pox, which everybody was obliged to have once in their lives.
[143] Campbell's "Lives of the Chancellors," vol. v. p. 327.
[144] "Life of Eldon," vol. iii. p. 486.