The Earl of Clarendon81 to Viscount Melbourne.82
PEEL'S RECEPTION
Grosvenor Crescent, 31st August 1841.
My dear Melbourne,—You may like to know that Peel was perfectly satisfied with his reception yesterday, and does full justice to the Queen's declaration of her regret at parting with her Ministers, which he said it was quite natural she should feel, and quite right she should express. This I know from undoubted authority, and from a person who came to enquire of me whether I could tell what impression Peel had produced upon the Queen, which of course I could not.
He assured the Queen that he had had no communication with his friends, and was not prepared to submit an Administration for her approval, but he is to see her again to-morrow morning.
The only appointment yet settled is De Grey to Ireland; he was very unwilling, but Peel insisted. Yours sincerely,
Clarendon.
Footnote 81: The retiring Lord Privy Seal.
Footnote 82: Letter forwarded by Lord Melbourne to the Queen.