Identifier: georgecanninghis02cann (find matches)
Title: George Canning and his friends;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Canning, George, 1770-1827 Bagot, Josceline Fitz-Roy, 1854-
Subjects: Great Britain -- Politics and government 1800-1837 Great Britain -- Foreign relations 1800-1827
Publisher: London : J. Murray

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once see how handily we mix up sternCalvinists and bigotted Catholics in this certainly happycountry. I could not help the other day paying theKing a compliment upon this subject at a privateaudience which I had of him. God bless you. Binning.Where and how is Charles Ellis ? I hear Granvillewants a new wig sadly. Binning to Bagot. March 23, 1827. Indeed, indeed M. LAmbassadenr, ilest bien necessairede calmer Iinquietude de voire excellence^ and to assureyou very positively that you have built a most hugeand unsightly edifice of apprehension on a most rottenand unsound foundation. hnpriynis^ the Catholic debate proves none of thethings your brilliant fancy hath drawn from it. Idoubt whether the speech of the Magister Rotulorum*was the speech of the Chancellor. It certainly wasnot that of the King. He found it necessary to makea speech for Cambridge, and like all insincere menwho put themselves in a false position, wishing toshow his zeal, and at the same time to leave himself * Copley.
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A. M.Iniici. Hngra-vcd by //. lialkcr. THOMAS HAMILTON, NINTH EARL OF HADDINGTON(lord BINNING) To face page 378, Vol. II. 1827) A TERTIUM QUID 379 a very wide door through which to retreat at a futureand convenient opportunity, he blundered the matter—went too far further than he meant, and got a sadlicking for his pains. I know he has since plainlydisavowed having had any communication with Can-ccllarius. I believe the speech of . . . Lauderdale tohave proceeded only and exclusively from his ownspeculations. He may be wily, but you have notforgot that he is in judgment as unsound as he is inbodily constitution rotten . . . read his speech. . . .Not as any evidence of his being set on by N.O.B.B.S.That great person is quiescent I do believe, seekingthe continuance of his own Peace and Ease, and desirousof avoiding turmoil. Therefore will he, when the timeshall come, offer the terms of the Government to theonly man w^hose hands are fit to hold them on ourside. Voyons whether the offe

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