It will also be greatly painful to Lord Melbourne to quit the service of a Mistress who has treated him with such unvarying kindness and unlimited confidence; but in whatever station he may be placed, he will always feel the deepest anxiety for your Majesty's interests and happiness, and will do the utmost in his power to promote and secure them.
[Footnote 30: The numbers are apparently incorrectly stated.
The division was 294 to 289.] [Pageheading: RESIGNATION IMMINENT] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _7th May 1839._ The present circumstances have been for some time so probable, or rather so certain, that Lord Melbourne has naturally been led to weigh and consider maturely the advice which, if called upon, he should tender to your Majesty when they did arrive.

That advice is, at once to send for the Duke of Wellington.

Your Majesty appears to Lord Melbourne to have no other alternative.

The Radicals have neither ability, honesty, nor numbers.

They have no leaders of any character.
Lord Durham was raised, one hardly knows how, into something of a factitious importance by his own extreme opinions, by the panegyrics of those who thought he would serve them as an instrument, and by the management of the Press, but any little public reputation which he might once have acquired has been entirely dissipated and destroyed by the continued folly of his conduct in his Canadian Government.