Lord Melbourne must again repeat that when he writes with so much freedom about individual characters, it is only to put your Majesty in possession of what he knows respecting them, and not with a view of inducing your Majesty to object to their being appointed....
Might not Fanny have the Bedchamber Woman's place?
It would be a help to her, and would not take her away from home.

This only strikes Lord Melbourne as he is writing.
[Pageheading: MELBOURNE ON PEEL] _6th September 1841._ Lord Melbourne wrote the above yesterday, but had no opportunity of sending it, as there was no post.

Lord Melbourne has since seen Lady Palmerston, and finds that his last suggestion about Fanny will not do.
Lord Melbourne encloses Lady Palmerston's two notes upon the subject, which will explain to your Majesty what she wishes.

But if Jocelyn is himself to get a place, this will be a better arrangement, and puts an end to all the others.
What Lady Palmerston says about Sir R.Peel is very unjust.

There is no shabbiness whatever in his not coming to a decision upon the factory question.[87] [Footnote 87: Lady Palmerston (no doubt in sympathy with Lord Ashley) expected some factory legislation to be announced.] _Queen Victoria to the Countess of Gainsborough._[88] CLAREMONT, _6th September 1841._ MY DEAREST LADY GAINSBOROUGH,--I had the pleasure of receiving your two kind letters of the 24th and 25th ult.