Lord Melbourne remembers that during the part of the French War, when considerable alarm began to prevail respecting its duration, and the serious aspect which it was assuming, George III.

gave Audiences to the Duke of Norfolk and others which he certainly would not have been inclined to do if he had not thought himself bound by his duty and by Constitutional precedent.

At the time of the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act, George IV.

received very many Peers, much no doubt against his will, who came to remonstrate with him upon the course which his Ministers were pursuing.

William IV.