Another division then took place, and the Foreign affairs were confided to one Secretary of State, and the Home and Colonial affairs to the other; but the present arrangement was finally settled in the year 1793, when the junction was formed between Mr Pitt on the one hand, and those friends of Mr Fox who left him because they differed with him upon the French Revolution.

The Home affairs were placed in the hands of one Secretary of State, the Foreign of another, and the Colonial and Military affairs of a third, and this arrangement has continued ever since.[149] The persons then appointed were the Duke of Portland,[150] Lord Grenville,[151] and Mr Dundas,[152] Home, Foreign, and Colonial Secretaries.
Writing from recollection, it is very possible that Lord Melbourne may be wrong in some of the dates which he has ventured to specify.[153] [Footnote 149: A fourth Secretary of State was added at the time of the Crimean War, so as to separate Colonial and Military affairs, and a fifth after the Indian Mutiny to supersede the President of the Board of Control.

_See_ Lord Melbourne's letter of 31st December 1837, _ante_, p.

100.
(Ch.

VI, 'State Departments')] [Footnote 150: Third Duke (1738-1809).] [Footnote 151: William Wyndham, Lord Grenville (1759-1834).] [Footnote 152: Henry Dundas (1742-1811), afterwards Lord Melville.] [Footnote 153: See _post_, pp.