I said, "I trusted he would not dissolve unless he thought there was some prospect of increasing his strength, and begged him to remember what was done would not be considered the act of the Government but that of himself and the Queen, and that he individually would be held as the responsible person." He said he had not written to the Queen to prepare H.M.for coming events and the course that it would be incumbent upon her to take, for he felt it extremely difficult and delicate, especially as to the use she should make of the Prince, and of her mode of communication when she required it with Lord Melbourne.

He thought she ought never to ask his advice direct, but if she required his opinion there would be no objection to her obtaining it through the Prince.
He said H.M.had relied so implicitly upon him upon all affairs, that he felt that she required in this emergency advice upon almost every subject.

That he would tell H.M.that she must carefully abstain from playing the same part she did, again, on Sir R.Peel's attempt to form a Ministry, for that nothing but the forbearance of the Tories had enabled himself and his colleagues to support H.M.at that time.

He feared Peel's doggedness and pertinacity might make him insist, as a point of honour, on having all discretion granted to him in regard to the removal of Ladies.

I told him of the Prince's suggestion that before the Queen saw Sir R.Peel some negotiation might be entered into with Sir Robert, so that the subject might be avoided by mutual consent, the terms of which might be that Sir Robert should give up his demand to extort the principle.