He would also like Peel to be cautioned not to press Her Majesty to decide hastily, but to give Her Majesty time, and that he should feel that if he acted fairly he would be met in the same spirit by the Queen.
With regard to future communication with Lord Melbourne, the Queen said she did not mean that a change should exclude her from Lord Melbourne's society, and when Lord Melbourne said that in society Her Majesty could not procure Lord Melbourne's opinion upon any subject, and suggested that that should be obtained through the Prince, Her Majesty said that that could pass in writing under cover to me, but that she must communicate direct.
The Queen, he says, leans to sending for the Duke of Wellington.

Lord Melbourne advised that Her Majesty should make up her mind at once to send for Sir Robert.

He told me that it would not be without precedent to send for both at once; this it appears to me would obviate every objection.

The Queen, he thinks, has a perfect right to exercise her judgment upon the selection of all persons recommended to Her Majesty for Household appointments, both as to liking, but chiefly as to their character and as to the character of the husband or wife of the person selected.

He would advise the Queen to adopt the course which King William did with Lord Melbourne in 1835, viz.