That your Majesty's present servants possessed your Majesty's confidence, and that you only parted with them in deference to the opinion of Parliament.
That your Majesty naturally had recourse to Sir Robert Peel as possessing the confidence of the great Party which constitutes the majority of both Houses, and that you were prepared to empower him to form an Administration.
That your Majesty did not conceive that the giving him this commission of itself empowered him to advise the removal of the officers of your Majesty's Household; that you conceive that all that the Constitution required was that the Sovereign's Household should support the Sovereign's Ministers; but that you were prepared to place at his disposal, and to take his advice upon all the offices of the Household at present filled by members of either House of Parliament, with the exception of those whom your Majesty might think proper to name, _i.e._, Lord Byron[74]--and it should be understood that this exception was not to extend further than to him.
If Sir Robert Peel should wish that in case of Lord Byron's remaining it should be considered as a fresh appointment made by his advice, this wish might properly be acceded to.
_The Ladies._--If any difficulty should arise it may be asked to be stated in writing, and reserved for consideration.

But it is of great importance that Sir Robert Peel should return to London with full power to form an Administration.

Such must be the final result, and the more readily and graciously it is acquiesced in the better.
Your Majesty must take care not to be driven to the wall, and to be put into a situation in which it is necessary to Aye or No.

No positive objection should be taken either to men or measures.
It must be recollected that at the time of the negotiation in 1839 Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell were still at the head of a majority in the House of Commons.

This is not the case now.
[Footnote 74: George Anson, seventh Lord Byron (1789-1868), cousin and successor of the poet.] [Pageheading: THE NEW CABINET] THE CABINET OF LORD MELBOURNE, _As it stood in September 1841._ _First Lord of the Treasury_ VISCOUNT MELBOURNE.
_Lord Chancellor_ LORD (afterwards Earl of) COTTENHAM.
_Chancellor of the Exchequer_ Mr FRANCIS BARING (afterwards Lord Northbrook).
_Lord President of the Council_ MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.
_Lord Privy Seal_ EARL OF CLARENDON.
_Home Secretary_ MARQUIS OF NORMANBY.
_Foreign Secretary_ VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
_Colonial Secretary_ LORD JOHN (afterwards Earl) RUSSELL.
_First Lord of the Admiralty_ EARL OF MINTO.
_President of the Board of Control_ Sir JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE (afterwards Lord Broughton).
_Secretary at War_ Mr T.B.( afterwards Lord) MACAULAY.
_President of the Board of Trade_ Mr LABOUCHERE (afterwards Lord Taunton).
_Chief Secretary for Ireland_ VISCOUNT MORPETH (afterwards Earl of Carlisle).
_First Commissioner of Land Revenue_ VISCOUNT DUNCANNON (afterwards Earl of Bessborough).
_Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster_ Sir GEORGE GREY.
THE CABINET OF SIR ROBERT PEEL,[75] _As formed in September 1841._ _First Lord of the Treasury_ Sir ROBERT PEEL.
_Lord Chancellor_ LORD LYNDHURST.
_Chancellor of the Exchequer_ Mr.H.GOULBURN.
(_Without Office_) DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
_Lord President of the Council_ LORD WHARNCLIFFE.
_Lord Privy Seal_ DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
_Home Secretary_ Sir JAMES GRAHAM.
_Foreign Secretary_ EARL OF ABERDEEN.
_Colonial Secretary_ LORD STANLEY (afterwards Earl of Derby).
_First Lord of the Admiralty_ EARL OF HADDINGTON.
_President of the Board of Control_ LORD (afterwards Earl of) ELLENBOROUGH _Secretary at War_ Sir HENRY (afterwards Viscount) HARDINGE.
_President of the Board of Trade_ EARL OF RIPON.
_Paymaster-General_.