. Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, being the life of Charles, second Earl Grey. e alittle and there a little, on points each too small to seema proper case for peer-making, yet collectively injuriousto the popular character of the Bill. But now they haddefied the Government on a main principle of pro-cedure and he was quick to take advantage of it.^ As ^ L^Tidhursts speech implied tliat the Peers intended to cut downthe number of towTis to be enfranchised, and then correspondingly reducethe number of boroughs in Schedules A and B. On the other hand,Ellenboroughs speech, made immediately after the
. Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, being the life of Charles, second Earl Grey. e alittle and there a little, on points each too small to seema proper case for peer-making, yet collectively injuriousto the popular character of the Bill. But now they haddefied the Government on a main principle of pro-cedure and he was quick to take advantage of it.^ As ^ L^Tidhursts speech implied tliat the Peers intended to cut downthe number of towTis to be enfranchised, and then correspondingly reducethe number of boroughs in Schedules A and B. On the other hand,Ellenboroughs speech, made immediately after the division, impliesthat the Bill would be swallowed wholesale as to disfranchisement, andbe made, if anything, more democratic as to franchise qualification ! Thefact was that the Lords who voted for the amendment had very divergentideas as to what they would make of the Bill when they had taken itout of Greys hands. « GrevUU^ May 12, 1832. On June 2, after the crisis, Creevey vNTites: * In the House ofLords yesterday. Grey, according to his custom, came and talked to THE DAYS OF MAY 339 soon as the House rose, the Cabinet chiefs, withoutleaving Westminster, met hastily in the Lord Chan-cellors room, and decided to resign if the King wouldnot give them power to make peers at once. The fullCabinet next morning confirmed this decision, Richmondalone dissenting. Even Palmerston smelt battle andforgot his doubts about the Bill. That afternoon (May 8), Grey and Broughamposted down to Windsor and saw the King. Theyasked for not less than fifty peers. He replied that hewould send them an answer next day, but they had nodoubt from his manner that it would contain a started back to London at once, dining on theway at a public-house at Hounslow on mutton chops ;Broughams universal appetite added kidneys, but Greydeclared that * he cared not for kidneys. The meal tookhold of the popular imagination, and was immortalisedby Doyle in one of the most famous of his * *car
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