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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3): 1809-1859
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THE COALITION
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The materials necessary for a sound judgment of facts are not found in the
success or failure of undertakings; exact knowledge of the situation that has
provoked them forms no inconsiderable element of history.-METTERNICH.
Englandwas unconsciously on the eve of a violent break in the peace that had
been her fortunate lot for nearly forty years. To the situation that preceded
this signal event, a judicious reader may well give his attention. Some of
the particulars may seem trivial. In countries governed by party, what those
out of the actualities of the fray reckon trivial often count for much, and in
the life of a man destined to be a conspicuous party leader, to pass them by
would be to leave out real influences.
The first experiment in providing the country with a tory government had
failed. That alliance between whig and Peelite which Lord John the year be-
fore had been unable to effect, had become imperative, and at least a second
experiment was to be tried. The initial question was who should be head of
3 JOHN MORLEY
the new government. In August, Lord Aberdeen had written to Mr. Glad-
stone in anticipation of the Derbyite defeat: 'If high character and ability
only were required, you would be the person; but I am aware that for the
present at least this would not be practicable. Whether it would be possible
for Newcastle or me to undertake the concern is more than I can say.' Other
good reasons apart, it is easy to see that Mr. Gladstone's attitude in things
ecclesiastical put him out of court, and though he had made a conspicuous
mark not only, as Lord Aberdeen said, by character and ability but by lib-
erality of view especially in the region of colonial reform, still he had as yet
had no good opportunity for showing an independent capacity for handling
great affairs.
Not any less impossible was Lord John. Shortly before the occasion arose,
a whig intimate told him plainly that reconstruction on the basis of his old
government was out of the question. 'Lord John's answer was a frank accep-
tance of that opinion; and he was understood to say that the composition of
the next government must be mainly from the ranks of the Peelites; he evi-
dently looked forward to being a member of it, but not the head. When vari-
ous persons were named as possible heads, Lord Aberdeen was distinctly ap-
proved, Graham was distinctly rejected, Newcastle was mentioned without
any distinct opinion expressed. We [Aberdeen and Gladstone] were both
alike at a loss to know whether Lord John had changed his mind, or had all
along since his resignation been acting with this view. All his proceedings
certainly seem to require an opposite construction, and to contemplate his
own leadership.'[278]
Lord Palmerston was determined not to serve again under a minister who
had with his own hand turned him out of office, and of whose unfitness for
the first post he was at the moment profoundly convinced. He told a Peel-
ite friend that Lord John's love of popularity would always lead him into
scrapes, and that his way of suddenly announcing new policies (Durham
letter and Edinburgh letter) without consulting colleagues, could not be ac-
quiesced in. Besides the hostility of Palmerston and his friends,
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