RELATING TO POLITICAL OCCURRENCES IN JUNE AND JULY 1834. BY THE RIGHT HON. EDWARD JOHN LITTLETON FIRST LORD HATHERTON. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS BY HENRY REEVE, ESQ. LONDON: All rights reserved. 226. i. 251. INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR. ON November 27, 1862, a few months before his death, the late Lord Hatherton requested me, in a letter dictated and signed by himself, to take charge of the Memoir which is published in this volume. He confided it to me in order that the occurrences which had led to the dissolution of Lord Grey's administration should, if necessary, be correctly explained in case these transactions should, in my own lifetime, become the subject of historical discussion or controversy. And he foresaw that the time might arrive when the publication of Memoirs by other persons, who were concerned in the events of that period, would render it desirable that the exact truth should be known, although, from consideration to some eminent statesmen now no more, it could not be published at an earlier period. He left it to my own sense of propriety to make this publication when it should be opportune and necessary. I accepted this trust at the hands of Lord Hatherton. It had to me the solemnity of a dying injunction, for the letter I refer to was the last received from him, |