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The End of Liverpool & George Canning In 1827 Lord Liverpool resigned. The King still chose the Prime Minister, who sat in the Lords rather than the Commons. In 1827 the choice was not simple. As Foreign Secretary Canning had objected to the King interfering in decision making, George IV never really trusted him. The feeling was mutual. However in 1827, tied by the complications of cross party loyalties, George IV felt no option but to ask Canning to be Prime Minister. Within a few month Canning was dead.
I shall talk to Lievan and Esterhazy when I next see them, in a manner that will check their meddling in the future. I thold Cabinet that I knew the whole of this tracasserie to be the work of foreign interference, of which (as Liverpool would vouch) I had warned him six weeks ago that it was concocted in Vienna and that the object was to force the King to change his policy by changing part of the Government. Will the Duke of Wellington tell all that has passed to Madame Lievan tonight? If this sort of work goes on I shall be obliged to remind His Majesty that constitutionally he has no right to see Foreign Ministers at all except in my presence, and that his father never thought of such co-joberations. I really hope that we shall all go on the better for this last attempt, and that the ultras among us will now see that they have nothing for it but to submit ....
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