... was it he survived a single Session asked Sir Herbert Maxwell in the Creevey- Papers. And his answer was pat the Liberals or Whigs quarrelled among themselves, sat on the fence, and were impotent to overturn a tottering skittle. I was nurtured in Liberalism ...

... Conservative administration which somehow beat Napoleon, carried on for fifteen years after Waterloo But then the opposition the Whigs were utterly disrupted and bankrupt On this occasion the opposition was well organised and had thrashed oul a concrete policy ...