then it will be the high prerogative of the great Whig noble who has
been waiting round the corner to direct and guide and moderate the
movement which he has done all in his power to prevent and
discourage.'"

'The storm between Hartington and Chamberlain having broken out
again, Chamberlain wrote to me on December 5th, enclosing a letter
of reproof from Mr. Gladstone, and saying: "I replied casuistically
that I would endeavour to exclude from my speeches the slightest
reference to Hartington, but that he was really too trying. I
reminded Mr. G. that I had asked if I were free to argue the
question, and that he had said: Yes--no one taking exception." In
the following week Chamberlain came to town and dined with me,
and we discussed the matter. Although Mr. Gladstone had blown
Chamberlain up, he was really much more angry with Hartington.'

It appears from the _Life of the Duke of Devonshire_ that Mr. Gladstone
continued through December his attempts to mediate. [Footnote: See _Life
of the Duke of Devonshire_, by Mr. Bernard Holland, vol. i, p. 398 _et
seq_.] The matter is thus related by Sir Charles, though not from first-
hand knowledge, since he went to Toulon in the middle of December, and
stayed there till January 8th, 1884:

'During my absence I had missed one Cabinet, the first that I ever
missed, and perhaps the only one. It was held suddenly on January
3rd, and I could not arrive in time. Mr. Gladstone had come up from
Hawarden under the impression that Hartington was going to resign,
because we would not produce a redistribution scheme along with
franchise. On the morning of the 3rd, however, he received a letter
in which Hartington gave way on the understanding that Mr. Gladstone