The Croker Papers Author:John Wilson Croker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. 1810-1813. Politics in 1810—Rumoured Appointment of Henry Brougham in Mr. Croker's place—The Regency Bill—The Prince Regent and the Whigs —The 'L... more »ady of the Lake'—Incidents of the French War —Mr. Perceval on the Currency and on French Affairs—Difficulty of obtain- ing Continental News—Mr. Walter and the Times—Mr. Croker's Assistance—Mr. Walter declines to support the Liverpool Ministry— A new First Lord at the Admiralty — Catholic Emancipation in Grattan's Bill—Elected for Athlone—The War of 1812 with the United States—English and American Frigates—Mr. Croker's Sugges- tion to English Naval Officers—Robert Peel on Mr. Canning and Lord Wellesley—Peel on his Life in Ireland—Robert Southey on his Literary Work—Office Seekers and their Reception—Walter Scott and Robert Southey—The Laureateship—Thomas Moore—Proposed Sale of an Office—The Prince Regent. The complete series of Mr. Croker's own letters, carefully copied into well-bound volumes, begins in 1811, and extends to 1834. Within this period, and especially between the years 1814 and 1830, scarcely anything of importance appears to be missing; before the first date, and after the last, the correspondence must have been somewhat irregularly kept, although a large proportion of the letters received by Mr. Croker was preserved. His replies to these letters are, in many cases, not to be found. It is probable that during the first year or two of Mr. Croker's official life, he gave little attention to his private correspondence; his time was almost wholly taken up with the routine duties which daily pressed upon him, and with his parliamentary work. He had been a little more than a year in his new position before there seemed to be a probability of his losing it In 1810, politics were in a highly unsettled state, a...« less