THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S PREMIERSHIP. -WC have very recently been let
into some of the secrets of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S over- weening ambition. Our proofs we shall give as we may see occasion. At pre- Bent we only tell an anecdote which ought to be lo town. When GEORGE the Fourth requested the Duke of WELLINGTON to form a Ministry, nothing was farther from his thoughts than makinc, the Duke Premier : the King thought, as a matter of course, he would go to the Horse Guards. But the Duke considered Mr. CANNING'S rule too good to be departed from. When the King, then at Windsor, opened the despatch-box containing the Duke's list, he burst into an exclamation of mingled mirth and amazement-" Damn his eyes ! I asked . him to make out for me a list of a Cabinet, not to put his own name at the head of it." But GEORGE the Fourth hated " trouble ;" the Duke's name stood at the head of the list, and the King let it remain.
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