1828, Jan. 25, Earl of Mount-Charles.

Lord Eliot.

Lord Granville C. H. Somerset.

1830, April 10, Right Hon. Henry Goulburn. Lord Eliot.

George Bankes, esq.

Nov. 22, Lord Nugent.

1834, April 19,

June 20,

Nov. 21,

Robert-Vernon Smith, esq.
Francis-Thornhill Baring, esq.
Hon. George Ponsonby.

Robert Graham, esq.

Hon. George-Stevens Byng, now Earl of Strafford.
Lord Ellenborough.

Lord Maryborough, late Earl of Mornington.
Sir John Beckett, bart.

Right Hon. Joseph Planta.

Dec. 23, Right Hon. William-Yates Peel.
Earl of Lincoln.

Viscount Stormont.

William-Ewart Gladstone, esq.

1835, Mar. 14, Right Hon. William-Yates Peel.

Earl of Lincoln.

Viscount Stormont.

1859, Mar. 16, June 18,

Lord Elcho.

John Sadleir, esq.

Chichester-Samuel Fortescue, esq.
Viscount Monck.

Viscount Duncan.

Hon. Henry Bouverie-William Brand.
Lord Henry-George-Charles Gordon-Lennox.
Colonel Thomas-Edward Taylor.
Henry Whitmore, esq.

Peter Blackburn, esq.

E. H. Knatchbull-Huguessen, esq.
Sir William Dunbar, bart.

John Bagwell, esq. (Resigned.)

1862, Feb. 13, Colonel Luke White.

[1848.-The office of one of the Lords of the Treasury abolished.]

1849, June 4,

1850, July 5,

1852, Feb. 27,

Dec. 28,

1858, Feb. 26,

1859, Feb. 10, June 18,

Charles Wood, esq.

Francis-Thornhill Baring, esq.
Sir George Clerk, bart.

Sir Thomas Fremantle, bart.
Francis-Thornhill Baring, esq.
Hon. Edward-John Stanley.
Robert Gordon, esq.
Richard-More O'Ferrall, esq.
Sir Denis Le Marchant, bart.
Sir George Clerk, bart.

Sir Thomas F. Fremantle, bart.
Edward Cardwell, esq.

John Young, esq., now Sir John Young, bart.
John Parker, esq.

Henry Tufnell, esq.

Right Hon. William-Goodenough Hayter.
George-Cornewall Lewis, esq.
George-Alexander Hamilton, esq.
William-Forbes Mackenzie, esq.
Right Hon. William-Goodenough Hayter.
Right Hon. James Wilson.

Sir William-George-Hylton Jolliffe, bart.
George-Alexander Hamilton, esq.

Sir Stafford-Henry Northcote, bart. (Resigned.)
Samuel Laing, esq. (Resigned.)
Hon. Henry-Bouverie-William Brand.
1860, Oct. 21, Right Hon. Frederick Peel.

THE SECRETARIES OF STATE.

[Until the reign of Henry VIII. there was only one Secretary of State; and until the reign of Elizabeth, the Secretaries were never of the Privy Council. From that time to the present, there have been two Secretaries of State, and sometimes three; and thus a council has seldom been held without the presence of at least one of them. From the death of Queen Anne to the Rebellion of 1745, there was a third Secretary for Scotland; and from 1768, to the loss of America, in 1782, there was one for the Colonies. The departments of the two Secretaries were, previous to 1782, divided into Northern and Southern, but are now divided into one foreign, the other domestic. With the Home Secretary, all grants, pardons, and regulations in civil matters of every kind, are made out and executed. To the Foreign Secretary belong all despatches to and from other courts, and all business appertaining to the same. They have the custody of the privy signet, because the Queen's private letters are sealed with it.

There

are four Clerks of the Signet, who make out grants, patents, &c. which have the sign manual, to which the Signet being added, it is a warrant to the Privy Seal, as the Privy Seal is a warrant to the Great Seal. The Paper Office belongs to the Secretaries of State, where all papers, letters, memorials, negotiations, &c., are deposited and preserved.]

Home Department; previous to 1782 styled the Northern Department. 1798, Duke of Portland.

Lord Pelham.

Right Hon. Charles Yorke.
Earl Spencer.

Lord Hawkesbury, late Earl of Liverpool.
Right Hon. Richard Ryder.
Viscount Sidmouth.

Right Hon. Robert Peel.

Right Hon. William-Sturges Bourne.
Marquess of Lansdowne.

Right Hon. Robert Peel, late Sir Robert Peel, bart.
Viscount Melbourne.

Lord Duncannon, late Earl of Besborough.
Right Hon. Henry Goulburn.
Lord John Russell.

Marquess of Normanby.

Sir James-Robert-George Graham, bart.
Sir George Grey, bart.

Right Hon. Spencer-Horatio Walpole.
Viscount Palmerston.

Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.

Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bart.

Right Hon. Spencer-Horatio Walpole.
Right Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt.

Rt. Hon. Sir George-Cornewall Lewis, bart. (Resigned.)
Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bart.

1827,

Under Secretaries of State for the Home Department.
Right Hon. Samuel-March Phillips.
Hon. Fox Maule.

1835, April 20, 1841, June 21, Sept. 8,

1846, July 4, 1847, July 24,

1848, May 16,

1850, July 5,

1852, Feb. 27, Dec. 28,

1855, Feb. 16, Aug. 13,

1858, Feb. 26,

1859, June 18,

Lord Seymour.

Hon. Henry-Manners Sutton.
Sir William-Meredyth Somerville, bart.
Sir Denis Le Marchant, bart.
Horatio Waddington, esq.
Hon. Edward-Pleydell Bouverie.
Sir William-George-Hylton Jolliffe, bart.
Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy.
Hon. William-Francis Cowper.
William-Nathaniel Massey, esq.
Gathorne Hardy, esq.
George Clive, esq.

Horatio Waddington, esq.

Right Hon. Henry-Austin Bruce. (Resigned.)
Thomas-George Baring, esq.

Foreign Department; previous to 1782 styled the Southern Department.

Lord Hawkesbury, late Earl of Liverpool.
Lord, late Earl of Harrowby.

Earl of Mulgrave.

Right Hon. Charles-James Fox.
Viscount Howick, late Earl Grey.
Right Hon. George Canning.
Earl Bathurst.

Late Marquess Wellesley.

Viscount Castlereagh, late Marquess of Londonderry.
Right Hon. George Canning.
Viscount, late Earl Dudley.
Earl of Aberdeen.
Viscount Palmerston.
Duke of Wellington.
Viscount Palmerston.
Earl of Aberdeen.
Viscount Palmerston.
Earl Granville.
Earl of Malmesbury.
Lord John Russell.
Earl of Clarendon.
Earl of Malmesbury.

Lord John Russell, now Earl Russell.

Colony and War Department.

Earl, late Marquess Camden.

Viscount Castlereagh, late Marquess of Londonderry.
Right Hon. William Windham.

Viscount Castlereagh, late Marquess of Londonderry.
Earl of Liverpool.

Earl Bathurst.
Viscount Goderich.

Right Hon. William Huskisson.
Sir George Murray.

Viscount Goderich, now Earl of Ripon.

Right Hon. Edward G. Stanley, now Earl of Derby.
Right Hon. Thomas-Spring Rice, now Lord Monteagle.
Earl of Aberdeen.

Right Hon. Charles Grant, now Lord Glenelg.
Marquess of Normanby.
Lord John Russell.

Lord Stanley.

Right Hon. William-Ewart Gladstone.
Earl Grey.

Right Hon. Sir John S. Pakington, bart.
Late Duke of Newcastle.

[1854, June 10.-The Departments were divided.]