Note 37 — Chapter I · DISRAELI’S PERSONALITY

“As for the Irish bill on which he had turned Peel out, it was one of the worst of all coercion bills; Peel, with 117 followers, evidently could not have carried on the Government, and what sense could there have been in voting for a bad bill in order to retain in office an impossible Ministry?”—He might have added that the bill—supported some months earlier by Lord John and Lord G. Bentinck—under protest as only excusable through urgency, was delayed by Peel to carry the repeal, until its necessity had vanished.