Peel was an exact contemporary, having been born in the same year, 1788.

Lord Bathurst is more alarmed than any one; but Peel is a good deal alarmed too.

A little candied lemon-peel mixed with the above is an improvement, and a great authority in culinary matters suggests the addition of a little cayenne pepper in gingerbread.

Lord Melbourne resigned, and Sir Robert Peel became Prime Minister.

Peel, however, was himself the controlling intellect of the government of which he was the head, and was doubtless superior in attainments and political genius to Wellington, to Earl Grey, and Lord John Russell,premiers like him, and prominent as statesmen.

Peel was a great administrator and a great debater.

Peel, for this work, is, I believe, the right man in the right place, and I expect great things from him.

Sir Robert Peel was an excellent hand at what our fathers called banter and we call chaff.

In 1830 the Whigs came into power under Lord Grey, and for ten years, with the brief interval of his first administration, Sir Robert Peel was the most able leader of the opposition.