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As Lord Glenelg slumbers in a chair Lord Melbourne takes from his pocket the colonial seals and Lord Duncannon takes the privy seals. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.

King George IV with Lady Conyngham inspecting wigs on wig-stands presented by a Frenchman; representing a disagreement in the cabinet with the 'Canning-ites' over the Corn bill. Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1828.

Lord Glenelg stands in the stocks and receives a hail of rubbish. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

Letter to the Lord Glenelg ... containing a report, from personal observation, on the working of the new system in the British West India colonies / [John Innes].

A letter to the inhabitants of Ceylon on the advantages of vaccination / by J. Kinnis.

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Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg

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Letter to the Lord Glenelg ... containing a report, from personal observation, on the working of the new system in the British West India colonies / [John Innes].

A letter to the inhabitants of Ceylon on the advantages of vaccination / by J. Kinnis.