Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Spencer Compton, Eighth Duke of Devonshire, Vol. 2 of 2: With Portraits and Other Illustrations 'whatever you make up your mind to recommend to the Cabinet, 1 hope you will insist on our taking it or rejecting it; I can hardly recollect a case in which we have taken the advice of Baring, or any of our agents, without some modifications and qualifications which have probably been just sufficient to Spoil it. Mr. Gladstone wrote to me the other day that we had only been able to struggle through the Egyptian difficulty, as a Cabinet, by the exercise of the greatest conciliation and marked forbearance. This is very amiable of us, but I don't think that it has produced very good results in Egypt. We had much better make up our minds to do what is necessary if we are going to remain and let those who do not like the policy leave the Government; 1 don't think that its collapse would be a great misfortune from any point of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.