Excerpt from The Sailor King, Vol. 2: William the Fourth, His Court and His Subjects That is as may be, madam. The majority of the ministers had the strange experience of first learning through the columns of a newspaper that they were no longer in office; information some of them refused to credit, until assured of it at the cabinet meeting, by the premier, who was so far from being vexed that he declared I was never so happy but I suppose I shall soon be damned tired for want of something to do, as all are who leave office. Three nights later he went to Drury Lane theatre, where seated in a box with some of his colleagues, he witnessed a play called The Regent, whose sarcasms and jokes about the dismissal of ministers caused his joyous laugh to ring through the house. 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.