text:  "Wait a little " is his secret caution to friends: let us see Ireland settled; let the turn be taken; let the policy of Sir Robert Peel (at length able to operate through the last assertion of the law) have once taken root; and then having the benefit of measures which past declarations would not permit him personally to initiate nor his party even to propose Lord John might return to power securely--saying of the Peel policy "Fieri non debuit _factum_ valet