sters as responsible for their advice in the
exercise of the Royal prerogative, cannot be denied; but the more
or less apologetic tone taken by them upon such questions is often
of the highest importance. Their wretched fears for
themselves--their unworthy submission to insult and indignity of
every kind put upon them by the highest as well as the
lowest--their abandonment of all that is due to the dignity and
authority of the Executive Government, provided they are allowed to
continue in the offices of it; all these circumstances have so
lowered and degraded the Executive power that it would be
difficult, even for a new administration of the most vigorous
character, to restore all that is lost; and instead of any present
effort to recover it, every day is a day of some new disgrace and
indignity, and every topic of debate where Ministers should hold a
high tone, and challenge the responsibility of their situations as
advisers of the Crown, exhibits them crouching under the feet of
the Radicals, and shrinking from the eminence on which they are
placed, in the mean endeavour of interposing the authority of
Parliament to shelter them from dangers which it is incumbent upon
them to meet manfully; and this question of Sir R. W----, if
timidly and apologetically met by them as it will be, may prove to
be of the most dangerous importance, if it shall teach the officers
and the privates of the army to look up to Sir F. B---- and to Sir
R. W----, instead of looking up to the military authorities by
which the army of a limited monarchy must be governed.

No news of the K---- had arrived yesterday of later date than the
24th, and therefore all sort of reports were circulated of illness
of every description, &c. &c.; but I have no reason to believe
these reports have any foundation, as I have seen three or four
persons who must, I think, have been informed if there had been any
foundation for these strange rumours.

MR. HENRY W. WYNN TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Llanwnda, Nov. 11, 1821.

MY DEAR LORD B----,

I take joy on the King's safe return, and I trust that he will now
give himself time to settle something respecting his
Administration. If report be true, he was not in the best of
humours when he started from Hanover, and this is not likely to
have been improved by G