est speaker
on the Government side, and having Peel in Government, who was
before a speaker also on their side.

I wish I could say _I_ approved all these things, because I see
_you_ wish it; but I must speak the truth or hold my tongue, and my
affection to you both makes me very reluctant to do the latter,
though for your sake I have certainly expressed myself much less
strongly to Charles on some of these points than I should otherwise
have done.

As for saying of each of these things separately, that there are
personal objections to A---- and B---- and C----, and that they
are each and all of them individuals of too little consequence for
you to hang your decisions upon, of what does a discussion of this
nature consist, except first, of measures, the explanation of the
most important of which is now wrapped up in metaphorical
ambiguity; and secondly, of the men who are to execute them; and
if these really are severally as insignificant as you deem them,
what better argument can be found against putting them or keeping
them in the first ranks of a new arrangement, the professed object
of which is to supply strength which was confessed to be wanting?

But I have done, and have only as before most earnestly to wish
that you may do what is best, whether I am able ultimately to
think it so or not.

LORD GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Dropmore, Dec. 5, 1821.

I return you Wellesley's letter, with which I am much pleased. I
wish I could say the same of the other parts of the business; but I
am old-fashioned enough to be thoroughly scandalized at the want of
the common forms of civility and respect so singularly shown in
Lord L----'s sending up for Charles from Wales to receive a
proposal of coming into the Cabinet, and in the interim taking
himself off to Bath, and leaving behind him not even a letter, but
a _message_ that he is not to be back till near the meeting of
Parliament.

Of the substance of the matters now depending, I have nothing more
to add; but do not take it ill if an old man tells you plainly
that if you do not on such an occasion so express and conduct
yourself as to ensure the attention and respect which is due to
you, it will be in vain to attempt to claim it afterwards, and
that if you abandon it, you give up with it the hope of b