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really useful.

I have known many such discussions, some ending well, others ill.
But I never yet witnessed one in which such arrangements were (as
in this case) presented _crudely_, to be accepted or refused,
without any previous discussion as to the mode of shaping them, or
any facility offered, or even intimated, for softening down such
difficulties as such proposals are always more or less attended
with.

I must say there appears to be, with respect to both of you, a
total misunderstanding of your real rank and station in the
country, and in its public estimation.

Do not think that I wish your acceptance or refusal to be
influenced by feelings of temper or personal offence. Far from it.
The question involves much higher considerations, both public and
private; but what I do most earnestly wish is that you should
maintain your own dignity against aggressions which are never
neglected without leading to future inconvenience, but least of
all in such cases as these.

The negotiation, like various others that had preceded it, had
obstacles to surmount. One of the most active members of the party
invited to strengthen the Government insisted upon an understanding on
certain great political questions, on which a perfect Ministerial
understanding had more than once before been extremely difficult to
establish. The letters sent and received will speak for themselves.

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

Whitehall, Dec. 13, 1821.

MY DEAR B----,

The post has brought me no letter from Lord Liverpool. Perhaps the
reservation in writing of my right to originate any measure which
may appear to me desirable for the amelioration of the state of
Ireland, either in Parliament or in Council, and of declaring that
as the hope of contributing to that object is my principal
inducement to accept office, so I should not hesitate at any time
to relinquish it, if that would more effectually assist the
object; and also of stating that Goulburn's appointment could not
have had my concurrence--which are the three points insisted on in
my letter--may, though agreed to by Lord Londonderry most readily,
be of more difficult digestion to the Earl, particularly if, as
begins to be reported, there is at the same time some hitch on the
part of Peel, and that the Earl may find hims