situation in the
Cabinet or elsewhere with it. This would have appeared to me a sad
drawback in times like the present, which I may say, without
meaning to convey any censure on the Government, are truly
alarming. But your mind may [be], and probably is, of a more ardent
cast; and difficulties and dangers may be to you additional
recommendations. However, my grey hairs do not dispose me to thrust
my hand, like the old Roman, into a flaming fire; but better days
may follow, and the sun may again shine upon us, when such
situations may be more desirable, and will be attainable.

The Catholic question is the only point on which you differ with
any part of the King's Ministers, and on this point there has been
always a difference among themselves. I sincerely wish that the new
arrangements may bring this question to a happy conclusion, which
seems now more indispensably necessary than ever to the public
safety. But this is the only part of the change which I do not
quite approve. The appointment of Lord Wellesley is excellent,
provided he still retains sufficient bodily strength, and the
energies of his mind are such as they were several years ago in
India; but I think that I see a sort of _compromise in the
appointment_ of the Lord Lieutenant and his Secretary, who are
thought to come from different schools and to hold different
doctrines. This compromise has been already fatal, and we are now
tasting its fruits. The times will no longer bear such a line of
conduct. I therefore sincerely hope that the public suspicions on
this subject are unfounded.

My brother desires to join me in every sentiment which I have
expressed personal to yourself. We both desire to be personally
remembered to Lady B----, and I remain, my dear Lord, with the
sincerest esteem,

Ever affectionately yours,

GLASTONBURY.

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

St. James's Square, March 28, 1821.

MY DEAR LORD B----,

I saw Lord Castlereagh this morning, and am happy to say that his
reception of me was as favourable as I could have wished. He began
by a great deal of palaver about the obligation the Government were
under to _my_ family, and that he conceived I had an undoubted
claim upon them. At the same time he said that he was not enabled
to make any communication to