criminal law, but objections to passing
sentence of _death_. Now, since as Attorney-General he must have
swallowed these sufficiently to direct capital prosecutions, I have
myself little apprehension of their choking him when he is to pass
sentence, or even if his office required him to execute it. Lord
Wellesley talked to me a good deal about Canning, and expressed his
belief that he really wished to go to India. If that is the case,
there can be no doubt, that whether he delays two or three months
on account of Lord Hastings or not, that it will end in his going.
He treated the reports of disturbance in Dublin as quite
ridiculous, and told us that they rested only on the depositions of
Patrick Maloney, a discharged serjeant, who tells of a meeting of
1700 men at night under Carlton wall, who were seen by nobody else
but Terence O'Tregan, who is to come forward hereafter, but at
present is confined at home, having caught a _could_ in his head,
and so keeping house.

MR. W. H. FREMANTLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Englefield Green, Dec. 27, 1821.

MY DEAR LORD,

Nothing can be more satisfactory or conclusive than Lord
Liverpool's letter, which fully confirms your interpretation. I am
perfectly satisfied, and shall wait with great patience and
pleasure his convenience.

I believe there is something in the change of Bloomfield. I have
heard it from a variety of quarters, but I doubt its being put into
execution, as there must be so much in the power of the individual,
from long habits and confidences. At present it is clearly not so,
for only yesterday I received a note from him, _under the King's
authority_, requesting me to learn from Charles Wynn for a
certainty whether he could place at the disposal of his Majesty a
writership for the year 1821, for a young man whom he was anxious
to send out to India. I have enclosed the note to Wynn. A pretty
good and modest demand, even before he is in office, or knows what
his patronage may be; and why it was to be conveyed through me, I
know not.

When this letter will reach you, I have not a guess. The floods
have stopped up all communication with London. There are not less
than twenty stages now at rest in Egham, and the water still
rising. The sheep, oxen, &c., all removed, and no provision for
this additional