e purpose of swearing me a Privy
Councillor, and that he thought it would be as well that you should
take the same opportunity of kissing hands for your Dukedom. Most
heartily do I congratulate you upon its completion.

I find that both Sturges Bourne[78] and Lord Binning[79] have
desired to retire from the India Board; both, however, expressing
their strong wish to support the Government, and that their retreat
may be considered as unconnected with Canning's.

Their successors are not yet fixed upon. It is proposed to Charles
Grant to be one, which I am told he has not yet positively
declined, but I can hardly believe that he will accept anything so
much lower in the scale of office than what he has previously held.
This is unlucky, as it will so much delay my own appointment and
the commencement of my salary, which begins to be an object. I also
find the finances of this Board in such a state of embarrassment
that there is a debt of 2000_l._, and the charges next year likely
to exceed the income 1600_l._ a-year, to meet which, a deduction of
five per cent. on all our salaries is talked of as the only
resource.

Lord Liverpool professes readiness to appoint Phillimore to a seat
at one of the Boards, but not to be held with his profession, which
is a mere contrivance to negative it.

[78] Right Hon. William Sturges Bourne, Secretary of State in
1827.

[79] Son of the Earl of Haddington. In 1833, he was appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES W. WYNN TO THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

St. James's Square, Jan. 17, 1822.

MY DEAR DUKE,

I have not yet seen Sir Scrope, but I understood yesterday from
Hobhouse that your patents were all in progress, and that it was
determined that you should have a new Earldom of Temple, remainder
to your own male issue, remainder to the male issue of Hester,
Countess Temple, the original grantee, remainder to your
granddaughter and her heirs male. I am going to-day to be sworn in
and to kiss hands, and shall previously see Lord Liverpool, whom I
find very impracticable about Phillimore.

The difficulty about my office is, that the payment by the India
Company being limited to 26,000_l._ a-year by Act of Parliament,
Canning introduced a new scale of salary for the clerks, increasing
according to t