Ever yours affectionately,

C. W. W.

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

London, Jan. 23, 1822.

MY DEAR DUKE,

I have this morning seen Lord Liverpool, and received from him the
offer of a seat at the India Board for Phillimore, which will be
thankfully accepted. It is rather odd that they do not place him at
the Admiralty, since they have an opportunity for it. Berkeley
Paget accepts a place at the Audit Board, Fremantle will go to the
Treasury, and Sir George Clerk come to the India Board from the
Admiralty, where he is to be succeeded by Douglas (brother to Lord
Queensberry). If B. Paget declines the Audit Office, Fremantle will
come to the India Board, and Sir G. Clerk remain at the Admiralty.

As yet we have had little talk of business. The general plan of
business for the session will be opened to us the day after
to-morrow, at Lord Liverpool's, where we all dine for that purpose.

He concurred with me generally upon the principles you suggest, of,
in the first instance, bringing forward as our own measure all that
we think we could with any degree of propriety concede, instead of
waiting till it is wrung from us. Upon corn I really think that the
eyes of the public are beginning to open, and that a large
proportion of the House of Commons will be ready to resist any
proposition for again tampering with its price, notwithstanding the
nonsense of Mr. Webb Hall and his petitioners.

I find by the accounts from Paris there is rather more hope of
co-operation between the Right and Centre parties than had at first
appeared, but there are many symptoms of restlessness and cabal
among the military, particularly the non-commissioned officers.

My uncles are extremely alarmed at the threat of a question being
brought forward on Henry's appointment to Switzerland, which, it is
contended, ought to be left only to the care of a _charge
d'affaires_. At any other period than the present I should think
nothing of it, and even now I do not think it can produce much
effect, since Stratford Canning held the same appointment in 1820,
or till the end of 1819, and as the difference between the expense
of an envoy and _charge d'affaires_ to the public is only 2400_l._,
one-half of which is covered by the cessation of Henry's pension.

Lord Liverp