ught to have been written to
oftener, but it has naturally been supposed, that as I was in
constant communication with you, it was not necessary for anybody
else.

I have to-day heard from Dublin that the Grand Jury has thrown out
Bills preferred against the rioters for a misdemeanour, very much
in consequence of the feeling originally excited by the first
design of proceeding against them capitally for a conspiracy to
assassinate. Plunket has, I understand, immediately declared that
he would file an _ex officio_ information against them. Whether
this is wise or not depends, I think, wholly on the nature of his
evidence; if he can produce sufficient to warrant a conviction it
will be quite right, and expose the Orange spirit of Dublin; but if
it is deficient, it will have a most mischievous effect to subject
them to such a proceeding, after the Grand Jury has thrown out the
Bill.

I am very sorry that you differ with me about Henry, but it really
seems to me that after Canning has intimated this opinion in favour
of the reduction of the mission, he has only the choice of leaving
it or of carrying into execution his original offer of taking it
with his own rank, but a reduced salary. In the event of a
repetition of last year's attack, it would be no trifling change if
the Secretary of State were in his heart against us, and if,
perhaps, his intimates knew that he had proposed an arrangement for
averting it. I will also fairly state that, after thwarting
Canning's favourite plans for Huskisson, I am the more anxious not
to interpose unnecessary difficulty in the way of this.

I have to-day heard from Lord Hastings, that he awaits his
successor in India. The last _Guardian_ is not quite as good
as that of the preceding week, but the letter to Lethbridge is
excellent, and the general tone and conduct quite right.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

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

Audley End, Jan. 14, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

The mission of Lord F. Somerset[103] is not of a nature to give any
jealousy to A'Court, being rather despatched by the Duke of
Wellington to Alava, and some of his old friends in the Spanish
army, than by Canning to the King of Spain; besides, he having been
at Verona, can more correctly state to them th