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The relations between France and Spain continued to attract very great
attention, both in and out of Parliament, and not only were suggestive
questions asked of the Government as to this country being bound by
treaty to support the Bourbons in France, but the Earl of Liverpool in
the House of Lords, and Mr. Canning in the House of Commons, while
producing papers illustrating the late negotiations at Vienna, Paris,
and Madrid, gave an exposition of affairs that strongly reflected on
the conduct of the French Ministers. A still more important debate on
the same subject came on on the 24th of April, in which Lord Grenville
and the Duke of Buckingham spoke in favour of Ministers.

The question of the Catholic claims came on for discussion in the House
of Commons on the 17th of April, but Mr. Plunket went through the usual
arguments in favour of the Catholic claims with less than the ordinary
amount of success, and the last of these motions of adjournment was
carried by 333 to 111. In a subsequent debate, a misunderstanding
between Mr. Peel and Mr. Charles Williams Wynn, as to the system on
which each considered Ireland was to be governed, threatened serious
consequences, according to the following representations:--

THE RIGHT HON. W. H. FREMANTLE TO THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

East India Office, Ten o'clock.

I have been here from ten, and am going to the Aylesbury
Commission, or should have called on you. I met the Duke of
Wellington yesterday in the Park, who had been sent to by Lord
Liverpool in the morning, to discuss the question regarding Wynn
and Peel. He threw the whole blame on Lord Liverpool for not having
originally shown the papers to Peel, but said that it could not
lead to ultimate quarrels--that Lord Liverpool must interfere, and
that he, the Duke, was to see Peel _this morning_. It appears to
me, from the Duke's language, that the discussion and the
settlement of the difference must now proceed from Lord Liverpool,
as it is the complaint of Peel against him for not being apprised
of the terms on which we came into the Government. The Duke
appeared to entertain no doubt of settling it amicably, but my
object, pressed upon him, was to take care it should be done
speedily, and that no public appearance of difference should be
manifested in the House of Commons. Probably you have seen the Duke
of Wellington before you receiv