of the King's friends for the preservation of his health, and the
impatience which his enemies feel for the only event which can give
them any prospect of seeing their wishes accomplished.

Addington is the person intended for my successor. He wants only a
little more age, and being a little more known, to make his
nomination unexceptionable; but I certainly cannot but confess that
he does want both these. It is, however, the best appointment that
we can make to a situation to which so few people are willing to
look, and for which so much fewer are at all qualified. I have no
doubt of his acquitting himself well in it, and of his becoming, in
a little time, extremely popular in the House. We shall certainly
lose our Abolition question. The cry against us upon it is growing
every day stronger, without anybody being willing to give
themselves the trouble of entering, in the smallest degree, into
the examination of the grounds upon which our arguments rest.

We have no foreign news, except the continuance of the disputes and
difficulties in France. But these you have as fully in the
newspapers as I could detail them to you. The accounts from Vienna
seem to agree that there is not much probability of the Emperor's
finally recovering these repeated attacks, though he may linger out
a considerable time.

Adieu, my dear brother,
And believe me ever most sincerely and affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

Lord Buckingham's health had suffered so much from the toils and
anxieties to which he had been exposed during the last few months, that
his physicians urged upon him the necessity of trying the waters at
Bath. So long as the exigencies of the public service made an imperative
demand on his energies, he bore his labours with unshrinking resolution;
but now that the contest was over, and the security and influence of the
Government were restored, he felt the recoil severely. It was natural
that there should be mixed with this hope of recruiting his strength by
change of scene, a strong desire for repose. The stormy times he had
fallen upon in Ireland rendered his position there onerous and
oppressive. He had ridden the storm in safety, and had the satisfaction
of feeling that, whenever he retired from the Government, he would leave
to his successor, untrammelled by the associations and recollections of
the past, a co