HER,

I this morning received your letter from Liverpool. I rejoice to
think that the Wexford news will probably make your stay at Dublin
of no long continuance, and much as I regret the present
inconvenience to yourself, yet I will own that it is gratifying to
me that this news did not arrive time enough to stop your
embarkation. I consider it as very important on many accounts that
some of the British Militia regiments should actually arrive in
Ireland, and I would not willingly forego the pride of knowing that
your regiment was the first of them. We have no news here of any
kind; indeed Ireland has engaged the whole attention of everybody
here, and left us no leisure to think of anything else except to
cast now and then a longing wish to the Mediterranean. We have, as
you will have heard from my brother, accounts of Nelson's being
actually in the Mediterranean, and such particulars as seem to
leave no doubt of his having been joined by the ten of the line and
the fifty under Trowbridge. I am more and more convinced that
Buonaparte's intention was only to proceed to Corsica and to wait
there the event of the negotiations, hanging upon the rear of
Naples and Tuscany, but without any other _present_ object, and
then to be determined by circumstances as to the future destination
of his fleet, for Portugal, Great Britain, Ireland, or the West
Indies. If we have tolerable luck, Nelson will disappoint all these
plans.

When you see Lord Clare, pray tell him that in consequence of his
having been spoken of by the Duke of Bedford and Lord Holland last
night in a manner extremely galling to my feelings, I took the
opportunity to express the sentiments which I believe he knows I
entertain of his character and conduct. This passed with the doors
of the House shut, so that he will not see any account of it in the
papers. He will not suppose that I claim any thanks for a bare act
of duty and justice, nor should I have wished it to be mentioned to
him from me, if I had not thought it just possible that he might
hear of the attack, in which case I should have felt much concern
if he had not at the same time known that it had been treated with
as much indignation and scorn as it merited.

The business of Williams is arranged to your wishes. I shall be