told him_, if he would
be in the House a quarter before two, he should have an opportunity
of making it. The Speaker having left the House in this state of
ferment and indignation, preparations were made to receive him on
his return (to read, as he usually does, the King's Speech) with a
sharp volley; but the Lords Commissioners, it seems, delivered no
speech, and the Speaker, instead of returning to us, retired to his
own home. It is but just to add, that I was not an eyewitness of
all these proceedings, for I reached the House just as the Speaker
was entering the House of Peers; but I heard the relation from
every one, and the indignation expressed at the Speaker's conduct
was not confined to the members of Opposition.

I hear no account of changes, &c., on which I can at all rely. The
Government, since the abandonment of their Bill, seem to have lost
their senses. They have done, I think, everything they ought not.
In my opinion, they are irretrievably gone. I have no idea that
they can long stand against the storm they have been so
instrumental in raising against themselves; and this is the
persuasion among many of those who have hitherto supported them.

Excuse haste. But believe me your Lordship's obliged and faithful,

JOSEPH PHILLIMORE.

RIGHT HON. THOS. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Sunday, Two o'clock P.M., Nov. 26, 1820.

MY DEAR LORD BUCKINGHAM,

Lord Grenville has been employed this morning in making a note of a
very long conversation which the King held with him yesterday,
having sent for him to his Cottage. Lord G---- had intended to have
added a few words to you upon this subject, but he has such a
violent headache that he has been obliged to desire me to enclose
to you his memorandum of what passed yesterday. He desires that you
would return it by his servant as soon as you have read it, and
strongly urges me to dwell upon the indispensable necessity of no
part of that memorandum being _either copied or quoted by you_. You
will see that he desired the K---- to mention to Lord L---- that
such a conversation had taken place; and as it occupied five hours,
it will probably be very generally known that Lord G---- was at the
Cottage. The way in which Lord G---- means to speak of it when it
is mentioned in his presence is, that "everybody knows