resentment or
dissatisfaction whatever.

If you support Government on these questions about the Queen, it is
not at all from any particular attachment to Lord C----, or any of
his colleagues, but from what you think due both to the King and to
the country, to contribute, as far as you can, to resist the
degradation which the Radicals and their allies would bring on the
first, and the ruin which must, if they succeed in that attempt,
ensue to the country.

It would be most unjust to require Lord C----, in this warfare, to
abstain from a natural and obvious ground of defence. I am not so
unreasonable as to expect this, if I cared one farthing about
anything that can be said of that inquiry, in which, if I cared at
all, it was in being too easily satisfied. Nor am I so thin-skinned
as to have any feeling on the subject; and the only thing that
could have made it at all unpleasant to me would be the appearance
(which such a step as you speak of must have) of my being angered
on the occasion, and having used any influence I might have with
you to the effect of inducing you to act contrary certainly to all
my opinions and wishes, and, I believe, contrary to your own.

Pray--pray, therefore, let all your friends, if they and you agree
with me in thinking Lord Tavistock's motion fit to be negatived,
cry "No!" as stoutly as I would if I had anything to say or do on
the occasion.

RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Dropmore, Feb. 1, 1821.

MY DEAR LORD B----,

The two brothers here are quite astounded at the importance which
you and Charles attach to Lord Castlereagh's attack upon the
Government of 1806-7, and still more at the influence which both of
you seem disposed to give to it in your conduct on the impending
motions in Parliament. In the first place, it is to be observed
that it is not fair dealing to expect Castlereagh to forbear from
attacking Lord Grey, Lord Lansdowne, and Mr. Tierney, on their
hostility to the Queen fourteen years ago, because he cannot do so
without including Lord Grenville, as well as Lord Spencer and Lord
Erskine, as members of that Government. I think Lord C---- fully
entitled to reproach that inconsistency of conduct to Lord Grey and
his colleagues--an inconsistency which in no degree applies to Lord
Grenville