; but even if it did, surely Lord C---- is not to be
deprived of his legitimate warfare upon those to whom he is
opposed, because Lord Grenville was in those days politically
connected with them. But even supposing that you had reason in this
respect to complain of Lord C---- (which I utterly deny), still it
would be a most unjustifiable, and unbecoming, and culpable course,
to suffer any such personal considerations to influence your
conduct upon the great public questions which are impending. Those
questions are to decide whether the Opposition is to be suffered,
from its base alliance with the Radicals and with the Q----, to
take violent possession of the Government, in order to overturn the
whole system of our constitution; to bring in annual or triennial
Parliaments; to do little short of introducing universal suffrage;
to disband the army, which now holds the Radicals in check; and,
very probably, to let loose Bonaparte, under pretence of mitigating
his confinement. These are some of the first fruits of what is to
be expected from Lord Tavistock's motion, if, by its success, it
removes the present Government; and can you look at any part of
this picture, and yet suffer any personal considerations to weigh
for one moment in your mind, while such superior considerations are
at stake? I could have added much upon the disgrace you would throw
on Lord Grenville, if he could be suspected, as he would, of being
a party to so much personal irritation in questions of the very
vital existence of the constitution of the country. But he writes
himself.

The next letter commences with a reference to the judgment passed by
Judge Bailey on that popular leader, Sir Francis Burdett. It was merely
a fine of L2000, and imprisonment for three months in the King's
Bench:--

MR. CHARLES W. WYNN TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Whitehall, Feb. 10, 1821.

I agree with you in considering the sentence on Burdett--a sentence
so unexpected as to call for the plaudits of all the Radicals who
surrounded the Court, and the congratulations of his friends--as
most calamitous; and, unfortunately, it is not the first instance
in which the Court of King's Bench, or rather the present judges
who preside in it, have shown that they are not proof against
popular clamour and the apprehension of personal danger. On the