n any renewed application from you, whenever
it does, I am sure you will find Charles heartily and sincerely
grateful to you for your warm and disinterested kindness to his
brother.--I should distrust, as you do, the result of the Catholic
Bill, if every day did not furnish some new evidence which, if
correct, seems to promise a more favourable result. Yesterday, I
heard of Lord Fife having said that the K---- had told him he did
not wish to influence his opinions; and to-day I hear from good
authority that Bloomfield has written within these four days, that
the K---- will go to Ireland with the certainty of greater and more
general popularity than could _have been_ conceived.

The language of the opponents, too, is colder and flatter than it
has ever been; rumours--I know not how true--of the Duke of Rutland
hesitating on the question, and daily talk of other unexpected
votes. Perhaps these rumours are exaggerated; but still they add to
the general tide and current of opinion as to the probable success,
and that opinion may go far to procure the result that is so much
to be wished.

My own notions are, that there should be no exclusion in the Bill
except that of the Lord-Lieutenant, who ought to be as much
excluded there as the K---- is here. I would not exclude the
Chancellor, because I think first it is a breach of the great
principle of the measure; and secondly, because it will be an
irritating bar to and exclusion of the whole legal profession in
Ireland, who are the most influencing and formidable body in that
whole country, in all times, and on all questions of public
agitation. I would, therefore, leave the Seals open to them, and
satisfy the Protestants, as to all ecclesiastical dangers, by
special commissions and clauses for the objects of their
apprehensions. But for all practical good, one must learn to be
satisfied with what can be reached, when what we desire is out of
our reach. Till this measure passes, neither England nor Ireland
can be safe.

Yours ever most affectionately,

T. G.

DR. PHILLIMORE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Whitehall, March 14, 1821.

MY DEAR LORD,

I feel, indeed, much indebted to your Lordship for your letter of
the 11th inst., and we are all grateful to you for your criticisms
on the Bills; and this I should