considerate letter); that the King only plays a game with the
Opposition from vexation and anger about Mr. Sumner's appointment,
and a wish at the same time of keeping down a party for the Queen,
but that he has no idea of changing his Government. That as soon as
Lady Liverpool is buried and the Session is closed, a communication
will be made to you, and that the Government will be strengthened
by your accession. How and in what manner this will be arranged, in
accordance with your feelings and views, I cannot pretend to say;
but whenever that proposition is made, if you are afterwards to
waive the accedence to a junction till you are enabled to satisfy
the theories and calculations of your uncles, I am quite sure you
might as well remain at Stowe. I have no hesitation in saying to
you, that I think you would do well to make a _sine qua non_ of
Charles Williams being of the Cabinet; but if beyond this he is to
have all his difficulties of who shall fill the different offices,
and how more or less the Government could be better classed, and if
these difficulties are again to be weighed and reasoned on by your
uncles, who sit in their libraries and fancy things and men are as
they were twenty years ago, and forget we are under a new reign,
_and such a reign_; and if above all, they fancy the Government is
reduced to the state of giving you _carte blanche_, and that they
cannot go on without your party, I am quite convinced they would
not treat on these terms, and that _they are_ prepared to go on, if
they find such to be your feelings and line of conduct; I tell you
this as _my own opinion_, and which I think I am bound to give you,
knowing the situation in which you stand, and weighing well all
these difficulties you have to contend against, and as they affect
what I know to be the prevailing object of your mind to conciliate
the junction.

The Opposition are whispering and cajoling about the King's conduct
towards them, and I see are endeavouring to separate the Whigs from
the Mountain; but they will be unable to do this while the Duke of
Bedford, Lord Grey, Lord Lansdowne, &c. are at Carlton House, and
Lords Tavistock, Fitzwilliam, Milton, Jersey, &c., are with the
Queen on the same evening.

Lady Conyngham is the great link upon which this hangs, and the
Opposition ladie