that they are trying to cook up a match for
the King with a Princess of Tour and Taxis (I believe a sister of
the Duchess of Cumberland), and a sister of the Princess Esterhazy.
Metternich is at the bottom of it. Query, whether Lady C---- will
oppose or promote a match? If her lord would go, other objects
might occur to her; indeed, it is hinted that she is trying to push
her daughter for the prize. The Duchess of G---- had a long letter
from the King a few days ago, full of the highest spirits.

I think I have told you all I have picked up.

Ever most truly yours,

W. H. F.

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

Llangedwin, Sept. 9, 1821.

MY DEAR B----,

The enclosed letter came to-day from Wheatley. I send it you,
though I certainly do not attach much credit to the virtuous
refusal of the Whigs to come in under Lady Conyngham's auspices,
forasmuch as I should rather believe that if the daughter of the
Devil would engage to bring them in, they would even conform to the
condition of admitting old Nicholas (not Vansittart) as their
colleague and patron. The opinion of the breach between the King
and his Ministers being past all mending, seems every day to gain
ground, for I hear of it from different quarters. If the King goes
to Hanover, it seems almost impossible that he should return in
time to make any new arrangement before the meeting of Parliament.

My uncle has, I find, returned from Bowood, strongly impressed in
his own mind with the wish of Lord Lansdowne, to form an
Administration in conjunction with us, if he can effect it.

Certainly this is what I should individually prefer to any other
arrangement, but it is impossible not to see the extreme difficulty
which must arise in drawing a line between the less violent and
more furious of the Opposition, since no man can say where that
line should run, or who should be included in each division.

It hardly can be desirable that we should select that moment for
connecting ourselves with those whom we have so long opposed, when
they are on the point of being kicked out, when they have lost both
the favour of the Crown and the confidence of the House of Commons.
Yet that is the present appearance, and I think you will agree that
our union with them could not of itself be sufficient to save t