see by all the papers that Lord Talbot is to remain another year,
and I think if it were not true, it would have been contradicted.
The change I contemplate is--Canning, Home Secretary (Sidmouth
retiring, who wants to do so), and you Admiralty, Melville the
India Board, and B. Bathurst making way for Wynn. I consider the
_boutique_ of Sidmouth as going altogether; how it will be arranged
I won't pretend to say, but this is the quarter that is to make the
opening.

I never in my life heard of anything equal to the K----'s
infatuation and conduct towards Lady C----. She lived exclusively
with him during the whole time he was in Ireland at the Phoenix
Park. When he went to Slane, she received him dressed out as for a
drawing-room. He saluted her, and they then retired alone to her
apartments. A yacht is left to bring her over, and she and the
whole family go to Hanover. I hear the Irish are outrageously
jealous of her, and though courting her to the greatest degree, are
loud in their indignation at Lord C----. This is just like them. I
agree in all you say about Ireland. As there is no chance of the
boon being granted, no Lord Lieutenant could have a chance of
ingratiating himself, or of fair justice done him, with the King's
promises and flattery. I cannot see how he can be so long absent as
his journey must necessarily make him. I have heard it thus
calculated:--Supposing he sets off the 24th or 26th; a fortnight to
Hanover, as he goes through the Low Countries and visits the King
of the Netherlands; this would make it the 10th October. A month
there, 10th November. A fortnight's journey and stay at Vienna,
24th November. A fortnight more from Vienna to Hamburg, Wurtemberg,
and to Paris, 10th December. Four days at Paris, about the 15th or
16th December return. And all this with the present state of the
country. I do not think it possible for him to be allowed to do it.
I have not touched upon expense, for although it is said Hanover is
to pay for his stay there, the presents and remainder of the
journey must be paid by England.

Whatever I hear, you shall have forwarded to you as quickly as I
can. I shall direct always to Pall Mall. I think of going to
Brighton for some warm baths next week.

Ever most truly yours,

W. H. F.

P.S.--I hear Lord Lauderdale is _s