eriously_ ill.

MR. W. H. FREMANTLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Englefield Green, Sept. 21, 1821.

MY DEAR LORD,

The arrangements for the foreign tour are all changed since the
King's return from Ireland. Vienna, Hamburg, Wurtemberg, and Paris
are given up, and he goes only to Hanover, sails from Ramsgate to
Ostend, visits the King of the Netherlands, and passes on
immediately. His promises are that he will return in six weeks; and
there has been a great exertion to induce him to give up the
foreign tour altogether, but this could not be carried.

No appointments whatever have been made--not the Chamberlainship--and
you see his name omitted in the Lords Justices. With regard to
these appointments and changes, I am thoroughly convinced they will
take place before the meeting, but I really think on every account
it would be unwise, and too much beneath your dignity, and indeed
injurious to your objects, was I to see the D---- of W----, to know
more upon it at present. It would place him, perhaps, in a very
awkward predicament, and after his solemn assurances and written
communications to you personally and through me, he must write to
you or send to me should the arrangements be relinquished.

Be assured the state of the public mind is such that they cannot
attempt to tide over another session. The King in his journey home
overtook Lord and Lady Harcourt (now the bosom friends of Lady
C----), stopped them, got out of his carriage, and sat with them
for a quarter of an hour in the public road, recounting all his
perilous adventures at sea and flattering reception in Ireland.
Lady Harcourt told me his _pious acknowledgment_ for his great
escape of being shipwrecked was quite edifying, and the very great
change in his moral habits and religious feelings was quite
astonishing, and all owing to Lady C----.

The Duchess of Gloucester went to see him yesterday. He was in
particular good health and spirits, but not so much enraptured with
Ireland as she expected to see him. I believe he is a little
alarmed at the advances and favour he has shown to the Catholics.
Lord Londonderry is in the highest possible favour, which certainly
don't look like the Whigs coming in, although many circumstances
give reason to think Lord Liverpool will go, which, however, I
shall never