hould it be the case.--The ladies are not to walk
at the Coronation, and it is to be on the cheapest scale. No
dinner. The estimate is called 150,000_l._ All your members
were present yesterday, and if we had voted against the Government,
only see how we would have diminished their numbers.--Mr. Chard is
in a peck of troubles. He has not got the address, without which it
is useless to go to the Levee.--I was glad of Brougham's mention of
Lady Grenville's pension (it certainly was not an attack), because
it produced an authorized declaration of its surrender, which was
received with great applause.

You have no conception with what attention Baring was heard in a
full house last night, when for an hour or so he described the
commercial state of England in the most lamentable terms. It had
great effect--The King never shows himself. He has never been out
of Carlton House.--Lady C----[17] goes to him of an evening, and he
has had his usual dinners of Sir Carnaby Haggerston, Forester, and
two or three of this description. His language is only about the
Coronation and Lady C----: very little of the state of the country.

I will keep this open, in case anything occurs.

Ever, &c.,

W. H. F.

P.S.--I have just seen Chard, who is in despair about the address;
but he has determined, by my advice, to defer his presentation to
Wednesday se'nnight, in case we hear nothing of the address
to-morrow morning.

[17] Lady Conyngham.

RIGHT HON. THOS. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Cleveland Square, May 9, 1820.

MY DEAR LORD B----,

The Opposition, you see, continues to muster in their original
force of 160 upon their great questions, and though they do not
increase, it seems to me that there is either an indifference or a
disinclination in many to give any active support to Government;
for while the Ministers produce only their ordinary numbers, their
antagonists always are able to command their full force,--and if
that disproportion continues, it will not do, particularly under
the alarmed, and restless, and fearful circumstances of the
country. You see, by the loud cheering of Baring, how strongly the
impression prevails in the House that the present evils demand
great and vigorous remedies; and though, perhaps, I may be less
sanguine in the applicati