sprinkling of visitors. It is
supposed that Lord Liverpool put a final stop to the Paris visit by
declaring that no drafts could be answered except for the direct
return home; if the 29th has been again changed for the departure,
it is probable that it is occasioned only by gout.

I agree with you that there is no possibility of preventing the
Opposition from making motions about Sir R---- W---- (as they did
in Lord Cobham's case); but the apprehension which I feel is, that
Government will not answer as they ought by claiming and asserting
the prerogative, but by _evidence_ of _facts_, &c. &c., and if they
do they will, in my opinion, do an unconquerable evil. A very
intelligent field-officer the other day said very truly, in
speaking of the subscribers, "what are all these _brown_ coats
about? if it is a grievance, it is a grievance to the _army_,
and I verily believe that there is not a single officer in it
who is disposed to make any other complaint than that the
Commander-in-Chief ought to have dismissed him three years ago."
The subscription has utterly failed, no names being procurable
except the Opposition party names that you have seen.

Yours most affectionately,

T. G.

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

Llangedwin, Nov. 5, 1821.

MY DEAR B----,

Another week will, I suppose, bring the King back, and with him
intelligence of more interest. Lord Grey and his friends appear to
be most kindly exerting themselves to the utmost to defeat Lord
C----'s efforts in their favour. It looks as if there was a schism
in Opposition on the subject of this subscription, and I am told
that several of them hold strong language against it. Government
have, I think, fallen into the same mistake which they did in the
Manchester business, of keeping back their justification, while
they allow their adversaries to preoccupy the ground in public
opinion. I know enough of the folly and mischievous disposition of
W----, to give them full credit for the sufficiency of their
reasons; but in the present temper of the country, and in the
absence of all confidence in the Administration, I do not conceive
it wise to have acted on those reasons, unless they could be
publicly and explicitly, though not perhaps officially, avowed. All
that is known is that it has ref