occurred yesterday respecting the Catholic
question; they will bully Plunket into moving it, which for one I
shall be sorry for.

I am just interrupted, therefore am compelled to finish this.

Ever most faithfully yours,

W. H. F.

THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES W. WYNN TO THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

India Board, March 30, 1822.

MY DEAR B----,

I had an audience on Thursday after the Council, and was very
graciously received, with very particular and really kind inquiries
about your health.

You know that my bile is not easily stirred, nor am I, for a
Welshman, particularly irritable on anything connected with
politics; but really in the course of twenty-five years'
parliamentary life, I do not believe I have ever felt so much as on
Lord King's coarse and personal attack on Henry. If he chose to
question the propriety of the Swiss mission, it was perhaps bad
taste in him, but after all fair political game; but to speak of
one so nearly connected with him, and whom he had affected always
to maintain intimacy with, as a person wholly unknown, to rake into
his diplomatic life, and by implication accuse him of overstating
his losses in his claim for compensation fifteen years ago, shows
such a total absence of all feeling that I cannot trust myself ever
again to exchange a word with him.

On public affairs I have little new to say. We tide on and shall do
neither good nor evil without being compelled to it.

Ever most affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

CHAPTER VIII.

[1822.]

SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON. MR. CANNING BRINGS FORWARD THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.
OPINIONS RESPECTING CATHOLIC RELIEF. STATE OF THE KING'S HEALTH.
POLITICAL MEETING TO CONSIDER A NEW CATHOLIC MEASURE. MARQUIS WELLESLEY
AT THE PHOENIX PARK. COMPLAINTS OF HIS INATTENTION TO HIS DUTIES AS
LORD-LIEUTENANT. SPEECH OF DR. PHILLIMORE ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.
MOTION ON THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. HENRY W. WYNN. CONDUCT OF MR. ROBERT
PEEL. LIBELS. ANTI-CATHOLICISM IN WALES. BALL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE
IRISH. PROJECTED VISIT OF THE KING TO SCOTLAND.

CHAPTER VIII.

The statement hazarded in the next letter, of Sir W. Knighton's
literary incapacity, is, we believe, unfounded. The memoir of this
gentleman, edited by his widow, affords ample evidence to the contrary,
and he enjoyed a large share of the King's confidence at this date, and
subse