for tithes. As yet this has only been discussed by him with Lord
Liverpool and Goulburn, so of course you will feel the necessity of
not communicating upon it with any one.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

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

East India Board, April 16, 1822.

MY DEAR B----,

The proposed meeting on the course which it might be expedient to
adopt respecting the Catholic question, took place this morning. As
the persons invited to it were only those members of the House of
Commons who had last year been named to bring in the Bill, I
advised Fremantle not to come, since it would only excite jealousy
to see us endeavouring to secure a majority by introducing any one
who had not on former occasions been called into council on the
subject.

The persons present were Tierney, Newport, Parnell, Canning, Grant,
Phillimore, Plunket, and myself.

Tierney expressed a very strong opinion as to the detriment the
general question had received from not having been taken up
immediately upon the meeting of Parliament, from Lord Londonderry's
declaration on the first day against any discussion of it, and from
Plunket's language on Canning's notice, but declined giving any
advice as to the course to be pursued under existing circumstances
at so late a period of the session, and after Canning's notice of
the limited motion.

Newport, though agreeing in regretting that earlier measures had
not been taken, yet distinctly admitted that the question had so
much varied by what had taken place, that it could not now be
agitated with advantage.

Grant thought that in the first instance the general motion had
better have been brought forward, but that Lord Londonderry's
declaration and Plunket's opinion, to which he was disposed
implicitly to defer, were sufficient reasons for delaying it till
next year. Altogether the result will be that Plunket will declare
his decided intention of postponing it till next year.

Canning is sanguine in his expectation of increased support or
rather neutrality of former adversaries, but Tierney doubts whether
members of the House of Commons will be as ready to come to town on
the limited as the general measure. He admitted, however, that the
call which has been ordered for the 24th may go far t