o remove this
objection.

I find the Orange party are loud in their abuse of Lord Wellesley
for shutting himself up at the Phoenix Park, lying in bed all day,
seeing nobody, and only communicating with Secretary Gregory by
letter. Indeed, I believe that the latter is more than he often
favours Secretaries Peel and Goulburn with.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

Your account of the King's health rather surprises me, as we all
thought him, when last in town, to be looking decidedly better than
he had been, for some time.

THE RIGHT HON. W. H. FREMANTLE TO THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

House of Commons, Five o'clock, April 18, 1822.

MY DEAR DUKE,

I should have sent your note to Canning, but I have just seen him
and put it into his hands, saying that I had been prevented from
attending the meeting of Mr. Plunket, or I should have taken that
opportunity of explaining to him by your desire your views on his
proposed question: that I could not do it better now than by
putting into his hands a note which you had written to me on the
subject, and which you had since desired me to show him. He
immediately read your note, thanked me, and thus the matter ended.
He was interrupted by persons coming to speak to him, and sitting
behind him (which I did at the time), he could not well have
entered into any discussion had he been so disposed, indeed there
was not much to be said to me upon it.

I came to town purposely at your desire to attend Plunket's
meeting, and had no conception it was a select party till I got a
note from Wynn, describing it as such to me.

The King is come to town in bad humour at breaking up his Brighton
party, and determined to stay as short a time, and to do as little
in the way of public _appearances_, as possible, and which his
Ministers are strongly urging him to do. I suppose you will come up
for the Drawing-room if you don't for the Levee. We are in much
better spirits, in general appearances and prospects in the House,
and though Ireland will create much discussion, and also
Londonderry's agriculture propositions, still there is no doubt we
shall get the Session much sooner closed than usual. You shall hear
from me, if anything occurs, from day to day, before you come up.

Ever most faithfully yours,

W. H. F.

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