dear Duke,

Most assuredly yours,

W. H. FREMANTLE.

Of course you know Sir Henry Wellesley is named to succeed Lord
Londonderry; better accounts of the Duke of Wellington's health.

[100] Afterwards, in 1839, created Lord Beauvale; he was for some
years Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary at Vienna.

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

East India Office, Nov. 6, 1822.

MY DEAR B----,

I thought it right to take down the approbation of Lord Amherst's
appointment to Brighton myself on Sunday, and was most graciously
received.

He [the King] complained much of flying gout, with which he had
been extremely unwell during the last week, but was in excellent
spirits, and kept me sitting with him more than an hour. He was
lame, and moved with difficulty, and told me (at nine P.M.) that he
had only been up for two hours. Not a soul in the palace but Lord
Conyngham, Lord Francis, and Sir William K----n. His face was
deeper sunk in the lines than I have yet seen it, but the colour
was better than I expected--a dark brown, instead of the dead,
tallowy colour which I have sometimes seen.

The Speaker has made the most stupid and unpardonable mess at
Cambridge ever made by man. He wrote to Lord Liverpool, who
answered him that he thought his situation created much difficulty,
and advised his consulting Lord Sidmouth and Lord Colchester, both
of them having, when in the Chair, been intended candidates for
Oxford. He asked neither, but talked to the Attorney and
Solicitor-General and his own clerks, declared himself a candidate
without ever communicating with a single Minister in the House of
Commons. As soon as I found that he had declared, I was convinced
of the impossibility of his being re-elected Speaker if he vacated
his seat, after the decision of the House in 1801 in favour of
Pitt's objection to C. Dundas, and therefore went to Canning, who
begged me to write to Liverpool, who in return wished Canning to
write to the Speaker about it. Canning begged me to go to Peel.
There I met the Speaker, who had not in the least adverted to this
difficulty, but allowed that it would be unreasonable to expect the
Government to fight his battle against such an authority, and
finally agreed to retire from the contest!

Fremantle