gthen himself in the
Cabinet than in developing a policy likely to realize the expectations
of his admirers.

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

East India Office, Jan. 3, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

I am sorry to say that in consequence of William Hill altering his
mind and declining the Under-Secretaryship, the intended promotion
in the diplomatic line which was to have opened Copenhagen to Henry
is stopped, and Canning now strongly presses his removal to
Stuttgart with the same rank and salary, with a view to an
arrangement by which the missions to Switzerland and Frankfort will
be reduced to a Minister Plenipotentiary, with about half the
present allowances.

This I think, though by no means pleasant to Henry, he ought to
accede to, both for the public benefit and the gratification of his
immediate superior, it being clearly understood that he is to be
considered as entitled to promotion on the first occasion.

Canning is very gracious and confidential. He certainly wishes in
no moderate degree to get his friend Huskisson into my particular
office, but would be quite willing to give me any other I chose in
exchange which he could obtain, but as I really prefer it to any
other which could be given to me, except that of Secretary of
State, or possibly the Admiralty, if there were no better claimant,
I do not see any probability of his wishes being gratified _a
l'aimable_.

It is most vexatious that, in spite of all admonition, the
_Courier_ persists in its warlike tone and justification of the
interference of the Continental Powers in the internal affairs of
Spain, in opposition to all the known views and declarations of the
British Government.

Of this I have given a hint, and desired that it may be noticed in
the next.

With respect to France, I can tell you hardly anything which you
do not already know. They continue assurances of their pacific
intentions to us, and it seems clear that Montmorenci resigned
because his note was deemed too warlike; and yet one can scarcely
conceive how it could have been more likely to create a rupture
than that of Villele, particularly followed up as the latter has
been by the very offensive step of giving it publicity in the
_Moniteur_ within forty-eight hours after it had left Paris.

It canno