e means by which they
may enable us to avert the war with which they are menaced.

Henry accepts Stuttgart, though extremely reluctantly. You have
never made any observation on the changes which I announced to you
before I left town, and which I thought would please you. An
attempt was made to persuade me to take Robinson's succession, but
I really was exactly of Mr. Huskisson's opinion, and thought
2000_l._, or rather 1800_l._ a-year, worth more than a house,
coal and candles; besides which, I did not like the idea of a
second time undertaking a new department of the business, of which
I knew nothing, just at the outset of the Session.

I think Old Nick ought to be Viscount Van, for alliteration sake. I
believe he trusts still to his own loins to perpetuate the peerage,
and applies for no remainder. With this exception, I think the
arrangement as far as it goes good. Indeed, I do not know why
Arbuthnot should have the Woods and Forests, but that the
diplomatic pension list is full. I wish Lushington would retire
also, for I believe he does his work ill. I suppose you have had a
due announcement of the marriage of M. F----. Poor man, with such a
simpleton of a wife, and such a collection of radical
brethren-in-law, I think he has a good thing of it. Lord Braybrooke
has been ill, and was last week very largely bled; he is now
better, but has not yet quite recovered.

Lord Liverpool positively asserts that he has neither directly nor
indirectly pensioned Cobbett. I really think the Duke of Wellington
not a little indebted to him for forcing the Whigs to declare
county meetings a farce.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

[103] The late Lord Raglan.

East India Office, Wednesday.

Reginald Heber has, after much hesitation, to-day accepted the
Bishopric of Calcutta; I grieve at losing him, but believe that the
appointment will be most extensively beneficial. Our Brighton
detachment reports the K---- to have been in excellent humour and
spirits, and the general health good, but so lame as to occasion
considerable doubt whether he may recover the use of his feet,
which are much contracted.

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

East India Office, Jan. 20, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

I see the changes have at length got into