eing given, and thinks that
the East Indies ought rather to look for relief from encouragement
to the silk trade, and consequently to their growth of raw silk,
than to any other source.

The question, however, is one of which I am by no means master, and
on which I am not in any way committed.

Ever most affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

[104] Afterwards created Viscount Goderich and Earl of Ripon.

The presence of a popular Lord-Lieutenant, as the Marquis Wellesley was
considered on his first arrival in Ireland, did not eradicate that
feverish spirit of disaffection in a certain portion of the population
of the island, which had been the great difficulty of his predecessors.
Indeed, his Lordship had lately become an object of open hostility, and
an outrage had been perpetrated apparently against the vice-regal
dignity, that was now undergoing investigation before the proper
tribunal. This was only one indication of a mischievous spirit that had
defeated the wisest intentions; in other places, the chronic disorder
was so conspicuous as almost to make the friends of Ireland despair of
being able to effect any permanent good in this unfortunate country.

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

East India Office, Jan. 23, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

I have scarce a moment to write to you, as between general business
and that belonging to the office, which presses particularly at
this moment, I am hard pressed. The depositions in the Dublin riot
seem to me completely to establish the fact of a preconcerted
disturbance, but rather directed against the Lord Mayor than the
Lord-Lieutenant; but there is nothing to support the idea of a
capital charge, unless some subsequent declarations that they
should not so miss him another time, and that they were ready to
sacrifice their lives for the object, should be so thought. We are
to-morrow to consider the steps to be adopted.

On the first flush, the proceeding by information after an
indictment has failed, certainly seems objectionable, but I believe
it must certainly be legal, just as preferring a second indictment
would. I am myself, however, most inclined to support this course,
not because I approve it, but because after all that has happened,
it would degrade both Wellesley and Plunket, and exalt the Orange
faction in the public eye, t