he unfortunate situation of having done an awkward absent thing
can say, and I know not what can be done further.

I believe my appointment of Reginald Heber is really the very best
for India that the kingdom could have supplied. Henry is to be
accredited to Baden and Carlsruhe, as well as to Stuttgart.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

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

East India Office, Jan. 27, 1623.

MY DEAR DUKE,

Of course Wynn has communicated with you upon the changes which
have taken place; I was completely ignorant of them till the papers
announced them, but think altogether it is a much improved
administration; the weak point of Vansittart is strengthened, and
though perhaps Robinson may not have been the fittest man for a
Chancellor of the Exchequer, there is none other who would have
done so well with Lord Liverpool, and he is a very popular man in
the House of Commons. Wallace is most indignant at Huskisson being
put over his head, and has resigned the Vice-Presidency of the
Board of Trade; this has been offered to Vesey Fitzgerald,[105] who
I have no doubt will take it, but should he not, I understand it is
to be offered to Charles Grant;[106] and it is also said that Lord
Maryborough goes out, and Wallace is to replace him at the Mint.

The change at the Treasury would certainly make it easy for Canning
to take a jump at any future opportunity by the resignation of Lord
Liverpool, by becoming First Lord and Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and giving the Foreign Seals to Robinson; how far this may be in
his contemplation, you have better means of judging than I have,
but it is not very foreign to his character to entertain such a
view.

Every human being seems to condemn in the strongest terms the
conduct of Wellesley; there never was such an ass, and if he has
hatched all this trumpery and made Plunket his dupe, the latter
will never get over it; such is the belief, and it really looks
like it. Plunket must of course come to the meeting, and we shall
then see what he chooses to disclose to the public; for a
justification he must make. The Opposition are not disposed to
attack Lord Wellesley, and are of course in trammels on the
question, but there are plenty of Orangeists who will not be
wanting. The thing that