ing old Louis, and in that case it may be useful, but I
trust there is little chance of its communicating its effects
either in the Cabinet or Parliament on this side the water. Canning
will, I believe, return in time to take his seat to-morrow.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

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

Feb. 11, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

The newspapers will tell you the result of the Dublin trials, but
we have had no letters, and know nothing of Plunket's intentions.
The report is that the Orangemen are quite triumphant and insolent.
What line C----g intends to take I do not know, but I have observed
that he never omits an opportunity of quizzing the Bottle Plot, and
that all his friends ridicule Wellesley on every opportunity.

Stocks are down to 73-1/2, but we have nothing new either from
Paris or Madrid.

Ever yours affectionately,

C. W. W.

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

East India Office, Feb. 13, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

We are, I believe, going to augment our estimates from 21,000 to
25,000 seamen, which it is thought will be sufficient to protect
our neutrality in the contest which now seems all but certain.

I am glad to say that the increase of the number of judges is
consented to, and the measures of a third assize, the alteration of
the Welsh Judicature, and the appointment of a Committee of Lords,
with certain judges as assessors, are to be consequent upon it.

We are also to increase the efficiency of secondary punishments by
sending convicts to different parts of our colonies, there to be
employed in hard-labour; the worst to Sierra Leone; and to diminish
the number of offences liable to capital punishment.

I expect Plunket every hour. He sailed from Dublin on Monday night,
and I should think ought at latest to have been in town to-day. The
remarks mentioned in my last have been general enough to have
produced much observation, and they are, I am told, attributed
rather to disinclination to the _master_ than the man.

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

East India Office, Feb. 15, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

No one who does not reside the greatest part of his time in London,
can possess real influence in public affairs. Lord Chat