threatens to break with
them.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

Mr. Fremantle wrote the next day as usual, _de omnibus rebus_.

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

East India Office. April 11, 1823.

MY DEAR DUKE,

I find we are in a great fright about Plunket's motion on the 16th.
The Opposition are fortunately split upon it, but our _country_
support is very slack upon it, and if Plunket don't make a better
case than he did before, we shall be in a scrape--in fact, it will
come to the question of whether the Irish Government is to stand or
fall, or whether the Catholic or Protestant is to have exclusive
powers.

You may be assured the K---- is breaking up. He may rally for a
short time, but he has no stamina to resist attacks of the gout
constantly prevailing in his habit. I have this from an authority I
cannot doubt. He was in his bed the whole time I was at Brighton,
from Wednesday to Monday, and I believe has not been out since. I
am assured here that the markets are rising, and along the coast
where I pursued my trip--I mean at Hastings, E. Bourne, &c.--the
markets were improving greatly, and the corn rising. If you are not
in town on Monday, I will let you know what passes in Canning's
explanation.

The Duc d'Angouleme is thought to have started well, as far as his
orders go, but the impression in town is still that France cannot
succeed. I have not seen or heard what Fitz Roy Somerset says upon
it, but he gives the most lamentable account of the state of the
Constitutional Spaniards' preparation. Never was anything so
disorganized, so wanting altogether in preparation, concord, or
means.

Ever most truly yours,

W. H. F.

P.S.--I cannot get you Canning's papers before Monday, for there is
so much erasure, and change, and discussion in them, that you may
depend upon it they will not be ready till the moment of their
presentation.

To these extracts may be added the following communications:--

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

East India Office, April 14, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

We continue to be most nervous about the result of to-morrow. There
is a disinclination to attend among the friends of Government which
is alarming. The resignations of Barry and Macnaghten,