e this. A good speech from you in
the House of Lords to-night would be more likely to strengthen us
and set us right than anything else.

W. H. F.

The Duke of Wellington had never seen the correspondence till
yesterday, when shown to him by Lord Liverpool.

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

Stanhope Street, May 31, 1823.

MY DEAR DUKE,

I met the Duke of Wellington this morning, and had a great deal of
conversation with him of a most confidential nature. He began it by
asking if you had left town, saying he had received your letter,
and had taken immediate steps for bringing matters right between
C---- and W----.[113] That "I knew perfectly well how ticklish a
gentleman the former was, and how difficult to manage, and with how
little ground he was in the habit of taking exception; that in this
case he knew he could have no ground, but on the contrary he
(C----) ought and must know, that he owed W---- every attention and
kindness for the manly and decided manner you had acted on the
proposal of taking him into office after the death of Lord
L----."[114] I found evidently that the Duke of W---- disliked C----,
for he could not resist the pleasure of attacking and condemning
him in many points of his conduct since he has held the Seals, and
entered at large into it in a manner that I cannot well detail in a
letter, going through his quarrel with the Chancellor, and what had
since occurred in an attempt which the Duke had made to reconcile
them, and in which he thought C---- had behaved with great want of
judgment and temper; again, in his conduct about Spain, and on the
questions regarding Ireland; but with all this (admitting of
course), his value to the Government, and the necessity of keeping
him in good humour if possible. It was most satisfactory to hear
him say, that the whole of Wynn's conduct in the Cabinet since he
had belonged to it had been uniformly conciliatory and temperate,
and such as had universally given satisfaction, and that he could
not understand why C---- had taken the exception.

I see evidently from all this that the K---- still continues to
feel indisposed to C----, for I am quite sure the language the Duke
holds is the same held by his Royal Master; and there is another
view which is not less satisfactory, namel