strusts and hates him too much to employ him if it
be possible to keep him out, and I do not understand his reception
at head quarters has been such as to satisfy him, or give him the
hopes of employment. He is very low and disappointed, and is
immediately going out of town. He has been profusely civil and
attentive to Wynn, but is not come in the highest odour either with
the Government or Court of Directors. His conduct about the Press
in India has been flagrant, and since his departure Adams has sent
home the editor of the Calcutta paper, who has been bullying them
for the last five years, and whom Lord Hastings has never had the
courage to resist, but, on the contrary, has frequently defended
him against his own colleagues in council. This will make a very
considerable and difficult discussion in Parliament next year, and
I much fear that our Cabinet at home will not have courage to fight
the battle manfully; I have no hesitation in thinking with Adams
that the fate of India depends on the power of checking the press
in that country.

The King has had a party with him for the last two days at the
Cottage here, and by all accounts is well in health, but most
averse to going to sea; whether they will persuade him or not
remains to be proved. Lady C---- is very anxious he should, in
order to get some holidays, and I believe Knighton likewise presses
it. In the meantime he is injuring himself greatly in public
opinion by his seclusion; he professes to be so ill he cannot go to
his Parliament or stir out in public in London, and then comes
here, and sees forty or fifty people, and is driving all day in the
park. The real fact is, they cannot manage him; his mind becomes
daily more capricious, and his indisposition to public display or
communication of any kind, increasing upon him to an extreme
degree. The people at Windsor are outrageous; for he has shut up
the terrace and all the public walks, and is doing everything to
render himself unpopular with them.

Lionel Harvey is going on a secret mission to Mexico. What is to be
derived from it I have little guess; but there is every reason to
believe that France has sent somebody there, and there is no doubt
that America will endeavour, or has already got, the start of
Europe upon it. Canning is very anxious not to lose the moment;