y to assist and strengthen him, I
have no doubt he could open the door to you; but I freely
acknowledge that I do not understand his views and objects. They
begin, centre, and end, no doubt, in himself, and on that account
he would like to cement an alliance with you; but then how will he
manage it with the Protestants? I take it, both from what I
recollect of the language of the Horse Guards during the whole of
the Peninsular War, and from other circumstances, that there is no
real cordiality between him and the D---- of Y----. The latter has,
I believe, always been jealous of him. He looks, I apprehend, to
Peel and the Chancellor, and to them only as the instruments of his
bigotry to resist the Catholic claims.

Robinson, I believe, confines himself to his own business, and
Liverpool is indifferent to everything but present repose, and by
any temporizing measure to delay the evil hour of rupture and
collision. Still, when it comes to the point, you will find him on
almost every subject make some excuse for siding with the
Protestant party.

Ever affectionately yours,

C. W. W.

[124] Canning.

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

Wynnstay, Sept. 9, 1823.

MY DEAR B----,

When you mentioned that you had communicated your letter to Nugent
to me in my _ministerial_ capacity, I certainly concluded that it
conveyed a clear authority to have extended it to Lord L---- or
C---- at my own discretion, but fortunately I had not exercised
that power, and certainly shall not.

I am not surprised that Mr. C---- should coax you, even if you had
turned your head aside from his daughter, and passed on the other
side like the Levite; for he is under a charge of illegally making
a loan to the Rajah of Vizianagum, and of having derived therefrom
exorbitant interest. Of the merits of the charge I can say little,
but common report is by no means friendly to him.

The proposed grant to Lord Hastings has been lost in consequence of
an equality of votes, eight to eight, five present but refusing to
vote, and three absent--two of the latter hostile. Objection was
taken to praise of his integrity or disinterestedness by one of
those who refused to vote, stating at the same time he would have
supported it if moved on the ground of his poverty.