attend all the discussions on the Bill in the House of
Lords. It is said she is daily to come from Barnes in a
coach-and-six. This must all be for stage effect, or rather for
intimidation; and really it is impossible to look forward to the
result without apprehension, especially knowing, as we do, that the
Ministers delight in half measures, and never take any decided line
if they can avoid it. In the House of Commons their authority is
decidedly at a low ebb. Canning has not been in the House for some
time. It is said he is going to join his family in Italy; and
people now contrast his conduct with that of the Chancellor who
co-operated with him in 1808 to whitewash the Queen, much to the
disadvantage of the latter (_i.e._, the Chancellor).

One idea very prevalent is, that the Queen will address the House
of Lords in a speech at the opening of the proceedings against her.

If any occurrence likely to interest you comes to my knowledge, you
may depend upon hearing from me; but I am thinking of making my
escape somewhere to the sea-side in the course of the next week,
for a short time at least.

Believe me, my dear Lord,

Your Lordship's obliged and faithful,

J. PHILLIMORE.

MR. CHARLES W. WYNN TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Barmouth, July 27, 1820.

MY DEAR B----,

During the interval which elapsed between the time of your leaving
town and my setting off for Wales, not a single event took
place--not even a fresh report was circulated--which might afford
me the materials for a letter. My newspaper now speaks of a fresh
attempt at a compromise, accompanied with a proposal for restoring
the Queen's name to the Liturgy, which has been refused on her
part. Surely, notwithstanding all the absurdity and mismanagement
which we have seen, this must be impossible. The only way of
accounting for it would be some panic of personal alarm; but even
then, lowly as I think of his advisers, I cannot conceive that they
could consent to a measure of such inevitable and wholly useless
disgrace.

The eagerness of popular feeling, even in this Tory tranquil part
of the country--where there has not, since the extinction of
Jacobitism, been an opinion ever expressed on general politics, but
that all measures adopted by the King must be right--is
inconceivable. I was st