After the Chairs were gone I saw Bankes and Leach, and while they were with me Sir Archibald Campbell called. I saw him immediately. He is a fat, rather intelligent-looking man, well mannered, and sensible. I talked to him of the idea of exchanging Tenasserim. [Footnote: The furthest province of the British territory towards Siam, extending along the coast south of Pegu, and lately conquered from the Burmese Empire.] He did not like giving up his conquest. I gave him one secret letter, and he will make his observations upon it. He left Lord William at the mouth of the Hooghly. They had found out the removal of the Government was contrary to law. They had intended to be itinerant for a year or two. It is only in the Bengal army that the officers are old. There they rise by seniority. In the Madras army they are made from fitness. The Madras army, though most gallant, was quite unequal, from deficiency of physical strength, to face the Burmese. The Burmese soldiers brought fourteen days' provisions. All men are liable to be called upon. They never had more than 120,000 in the field. The English army took 2,000 cannon, and it was believed the Burmese had 2,500 left. Sir A. Campbell says there have been 60,000 refugees from Ava--all now settled in Tenasserim. I had thought there had never been more than 10,000, and that some, about half, had returned. Upon the whole, he seems enamoured of his conquests, but he did not adduce any good reason against exchanging it. At the Cabinet room. Saw Lord Rosslyn there, as I used to be last year, _désoeuvré_ and bored, as all Privy Seals will be. He seemed dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Ireland and in England. At Manchester there is a fear of a turn-out of some more cotton-spinners. Every thing depends upon the harvest. The negotiations with the Turks came to nothing. The Grand Vizier's answer to Diebitch is excellent. The sickness amongst the Russian troops continues, and Diebitch has not more than 40,000 men, even with Roth's corps. The Ambassadors have been very well received at Constantinople. All are in good humour there, notwithstanding the losses near Shumla. The Emperor does not go to the army. Lord Heytesbury represents Russia as being the least formidable of the great Powers for the purpose of offensive operations, and seems to think she contains many elements of convulsion. Metternich is trying to cajole the Russians by pretended fears of revolutionary principles. They talk of a King in Columbia, and the French are intriguing to place a French prince on the throne, after Bolivar. _July 25, 1829._ Cabinet room. The Ambassadors seem to have been received most cordially at Constantinople. We know no more of the Grand Vizier's losses. That he experienced a complete defeat there can be no doubt.