Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1): From the Original Family DocumentsBuckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
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Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1): From the Original Family Documents
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
Great Britain -- History -- George IV, 1820-1830
The proceedings of the French Government with relation to Spain, now
began to excite a good deal of attention in this country; appearances
being in favour of the supposition generally entertained, that the
labours of Wellington in the Peninsula were about to be rendered
nugatory by the presence there of a powerful French army, and the
consequent return of Spain to the position she held as a French
dependency before the war.
THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES W. WYNN TO THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
Tuesday evening.
MY DEAR B----,
I do not believe that the French Cabinet is mad enough to entertain
any view of the conquest of Spain. Experience must have taught even
to them more wisdom, but Monsieur and the Ultra-Royalist party
dread the intercourse with a _Republic_ on their frontiers, and
besides, have revived the old notions of the family connexion, and
their duty to protect a Bourbon monarch. This is fed by their
communications with Spain, where for the last ten months they have
been active in exciting, both by money and other means, the
Royalist or insurgent party, and these designs are equally
instigated by the Ultra-Royalist and Ultra-Liberal party in both
countries. The former, with the view of re-establishing the
authority of the beloved Ferdinand; the latter, of raising by any
means a war, which they calculate must end in the overthrow of both
thrones.
We have no wish ourselves to take Cuba, but are inclined to give
her the fair option of either continuing Spanish, becoming
independent, or uniting with Mexico, positively resisting, however,
even if necessary with arms, her occupation by any third power,
_i.e._, North America.
I continue most completely separated from the rest of the Cabinet.
Whether they live at all together I know not, but believe they do.
However, we have all been in town now for more than a week, and I
never have seen anything of any of them except in Cabinet. No one
dinner have I been asked to since the conclusion of the Session,
excepting one in the beginning of September at Robinson's. Now we
all know that business can never be really settled in the meetings
of so numerous a Cabinet, but that it must be _in fact_ arranged at
more private meetings and dinners.
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