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
Since I wrote to you last, I have had some conversation with those
likely to carry into execution the object you have in view; and I
have found them exactly in the disposition in which I told you in
my last I expected to find them. Of course, in the existing state
of the measure in Parliament, and particularly as no design for
carrying it into execution can yet be in discussion, or in the
contemplation of more than a few, no decision can have been taken.
But I am certain that the disposition to which I have above
referred exists; and I think it might be desirable that you should
let me know whether you have any, and what, views for your family,
or any of the friends attached to you.
Believe me, ever yours most sincerely,
WELLINGTON.
MR. C. W. WYNN TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.
Saturday.
MY DEAR B----,
Lord Donoughmore, participating in his brother's objections, has
to-day declined the conduct of the Bill in the House of Lords, and
recommended that an attempt should be made to prevail upon Lord
Grenville to undertake to move the second reading. Anticipating
this, I had, by Castlereagh's desire, yesterday sounded Lord G----,
who, to my great satisfaction, said that, if applied to under these
circumstances, he did not think himself at liberty to refuse. It is
intended to fix the second reading for Tuesday se'nnight, the 10th.
You will see that the resolutions of the Dublin clergy are
extremely moderate, and I understand that their petition is still
more so. In Limerick, the clergy have come to violent resolutions,
and there has been an aggregate meeting to the same effect. There
is a strong protest against them, very numerously and respectably
signed by what Rice, the member for the city, describes to be the
principal Catholics there. Altogether, it is supposed that the tide
runs strongly in favour of the measure.
I have been looking over the lists of the House of Lords, by which
the majority against the Bill cannot be rated less than twelve; and
when one looks at the names of which it consists, I fear that it
displays such an array of bigotry and stupidity that one can
scarcely hope to make material impression upon it. The only hope is
that some of them may stay away. I trust that you will not now
delay coming up.
Ever affectionately yours,
C. W. W.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.
London, April 2, 1821.
MY DEAR LORD BUCKINGHAM,
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