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deposited more safely, or stated to any person whose 

 disposition would lead him more cordially, as far as 

 he had power, to assist and to promote them. 



" Considering the present state of the country, and 

 our particular situation in it, it seems almost absurd 

 to be entering into such a discussion at present ; and 

 it would really be so to form any sanguine expectation 

 that it will be forced upon us by such an event as I 

 have supposed just possible ; but your letter has led 

 me to think a good deal on the subject, which Lon- 

 donderry's death had necessarily brought under my 

 contemplation, and I could not help expressing to you 

 my feelings upon it. 



" You, of course, have had accounts of all the gaie- 

 ties and all the absurdities of Edinburgh."* Eosslyn 

 was never asked to Dalkeith. "What is the cause of 

 the incivility of the King to him, of which this is not 

 the first instance \ By the way, he tells me, from the 

 information of a man who was secretary to his uncle, 

 and who is now in the Treasury, that the arrange- 

 ment talked of in the offices is : Bathurst, Foreign 

 Secretary ; Peel, Colonial ; Van., t Home ; Huskisson, 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer. 



" This would be too good, though they would gain 

 some strength in Huskisson ; but then the character 

 of the Administration, completely anti-Catholic and 

 Duke of York, who would then be in reality King, 

 must very soon produce difficulties, both with respect 

 to public measures and in the cabals of the Court, 

 which would make it quite impossible for the Admin- 

 istration to go on in that form. 



* In reference to the visit by George IV. to Scotland, 

 f Vansittart. 



