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more especially as he might have reckoned, with good 

 reason, upon the Association's influence to keep the 

 Catholics quiet till the commencement of the session. 

 But here I must agree with what you say of Lady 

 Jersey's language, that Lord Anglesey's conduct, and 

 his constant endeavour to obtain a little personal 

 popularity at the expense of the Government he was 

 serving, has done infinite mischief, and created the 

 greatest embarrassment to the Ministers ; and if to 

 this you add the excitement produced by Dawson's 

 rash speech, which, taken together, have inflamed the 

 Protestants to madness, and produced the violent re- 

 action of the Orangemen in Ireland and in England, 

 you must see that the Duke's plans and arrangements 

 have been frustrated, and you will not wonder at the 

 tone which his friends have taken. The relative situa- 

 tion of all parties is materially changed, and a new 

 plan of operations must be conceived and digested; 

 but I cannot from thence argue that the Duke will 

 ' wait the coming of the storm' and suffer himself to 

 be the sport of events which he must know it is as 

 much his duty as it is in his power to control. I quite 

 agree with Althorpe, that the Brunswick clubs will not 

 alter his purpose, or force him into their measures, 

 though they most certainly will annoy and embarrass 

 him in more ways than one. The influence of the 

 Duke of Cumberland, and the supposed indisposition 

 of the King to consent to any concessions, though 

 grave obstacles, and very much aggravated by the 

 clamour that the Orangemen are raising, do not appear 

 to me to be the principal source of the Duke's difficul- 

 ties. I believe that Peel is very impracticable ; and 

 before I left town I am sure that his refusal, or ex- 



