I have to trouble you with a commission which will cost you a walk to Upper Norton Street.

Wordsworth & I having agreed to make an exchange of loggerheads,

I must beg you to order one of mine from poor Smiths, which they will send by waggon, directed to him, Rydal Mount, Ambleside, near Kendal, – pay the carriage thereof, & come to you for payment of bust packing-case & carriage. For this, for the frames &c Bedford will reimburse you whenever you please. – Chantrey

has made a very fine bust of Wordsworth: the likeness is not striking at first, but the more it is looked at, the more the resemblance appears, & the art of the sculptor.

My first volume

is far advanced in the press, – 568 pages. I have obtained some very interesting communications from Whittingham

by means of Bart. Frere; their recollections have given me a great deal of that information which is not to be found in official papers. I have also received some most important papers from Sir Hew Dalrymple. The French will not be pleased with this volume, nor any of the admirers of Buonaparte:

& my friends the Whigs will not find much to gratify them in the introductory chapter.

In the rest of the work I shall have little occasion to comment upon their conduct; the worst punishment which it is possible to inflict upon them will be is by carefully recording their the series of their predictions.

I am sorry to see the rumours which are thrown out of the Kings intended marriage,

– a measure, to use the lightest expression, imprudent in every point of view, – unless it be promoted by ministers for the purpose of destroying an influence which is always mischievously directed. But the remedy may prove worse than the disease. At any rate it would induce a great expence, & in case of his having children, a long minority, thereby giving great advantage to faction, which, God knows, requires none. I do not think any monarchy in Europe xx xxxxx <will stand> fifty years xxxxx xxxx but if they are overthrown, whatever the process may be, the end must be an iron tyranny every where.

Wynn is on a bed of roses.

I am glad he is there; for except upon the Catholic question, no man has sounder opinions upon all great points. – Phillimore

is a man with whom I was upon good terms at school & at College; & whom every body liked & respected him. He is, I think, likely to distinguish himself in proportion as he is called forth, & he has the great advantage of one of the most powerful voices I ever heard.