Thank you for the Salmon report in which I found more amusement than you anticipated.

I could have had no conception that the destruction made by seals & porpoises is so great as is there stated.

The winter I think will hardly pass over without a rebellion in Ireland

– which I must say is well deserved by those who proceed upon the vile system of deserting their friends in the hope of conciliating their enemies. It is well that the objects of separation & Catholic ascendancy should be broadly avowed, – & as the crisis is inevitable, it cannot come too soon. I only hope the mischief may not extend here; – but certain it is that the English Radicals have had Agents in Ireland. The common revolutionary purpose cannot however prove a bond of union, when the rebellion assumes, as it will without delay or disguise, the character of a religious war.

Great as this evil will be, it is nothing when compared to that which would arise from the introduction of the Whig Liberals into the Cabinet, at which Canning is said to be aiming. Overtures have been made to Lord Lansdowne

for himself & Mackintosh,

– but the former will not come in without Lords Grey

& Holland, – & to bring in admit the last of these Lords would be giving up every thing, unless he were as good at unsaying as his Uncle, which I think he would not be, being more sincere in wrong-headedness. The object is to get rid of Lord Bathurst,

& the other opponents of the Catholick question. But I trust that upon such an attempt, the whole confederacy would be kicked out, – for myself I would on such an occasion put on my iron-shod clogs to give a kick with the more effect.