Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
- GB 2014 WS-05-ELM-02-15-38
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- 1804-12-29
Has directed a servant to PE's house to ask if any of the books PE has ordered for CW are finished (i.e. bound?).
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Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Has directed a servant to PE's house to ask if any of the books PE has ordered for CW are finished (i.e. bound?).
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
(To PE in Florence.) Wife weak after a premature confinement. Brother Henry has just seen two carriages in Lyons said to belong to the Queen, but actually to the servants of Lady Bute; the Queen is probably pretending to journey to England in order to get a better settlement. Government weak -only kept in power by dislike and fear felt for their opponents.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Encloses letter from Southey. PE has asked what he should think about the attack on Copenhagen (part of Napoleon's coalition). CW is against, and thinks the British should rather bolster the Portuguese by placing a squadron in the Tagus and thus deter a French invasion (Portugal is closer to Ireland). The Protestant majority to propose measures of concession to the Catholics - otherwise, according to the Primate, Ireland cannot be saved. Asks PE if he knows the identity of 'Peter Plymley' (letters ridiculing the opposition of country clergy to catholic emancipation - by Sydney Smith). Thanks PE for his account of Bedford (v.406) - 'he must be worked upon by feeling, for he has not solidity enough to weigh an argument.'
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Cannot now accompany PE to Scotland, apparently because his unit of militia is going on duty early - hope that Napoleon will be so terrified by this that normal touring may be resumed within a year.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
(To PE in Florence.) PE has apparently been having difficulties in getting cooperation in Naples - William (Richard) Hamilton, Sir William a Court and Lord Spencer have tried to improve this. Gossip about the recent elections. Sudden death in Oxford of wife's younger brother. The convictions of Francis Burdett and Henry Hunt (re Peterloo massacre). As laureate Southey has been writing a carmen funebre in English hexameters - he is pleased with it, but 'fortunately has some hesitation about publishing it.' Success of Scott's Ivanhoe - comments on its defects, but five different dramatisations appeared simultaneously on the London stage within six weeks of its publication. Monastery, however, which has just been published, is much inferior. Wife has just avoided a threatened miscarriage (? - has frequently miscarried before). Subscription for William Page's widow and family (OW and HM - died 20th September, 1819), though confined to OWW, has raised
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Moving house - asks PE to look after his books. The cry of No Popery has succeeded even beyond the hope of those who raised it.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
His wife is a fortnight overdue - has been drawing a vignette of Michael Scott's grave from the Lay of the Last Minstrel, and CW asks PE's opinion of a Latin epitaph he has composed for his wife to inscribe on the tombstone. Is learning Welsh.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Wants to ask PE's opinion of a pedagogue in Edinburgh (on behalf of a cousin).
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
On an election at Oxford for the Oxford MPs, involving Richards.
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn to Peter Elmsley
Copy in CW's hand of Richards' letter to Abbot.