TALBOT2155

Dover
Thursday

My dear Henry

Pray send the enclosed & seal it as wax does not abound at Dover. I am kept by contrary winds & might just as well have staid in town to talk with you on the Majority ¹ – small as it is it is as good as 100 – & I hope no dissolution – I think they ought to spin it out, whatever be its fate, to get other things through between whiles – or business of the year will be checked. I meant to have asked you to accompany Lady I, ² & little Caroline ³ some day to see those drawings of M^r Brown’s in Soho Sq. as you have never seen them & they are quite worthy. I find by last night’s paper that the Polish peasantry have begun to rise & harass the Russians in their rear – Wielopolski ⁴ told me a week ago that was the plan & that the pospolite or levy en masse was kept quiet for that purpose, but I thought he was hoping too much. Diebitsch ⁵ cannot be very comfortable cooped up in a corner between the Vistula & Bug up to his knees in water, which may rise in a few hours so as to drown his whole army & probably freezes every night & thaws in the day – The people just come in from Calais say there is nothing new in France – so I hope this Ministry may stand – After Lafayette’s ⁶ documents I should not wonder if Sebastiani ⁷ went out – & if Soults ⁸ influence led to a war with Russia which I think not unlikely, he might keep the others in.

Y^r Aff^te
W F S

London March twenty five 1831 C R M Talbot ⁹
H. F. Talbot Esq
W. H. F. Talbot Esq ¹⁰
31 Sackville Street
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham