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Whitmore's character of the Maltese is exaggerated on the unfavourable side; the true defect of the upper classes is ignorance and narrow mindedness; the opposition of the clergy to a free press has been overcome; trade with Italy and Spain; the ultimate triumph of the Radicals is certain, but they should compromise with the Whigs, who could be induced to side with the people against the aristocracy, postponing their permanent interests to their temporary resentment.

Disease in the Mediterranean and quarantine; the Reform bill has given political power to a larger portion of the aristocracy; high church men will yield to nothing but force; an article on the formation of opinions by authority; returning to England.

Austin will complete two laws after writer's impending departure from Malta; recipient has not understood the event referred to in no. C 2813; the colonies should not be governed by patronage for the sake of conciliating hungry supporters.

Lord John Russell has offered writer a post as Assistant Poor Law Commissioner in Ireland, upon the understanding that he might succeed his father; his present inclination is to reject the offer; his mother's illness.

Austin and writer have a satisfactory interview with the Chancellor; the harvest in Radnorshire; Head's work; his future wife; the Edinburgh Review.

Cabinet office offered to recipient's brother; social gossip.

Saving paper and losing clearness in printing the [Commissioners]' appendix; why the Commission is retarded in its operations; recipient could be supplied with a district in the south.

Forwarding writer's paper on the Irish poor law question. [?being No. C/2827.].

Writer will not accede to measures prescribed by the opposing candidate's committee. Draft.

Writer declines to accede to writer's unusual proposition, but answers his questions, the first three in the negative; TFL had declined to see Mr Whalley, who is the person to remove his own ambiguity; corresponding is contrary to the usual practice of contested elections. Draft.

Why they sent a copy of their decision to the complainant; how recipient should remonstrate in future. [Draft reply to No. C/2487].

Writer explains his policy of creating a reliance in the Commissioners' impartiality. [Reply to No. C/2488; copy].

Capt. Whittaker, an upright man, has been offended at a meeting at Radnor; recipient has offered to present the image of a lamb, but writer, as a parishioner of New Radnor, opposes the idea as it may eventually lead to the church being decorated with a figure of the Virgin Mary; he desires a reading desk of the usual construction to be substituted for the revolving desk now put up, as a Tractarian could use it to face an imaginary deity, and disagrees with the suggested position of the font; writer abstains from entering upon other important questions; the parish has already been mortgaged to the Exchequer Loan Commissioners for £500. Draft.

Recipient and his son have trespassed on writer's land in search of game; he had certified to the Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst recipient's fitness for the cure of souls; he will have recourse to law on any future occasion of trespass. Copy.

[No. C/588] is as unintelligible as [No. C/587]; the idle life of recipient's son must end in his total ruin; the bishop of St Davids has control over recipient. Draft.

Copy of No. C/638.

Writer gives his interpretation of [No. C/587]; he had previously seen recipient's son trespassing with a gun in his hand; he will spare neither trouble nor expense to prevent this. Draft.

Writer does not dread a lawsuit; he would not have a voice at a Radnor parish meeting; payments to the recipient and Dashwood by the churchwardens. Incomplete draft.

The state of education in Old Radnor; TFL has been much blamed for liberal support to a dissenting school; his position as a lessee of the tithes. [Draft in TFL's hand, but signed 'Veracior'.].

Writer declines recipient's offer of the post of chief secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in consequence of the withdrawal of so many persons with whom he has been politically connected; he also tenders the resignation of the office which he now holds.