| Description | Their general outlook somewhat severe and critical, ranging in subject from the arrangements for the burial of Sir Robert's sister at Bath early in the year to the Castellior transactions near the close. Much about politics, and the crisis between King and Ministers over the Emancipation question. By far the most interesting is the last letter but one (Nov. 28) in which Lord Bulkeley gives his opinion on the Menei Bridge project - "if proof [were] adduced and substantiated [that] ye navigation of the Menai would be really injured by ye erection of a Bridge, then certainly ye interests of 60,000 tons of shipping ought to supersede the convenience of any and all bridges, but if engineers and architects can so construe a Bridge that nobody or ye navigation would be injured, surely a blind opposition is unjustifiable". He goes on to show great knowledge of Carnarvonshire public and personal issues, and to warn Sir Robert [who had been elready M.P. for that county for twelve years, and who was to keep his seat then for another twenty-five] from being caught in the traps of Wardle, Hugh Ellis, and that crew |