If the thing rouses the people it may do serious mischief; if not, it will look awkward for the Ministers themselves.
If you do not grant a dissolution to your present Ministers you would have, at the coming in of a new Administration, the right to tell them that they must go on with the present Parliament; and I have no doubt that they could do so.

The statistics of the present House of Commons are well known to all the men who sit in it, and to keep it a few years longer would be a real advantage.
You know that I have been rather maltreated by the Tories, formerly to please George IV., and since I left the country, because I served, in their opinion, on the revolutionary side of the question.

I must say, however, that for your service as well as for the quiet of the country, it would be good to give them a trial.

If they could not remain in office it will make them quieter for some time.

If by a dissolution the Conservative interest in the House is too much weakened the permanent interests of the country can but suffer from that.