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to you in catering for such things, here or elsewhere ? 

 Tell me freely. 



"I give you a thousand thanks for your kind 

 promise to write to me. It will be real charity. If 

 you can give me accurate information as to the pro- 

 spect of a dissolution of Parliament, I shall be much 

 indebted to you. That point interests me very nearly ; 

 for though I have some assurances that I shall be 

 brought in at the election, yet if I am off the spot 

 and have not warning of it, I know how little such 

 promises avail. 



" The hurry in which the packet sails has made 

 this as well as my public letter a mere scrawl. I 

 trust to your goodness to excuse it. Believe me, with 

 real esteem, yours very faithfully, 



" HENRY BROUGHAM/' 



TO LOED EOSSLYK 



" LISBON. 



" MY DEAR LORD, Since writing the private letter 

 of yesterday, I have added one public letter to my 

 inclosures. My remarks on the consular business I 

 beg your attention to ; and my chief reason for stating 

 them, when Strangford's department leads him more 

 properly to the subject, is, that I know from his great 

 intimacy with Gambier there is no chance of his 

 doing it, nor indeed would it be proper in him. 

 Nevertheless I am persuaded the abuse is great, and 

 indeed I look on the whole office of consul here as a 

 mere job. 



