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" 3. Mr Stephen distinctly states that his recollec- 

 tion of the general practice of publishing in the West 

 India newspapers (St Kitts, where he resides) mat- 

 ters respecting the slave trade, and even to the best 

 of his remembrance the revolutionary transactions in 

 the French islands, induced him to suggest a search in 

 the Jamaica coffee-house for such papers as are above 

 mentioned, in consequence of which they were found 

 there, in two different years, and passed through him 

 to Mr Wilberforce, who has mislaid them. To this he 

 could make oath. I am, in great haste, your lordship's 

 most obedient servant, H. BROUGHAM." 



After the dissolution in 1807, but before the meet- 

 ing of Parliament, the following correspondence re- 

 lating to the expedition to Egypt, the war in Spain, 

 the proceedings of our Government relating thereto, 

 and other matters connected therewith, took place : 



EEOM LORD HOWICK. 



" STRATTON STREET, June 16, 1807. 

 " MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I received your letter and 

 the accompanying papers yesterday evening at Wim- 

 bledon, and am lost in admiration of your activity. 

 Nothing can be better calculated for the effect in- 

 tended to be produced than what you say on Sir H. 

 Mildmay and the Egyptian expedition. On the lat- 

 ter nothing further occurs to me, in addition to the 

 general statement you have received from me of the 

 motives and object of the expedition, except, perhaps, 



