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"If Lord Lauderclale or Lord Ponsonby are now 

 with you, I beg my compliments to them, and desire 

 my respects to Lady Ho wick, being, with great respect 

 and esteem, faithfully yours, H. BROUGHAM. 



" The people about the offices give out that they do 

 not expect the Copenhagen business to be over in less 

 than three weeks. Lord Sidmouth says ( he may, in 

 less than three weeks, be ashamed of being an English- 

 man/ alluding to violent measures against the town." 



TO THE VISCOUNT HO WICK. 



" GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH, 

 Oct. 2, 1807 Friday. 



" MY DEAR LORD, On my arrival here I found 

 Jeffrey very anxious to insert in his next Eeview 

 proper discussions of the American and other neutral 

 questions. As it is published about the end of this 

 month, I think it will produce a very salutary effect 

 if we can manage to deposit there all the right views 

 upon the important and little understood subjects.'* 

 By this means we shall be able, I think, to furnish 

 proper arguments and information to friends in dif- 

 ferent situations, and various parts of the country, 

 and to give the tone to the press (in so far as it is 

 favourably disposed), better and more conveniently 

 than in any other manner. I have therefore pro- 

 mised to supply Jeffrey (whose own opinions on these 



* See the first article of the ' Edinburgh Review' for October 1807, 

 a review of three pamphlets on America and neutrality. 



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