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little Souza is here almost every evening. They are 

 coining to town next week. 



o 



" I shall not fail to write such intelligence as may 

 interest you from time to time; and in the mean 

 time I remain ever faithfully yours, 



" H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EARL GREY.* 



"ALBANY, December 31, 1807. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, As there are various 

 stories in circulation among the newspapers about 

 late events, I trouble you with a few lines to mention 

 what I conceive to be the truth of the matter. 



" Eespecting the Lisbon business, Strangford com- 

 plains bitterly that they have garbled his despatch ; 

 but while he says this to me, and one or two others, 

 who are likely to know the truth, as an excuse for 

 the bragging which appears in his letter, he tells 

 people whom he thinks he can take in, that if the 

 whole despatch had been published, it would have 

 appeared how much more concern he had in the 

 transaction. I doubt not, indeed, that the original 

 contained a great deal more bragging ; but, unluckily, 

 enough is published to deprive both Strangford and 

 the ministers of every atom of credit which they may 

 wish to take for the event. For the rest, the articles 

 in the ' Morning Chronicle/ with another which will 

 appear to-morrow, meet the opinions of all our friends, 



* Lord Howick became Earl Grey on the death of his father 14th 

 November 1807. 



