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enable your particular branch to regain some of its 

 former popularity, a thing easy in itself, as well as 

 highly important to both the party and the country. 



Wellesley is raising his head, and ministers too are 

 going to crow over Burrard. They, and not he, never- 

 theless, are to blame, but this must really be speedily 

 enforced in Parliament, otherwise it will be disbelieved 

 by the country. They are to give him a court-martial. 

 In great haste. Ever yours truly, 



" H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



" December 15, 1808.1 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I snatch a moment, as usual 

 during dinner, to say that I have just seen H. 

 Bouverie, who tells me his regiment, which was coun- 

 termanded yesterday, is re-ordered to-day ; that this 

 is said at the office to be owing to a telegraph from 

 Plymouth, announcing from the authority of the 

 Indefatigable, which was off the Spanish coast, that 

 Baird, Moore, and Romana are joined ; which minis- 

 ters believe, and disbelieve the French bulletins at 

 the same time. 



" This seems rather improbable ; but one thing is 

 certain, every degree of confusion reigns at the offices. 

 All are at cross purposes, and complain that they 

 have no head, and no arrangement to help them. 

 The prevailing belief now is that Mulgrave and 

 Castlereagh will go by the board; and I heard of 

 preparations in Canning's office for his departure. 



