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put his name to the East India pamphlet.* Do 

 advise him not to do so, if it strikes you in the same 

 way. Everybody objects to his writing it at all, but 

 perhaps that is going too far, though there is some- 

 thing in it. As to the want of a name, we can easily 

 puff it into proper notice and supply such a defect. 

 It might, and indeed must, soon be known; but in 

 the mean time its whole effect will have been pro- 

 duced without the impediment arising from the feel- 

 ings in question. Pray do not expose yourself to cold 

 in this most dreadful weather. I saw an instance 

 the other day of the effects. H. B." 



Lord Grey had, throughout this period of the war 

 in Spain, been strongly impressed with what he con- 

 sidered the gross mismanagement of our affairs, and 

 the incapacity of ministers. He was persuaded that 

 Spain would never have ventured to disturb the 

 French army behind the Ebro, well knowing that 

 reinforcements were surely at hand, and that while 

 the Spaniards were suffering under a most feeble 

 government, our ministers were sending a British 

 army into the heart of the Peninsula to march to cer- 

 tain destruction. The case against our rulers was no 

 exaggeration of political opponents or of party feeling ; 

 it was clearly proved by the very papers laid before 

 Parliament by ministers themselves. Their defence 



* Perhaps the pamphlet, or rather book, by Lord Lauderdale, called 

 * The Government of India under the Superintendence of the Board of 

 Control.' Edinburgh, 1809. 



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