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land? and shall you be there, or in Northumberland, 

 when our circuit passes through your part of the 

 country \ Also, will you allow me to give Malthus 

 (population) a few lines of introduction to you when 

 he passes by Howick in the course of July on his way 

 to Scotland ? He writes the serious articles on Ire- 

 land in the ' Edinburgh Review/ 



" Of the Hollands you have probably heard lately. 

 By a letter from Lord John Russell to the Duke, it 

 appears that they refused to come home in the Ocean, 

 because she sailed with convoy ; and are waiting for 

 the ship which carries Lord Wellesley out. She has 

 not yet sailed ; nor has Wellesley, I believe, left town; 

 so that if the Hollands are home in a month or six 

 weeks, it is as much as can be expected. 



" One is disposed to doubt this story of the King 

 of Prussia coming forward ; he is a weak, undecided 

 character, and he must be certain that, if he fails, he 

 will lose not only the kind of a crown he now has, 



but his very livelihood. thinks it is not to be 



expected, and he is rather good authority : he saw 

 Count Munster on Saturday, who knew nothing about 

 the reports in circulation (which is pretty decisive as 

 to them) ; and as for Ompteda coming over (the ground 

 with many for believing those reports), the reason of 

 it is his brother having lately gone mad, who is in 

 the German Legion, and Ompteda comes to look after 

 his affairs. 



" What do you think of the late victory 1 ? for victory 

 it certainly was, and a pretty considerable one. If it 



