44 2 POLITICS. [1809. 



" We are full of Wardle and Mrs Clarke. Best;"- I 

 hear, denies the statements in Wardle's letter to the 

 people, and says he wrote him (Best) a note during 

 the trial, leaving the calling Dodd, &c., entirely to 

 his discretion. But this looks so like madness in 

 Wardle that I shall not believe it to be Best's story 

 until I inquire further about it. 



" Johnson the smuggler is about this expedition 

 as well as Popliamrt This makes for Flushing, &c., 

 Antwerp being its destination. 



" Lord Percy has been making a fool of himself at 

 Cambridge, standing against the Duke of Gloucester 



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as Chancellor. H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GREY. 



" July 10, 1809. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, Nothing further is known 

 of the Expedition, except that everybody seems 

 agreed that its destination cannot be very distant, or 

 its object likely to take a long time.J The orders 

 are for each man to take two shirts only (one upon 

 his back included), no women, aide-de-camps a single 

 horse ; short allowance of hospital stores, some say 

 one pair of shoes only, but this I have not from good 

 authority. One is disposed still to conjecture Antwerp 



* Sergeant Best, afterwards created Lord TVynford, 5tli June 1829. 

 lie was then Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas. 



t Captain Johnson, known as a daring adventurer, an ally of Lord 

 Cuchrane, and deeply concerned in the alfair of the false news about 

 the fall of Napoleon, for which Lord Cochrane suffered. 



I The Expedition to the Scheldt, sometimes called the Walcheren 

 Expedition. 



