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very intimate terms, Loth abroad (having travelled 

 together) and at home; but we never agreed on any 

 subject of politics, or indeed on any other ; so this con- 

 fession comes from him very reluctantly, and he makes 

 it witli a bad grace ; but he promises to give me a 

 great deal of information, to convince me both as 

 to the behaviour of our Government and the impos- 

 sibility of anybody knowing the Spanish question 

 except by pure haphazard. 



" I thought these things might interest you. I 

 send in two separate covers an article on ' Reform/ 

 which Jeffrey has written, but in which, though very 

 able, he has committed some very great mistakes, 

 I think. Believe me, &c., H BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GREY. 



"APPLEBY, August 10, 1809. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, Lord Rosslyn writes to me 

 as follows : ' Many circumstances have concurred to 

 render the reduction of Flushing much more diffi- 

 cult than / expected, and infinitely more so than was 

 calculated upon. Huntley (who was destined for a 

 separate service to secure the island of Cadsand) has 

 hitherto been unable to effect a landing, and I believe 

 he has shown great good sense and discretion in not 

 attempting it. My division is the only one left on 

 board. They speculate on the reduction of Flushing 

 in ten days, and I am persuaded that nothing can or 

 will be attempted till that is over/ He adds that he 

 expects to be in England before the middle of Sep- 



