;ET. 31.] PENINSULAR WAR. 453 



" Ward is returned to London, but I have not seen 

 him, nor do I think myself sufficiently acquainted 

 with him to put myself in his way. I hear that his 

 accounts of Spain are very unfavourable; and he 

 reports of Jovellanos (whom he met dining at Frere's) 

 that he is ' about the standard of a second-rate Scotch 

 professor/ This judgment alone would be decisive 

 against him at Holland House; but there seemed 

 previously to be a complete rupture between the 

 parties. They say that he was only four days at 

 Seville, passed the rest of his time in travelling to 

 Grenada and other places, but saw no people except 

 innkeepers and muleteers. I am sorry to hear that 

 the 'Edinburgh Keview' joins against the sinking 

 cause of the Eeformers, who unfortunately (poor 

 people) are very harmless and inefficient, and very 

 unlikely to do much good or harm of any kind. 

 Yours most truly, J. WHISHAW. 



" P.S. If you will let me know where you are to 

 be found, I may possibly, if I hear anything, send 

 you a few lines before I leave town, which will be 

 about the latter end of next week/' 



Soon after his return from Spain, I received from 

 Ward the following letter : 



FROM JOHN" WILLIAM WARD.* 



" 1 CHESTERFIELD STREET, Sept. 14, 1809. 

 " MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I should not have been 



* Afterwards fourth Viscount Dudley and Ward, Secretary of State 



