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" Lady Grey desires to be most kindly remembered 

 to you. I am, dear Brougham, ever yours most truly, 



" GREY." 

 FKOM EAEL GEEY. 



" HOWICK, October 22, 1809. 



" DEAR BROUGHAM, I have to thank you for two 

 letters since I last wrote. 



" You already know how completely I agree with 

 you with respect to the most conspicuous of the ex- 

 ministers. If there is any disposition towards him in 

 any of our friends (I rather think you have been mis- 

 taken with respect to Lady Holland), it cannot be too 

 soon or too strongly counteracted. The impossibility 

 of our joining, without the greatest discredit on public 

 grounds, a person so deeply responsible for the whole 

 conduct with respect to America, and for the Spanish 

 and Walcheren expeditions, not to advert to what he 

 did both when we went out and at the commence- 

 ment of the succeeding Administration, needs only to 

 be stated to be universally felt and acknowledged. 



" Why all this is suppressed in the ' Morning Chron- 

 icle/ and why, on the contrary, that paper seems rather 

 to favour his cause, and is become the vehicle of his 

 explanations, I cannot conjecture. I am sure if it is 

 intended to serve us, by gaining a new ally against the 

 present ministers, it is, as I have already stated, as 

 bad in policy as it is indefensible in principle. 



" Indeed I think the leading articles in the 'Morning 

 Chronicle/ though some of them, considering the view 



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