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our men are rotting there like sheep, but who ven- 

 tures to commit the department on which our safety 

 principally depends to the most incompetent hands. 

 It really now looks as if Perceval would not be able 

 to make out his arrangement ; but ultimately, I am 

 convinced, the Catholic question will furnish the king 

 with the means of forming a Government, which he 

 may call his own. There are differences between any 

 Government that can now be formed on that footing 

 and Addington's ; but the latter was, in my opinion, 

 dissolved ultimately, not so much by the power com- 

 bined against it in Parliament, as by internal treachery 

 and cowardice. GREY." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



" October 28, 1809. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I presume you take the 

 'Morning Chronicle;' but in case you don't, I may 

 mention that there is a very excellent attack on 

 Canning in to-day's paper, by whom I know not ; but 

 I do know that Perry has been undeceived about 

 Lord Holland's unwillingness to have Canning at- 

 tacked. Lord H. suspects Sheridan to have given 

 the tone that has been so justly complained of. 



" I have been writing for the ' Edinburgh Eeview ' 

 an article on Moore's Expedition ; and if it is not a 

 satisfactory exposition of the ministers and Frere, as 

 well as of poor Moore's case, it is not owing to want 

 of pains, for I have seldom felt more interested in 

 anything. I have been perpetually regretting that I 



