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refused. There was a story yesterday that Eose was 

 to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, and 'young 

 Saunders' to go back to the Board of Control. It 

 is extremely gratifying to your friends to perceive the 

 universal satisfaction which your refusal has given, 

 and the very great increase of popularity and influence 

 arising from it. The manner of it has been especially 

 approved of, and that in quarters and in parts of the 

 country where you would least suspect it. I am con- 

 fident if Lord Grenville had maturely weighed the 

 thing he would have done the same, but one of you 

 having done so, it was of less consequence. In haste, 



"H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EARL GREY. 



" TEMPLE, October 30, 1809. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, When I wrote the other day, 

 I believe I forgot to mention what Stahremberg says 

 about the treaty. It seems when Bonaparte first 

 made his propositions, they were peremptorily rejected, 

 the emperor saying he had 300,000 men in arms. 

 Stahremberg thinks, had the terms been insisted on, 

 he certainly would have fought, and almost as cer- 

 tainly would have been beaten. The terms were, the 

 cession of Carniola,. Carinthia, and Styria, Trieste (of 

 course) and Fiume, a very little of Austria, and some 

 circles of Bohemia (to Saxony). If he has got much 

 better terms, as may be presumed, he is not badly off, 

 everything considered ; for I own I was prepared to 

 see him cut down at least as much as the foregoing 

 terms amount to. 



