470 POLITICS. [1809. 



" There is no news, that I have heard at least. The 

 opinion seems to gain ground of Wellesley taking 

 office. I own I have a greater opinion of his cowar- 

 dice, but after the name of the thing for a few weeks 

 he would be no great accession to them. 



" My compliments to Lady Grey, and congratula- 

 tions on Lady Hannah's marriage :* and believe me 

 ever most truly yours, H. BROUGHAM. 



" P.S. If anything particular occurs to you as to 

 the Spanish question and Moore, pray give me a note 

 of it, as it won't be too late to insert it." 



TO EARL GREY. 



"TEMPLE, Nov. 9, 1809. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I have heard nothing 

 new since I last wrote. I suppose the Hollands have 

 told you that Canning is quite in despair at Lord 

 Wellesley having abandoned him. The Duke of Port- 

 land also declared off; it is believed by some with 

 the intention of rejoining the Cavendishes. Lord 

 "Wellesley said, in the usual East Indian style, that ' he 

 could not subscribe to the notion of the First Lord 

 of the Treasury being in the House of Commons, as 

 that would be signing his own degradation/ or some 

 trash of this sort. Canning seems now only to have 



* Hannah Althea, married first, in 1807, to Captain Bettesworth, 

 killed in action off Bergen, May 1808 ; and, secondly, in Oct. 1809, to 

 Edward Ellice, afterwards Secretary to the Treasury in Lord Grey's 

 Government, 1830. 



