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has gone on under these men for three months in its 

 usual course without any new calamity, I do not think 

 you will see much disposition to take active measures 

 for a change. Even if the state of the House of Com- 

 mons should prove, as Castlereagh would say, unsat- 

 isfactory, I should not be at all surprised if the Court 

 were to succeed, as I hear they already threaten, in 

 appealing to the people in which I see our friends 

 the Catholics are doing all they can to assist them. 



" I certainly shall be in town two or three weeks 

 before the meeting of Parliament, which I reckon I 

 shall be by leaving Howick the end of next month, 

 or quite the beginning of January. In the mean time, 

 pray let me hear what you pick up. Has Grenville 

 any chance ? Oxford must be much changed if he 

 can surmount both the influence of the Court and the 

 cry of No Popery. I am, dear Brougham, ever yours 

 most truly, GREY." 



TO EARL GEEY. 



"TEMPLE, November 15, 1809. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I received both your let- 

 ters indeed I am in the Albany almost every day. 

 But I regret your having taken the trouble to write for 

 the purpose of rectifying the mistake ; and though I 

 am delighted to hear from you, I should be very scru- 

 pulous about writing to you if I thought you stood 

 on so much ceremony as to acknowledge the receipt 

 of every letter or note. It is quite unnecessary. 



" I have just heard that Lord Lansdowne died 



