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for no other arrangement. This statement is 

 not to be published. If I can get a copy I shall 

 send it, but I scarcely expect it. They say they are 

 resolved it shall not get into the newspapers ; but I 

 don't see how they can prevent this. In a few days 

 you will probably see it in that shape. 



" Give my best remembrances to Lady Grey, and 

 Lady Rosslyn (if she is with you when you get this) ; 

 and believe me ever yours most faithfully, 



" H. BROUGHAM." 



" Mrs Bouverie says they have had a man from 

 Oatlands, and another from Windsor, lately at Wool- 

 bed ing, and the fashion of both places is to talk of 



you in the most extravagant manner." 



TO EARL GREY. 



"Nov. 30, 1809.. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, As the statement was in 

 all the newspapers I did not send you one. I am ex- 

 tremelv Gratified indeed with what you sav, and no 



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less with what Lady Grey is good enough to think of 

 the article about Sir John Moore, having the greatest 

 possible respect for her judgment and taste, in common 

 with all who know her. I entirely agree with you 

 about the diversion ; indeed it is quite manifest from 

 the dates. The Hollands, though in general approv- 

 ing much of the article, object on this ground, that 

 they consider the diversion to have saved Spain. 

 Nobody agrees with them, and I have given notice 



