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that I am going down to battle it with them next 

 Saturday. I have not seen any of them for many 

 weeks, but received a letter to the above effect. I 

 was so anxious to supply the omission pointed out 

 by you (which is really a material one), that as 

 soon as it struck me I wrote to Jeffrey, but it was 

 too late. 



" Lord Wellesley does take the Foreign Office. 

 This Drummond has just had from Hamilton (the 

 Under-Secretary) at the office. They were not sure, 

 however, for Lord Harrowby was to have gone back 

 had he refused. The king not coming to the levee 

 yesterday looks monstrously like some hitch in the 

 intrigue ; and I guess Lord Wellesley will make terms 

 about the distribution of offices, which some folks 

 won't like e.g., his brother in the War Depart- 

 ment. 



" I was at the annual election of the Eoyal Society 

 to-day, which generally brings together a very courtly 

 set. The alteration of tone was very striking. Every 

 one talked of the new ministry as mere shift, and it 

 is hard to say whether Canning or his late colleagues 

 were most blamed. Believe me yours truly, 



" H. BROUGHAM/'' 



TO EARL GREY. 



" TEMPLE, Dec. 4, 1809. 



"MY DEAR LORD GREY, I have just seen two 

 letters from Lord Blantyre to Charles Stuart (his 

 brother), whom I will desire to send them to you 



