JET. 32.] LORD GREY. 485 



FEOM EAEL GEEY. 



"Ho WICK, Dec. 9, 1809. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, . , . Waithman, I 

 see, has been attacking me, and, as is usual with those 

 gentlemen, on a ground previously formed by their 

 own misrepresentation/* I wish there had been some 

 friend of mine at the meeting to have told them that 

 I was quite as much at war with the patriots of this 

 class in 1792 as I am now, and equally denounced by 

 them ; that this did not prevent me, nor would it 

 now, if, through their aid, a dangerous attack was 

 aimed at the liberty and safety of the people, from 

 standing forward in defence of the law and constitu- 

 tion ; and I should only expect in return for it what 

 I received in that instance great professions of gra- 

 titude at the time, and another denunciation on the 

 first opportunity ; and that in the very speech, and, I 

 believe, the very sentence, to which Waithman alludes, 

 as you probably may remember, I professed the same 

 attachment to the cause of moderate and constitu- 

 tional reform which I had always manifested, and 

 censured only the fashionable cant, which appears to 

 me equally irrational and unprincipled ; that there is 

 no difference in public men, and no advantage to be 

 expected from any change of ministers. 



" Lauderdale has never mentioned to me your article 



* Waithman, the popular alderman. His name is frequent in the 

 newspapers of the period, but has dropped from the biographical 

 dictionaries. 



