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were the Eldonites of carrying it that they had their 

 letters of congratulation written, and blanks left for 

 the numbers. Mills, the messenger, was in waiting 

 to carry the news to "Windsor. Christ Church has 

 239 votes ; of these actually voted 184 ; of which for 

 Grenville 113, Eldon 38, Beaufort 28. 



" You know how unpleasant such a symptom must 

 be at Court. The new dean, after promising to 

 be neuter, exerted himself against Lord Grenville. 

 Stuart saw a letter from the Duke of Cumberland's 

 aide-de-camp to a voter stating that * he was ordered 

 to say that the duke would consider himself as laid 

 under the greatest personal obligations by his voting for 

 his most particular friend Lord Eldon ; that he would 

 be considerably obliged by his remaining neuter, if 

 he could not possibly vote for Eldon ; and that he 

 would always be ready to show his gratitude in 

 either case/ The man (Cook of Yorkshire) voted 

 for Lord Grenville, and wrote a short and cool 

 answer. This is one of many instances ; it makes the 

 triumph more complete. The Duke of Beaufort's 

 friends rejoiced almost as much as if their candidate 

 had won ; and one of the Somersets told Stuart that, 

 though they might not have voted for Lord Grenville, 

 nothing on earth could have made them vote for 

 Eldon. Yours ever, H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EARL GEEY. 



" WOBURN ABBEY, January 2, 1810. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I have this moment received 



