498 IN PARLIAMENT. [1810. 



one on which I am so very anxious that I could not 

 delay writing for a single day. I expected Lord 

 Ponsonby here to shoot, but he remained in town to 

 see you. If you are disposed to come and look at us 

 when you have secured a house, seen Lord Grenville, 

 and found a leisure day or two on your hands, you 

 will find us here till towards the meeting of Parlia- 

 ment; and, of course, delighted to see you. Ever 

 yours very faithfully, BEDFORD." 



" I hope soon to be able to offer the vacant seat at 

 Camelford to Mr Brougham ; but do not mention it 

 at present." 



Having written to the Duke of Bedford, and with 

 every expression of gratitude accepted his offer of a 

 seat, I received from him the following very hand- 

 some letter : 



FROM THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. 



" WOBURN ABBEY, January 12, 1810. 



" MY DEAR SIR, It affords me much pleasure to 

 learn from Lord Holland that you accept the proposal 

 I made to you through him. 



" The entire confidence I have in your attachment 

 to those political principles which have uniformly 

 guided my own conduct through life, and the advan- 

 tages I anticipate to the party with which I act, as 

 well as to the country, from the exercise of great and 

 acknowledged talents in a just cause, in the crisis of 

 unexampled difficulty and danger in which we are 



