JET. 33.] EARL GREY. 513 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



" HOUSE OF LORDS, Wednesday, six o'clock, 

 December 19, 1810. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, The Lords are nearly con- 

 cluding their conversation. Lord Liverpool has told 

 nothing more than Perceval did ; Wellesley is there, 

 but has not spoken. Lord Spencer stated his opinion 

 very strongly, and Lord Grenville also spoke, and 

 very well first abusing the delay, and then on the 

 question of right, and the course of proceeding, and 

 on that alone, repeating his doctrine of 1788, with 

 some very bad reasons, one of which Lord Lauder- 

 dale refuted, or rather, promised to refute, and showed 

 how he should do it. 



" Lord Holland is up. H. B." 



TO EARL GREY. 



"December 28, 1810. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I have just received your 

 letter, having been out of town for a few days. They 

 say this last paroxysm has been touch and go ; 

 indeed he must die before many months are over ; 

 and the next fit may very possibly carry him off. 

 All the doctors (including the doctor"*) have made 

 but a poor figure, and there ought to be no delicacy 

 in saying so, in either House. 



" I am going to the House of Lords ; and if there 

 is anything worth noting before the post goes I shall 

 add a P.S. In the mean time, I wish to God Lady 



* Lord Sidmouth. 

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