520 POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE. [1811. 



" I need scarcely repeat my thanks to you for 

 giving me the opportunity of ' serving under you ' 

 in the supposed event. Indeed this forms by far the 

 greater part of the allurement. The office in question, 

 I am quite sensible, is infinitely above my pretensions, 

 which are small enough in every sense of the word ; 

 but I should value it almost wholly from its connec- 

 tion with your department. Believe me, with the 

 greatest esteem, most faithfully yours, 



" HENRY BROUGHAM. 



" I need scarcely add that should anything occur 

 rendering it desirable for you to prefer somebody else, 

 I must insist on your being on no ceremony with me ; 

 indeed I had just as lief contribute my mite to your 

 department without the name and appointment." 



FROM J. A. MURRAY, ESQ. 



"EDINBURGH, Feb. 26, 1811. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, The exultation of your 

 friends is great; and the humiliation of your enemies 

 if you have left any behind you here must be in 

 proportion. 



" The accounts of your speech, and the verdict 

 which, like a victory, is the substantial proof of a good 

 general have given us more delight than anything 

 that has of late happened in these bad times. 



" I was almost the only person who had any tidings 

 of it yesterday. Homer had written me five lines 

 before he went into the House of Lords, in which he 



