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Wilson says, e The ministers are prepared for Lord 

 Wellington's retreating/ He denies that Soult is 

 gone to the southward. Yours ever, 



" H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"LANCASTER, September 6, 1811. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, What I chiefly trouble 

 you for at present is in order to lay before you for 

 your consideration and advice an offer which has just 

 been made to me of (I use the words) c coming in 

 upon the popular interest, in the most independent 

 manner and at a small expense, for the city of Wor- 

 cester,' in the event of a dissolution. ' Coming in,' of 

 course, means having a chance of being returned, and 

 a certainty of undergoing a most troublesome and 

 laborious contest. ' A small expense ' is afterwards 

 explained to mean 'about 1500,' which I take for 

 granted may be extended in fair interpretation to a 

 good deal more. 



" Now, certainly, I feel the propriety of making 

 this attempt, if it should be at all consistent with 

 prudence in a pecuniary point of view ; but I have 

 no thousands to throw away. On the contrary, I 

 have been buying land. Nevertheless, I should be 

 disposed to go a certain length, because it would 

 undoubtedly be extremely desirable for the party 

 both to extend somewhat its popular interest, and at 

 all events to secure another seat. At the same time 

 I feel that I might by such a movement risk the ter- 



