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such reformers as will only listen to wholesale plans ; 

 and preferring, chiefly on the score of practicability, 

 a more gradual change. Of course I have had no 

 answer ; but when one arrives, I take it for granted I 

 must make up my mind ; and therefore I beg you to 

 give me your early assistance and advice. If you 

 write on or before Tuesday, address to ' Lancaster ; ' 

 if later, to ' Brougham/ If you think that I ought, 

 in the first instance, to write to the Duke of Bedford, 

 perhaps it would be better that you should do so as if 

 I had communicated through you, my connection with 

 him having been through you. But of this you are 

 the best judge. Excuse the trouble of this, and be- 

 lieve me ever most sincerely, H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAKL GEEY. 



" BROUGHAM, Sunday, Oct. 13, 1811. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I have just received your 

 letter, and rejoice greatly at its being written by 

 yourself, as the accounts I had received made me 

 apprehensive you had been a good deal pulled down 

 by your attack. I had great hopes, however, that 

 there was some imprudence in the case (which I find 

 realised), and particularly counted upon oysters and 

 stale beer two things against which I warn you, 

 from experience having been almost killed by the 

 former and bottled porter at Venice some years ago, 

 after a bad voyage from Ancona, which had disturbed 

 my stomach. 



" Conceiving you were still too unwell to be trou- 



