530 POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE. [1811. 



whom I always had the very worst opinion, though 

 he has now contrived to exceed it. Of course he must 

 be chastised in the ' Edinburgh Review/ and I expect 

 Jeffrey here to-morrow or next day, which will enable 

 me to concert the matter advantageously. But mere- 

 ly chastising him is not enough, for it is proper his 

 facts should be controverted; and as I know some of 

 them to be utterly false, it seems fit that these should 

 be singled out as specimens to throw a discredit on 

 the whole."'" 



" It strikes me that you and Lord Holland should 

 read the book and mark what occurs to you, which 

 being communicated to me may be made the proper 

 use of. It is too delicate to trust even Jeffrey with, 

 so I intend to give him general reasons for begging 

 he will leave it wholly in my hands. And I know 

 he will, as a matter of course. When I first saw the 

 extracts I was on the point of taking post and going- 

 over to confer with you, and indeed I doubt if any- 

 thing but your illness would have stopped me ; but I 

 am grown somewhat cooler now, notwithstanding 

 the ' Courier ' of t' other day, which I send in case 

 you may not get that newspaper. It will show how 

 much the thing merits a speedy notice. 



" This is already too long a letter for an invalid, 

 so I. only beg my best remembrances to Lady Grey ; 

 and believe nie ever yours truly, H. BROUGHAM. 



* A ' Letter to Lord Viscount Soutlnvell,' hy J. B. Trotter, late pri- 

 vate secretary to the Ili^ht Honourable Charles James Fox. See 'Edin- 

 burgh Review' for April 1801), p. GO. 



