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Commons a misfortune, no doubt and says if you 

 had remained there he should no more have thought 

 of looking abroad to Canning than to Lord Liverpool. 

 In short, you see there is a mixture of likings and dis- 

 likings, all for the most part groundless, in my opinion, 

 but not in his, I verily believe. Place he really cares 

 nothing about, and I believe he never would take it 

 with any set of men. As for another tie, that which 

 I or any of his old and personal friends (I believe it 

 applies to me chiefly) may have over him, on this 

 we have often spoken together ; but, unfortunately, we 

 differ on some radical points. He is an alarmist about 

 reform and popular principles ; and he considers me as 

 being a Jacobin, or at least a sort of link between you 

 and the Mountain very absurdly, as I often have told 

 him, for I don't believe (as far as my opinions signify) 

 I ever thought of going beyond you in anything of 

 the kind. The question of peace and neutral points, 

 perhaps the most important of any, I put to him 

 strongly, and found he considered his differences with 

 Canning on the former to be no greater than with you 

 on the latter. I really forget how he answered, for in 

 truth I considered the case as up before we came to 

 that part of it. 



" By the way, another point, I daresay, is the Hol- 

 lands ; you know his difference with them is very far 

 the reverse of mine (if you ever heard of mine), which 

 neither they nor I can tell the grounds of, and which is 

 really the most comical and absurd thing in the world. 

 But Ward has a real quarrel, and hates them, and is dis- 

 liked by them. This has no little additional influence. 



" Almost all these motives arc personal, you see, and 

 I don't say highly respectable. He goes over to Can- 



