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generals* as Canning and me indeed, on every ac- 

 count better; but I wish much to know how it strikes 

 you. 



" I have great hopes of being at Howick this day 

 week. Edent certainly, LambJ doubtful; but I 

 think I shall at all events come over the hills in a gig, 

 and see you, after the circuit. What you say of the 

 plate, &c., Masses me against declining. Ever yours, 



"H. BROUGHAM." 



After the great victory in June, there were meet- 

 ings in all the great manufacturing towns ; resolutions 

 of congratulations and of thanks to me for my suc- 

 cessful efforts, and not a few votes of civic donations ; 

 but, except in one instance, I only knew of these things 

 by the newspaper reports of proceedings. In that one 

 case of Glasgow, the resolution was communicated to 

 me in a letter, stating that 500 had been at once 

 paid, after a meeting, for a present, and desiring to 

 know in what form it would be most acceptable. This 

 required much consideration, as such gifts were liable 

 to be abused. I therefore assembled some friends to 

 discuss the matter Lord Holland, Lord Erskine, 

 Eomilly, and Baring, to whom I added Creevey, because 

 he had expressed himself strongly on a similar sub- 

 ject. Lord Grey was not in town, but I afterwards 

 wrote to him, and he answered as follows : 



* Gascoigne the Corporation, and Tarleton the Whig, member for 

 Liverpool. 



f The Hon. George Eden, afterwards the second Lord Auckland. He 

 was Governor-General of India, and in 1839 was created Earl of Auck- 

 land. Subsequently he was First Lord of the Admiralty; and died 

 unmarried in January 1849. 



J The Hon. George Lamb, brother of William Lord Melbourne. 



