30 EFFECT OF THE RECALL [1812. 



FROM EAEL GREY. 



, August 1, 1812. 



"MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I conclude this will find 

 you at Durham, and I cannot help repeating my hope 

 that your business will allow you to give us a day or 

 two. We shall be happy to see Mr Strickland with 

 you, and any other person that you can bring, particu- 

 larly George Lamb and Eden. 



" Since I came home I have looked at the Birming- 

 ham resolutions, as well as those of the other places 

 which have commenced in a resolution to give you 

 some mark of their gratitude for your exertions in 

 procuring the repeal of the Orders in Council. I really 

 see nothing in the resolutions which need put you 

 under any difficulty. To say that, if you accept, there 

 will be nobody found to blame you, would perhaps be 

 too much. You stand in much too prominent a situa- 

 tion not to have detractors ready to seize any occasion, 

 right or wrong, to attack you. If you have gained 

 great reputation and much well-deserved approbation 

 on the one hand, you may be sure that you have ex- 

 cited some envy and ill-will on the other. But I am 

 convinced no fair and reasonable man could find fault 

 with you for not refusing an acknowledgment of public 

 service which comes to you in the most honourable 

 way, and quite unsought for. 



" Both Grenville and I accepted from the Catholics 

 of Glasgow a piece of plate of no great value indeed- 

 after we were turned out in 1807. I have thus given 

 you my unbiassed opinion ; but if you still feel scruples, 

 I can only add, that it is impossible to err on the side 

 of delicacy with respect to matters of this nature. 



