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political changes, and you must recollect that their 

 embargo left them no choice but of yielding or ad- 

 vancing. But I shall think them quite in the wrong 

 if they persist after our repeal reaches, and I shall be 

 much surprised if they do. I hope the manufacturers 

 smother you with attentions, and are duly sensible 

 how much they are your debtors. Yours, A. B. 



"P.S. I have confidence in the Eussian money 

 system, mais nous verrons" 



With reference to the suggestion that I should go 

 to America, I wrote thus to Lord Grey : 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"Augusts, 1812. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I consulted you about 

 Liverpool, my own feeling being against moving in it 

 at all ; but all I have heard since is very favourable, 

 and to-day I hear from Lord Sefton that the leading 

 man of the corporation has written to him that my 

 success is certain. 



" Connected with this is another matter, which you 

 will think, I daresay, is somewhat Quixotic. I made 

 a formal offer to go out to America to negotiate the 

 present matter, conceiving that my conducting the 

 negotiation would extremely hamper the war party 

 and encourage the peace party in America. My pro- 

 position was laid before the prince, and from Castle- 

 reagh's answer it appears that the prince is the cause 

 of its being for the present rejected ; which, of course, 

 means altogether. The terms in which this is con- 

 veyed to me are quite civil, and even more; but 

 ministers had better now make it up with America, 



