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for the merchants and manufacturers will in no other 

 way be satisfied. As a proof of this, I have letters 

 from all the towns Birmingham, Liverpool, London, 

 Glasgow, &c. urging me to endeavour to go, and say- 

 ing that it is the only way to settle it. Most truly 

 yours, H. BROUGHAM." 



To this Lord Grey answered as follows : 



FP.OAE EAEL GfiEY. 



" Ho WICK, August 10, 1812. 



"My DEAR BROUGHAM, I am extremely disap- 

 pointed at not seeing you here, but I trust to your 

 remembering your promise after Lancaster, and pay- 

 ing us, I hope, a longer visit than your business at 

 this time would probably have permitted. 



" I really do not know how to advise about Liver- 

 pool, the expediency of embarking in an affair of that 

 nature depending on so many considerations which I 

 have very imperfectly before me. From what you 

 state of the matter, I should say that whether we can 

 carry one or two, if a seat is offered to you on your 

 own principles, perfectly unfettered, and without any 

 engagement or connection with any other party, I 

 can see no reason for your refusing it, provided the 

 probabilities of success, without too great an expense, 

 are such as satisfy you. On the other hand, if by 

 a compromise which is to bring in you and Canning 

 it is meant that you should in any degree assist, or 

 cncrao-e your friends to assist, his election, I am as 



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decidedly of opinion that it would be better, for a 

 thousand reasons, to decline it. 



" I must confess I was a little surprised at what 



