50 ELECTION PROSPECTS. [1812. 



After I had given him a full release, in consequence 

 of what I wrote to you about, he wrote to refuse it, 

 saying he considered everything as on the original 

 footing. The next time I heard from him was to tell 

 me of the dissolution. I only wrote to say I was 

 going to Liverpool, that my friends were sanguine, 

 and that I was not. Indeed I never thought it at all 

 likely we should carry two until I went there, and 

 then the first part of the election damped me again. 

 Well, I have heard nothing since ; and two men, evi- 

 dently purchasers, are returned for Wareham! This 

 seems unaccountable, except on the belief of his 

 pecuniary matters having suddenly taken a bad turn. 

 I shall believe the best, for I am sure he meant to 

 act well. 



" Eomilly, Tierney, Lamb, &c. being out of Parlia- 

 ment is a great imputation on some of our friends. 

 They must not hereafter talk of the fickleness and 

 wrong-headedness of the people, nor even of the great 

 sin of not being wholly party-men ; for these professors 

 of party-attachments have.no sort of scruple to dis- 

 solve the regular Whig interest, or leave it with one 

 single leader in the House of Commons, rather than 

 forego the gratification of giving some cousin or toad- 

 eater a power of franking letters ! This is their love 

 of the Whig cause, and the constitution and party. 

 When it costs them nothing, they can profess it ; but 

 any, even the smallest sacrifice, they do not care to 

 have anything to do with it. I hope I may be mis- 

 taken, but at present I see nothing in our affairs that 

 does not look like a triumph of the Prince, the minis- 

 ters, and, above all, Canning, who will make his own 

 terms with either side. This is more than a compen- 



