54 CONTESTED ELECTION. [1812. 



" I return the Princess's letters in another cover, and 

 also B.'s. I am, dear Brougham, ever yours very 

 truly, GREY." 



"HowiCK, September 23, 1812. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, Tarlton came here yester- 

 day, and left us again this morning. He is going first 

 to Lowther, and then to Liverpool, on account of the 

 dissolution. 



" I had a good deal of conversation with him, but 

 when all summed up it does not come to much. 

 He is naturally, after his contests, annoyed at the idea 

 of another. He seems to think the alarm taken by 

 the Church-and-King people, and by the Corporation, 

 at the attempt of Roscoe and his friends, as mani- 

 fested at the dinner, to bring in two members, will pro- 

 duce a great deal of trouble, expense, and difficulty ; 

 that they certainly will start a candidate whose opin- 

 ions are more congenial to their own ; and that with 

 this view an application had been made to Canning, 

 who had answered that he was ready to stand if he 

 could be insured against expense. I suggested the 

 expediency of some communication between your 

 friends and his. He professed himself personally 

 well disposed towards it, but seemed to feel the same 

 apprehension that you do of the consequence of taking 

 any direct or public step for that purpose. He said 

 naturally enough that he must look in the first place 

 to his own interest ; but that he should be glad to do 

 anything he could consistently with that object, and 

 without prejudice to it, to \assist you. Eoscoe he 

 seems to think very hostile personally to him. All 

 this, as you will see, comes to very little, and I did not 



