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" Eespecting Tarlton, I feel exactly as you do, liking 

 the man, and heartily grieved should he be turned 

 out. But I hope he perceives (if not, I should be 

 really obliged to you to let him feel) how entirely 

 passive I am in all this. 



" Beggars must not be choosers, says the proverb ; and 

 when, from whatever motive, the Liverpool men set 

 me up for nothing, and with infinite zeal in my favour, 

 I really have not a shadow of right to prescribe whom 

 they shall join with us. Let but Creevey's case become 

 desperate, as I have written to him, and if / can by 

 possibility show my predilection for Tarlton, both you 

 and he himself m&y rely on my doing so. Could you 

 contrive to let him know these my sentiments 1 and 

 believe me ever yours, H. B." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"BROUGHAM, Sept. 29, 1812. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I am now in for it, having 

 waited till the last moment, and have sent them my 

 formal answer to their address, being the first word 

 I ever spoke or wrote to them on the subject. Their 

 address was certainly most respectable as to signatures. 

 It joins Creevey with me in order, they say, to secure 

 me ; but if all the other four stand, we must both of 

 us come in. You know, I presume, that Congreve, 

 the rocket-man, stands on the Prince's interest ! ! 

 This is really of itself an inducement to fight it. But 

 what has most weighed with me is my dislike of being 

 all at once thrown out of Parliament in the middle of 

 my pursuits there ; and I concluded, from your doubt- 

 ing if even Tierney could find a seat, that there was 

 no chance for me. Indeed I have no possible claim. 



