AST. 35.] LIVERPOOL. 6l 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"CROXTETH PAEK, Oct. 16, 1812. 



"MY DEAE LOED GREY, I have just come here 

 from the Liverpool election, which is over at last. I 

 could have kept it up a week longer, polled 150 more 

 votes, and made the enemy spend 10,000 more (he 

 has, I suppose, spent 20,000 already), but finding 

 myself infinitely popular with both parties, from my 

 manner of conducting it, and preserving the peace of 

 the town in an unprecedented manner (which they 

 ascribe wholly to me), and having not a shadow of 

 chance of beating them, they being already 200 ahead, 

 and having as many unpolled as I had, I gave in with 

 a good grace at 12 to-day; and have had the SATIS- 

 FACTION of being assured by the enemy how happy 

 they would have been to return me, if we had rested 

 satisfied with one. I do not regret our taking the 

 other choice ; we run them amazingly hard. On Sun- 

 day last they would have compromised ; on Monday 

 they thought themselves quite beaten, and on Tues- 

 day ; but on Wednesday things looked up, though 

 Gascoigne only passed me yesterday at one o'clock. 

 The fact is, they all renewed their subscriptions, and 

 said if 50,000 were required they were resolved to 

 do it. They gave twenty and thirty guineas a vote, 

 and the thing was done. Our friends have not spent 

 8000, and sums are still flowing in from all parts; 

 400 only an hour ago came from Glasgow, and as 

 much from Hull, and the Birmingham folks swear 

 that they will buy me a seat, but of course this is a 

 way of speaking. Indeed, if I cared much for popu- 

 larity, I may well be gratified, for never was anybody 

 so supported, and the enemy has only the votes ; they 



