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on the right horse, and said, 'The Duchess's cottage 

 requires this further sacrifice ; ' but I heartily wish he 

 had said nothing at all. Whatever hurts the party 

 in their hereditary heads, is beyond measure detri- 

 mental to the cause of Opposition, which, the more 

 hopeless it becomes, should be the more endeared to 

 its well-wishers. 



" I may very likely be too desponding, but you are 

 the only person in the world to whom I can get out 

 my croak, more especially upon the last-mentioned 

 point. It is wrong to allow the case to be hopeless 

 while there is life. Believe me ever yours most 

 sincerely, H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EARL GEEY. 



" YORK, August 8, 1813. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I quite agree with you as to 

 the views of Canning being in office, of course. My 

 only difference is (and I admit it to be a dangerous 

 ground of arguing in such cases), that I can't conceive 

 any rapacity for office being so great as to make him 

 ruin his character, and run the great risk of ruining 

 his prospects also, by seeking a place the moment after 

 throwing off his encumbrances. That the measure 

 was meant to clear away obstacles, and to bring him 

 into office in the long-run, is plain enough. 



" The Speaker's last exhibition is quite capital, and 

 I hope will not be forgotten. The Catholic part of it is 

 most prominent, but I know not that it is the basest. 

 What think you of his having the face to speak of 

 Vansittart's plan as accelerating the payment of the 

 debt, when Yansittart himself, in his printed state- 

 ment, allows that it will retard it at the rate of a 



