^ET. 35.] AN ACCIDENT. 8l 



hundred millions in the next ten years, and, in truth, 

 only defends it by the impossibility of raising more 

 taxes ! His anxiety to get the privilege question over 

 last session in the Lords convinced me he was going 

 to leave his place. He made many applications to us 

 for that purpose, not wishing to petition the Lords 

 himself. Yours ever, H. B." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"August 20, 1813. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I am infinitely obliged to you 

 for your kind inquiries respecting my accident, which 

 turns out next to nothing.' 55 ' I have had no fever, and 

 no suppuration from the wound, owing, I believe, to 

 the great bleeding at the time and my good habit of 

 body. I have not lost my eye ; and though the scalj^ 

 was cut from the skull for a space extending from the 

 middle of the forehead round to the ear, and including 

 half of the eyelid (though this was not cut through), 

 it has healed by the first intention. My left arm 

 remains nearly useless for the present, whether owing 

 to a wrench or to the havoc among the nerves of the 

 head I can't tell ; but Mr Horner who is so skilful 

 a person that it is almost worth having a hurt to see 

 him operate don't think it material. In a word, I 

 am as good as new, and have only had the pain and 

 inconvenience to complain of. I expect to leave this 

 to-morrow or next day, and to rejoin the circuit at 

 Carlisle. 



" I almost wish I were ill enough to have an excuse 



* In going to Carlisle from Newcastle my carriage was turned over, 

 and, in falling, the thick plate-glass of the side window broke upon my 

 head, cutting it across the forehead and eye right to the bone of the skull. 

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