88 CORRESPONDENCE. [1813. 



a way for twenty years that permanent conquest alone 

 could be worse, and that only by a degree. 



" However, it seems highly improbable that Austria 

 and Bernadotte should hold out with the rest long 

 enough to drive Bonaparte quite within the Alps and 

 the Ehine, and it appears on the cards that he should 

 gain some great success at one point, and then detach 

 Austria. 



" I have, of course, seen nobody since I came to 

 town except lawyers, and of their news you had a 

 specimen yesterday. Believe me ever yours most 

 truly, H. BROUGHAM. 



" Macdonald has resigned, and Gibbs certainly suc- 

 ceeds him, though the Chancery men say Plomer, be- 

 cause they wish Richards to be Vice-Chancellor, as well 

 they may be sick of Plomer. Ellenborough, much to 

 his credit, is making a push for Holroyd as the new 

 judge. 



" I hear that Canning wrote the attack on Fox, but 

 I can't believe it. The style is all for the other sup- 

 position." 



TO EARL GREY. 



" TEMPLE, November 6, 1813. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, As the news is at last 

 come, and Parliament met, and people have had time 

 to think a little about it, I wish to give you a note or 

 two upon the state of the party. Of course, I hear at 

 a distance, being quite out of the way, but I am also 

 pretty cool, and as much disinterested upon the mat- 

 ter as any one can be ; in fact, I am a mere spectator, 

 so that (where there are in reality no secrets) I may 



