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all the while, for this is, after all, their principal call- 

 ing. I am speaking of what should be done in addi- 

 tion to the usual measures of opposition, and while it 

 is going on those ordinary measures will come in of 

 course. Indeed, no time should be lost in rallying and 

 bringing something forward. If only a dozen come to 

 it at first, depend upon it the whole force will collect 

 speedily; and until the idea of a disbanding is put 

 down by the fact, no one will think of rallying. 



" I am sure nothing but a most sincere and warm 

 regard for the party could make me Itore you so long 

 with my notions as I have now done ; and I may say 

 a regard quite unmixed with any selfish feelings, for it 

 is the pleasure of a great many of the party to con- 

 sider, or affect to consider, me as ' flung overboard to 

 lighten the ship ; ' but I care not for such stupid, and 

 in many cases interested, stuff. As I said before, I am 

 really speaking as an uninterested spectator, but one 

 whose good wishes are greatly concerned. 



" To turn to the point which alone the persons I 

 have been alluding to ever think of the court, or rather 

 the Prince. Though the idea, which they can't get out 

 of their heads, that he may still be kind, is a sort of 

 madness after what has passed, and though all chance 

 of getting a hold over him by his fears (the only handle 

 he has about him) w T as thrown away last spring, yet 

 the sort of chance they look to would, such as it is, still 

 be open according to my plan. 



" This brings me to what I understand is really the 

 case, that he is not very well with his ministers, jeal- 

 ous of their interfering, squabbling about their mode- 

 ration, and for the Bourbons, &c. ; also about the 

 arrangement for the young Princess and the Princess 



