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of Wales, &c. ; but of this I shall write on Monday. Tt 

 comes all to very little in my view. Ever yours truly, 



" H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"TEMPLE, November 25, 1813. 



"DEAR LORD GREY, I received yours yesterday, 

 and certainly the difficulty you begin and end with is 

 the grand one ; nor do I really see, under existing cir- 

 cumstances, how it is to be got rid of. I know very 

 well what would do if people would agree to it, but 

 that it is only removing the difficulty one step, and 

 leaving it there as great as ever. I mean, of course, if 

 our friends in the House of Commons would take Whit- 

 bread for their leader; because I have never entertained 

 a moment's doubt that he would be the most tractable 

 leader they could find, and the most accommodating 

 to those both in the House of Commons and elsewhere. 

 I admit that to those who only look at his conduct 

 as it has been, while there has prevailed a constant 

 struggle, &c., this seems a sort of paradox ; but I have 

 no doubt whatever of its truth ; and they who know 

 him best, I believe, will agree in it ; though, to say the 

 truth, one never likes to mention the subject, from a 

 conviction of the difficulties attending it, and a fear 

 that broaching such things may do harm. In short, it 

 is almost if not quite impossible to see any way out 

 of it. 



" There is some alarm about Canada in the City, and 

 apparently not ill founded. If the ministers (as is 

 reported) send the Duke of York to Holland, we shall 

 soon be in the old way again. One thing I know for 

 certain, that the language both at Carlton House and 



