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kik>w not-noX that some time ago the Hollands made 

 an- &t^ap!t ; to r c&U at Brougham on their way south 

 from Scotland ; that my mother ordered the outer gate 

 of the courtyard to be barred against their entrance, 

 saying that she herself was too old to be hurt by Lady 

 Holland, or anybody of that kind, but that she had 

 an unmarried daughter, then living with her, and 

 therefore that no Lady Holland should set foot in her 

 house ! I remember my mother was immovable, and 

 there was nothing to be done but that I should go 

 out to the carriage, make any excuse I could invent, 

 and drive on with the Hollands to visit Lord Thanet, 

 he being then at Appleby Castle and this I accord- 

 ingly was compelled to do. On looking back to this 

 disagreeable event, I cannot but give my friend credit 

 for his sagacity in applying the circumstance to the 

 long - continued and bitter spite with which I was 

 favoured by Lady Holland." 



FBOM EAEL GEEY. 



" Ho WICK, January 14, 1814. 



"MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I send you back Hogen- 

 dorp's letter, which I ought to have done sooner. I 

 believed Castlereagh when he said that the change of 

 Government had not been urged by us ; and this letter 

 certainly confirms what he said. But I do not think 

 the measure less impolitic on that account, considering 

 the time and manner in which it was executed; nor do 

 I think the less that we ought to have advised against 

 it. I hear that a convention is to be assembled to con- 

 firm what has been done, and to form the new consti- 

 tution. I wish nothing had been done previously, but 

 this will satisfy all my objections, and will be a valu- 



