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dorp is quite well again, and has given in his consti- 

 tution, which is to be revised by a commission of 

 persons all out of office, then to the Prince, and then 

 submitted to the notables of the nation. This last was 

 my earnest advice, but I have no doubt it had occur- 

 red to himself. I have also a very civil message from 

 Mr Falck, the other Secretary of State, who is, I believe, 

 a stanch reformer. Ever yours very sincerely, 



"H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"TEMPLE, July 12, 1814. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, You will before this time 

 have seen the event of the Westminster election at 

 least what is sure to be so the return of LordCochrane 

 without opposition. 



" Everything was arranged on Tuesday last, and I 

 should have walked over the course. Lord Cochrane 

 had never been even mentioned ; but the debate, and 

 especially George Ponsonby's, and Whitbread's, and 

 Wortley's speeches preferring his assertions of inno- 

 cence to the verdict of guilty had the immediate 

 effect of putting it to the "Westminster men to condemn 

 him ; and they all said, ' Though we want to get rid of 

 him as a member, yet it is now cast upon us to declare 

 him guilty, and upon evidence which forty-four of 

 the House of Commons think insufficient/ This has 

 proved decisive ; and though many of them wished a 

 middle course, that he should be declared innocent, 

 and not elected, I among others plainly told them that 

 was not the way to serve Lord Cochrane. 



" It is understood that an arrangement has been made 

 to choose him this one time, and that he is not to come 



