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tician La Place, and Cuvier), nor any politician at all; 

 and leaving this about the 20th of Oct., I shall be in 

 town again on the 31st. Can I do anything for you or 

 our friend at Allerton ? * to whom pray remember me. 

 Believe me ever yours truly, H. BROUGHAM." 



A few days before, I had written as follows to 

 Lord Grey : 



" BROUGHAM, Monday. 



"DEAR LORD GREY, I have Martin's answer as 

 enclosed. I fear Perry will still hang back. Perhaps 

 he ought not to be harshly dealt with now, for his 

 calamity, I learn, is a serious one viz., his wife and 

 some of his children, on their passage from Lisbon, 

 either lost or taken by Algerines. (He will attack all 

 the Barbary powers for a year to come freely.) I 

 can't help wishing he himself were taken for a year or 

 two, and well bastinadoed. I have no news from 

 town. Sharp and Phillips have just been here, but 

 they bring nothing new. The Thanets are not come, 

 nor will for a fortnight. 



" I have got hold of an excellent constitutional 

 pamphlet on the ' Queen ' (I believe by George Lamb, 

 but this is MOST secret), and project saying something 

 in the ' Edinburgh Beview' on the question of inter- 

 ference with the R. family, &c. 



" At present I am rather immersed in mathematical 

 divertissements, which I plunge into for a short period 

 of each year on getting home. 



"Bomilly is not to be in Durham till the 28th. 

 When Canning and Huskisson were at Bolton's, they 

 came to dine at Lowther after much negotiation, the 



* Mr Roscoe. 



