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such a paper as might hereafter be made public, 

 when a proper time arrived, if this step should be- 

 come necessary. Ever most truly yours, 



" H. BROUGHAM. 



" P. S. Eomilly is to be at Durham (as Chancellor 

 of the County Palatine) on the 25th or 26th, and then 

 he goes to Scotland, I believe. I wish you would 

 write and ask him to go to Howick, for I am sure he 

 would like it much, and he is always the better for 

 associating with the leaders of the party. I have fixed 

 nothing about Liverpool, except to go to the dinner on 

 the 4th. The nearer I view such a place, the more I 

 feel afraid of the drudgery of it, even if all were secure. 

 I have resolved, if bad news arrives from America, 

 to ask them to put off the celebration until all is made 

 up in that quarter, for really until then we have done 

 nothing. That ultimately it must be settled I am 

 quite confident, but the delay is very injurious. 



"Pray don't you think that if the news is decidedly 

 warlike, there should be addresses to the Prince to 

 assemble Parliament ? If you think so, it can be done 

 with great ease in all the towns." 



Lord Grey answered this letter as follows : 



FEOM LORD GREY. 



" HOWICK, August 29, 1812. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I have delayed returning 

 the Princess's papers longer than I ought, but I 

 thought whilst you were occupied at Lancaster it 

 could not be of much consequence, and I have been 

 a good deal occupied myself, both by visitors and by 



