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tion of some proceedings in a high tone. Who is im- 

 plicated I can't say, except as I see in the newspapers.* 

 Yarmouth and Lowther were at first much talked of. 

 You will see in to-day's papers a good deal of talk 

 about a canvass for me in Westminster. I know 

 nothing at all about it, and shall probably hear no 

 more. I feel pretty indifferent upon the subject, for 

 though I have seen quite enough to convince me that 

 it is the only chance I have of ever seeing the inside 

 of the House of Commons again, it would be a seat 

 somewhat hard to sit upon. Believe me ever truly 

 yours, H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



" YOEK, March 15, 1814. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I received your letter to- 

 day, and am sorry that I have neither notes nor books 

 near me to enable me to enter into the discussion of 

 the point alluded to. But generally, I think, I can 

 trust myself so far as to say that there is no law pre- 

 venting the heir-apparent from going beyond seas. 

 The only restraining law of this kind of which I am 

 aware, is that clause in the Act of Settlement (12 and 

 13 W. III.) which provides that the successor to the 

 crown, after Anne, shall not go abroad without con- 

 sent of Parliament ; but this is only to restrain the 

 actual sovereign, and it was repealed in the first year 

 of George I. The King for the time being (that is, in 

 the present case, the Eegent) has a general power of 



* It was in the preceding February that the false rumour about 

 Napoleon, charged as a conspiracy for raising the Funds, occurred, which 

 led to the celebrated imprisonment of Lord Cochrane. See the true 

 history of the affair in Lord Brougham's ' Statesmen of the Time of 

 George III.' 



