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up his motion, gives a very incorrect account of his 

 own speech, which was excellent :* 



FEOM LOED GEEY. 

 "PORTMAN SQUARE, Tuesday, July 20, 18H. 

 " MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I arrived early yesterday 

 morning, and soon found that nothing was to be done ; 

 our friends either timid, much disinclined, or strongly 

 against. Amongst the last particularly Lauderdale 

 and Lord Spencer. Lord Grenville had been written 

 to : answered that he would not come, or if he did, 

 it would only be to deprecate so improper a dis- 

 cussion. Rosslyn, on whose opinion I depended most, 

 was convinced that nothing good was to be hoped 

 from the motion, and much mischief to be appre- 

 hended. The case, too, in appearance at least, was 

 much altered. The papers announced the Princess's 

 daily rides in Windsor Park. On Saturday she had 

 come to town to see her mother. Miss Mercer was 

 actually at Cranbourne. The certificate of the physi- 

 cians which recommended the sea in the autumn, it 

 was publicly announced, was to be complied with. 

 The Bishop was prepared with statements of the 

 Prince's kindness to his daughter, and of des scenes 

 larmoyantes between them, quite touching. In short, 

 he was ready to say anything, and the Duke of York 

 to support him. Above all, the Duke of Sussex was 

 preparing to go into a full statement of the case, 

 private letters and all, in a way that I think would 

 have been fatal, particularly on the point on which I 



* On the motion of the Duke of Sussex, that the order for summon- 

 ing the Lords, on the affairs of the Princess Charlotte, be discharged. 

 Hansard, p. 835. 



