266 CORRESPONDENCE. [1814. 



newspapers if we take up the worst and most veno- 

 mous, after being too nice and moderate to patronise 

 the respectable ones. Pray return the sheets. I leave 

 this the 1st. Yours ever, H. B. 



" Sierakowski is not come ; but a letter for a Count 

 Durouski is arrived." 



TO EARL GREY. 



" BOROUGHBRIDGE, Odol&r 2, 1814. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I marvel to see my instruc- 

 tions as to the Prince obeyed even in quarters where it 

 seemed impossible ; e.g., K. P. Knight (I suppose) on 

 Northcote's * Life of Keynolds,' and an article on 

 Alison's ' Sermons/ * In short, there is a whole 

 battery opened upon the large man, of every calibre, 

 from hand-grenade up to 48-lb. shot. He will be 

 agreeably surprised to meet with his praises where he 

 the least can expect it. 



" They write from Edinburgh that Adam's job is not 

 so rank a one as was at first believed, but that he is 

 to be made a Baron of Exchequer in the first place, 

 and then a bill is to be passed to erect a new court, 

 composed of judges from the others, with Adam at 

 their head, and a salary of 4000. This presidency 

 and salary is therefore the amount of the new patron- 

 age created, and the measure is still most objectionable 

 on the same grounds, though in a less degree than if 

 they had made so many new judges. It will be a 

 court with clerks, criers, secretaries, train-bearers, and 

 all the et ceteras of the worst kind of patronage viz., 

 judicial patronage. The Scotch bar is sufficiently en- 



* Edinburgh Review, vol. xxiii., p. 288 and 432. 



