270 CORRESPONDENCE. "[1814. 



" I shall try to find an office cover and send you my 

 notes of Carnot's conversations. I hope there may be 

 still some chance of your coming up, and going over to 

 see him and others at Christmas. Yours ever, 



"H. B. 



"P.S. I send a newspaper by this post, with a 

 correct report of the case respecting legal privilege, in 

 which Perry chose to mistake my speech so unbear- 

 ably, making me abandon my client, and speak the 

 reverse of what I did say. The case has made a great 

 sensation. 



" This report of my speech was corrected by me, at 

 the request of many of the bar. Garrow did the same 

 with his ; but I am sure there are not two words in 

 the whole changed." 



TO EARL GREY. 



"November^*, 1814. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I have just time to ask 

 whether you see any very great harm in starting a 

 little conversation in the House of Commons regard- 

 ing Princess Charlotte apropos of her money concerns, 

 for mentioning which a fair ground exists ? It can 

 be done without committing her at all ; indeed she 

 can't be worse off than she is without a shilling since 

 July, except the Queen's charity, and with a dowager 

 sleeping every night in the room, or in the next room, 

 and the door open. 



" I have seen Miss Mercer, and she is anxious at all 

 events to have her friend impressed with the idea of 

 the party not giving her up. Martin's question de- 

 lighted her, though, God knows, it was little enough. 





