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would be fatal ; he had one already. I always observe 

 the best and ablest men die when attacked. If he 

 had been a prince or princess, he would have recovered 

 fifty times over of a worse illness. I thought you 

 would like to hear this, so write it, though in much 

 haste, at the Privy Council, where I have been speak- 

 ing under a cough as bad as Bomilly's was the day 

 he was taken ill. These inflammations are going 

 about. In haste, yours ever, H. B. 



" The c Courier 7 has made no play, but we must press 

 moderately on such a topic. Perry is very different, 

 now the Baron is gone off.* 



"I think, in the gloss he gives, his job exceeds 

 himself. The only fault of the Grenville Bill was its 

 increasing judicial patronage ; and in that point his is 

 indeed like it, only much worse. It will run a fine 

 gauntlet/' 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"TEMPLE, December 9, 1814. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I write to say that the move- 

 ment has answered perfectly. 



" Propositions to pay all bills, debts, &c., have come 

 to the Princess Charlotte, and Vansittart has as good 

 as said she might have more money immediately, and 

 as much as she needed. Miss Knight, through whom 

 the information came to Miss Mercer, says there is no 

 doubt of the cause of all this. 



" When your letter to Miss Mercer came, disap- 

 proving of any measures in Parliament, though it 

 was clear from the context, and still clearer from your 

 letter to me, that you only meant formal measures on 



* Mr Adam see above, p. 262. 

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