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success, and I now send it in the hope that the inter- 

 view which Lord Darlington proposes may take place, 

 and that its result may be what I so earnestly wish. 

 I should like to see you to-morrow if possible, that I 

 may tell you exactly what I wrote to Lord Darlington. 

 You will find me in Dover Street at eleven or twelve, 

 but I cannot answer for myself later, as I am to attend 

 poor Ponsonby's funeral, and do not know at what 

 hour it is to take place/' 5 " I am, my dear Brougham, 

 ever most truly yours, GREY." 



The result referred to came to pass as Lord Grey 

 had wished, and I was shortly afterwards returned for 

 Winchelsea. 



TO EARL GREY. 



"WALTON, July 10, 1815. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I have this moment re- 

 ceived your letter, and Lord Darlington's enclosed in 

 it ; and if I had been able, I should have come to town 

 without delay to see and talk with you ; but the truth 

 is that this horrible affair has thrown me back more 

 than I can describe, and the barely coming here (to 

 pass a day with my fellow-invalid Ossulstont) has ex- 

 hausted me so much that all to-morrow I know I shall 

 be totally unfit to move, at any rate not till pretty 

 late. On Tuesday I shall be in town certainly, unless 

 I am much worse ; and as you are likely to be in town 

 on Wednesday, I can see you then. 



* Right Honourable George Ponsonby, M.P. for Wicklow, second son 

 to the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and one of the Lords 

 Justices of Ireland. His son George was in 1806 Lord Chancellor of 

 Ireland, and died 8th July 1817. 



+ Afterwards Earl of Tankerville on his father's death, 10th Decem- 

 ber 1822. 



