288 CORRESPONDENCE. 



" But I fear that I have said enough already to 

 show you how unfit I am for active service ; and 

 though Baillie flatters me with the hope of rest and 

 ease restoring me, I really can hardly bring myself to 

 occupy a place which you might fill with so many 

 abler to do its duties. I say nothing of the utter dis- 

 taste for public life which naturally sits upon one at 

 this moment, and which may possibly pass away, but 

 I can't help feeling it and letting it influence me. 



" At all events, I beseech you to let it clearly appear 

 to Lord Darlington that your most kind intentions 

 respecting me were wholly without my knowledge. 

 This is the more necessary because I was consulted 

 by the person to whom Lord Darlington had made 

 the first proposal, and I strongly urged him to accept 

 it, and prevailed upon him to delay one night giving 

 his refusal. 



" I scarcely need add any expression of my sincere 

 sense of your friendship on this as on all occasions. 

 The feeling is mutual, though, God knows, I have now 

 but little power of showing it except in expressions. 

 Ever yours most faithfully, H. BROUGHAM." 



TO EAEL GEEY. 



"TEMPLE, August 2, 1815. 



U MY DEAR LORD GREY, I enclose in this and an- 

 other cover three letters from Sir S. Bentham's family, 

 in France, to his brother Bentham here.""" I suppose 



* Sir Samuel Bentham, brother of Jeremy Bentham (born 1757, died 

 1831); see 'The Lii'e of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, K.S.G., 

 formerly Inspector-General of Naval Works, lately a Commissioner of 

 his Majesty's Navy, with the distinct duty of Civil Architect and 

 Engineer of the Navy. By his Widow.' lbG2. 



