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they are written by Lady Bentham, and as they pro- 

 fess to tell whatever they remarked, you may be 

 amused with them, when you can find time and 

 patience to read them ; when you have done with 

 them, you may enclose them to me at Brougham, 

 Penrith. 



" I have learnt since I came here that the Duke of 

 Cumberland is going out as Regent to Brunswick. 



" My German law is so rusty that I can't say 

 whether the Prince Eegent has a right to make this 

 appointment or not. The late Duke was Eegent only 

 during the imbecility of his brother, but I am pretty 

 confident he was chosen by the States; however, I 

 shall learn the whole of the law as well as the fact 

 from the Duke of Sussex before I leave town. It 

 really seems a strange anomaly in our Government 

 that the Crown should have any foreign patronage, to 

 be bestowed on any person e.g., as in this instance 

 on a peer of Parliament ; and however much it may 

 be sanctioned by precedent, it is clearly against the 

 spirit of the constitution. I presume you have heard 

 of young Orange's marriage with the Eussian. He 

 announced it by letter to the Prince Eegent; so there's 

 an end of the little Princess's annoyance from that 

 quarter. Nash's estimate for the improvement at 

 Brighton is 63,000. All praise is given to the 

 Prussians, at Carlton House ; and Lord Uxbridge is 

 loudly maintained to have saved the day, as far as 

 we were concerned ! 



" The accounts from France are quite dreadful, and 

 the Duke and Duchess of Orleans, who were t'other 

 day at Brocket Hall, gave, I understand, the most 

 gloomy view of everything. As soon as I hear again 



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