308 WAR AGAINST [1816. 



the East Indies, but from its capacity of becoming an 

 important settlement itself, and a substitute for the 

 West Indies. I should think the question more safely 

 argued on this ground, and more consistently with 

 the just contempt formerly shown to the argument 

 'Not Malta only, but Egypt/ &c. than upon the 

 ground of danger to India. Ever yours faithfully, 



" H. BUOUGHAM." 



TO EARL GEEY. 



"BROCKET HALL, Jan. 9, 1816. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I suppose you may like 

 to see Elgin's pamphlet ; so Huskisson being here, I 

 have asked him to frank it. Elgin convicts himself 

 by the answer, and is a ruined man if he does not 

 proceed at law against both Tweddel and the Review, 

 especially the former.* 



" Palmerston is here as well as Huskisson, but the 

 former says little ; from the latter I infer that we are 

 to have ample field for sport about retrenchments, for 

 he has been saying privately to Lady Melbourne, that 

 19 millions establishment won't do, it must be 24 or 

 25 !! If I hear any further news you shall know, but, 

 of course, won't mention it again. 



" Pray give me a few lines to say how you are, and 

 remember me to Lady Grey. 



" I am trying to put Folkestone up to coming for- 

 ward and co-operating cordially.! His feelings and 

 principles are almost all with you, and now that Bur- 

 dett is so much out of the field, he will be invaluable 



* The controversy about the purchase of the " Elgin Marbles " was 

 then raging. See article in Quarterly Review, vol. xiv. p. 513, headed 

 by a list of documents relating to the dispute. 



f Afterwards Lord Radnor. 



