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puration, and have again joined the circuit, with only 

 a large scar and some weakness. I mention these 

 particulars to contradict two reports which were im- 

 mediately raised one that I had lost an eye, if not 

 two ; the other, that I was killed both of which are 

 unfounded. A third was rather diverting viz., that 

 another man (a very religious man, and an old lawyer) 

 had cut his throat at York. 



" I learn, from what seems like some authority, that 

 some explosion has happened in Lady Douglas's fa- 

 mily, by means of a man-servant. Pray let me know 

 if there is any truth in it. From the way in which 

 it reaches me, I think it deserves being inquired into. 



" Pray tell Lord Glenbervie that I have had a most 

 agreeable account of George Wilson. As I came here 

 I stopt at home for a couple of days, where Temple- 

 man came on his return from Scotland. He had been 

 with Wilson for a week, and reports him to be in ex- 

 cellent health and spirits, taking much exercise with- 

 out fatigue, and that there is not the least foundation 

 for the unpleasant accounts in town last June respect- 

 ing him.* 



" Kemember me to Lord and Lady G. ; and believe 

 me ever yours truly, H. BROUGHAM. 



" My address now is, ' Brougham, Penrith.' ' 



The following very interesting letter, on the sub- 

 ject of her marriage, is from the Princess Charlotte to 

 Lady Charlotte Lindsay : 



* George Wilson, mentioned with affection by Romilly and other con- 

 temporaries, was a successful barrister, nearly twenty years before the 

 date of this letter, but had to give up his profession for his health. From 

 a statement in the * Memoirs of Romilly ' (vol. i. p. 434), he must have 

 died soon after the date of the letter. 



