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him. Hence, I believe, the report that he is opposed 

 generally by the Chancellor, and to have no promo- 

 tion. He is said to have called in the Stafford in- 

 terest to his assistance by stating Wrottesley's provi- 

 sion as Welsh judge to depend on his promotion ; but 

 I rather suppose he only urged them to back him in 

 the above-mentioned claim of plurality. Eichards 

 has refused to leave the Exchequer. 



" The abuse of the Prince in some of the pulpits 

 has been extreme. In a saints church at Cheltenham 

 the preacher dwelt on a verse in Jeremiah which says, 

 ' He shall not reign, nor any of his seed/ Some 

 newspapers are even worse. I have not seen them, 

 but by those who have, things have been repeated to 

 me which I consider as really very injurious. Ever 

 yours truly, H. BROUGHAM." 



FROM THE EARL OF DARLINGTOK 



" RABY CASTLE, January 7, 1818. 



"MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I entreat you to believe 

 that nothing could induce me to name the following 

 subject to you, but from the great regard that I enter- 

 tain for yourself, the considerable anxiety that I feel 

 to serve our esteemed and mutual friends, and for the 

 support of that cause and those political principles 

 which I am endeavouring to aid, at immense expense 

 and trouble, and on a much more extended scale than 

 you can possibly be aware of.* 



" The subject I wish to name to you is respecting 

 Liverpool, where I have great reason to believe that 

 Canning (who certainly comes forward again) and 



* The sums paid by Lord Darlington for boroughs which were after- 

 wards engulfed in Schedule A of the Reform Act, were prodigious. 



