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Bennet but that subject I must abstain from."* He is 

 in a scrape. Kinnaird and Hobhouse are of course 

 to be the new Burdett party instead of Cochrane: the 

 former says he is sure of a seat.t At least one knows 

 what he is; of the other we only know that he is Bur- 

 dett 's nominee until he can get a seat elsewhere ; and 

 that while he tells our friends that he is not of any 

 party, he goes about all the ale-houses, comparing the 

 House of Commons to the poison-tree in Java, &c., in 

 the very language of the Cartwright school. I trust 

 we shall not make any concessions to the set beyond 

 what we should have done if Eomilly had lived : nay, 

 I am for conceding less on that account; and it is with 

 me a very great doubt whether we should not still 

 abstain from Eeform as a party, exactly as we always 

 have done. 



" Of course, as far as my services go, they are always 

 at the command of the Party ; but after having at- 

 tacked the Burdett school at the end of last session, I 

 should be very loath to join in supporting them at the 

 beginning of this. Pray remember me most particu- 

 larly to Lady Grey, and believe me yours truly, 



" H. BROUGHAM." 



FROM LORD GREY. 



"MALVERN, August 25, 1819. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I always doubted the 

 reality of the Princess's intention to come home, and 

 what you say confirms me in the opinion of its being 



* Henry-Grey Bennet, second son of Charles, fourth Earl of Tanker- 

 ville, born 1777, died 1836. 



t The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, a banker in Westminster, third son of 

 George, seventh Baron Kinnaird in the Peerage of Scotland : John Cam 

 Hobhouse, afterwards created Lord Broughton. 



