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However, lie got over it fairly as to matter, and had 

 some success at the end. His wretched plan, I find, 

 satisfies Gooch, Chaplin, and one or two more ; but 

 the bulk of the landed interest I do not believe to be 

 so. Wortley, of course, is with him. Lethbridge, 

 Woodhouse, and Shelley, I know, will vote against him. 

 Althorpe is to give notice on Monday for Thursday, 

 and they really must then be brought to a division. 

 Peel jibbed last night. He was to answer me, and 

 continued in that state almost the whole time I spoke; 

 but then he left it to Huskisson, who answered what 

 I had said on Monday last. I don't suppose now there 

 is any one doubts the expediency of Monday, except 

 Tierney, who is against reducing taxes. But I wonder 

 how you who know the House could doubt for a mo- 

 ment, for you must be aware that in answering to a 

 speech opening a plan, no man living can give another 

 speech opening a different view. He won't be listened 

 to for a moment, and must, whether he will or no, as I 

 did last night, grapple with the speech immediately 

 preceding. 



" Pray remember me to all at Woburn. Believe 

 me, &c., H. BROUGHAM." 



" LANCASTER, August 29, 1822. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I suppose you hear various 

 rumours of Canning. Though we are here nearer 

 the ^spor, we cannot tell for certain (indeed he 

 cannot himself) what he means to do. He was at 

 Bolton's last week, where the leaders on the circuit 

 dine on their way here. I had not been there for 

 some years, Bolton being a violent Lowtherite, and I 

 hating his company. But I was asked this year if I 



