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by others whom I expect. I hope to get over to Raby 

 to meet the Duke." 



The resolution expressed in this letter led to the fol- 

 lowing from Lord Grey : 



"HowiCK, September^, 1822. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, 1 received your letter 

 yesterday. To begin, as you do, with Canning. I 

 agree with you as to the character of his speeches. 

 They indicate, I think, no great hope ; but they show, 

 at least in an equal degree, a strong desire to take 

 every chance of power at home, by the use of every 

 topic best calculated to recommend him to the power- 

 ful Tories, to the ministers, and to the Court, even to 

 the extent of an offer of compromise upon the Catholic 

 question. And I still think he will succeed. He says 

 he had not suspended his preparations for going to 

 India ; but the very post before I read this, I received 

 a letter from my brother, to say that he had just 

 heard from Captain Westphal that Canning had put 

 off embarking till the middle of October. Captain 

 Westphal is captain of the Jupiter, the ship that Can- 

 ning is to go in to India; and this information 

 interests me, as I have a son appointed a midshipman 

 to that ship. Now as to possibilities ; and first as to 

 measures. These, in the first instance, should be only 

 generally described. I could have no share in any 

 Government that was not founded on a change of 

 system, both at home and abroad. 



" If we come to details, there are more things to be 

 specified than you advert to ; but this, if our principle 

 was admitted, it would not be necessary to do very 



