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particularly till a Government was formed. On two 

 points I do not quite agree with you. I should feel 

 it absolutely indispensable to act avowedly upon a 

 system of non-interference in the internal affairs of 

 other countries, and particularly of France ; I should 

 therefore have nothing to do with the Bourbons, either 



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as to Republicans or Ultras. 



" With respect to Greece, it must be alors comme 

 alors ; but I should incline very much to favour the 

 revolution, as far as it could be done without encrasfino* 



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ill a war ; and viewing the destruction of the Turkish 

 Empire as inevitable within no long period, and a 

 thing most desirable in itself, it ought, I think, to be 

 the policy of this Government to establish an influence 

 in the new order of things which might prevent the 

 too great ascendancy of Eussia. But these are sub- 

 jects too large to be discussed in the hurry in which 

 I am now writing. 



" As to constitutional etiquette, I agree with you 

 that all points of that kind ought, if possible, to be 

 avoided. But that is not always in our power. In 

 Moira's affair we had a very pretty quarrel as it 

 stood, when Erskine, in his desire at that time to get 

 in, brought on the negotiation again ; and I was 

 driven either to break off, on the point of the House- 

 hold, or on Moira's being First Minister, which would 

 have been worse, as it would have appeared quite 

 personal, though I am sure you will allow that no 

 man in his senses would have embarked in a cjalcre 

 so commanded. 



" Now as to arrangements. Certainly nothing could 

 be more disadvantageous, or even more absurd, than 

 to be discussing them at this moment. But that 



