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India, it is positively believed that the Speaker has 

 thoughts of it (so we shall have Squeak) ; but this 

 seems very strange.*"' 



" The way in which the Chancellor puts his case is, 

 that the King entreated him to remain in with Can- 

 ning for one year, and he complied. Nothing in all 

 this strikes one more than the inveteracy of the King 

 against the Whigs. You see there is nothing he will 

 not rather do than think of a change even Canning, 

 whom he detests, and the Duke of York, of whom he 

 is jealous. But fear is the ruling principle of his whole 

 conduct, as it always has been ; for as to any personal 

 feelings, he can have none stronger than those towards 

 Canning. Yours ever truly, H. BROUGHAM/' 



"BROUGHAM, September 19, 1822. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I was speculating in my 

 letter to you yesterday, if I recollect right, upon the 

 Duke of York disliking the new arrangement, and this 

 being one additional cause of its weakness. To-day I 

 have a letter from Creevey, who quotes Bennet as posi- 

 tively stating that he knows the Duke of York has 

 been speaking of the King's weakness in letting Can- 

 ning be forced on him, and saying he had better have 

 sent for the Whigs at once, for the step would prove 

 the dissolution of the ministry. From his intercourse 

 with the Yorkshire Tories, Wortley, Copley,t &c., Cree- 

 vey believes the Duke of York to have said so ; and he 



* Charles Wynne, M.P. for County Montgomery. He was the brother 

 of Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn. From a peculiarity in the utterance 

 of Sir Watkyn, and the shrillness of his brother's voice, they had a joint 

 nickname as " Bubble and Squeak." 



f Sir Joseph Copley, Bart, of Spotborough, county York. 



