488 POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE. [1827. 



and opposing, without any inducement to forbearance, 

 whatever may appear to militate against them. 



" I leave this place on the 29th, but as I shall pay 

 some visits on the road, I shall probably not reach 

 Ho wick before the 20th September. If anything 

 should lead you northward, I hope we shall see you, 

 and that our meeting will not be rendered less pleas- 

 ant to either of us by our political separation. Ever 

 yours truly, GREY." 



TO EARL GREY. 



"BROUGHAM, September 1, 1827. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I agree with you generally 

 as to Canning not having been a good man to act with, 

 and few people know better than myself how incapable 

 he was of giving men credit for feelings of magna- 

 nimity to which he could not reach himself. Still I 

 think he has done, partly by accident, partly from 

 merit, very essential service to the good cause, and I 

 hope it may not now be thrown away. 



" As for a certain large gentleman, well stricken in 

 years, no one trusts him less than I do; and this rage 

 for having Herries Chancellor of the Exchequer is to 

 me full of suspicion, especially as all reports unite in a 

 very unpleasant version of Herries's rise to his present 

 circumstances. However, I have reason to believe 

 that the ministers have so far resisted the King's 

 wishes lately upon more points than one, as to make 

 it extremely doubtful whether the Government will 

 not be broken up before this can reach you. 



" Of one thing I am clear that, whatever part I 

 have taken, I must have the admission made to me on 

 all hands of having acted from motives without the 



