500 WELLINGTON ADMINISTRATION. [1828. 



" P.S. Three regiments of cavalry, the battalion of 

 Guards, and all the disposable force, is collecting from 

 Manchester to Liverpool." 



Lord Grey did not materially differ with Lord 

 Rosslyn, but he states his opinion in less detail : 



FROM EARL GREY. 



"HowicK, October 7, 1828. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I have received with the 

 greatest pleasure your confirmation of the account I 

 had previously read in the newspapers of the success- 

 ful opening of the London University. It must afford 

 the truest satisfaction to everybody who thinks, as I 

 do, of the public benefit likely to arise from such an 

 institution. But to you it must be peculiarly grati- 

 fying, for you have been the creator of this establish- 

 ment, and your name will be for ever united with the 

 improvements which may spring not only from this, 

 but from the rival college,"" which never would have 

 existed but for the success of your exertions. 



" I entirely agree with you that the state of Ireland 

 must be considered as paramount to every other polit- 

 ical question. I have no intimation of any kind as 

 to what are the intentions of Government. Refer- 

 ring to what passed during the last session, and look- 

 ing to the formidable head to which the danger lias 

 arisen, I should say that it is quite impossible that 

 the Duke of Wellington should not be convinced of 

 the necessity of settling this question in the only way 

 in which it can be settled. Everything I heard of the 

 language held, some time ago, by those who might be 



* Kind's College in London. 



