1837.
Ar. 33.

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Li¥E OF JORDEN. fod

ete. ete. [a party of north-country members of parliames!
and candidates.] They are a sad lot of soulless louts, and
TI was, as compared with the intellectual atmosphere of tbe
morning, precipitated from the temperature of blood hes”
down to zero. . . . I have not seen C. P. Thomson. I hav?
left my card and address, bat he has not noticed it, and i
he does not send, I'll not call again.
“I hear queer accounts of our Right Hon. Member ; they
tell me he is not the man of business we take him for. We
shall see. The move I see of our representatives from Lame?
shire, the more ashamed I feel at being so served, and 1K
Falstaff I begin to dread the idea of going through Covent!’
(for at Coveutry they are generally to be found) with such #
crew. I suppose you will have more failures by-and-by
amongst the people at Manchester and Liverpool. I begi®
now to fear that our distress will be greater and more pe”
manent than I had expected at first. . It will be felt here
too, for some time, in failures amongst those old merchan?
princes who are princes only at spending, but whose getting?
have been and will be small enough. The result of ail wil
be that Liverpool and Manchester will more and more agsum®
their proper rank as commercial capitals. London must
content itself with a gambling trade in the bills drawn bY
those places,
“1 have had invitations without’ end, and shall if I staf
a year still be in request ; but too much talking and running
about will not suit me, and 1 am resolved to turn churlis?
and morose. I have seen, through S——7s friend T—
some of the Urquhart party : they are as mad as ever. J
have called upon Roebuck, but have not been able to 6°
him.’ ?

“1 was yesterday introduced to Mrs. and Mr. Grote 8°
their house. I use the words Mrs. and Mr. because she 1
2 To F, Cobden. June 6. 1837,