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BROONCILS TION WITH SIR BOBERT PEEL. 353

- You are at liberty to make any use you please of that
ter of mine, and I resl’y tol gratified and proud that youn
take go much interest in preserving for me the good opinion
*f those whose esteem is worth having, Now let me add,
tha although, as between yon and myself, I am eager to
"VOW my regret at having been betrayed into & vindictive
Attack upon Peel, although I admit that Christian principle
Was violated in that speech, and that I should have better
Consulted what was due to myself if I bad shown greater
Magnanimity on the occasion, still as between any other
looker-on and myself, I mast say that Peel’s atrocious con-Tuc
 towards me ought not to be lost sight of. I do not
®mplain of his insinuating that I wished to incite to his
“sessination, and hounding on his party to destroy me in
the eyes of the world. His conduct might have been
SXcused on account of his state of mind, from the recent
feath of Drummond, and the distress and anxiety of his wife
“nd daughter, who, I believe, unnerved him by their alarm
for hig safety. But although this excused him at the inant,
 it did not atone for his having failed to retract or
*Xplain his foul charge subsequently, which, in fact, made
nd now makes it a deliberate attempt at moral assassina.
ro which I cannot and ought not to forget, and therefore
should feel justified in repeating what I said at Covent
Harden, that I should forfeit my own respect and that of my
ends if I ever exchanged a word with that man in
Private »e
n No nature was ever less disposed for the harbouring of
Lo resentments, and it was not many weeks from this time
ei a curious incident had the effect of finally effacing
e last trace of enmity between these two honoured men.
er attack happened to be made in the course of
“Pate on the Chairman of the League, which drew & rebuke
3 To Gee. Combe. Manchester, Feb, 1840.

1848,

Aly. 42.