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the greater politician of the two. He is a wild and philosophical
 man, Pposscssing the highest order of moral and intel- Zr. 33,
lectual endowments ; bub wanting something which for need
of a better phrase I shell call devil. Heis too abstract in his
bone of reasoning, and does not aim to influence others by any
Proof excepting that of ratiocination ; tusy musy, as Braham
calls it, he is destitute of, Hed she been a man, she would
have been the leader of a party; he is not calculated for it.
“Tet at their house (which hy "he way is the great resort
of all that is clever in the opposition ranks) Sir W. Moles-Worth,
 a youthful, florid-looking man of foppish and conceited
 air, with a pile of head at the back (firmness) like a
vogar-loaf. I should say that a cast of his head would
furnish one of the most singular illustrations of phrenology.
For the rest he is not a man of superior talents, and let him
5ay what he pleases, there is nothing about him that is
democratic in principle. . . . .
“I have been visiting, and visited by, all sorts of people,
the Greek Ambassador, Win. Allen, of Plough Court, the
chemist and Quaker philanthropist, Roebuck, and Joseph
Parkes, of Birmingham, amongst the number. I spent a
couple of hours with Rocbuck at his house. He 4s a clever
fellow, but I find that his wind is more active than powerful.
He is apt to take lawyer-like views of questions, and, as you
may see by his speeches, is given to cavilling and special
pleading. , . , ,
“ Easthope of the © Chronicle,” is very suxious that 1
should see Lord Palmerston, but 1 told him I had made up
my mind that hig Lordship is incurable. He says that
he is open to conviction, and a cleverer man than most of
his colleagues, What a beautiful ensemble they must be!
I have seen nothing of (, P, Thomson; I would have
called again, bus I think it better to reserve myself till he
calls on me, I hear from all sides that he in not the man

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