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"as the calm moderation of the League is our best title 1846.
bo Public support if we should be driven to an appeal to Zr. 42.
the Country.”
“May 29 Yesterday I dined with Lord and Lady
Portes cue, and met Lords Normanby, Campbell, and Mor-Poth,
 I sat at dinner beside the Duchess of Inverness, the
Widow of the Duke of Sussex, a plain little woman, but
ever, wud very decided Free Trader.”
“May 93.1 have sent you & Chronicle containing a
brief report of my few remarks in the House last night.
Be good enough to cut it out, and send it to me that I may
®orrect it, for Hansard. It was two o'clock when I spoke,
0d it wag impossible to do justice to the subject. Count on
"Y being at homes, saving accidents, on Thursday to tea.”
“May 23.—A meeting of the Whig Peers has to-day been
helg at Lord Lansdowne’s, and they have unanimously re-Solved
 to support the Government measure in all its details,
Thor wore several of these Whig Peers who up to yesterday
Vere understood to be resolved to vote in Committee for a
all fixed duty, and the danger was understood to be with
them, They were beginning, however, to be afraid that
Pec] might dissolve, and thus annihilate the Whig party,
1d 50 they are as a party more inclined to let the measure
P58 now in order to get a chance of coming in after Peel’s
"liromept, I am assured by Edward Ellice, one of the
to Whig Cabinet, that the bill is now safe and that it
"Wl be law in three weeks. Heaven send us such good
luge |»
“June 10. —There is another fit of apprehension about the
Corn By owing to the uncertaiaty of Peel’s position. I can’
"derstand his motive for constantly poking his coercive bill
our fey at these critical moments, The Lords will take
“rage ag anything that seems to weaken the Government
1 To FP. W. Cobden.