“I have to thank you for your very handsome letter in answer to that with which I troubled you. I hope and believe that the accounts which you have heard relative to —— are exaggerated; though I have no difficulty in saying that should they be founded in fact, and redress denied, they are perfectly fair subjects of animadversion and reprehension.
“I also beg you to accept my thanks for the copy of your letter to Lord Holland, which I received with great pleasure.