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Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [21 June 1850]
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Vol. I Contents
Chapter I. 1803-1805.
Chapter II. 1805-1809.
Chapter III. 1810-1812.
Chapter IV. 1813-1814.
Chapter V. 1814-1815.
Chapter VI. 1815-1816.
Chapter VII. 1816-1818.
Chapter VIII. 1818-19.
Chapter IX. 1820-1821.
Chapter X. 1822-24.
Chapter XI. 1825-1827.
Vol. II Contents
Chapter I. 1828-1830.
Chapter II. 1831-34.
Chapter III. 1834-1837.
Chapter IV. 1838-41.
Chapter V. 1842-44.
Chapter VI. 1845-46.
Chapter VII. 1847-50.
Chapter VIII. 1850
Chapter IX. 1851.
Chapter X. 1852-55.
Index
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‘House of Lords: Friday [21st June, 1850].

‘My dear R.,—I was prevented by accident from sending you my two-day letter yesterday. First of the friends; next of the country. Lyndhurst’s bandages go off to-day. He saw well on the mat four days ago. He

1 This was a debate on the Don Pacifico case. Lord Stanley’s motion, regretting ‘that various claims against the Greek Government, doubtful in point of justice or exaggerated in amount, have been enforced by coercive measures directed against the commerce and people of Greece,’ was carried by 169 against 132.

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will to-day be permanently released from his nine-months dark cellar. . . . and will experience his new birth.

‘Next of the country. This House of Lords defeat is a dreadful blow, both to the Government and [to] Pam especially. The attempt of Roebuck to set it aside in the Commons will be very embarrassing, for, if the motion is lost, the Government go, and we have a dissolution of Parliament as well as Ministry; if it is carried by a small majority, we have a conflict of the two houses, and the public with the Lords.

‘Yours most truly,
‘H. B.’