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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1836
Sydney Smith to Sir Robert John Wilmot Horton, September 1836
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Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
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Combe Florey, Sept., 1836.
My dear Wilmot Horton,

The same balance of parties remains, with a slight preponderance to the popular side. Peel plays his game with consummate skill and prudence, and I am inclined to say the same of Lord Lyndhurst and the House of Lords. The effect of their different measures upon the opinions of the country cannot be well measured, because the prosperity is so great that everybody is satisfied with almost any measure and any government. In the meantime the Whigs are carrying many measures, any one of which in the old system of things would have immortalized any Administration. Think of Tithes, Poor Law, and the Slave Trade: did you ever hope to see such things accom-
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plished? John Russell, Sir George Grey, and Howick are the persons who have most risen in the world. I shall be very glad to see yon and Lady Wilmot again in ’38. I keep my health, and will try to keep it. Remember me, and let us meet as old friends when you return.

Sydney Smith.