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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1838
Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 8 January 1838
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1838.
Dear Lady Grey,
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I suppose you do not mean to be in town till after Easter. I shall be there the middle of next month. I was in town all November. The general notion was, that the Whigs were weakened; at the same time it is not easy to see how the ill temper of the Radicals will get them out. The Radicals will never dare to vote with the Tories, and on all Radical questions the Tories will vote with the Government. I see, by the report of the Church Commissioners for November last, that all the points for which the Cathedrals contended are given up. This is very handsome on the
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part of the Commissioners; and their reform, whether wise or not, will at least be just.

I hope Lord Grey continues quite well; but quite well, I find, at sixty-seven, means about twelve or fourteen distinct ailments; weak eyes, a violent pain in the ankle, stomach slightly disordered, etc.

I have had a long correspondence with Lord John Russell about shutting St. Paul’s, which I have published, and would send you if it were a subject of any interest. Joseph Hume wants to make himself popular with the Middlesex electors; Lord John is afraid of Joseph Hume: hence all the correspondence.

I send you a list of my papers in the Edinburgh Review. If you keep that journal, some of them may amuse you when you are out of spirits.

Ever affectionately yours,
S. S.