“Thank you kindly for both your letters. It is, indeed, a damned thing that Wellesley‡ should
* Ex-sergeant-major and publisher of the well-known Weekly Political Register, which began in 1802. He was elected member for Oldham to the first reformed Parliament. † Afterwards 3rd Earl of Radnor; Radical M.P. for Salisbury from 1802 to 1828: died in 1869. ‡ Sir Arthur Wellesley, whose share in the Convention of Cintra had been sent before a Court of Inquiry. |
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