“To play second fiddle to Brougham,” he wrote to his wife, “would not be worth a dam. If it be an object worthy my ambition to get possession of Liverpool and to keep it, then I say that my game, and my game only, has been played, and that the whole dramatis personæ, Brougham and Canning included, might have been puppets selected by myself to serve my own ulterior purposes. Depend upon it, Diddy never played a slyer part than in his unassuming, modest character in which he has appeared before his fellow townsmen.
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“. . . My popularity with all sides I find still keeps up to the last, tho’ I was last upon the poll. . . . There is to be a grand affair here on Friday—a dinner and a ball and supper for Canning. He goes dining out daily, to Boulton’s and such places. I envy not his happy lot! . . .”
