The Creevey Papers
Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [February?] 1813
“Lancaster, Monday, 1813.
“You will think it rather cool my not coming to town
as soon as possible in the present state of affairs, but I have two reasons. I
think Mrs. Prinnie will be insisting on
some further measures the moment she sees me, and I wish it to subside into an arrangement before I return. I shall come up as
soon as they begin to negociate. My other reason is a
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myself, come
over me since the row with the Commissioners, especially on account of
Erskine. The blackening of Ellenboro’ is not sufficient to
counterbalance this. I can’t help thinking the omission of the questions
venial, as long as the evidence was not published; and then the charge agt. the
Comms. was only their going beyond the inquiry assigned to them, and
recommending a sort of censure on an ex
parte proceeding. Which was wrong, I think; but one
can’t help regretting anything which damages, not Grenville, but the whole Whigs. This should always be avoided if
possible.”
Queen Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821)
Married the Prince of Wales in 1795 and separated in 1796; her husband instituted
unsuccessful divorce proceedings in 1820 when she refused to surrender her rights as
queen.
Thomas Erskine, first baron Erskine (1750-1823)
Scottish barrister who was a Whig MP for Portsmouth (1783-84, 1790-1806); after defending
the political radicals Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall in 1794 he was lord chancellor in the
short-lived Grenville-Fox administration (1806-07).
William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville (1759-1834)
Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was a moderate Whig MP, foreign secretary
(1791-1801), and leader and first lord of the treasury in the “All the Talents” ministry
(1806-1807). He was chancellor of Oxford University (1810).
