The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 June 1828
“4th.
“. . . Well, have you read Huskisson’s charming compositions of
letters that he read of his own accord and as his own defence. Never was there
anything so low and contemptible throughout, either in intellectual confusion
or mental dirt. In short, thank God! he is gone to the devil and can never shew
again. The Beau, both in talent and plain
dealing, in his letters and conduct, is as clean and clear as ever he can
be.† The Pet‡ is quite right
upon all these matters at last, Bruffam,
tho’ evidently by no means extinguished, is damaged in his
estimation.”
Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the
Edinburgh
Review in which he chastised Byron's
Hours of Idleness; he
defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
(1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).
William Huskisson (1770-1830)
English politician and ally of George Canning; privately educated, he was a Tory MP for
Morpeth (1796-1802), Liskeard (1804-07), Harwich (1807-12), Chichester (1812-23), and
Liverpool (1823-30). He died in railway accident.
