“. . . Let me know what you are at. I take it for granted you are red hot against the Life Guards; if so, I don’t agree with you; and if I had followed my inclination, I should have subscribed for them. I think they are always infamously treated by the mob, and are always much too forbearing; but never so much as on the recent occasion. As for the Government, they ought to be impaled, and I hope they will. What will become of Brougham’s silk gown? . . . I hear the Whigs have great hopes of coming in. I sincerely hope they will be disappointed. . . .
