He accordingly wrote the following letter, which contains some interesting particulars of the Whig Club at Cambridge in Byron's University days: _Mr.Hobhouse to John Murray_.
2, HANOVER SQUARE, _November_, 1820.
I have received your letter, and return to you Lord Byron's.

I shall tell you very frankly, because I think it much better to speak a little of a man to his face than to say a great deal about him behind his back, that I think you have not treated me as I deserved, nor as might have been expected from that friendly intercourse which has subsisted between us for so many years.

Had Lord Byron transmitted to me a lampoon on you, I should, if I know myself at all, either have put it into the fire without delivery, or should have sent it at once to you.

I should not have given it a circulation for the gratification of all the small wits at the great and little houses, where no treat is so agreeable as to find a man laughing at his friend.

In this case, the whole coterie of the very shabbiest party that ever disgraced and divided a nation--I mean the Whigs--are, I know, chuckling over that silly charge made by Mr.Lamb on the hustings, and now confirmed by Lord Byron, of my having belonged to a Whig club at Cambridge.