Such a Whig as I then was, I am now.

I had no notion that the name implied selfishness and subserviency, and desertion of the most important principles for the sake of the least important interest.

I had no notion that it implied anything more than an attachment to the principles the ascendency of which expelled the Stuarts from the Throne.

Lord Byron belonged to this Cambridge club, and desired me to scratch out his name, on account of the criticism in the _Edinburgh Review_ on his early poems; but, exercising my discretion on the subject, I did not erase his name, but reconciled him to the said Whigs.
The members of the club were but few, and with those who have any marked politics amongst them, I continue to agree at this day.

They were but ten, and you must know most of them--Mr.
W.Ponsonby, Mr.George O'Callaghan, the Duke of Devonshire, Mr.Dominick Browne, Mr.Henry Pearce, Mr.Kinnaird, Lord Tavistock, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Byron, and myself.