I am half ashamed to tell you the compliments which I have received; but you well know that it is not from vanity, but to give you pleasure, that I tell you what is said about me.

Lord Althorp told me twice that it was the best speech he had ever heard; Graham, and Stanley, and Lord John Russell spoke of it in the same way; and O'Connell followed me out of the house to pay me the most enthusiastic compliments.

I delivered my speech much more slowly than any that I have before made, and it is in consequence better reported than its predecessors, though not well.

I send you several papers.

You will see some civil things in the leading articles of some of them.