Lord Althorp has the temper of Lord North with the principles of Romilly.

If he had the oratorical powers of either of those men, he might do anything.

But his understanding, though just, is slow, and his elocution painfully defective.

It is, however, only justice to him to say that he has done more service to the Reform Bill even as a debater than all the other Ministers together, Stanley excepted.
We are going,--by we I mean the Members of Parliament who are for reform,--as soon as the Bill is through the Commons, to give a grand dinner to Lord Althorp and Lord John Russell, as a mark of our respect.
Some people wished to have the other Cabinet Ministers included; but Grant and Palmerston are not in sufficiently high esteem among the Whigs to be honoured with such a compliment.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah M.Macaulay.
London: September 9, 1835.
My dear Sister,--I scarcely know where to begin, or where to end, my story of the magnificence of yesterday.

No pageant can be conceived more splendid.