The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-10 00:00:00

LORD BROUGHAM.

The deputation which left Edinburgh on 'fuesd4Y
present to Lord Brougham congratulations on his restora-
tion to health, and to request the honour of his compan
to a public dinner, returned from Brougham Hall on Th urday afternoon. His Lordship was pleased to express _t
him-
self in the warmest terms of gratitude, and to sate,
nothing but imperative duty, which obliged him to contT
ne
under medical advice, prevented his accepting the invitatto •
Brougham Hall, Oct. 5, 1836.
My Lord Provost and Gentlemen,—As it is altogether
impossible for me to express the feelings which your extra;
ordinary kindness gives rise to, I should certainly not In_aki.
the attempt, but that my silence might be misconstrued t
entreat you then to be assured that upon neither of the ~mem-
orable occasions when I had the gratification of personally
thankinc, my fellow-citizens of Edinburgh, for those sigewal
marks of attachment which they were pleased to besto.;
did I experience a higher degree of satisfaction than I di,
in the peculiar circumstances of the present moment ; and,
looking back to those former celebrations, I cannot more
strongly describe what I now feel.
Permit me to add, that the hearty union of all the
parties holding opinions friendly to Reform, greatly enhances
in my eyes the value of the honour you have conferred upon _
me ; for I regard it as an earnest of the further succes!,
which may in future reward our combined efforts on belndt
of those prineiples to which, though doubtless with shades
of difference in detail, we are all, in the main, sincerely
attached.
You may judge, then, how deeply I lament the necessitY,
under which I find myself placed of declining to accept
such an invitation. My health, which had been broke]
by the labours of the session in 1835, when the legis'
lative proceedings of the year were crowded into six weeks'
has now been restored. But I have resolved to avoid all
risk of a relapse during the period which will most HO/
intervene before the re-commencement of public busineg
(and I had acted upon this determination in other instances
before I had the honour of receiving your commands.) ,
I have thus only one way left of showing my gratitude
for the confidence which you are pleased to repose in iret
It is by persevering in the same course of conduct by whic
I have gained it ; by steadily pursuing what appears best
fitted to promote the good of the community at large, viithj
out the least regard to any other interests whatever,
with the fixed resolution to resist all attempts, whether to
dictate or obstruct that course, let them come from what
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proceed,
when the fatal consequences of disunion become more el'
dent every day.
Allow me further to thank you for the distinguish°
honour which you have conferred upon me, by sending
most respectable deputation of your body with this invitrAiou
The communications which I have had with them
possible, increased the pain which I feel in being obliged ",
refuse. I have the honour to be, my Lord Provost Oh
Gentlemen, with every sentiment of respect and este°
your faithful and obliged servant,
(Signed) BROUGHAM'
To the Right Hon. the Lord Provost of Edinburgh,
The Provost of Leith, &c. &c. &c.