I will tell you one compliment that was paid me, and which delighted me more than any other.

An old member said to me: "Sir, having heard that speech may console the young people for never having heard Mr.Burke." [A Tory member said that Macaulay resembled both the Burkes: that he was like the first from his eloquence, and like the second from his stopping other people's mouths.] The Slavery Bill is miserably bad.

I am fully resolved not to be dragged through the mire, but to oppose, by speaking and voting, the clauses which I think objectionable.

I have told Lord Althorp this, and have again tendered my resignation.

He hinted that he thought that the Government would leave me at liberty to take my own line, but that he must consult his colleagues.