I told him in reply that the matter was one for the Ministers to settle, purely with a view to their own interest; that I asked for no indulgence; that I could make no terms; and that, what I would not do to serve them, I certainly would not do to keep my place.
Thus the matter stands.

It will probably be finally settled within a few hours.
This detestable Session goes on lengthening, and lengthening, like a human hair in one's mouth.

(Do you know that delicious sensation ?) Last month we expected to have been up before the middle of August.

Now we should be glad to be quite certain of being in the country by the first of September.

One comfort I shall have in being turned out: I will not stay a day in London after the West India Bill is through Committee; which I hope it will be before the end of next week.
The new Edinburgh Review is not much amiss; but I quite agree with the publishers, the editor, and the reading public generally, that the number would have been much the better for an article of thirty or forty pages from the pen of a gentleman who shall be nameless.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah M.Macaulay.
London: July 25, 1833.
My dear Sister,--The plot is thickening.