' Afterwards created Ist Earl GranyiUe.
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84 LETTERS TO IVY

of a part of that load of blame which many people
were incUiied to heap upc» him, and the firamer of

^ the article * was s^it off to Russia as great as

a Tory ministry could make him, and as white as
a Whig 0{^K)sition could wash him. The fact is that
he had no talents that could ahum them — ^to his
poUtical profligacy they were perfectly indifferent,
or perhaps aj^plauded it in their hearts, whilst they
laughed at the dupery of their more implicit and con-
sistent followers. They therefcnre were ready enough
to protect him, and disr^arded all the ill-effects that
might arise firom the success of his apostasy.
Canning^s case, putting it at the worst, ain't hali
so bad ; but he has overtopped those who, because
they were so once, thought they were always to
continue his superiors, and in a division of the spoil
his share would be too large.
These, and not his disingenuous conduct to his
colleagues, are his real crimes. Not that I approve
of his intrigues ; but, as I don'jt think him worse than
his neighbours, I don^t like to say much about the
matter. Such as he is, I do not think there is much
danger of his coming in with Wellesley and Melville.
