Lord Grey too has odkractecl fr his llTose Ferilousty
false position at the (lege of gaga , Hope: .4 s,gaveu everything—the hireling of the convicts, 16 fattire Aransmis- sion of convicts, the immigration of military convicts—all that the colonists refused. lie has characteristically notified the act of concession in despatches that vent his spleen at the dis- agreeable compulsion, and confess that to the last he sticks to his own opinion—condemning the colonists alike for their .conduct and views, and wishing to condemn poor Sir Harry Smith, who had done so much to nnnimire the mischief. Lord Grey does not shine in these despatches : doing wrong comes far more congenially to Ins hand ; to develop and decree a mischievous-crotchet is a work of love—to do right is irksome, unfmnilinr, and awkward.
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