eighteen years
. However, you will find the speech, as spoken, in the Parliamentary Register, when it comes out. Lords Holland and Grenville, particularly the latter, paid me some high compliments in the course of their speeches, as you may have seen in the papers, and Lords Eldon and Harrowby answered me. I
had many marvellous eulogies
repeated to me since, in person and by proxy, from divers persons
ministerial
—yea,
ministerial!
—as well as oppositionists; of them I shall only mention Sir F. Burdett.