to write to Weld or Tancred on the subject. Crosbie Ward has sent me a copy of a pamphlet addressed to Lord Lyttelton urging the claims of the Colony etc. etc. It is written in a very friendly spirit to me but contains some misstatements calculated to do me much more harm than those urged by men whose judgement is bissed by personal dislike - He lays great stress on my not having kept my promises