From Lord Palmerston   31 May 1826

My dear Sir

I send you a further report from the letters of today- any changes of what a horse dealer would call undeniable. Plumpers either with Copley or Goulburn would certainly be advantageous, for though I have no business to express any opinion as to other candidates it is more likely that the contest will be between me & Bankes than between me & the other two; at the same time I begin to think as I have said in my letter of yesterday which you will get today that Copley is very much weaker than his friends have pretended him to be; but these exchanges may perhaps not be the less well effected by being a little delayed.

My dear Sir

Yrs sincerely

Palmerston

My Right to Frank is official & is not interrupted by the dissolution.