Haymarket
6 o'clock 9 June
My dear Sir,
Private
Copleys plumpers are now I understand to be set free as to their second votes, and Monday is to be Exchange Day, do not quote me for this but you may act upon it pretty surely. Norris of Trinny is a plumper & goes down & Calthorpe goes with Godfrey Ed d. of St Johns who plumps for us & therefore is likely to give us a vote, so says his brother the Peer.
Ld Weymouth is returned to England & I have been trying to find him out; as his brother is against us he may perhaps be for us.
My dear Sir
Yrs sincerely
Palmerston
Ld. Brecknock will come and so will the Clives
My counting up last night independent of the votes which I have sent you today was
absolute promises 676
Conditional ditto 18
694
of which plumpers 162
Probable votes 69
votes of whom nothing whatever is known 490
call the 694, 700 suppose 100 absentees which would reduce the number to 600 and add 54 Probables & Exchanges & we shall poll 650, & if so I am convinced we shall beat Bankes.
Please cite as “HENSLOW-944,” in Ɛpsilon: The Correspondence of John Stevens Henslow accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/henslow/letters/letters_944