Address: York. To T Hodgkin, Esq, 5 Brunswick Terrace, Pentonville, [London]. Written on the eve of Brougham's election as one of the four MPs for Yorkshire: 'I have not the least shadow of a claim to sit for this immense county except my principles and my known devotion to them.' Refers to the July Revolution in France: 'Never was such a death blow dealth to tyranny and priestcraft, never such a severe lesson inflicted on our own infatuated rulers ...'.
Autograph, with signature.