25 MARCH 1843, Page 19

NOTE ON FRANCIS HORNER AND LORD BROUGHAM.

Aw authority well informed as to the relative position of these two eminent persons, and not unacquainted with their respective feelings, has drawn attention to a remark in our notice of Hou- ausn's Life, on the absence of all correspondence between him and BROUGHAM, and on the apparent termination of their friend- ship. The view taken by our correspondent is this. The sup- posed alienation, of which Hoitiqua complains iu two letters in 1811, is shown to have been unfounded, by a subsequent one, in which, inter allot, he speaks of an intended visit to Brougham in Westmorland, and by another when he expresses pleasure at his reception. The absence of letters after that period (1812) is ac- counted for by there being no necessity to write, as they were in the habit of constant personal communication.