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A rumour of Lord Brougham's death was extensively circulated on Monday evening. The Count D'Orsay was reported to have read a letter at Crockford's Club-house, which Mr. Alfred Montgomery, a friend of Lord Brougham, had received front Westmoreland, and which bore the signature of Mr. Shaft°, a gentleman then on a visit at Brougham Hall.' The letter stated minutely the particulars of Lord Brougham's decease. It was said that his Lordship, with Mr. Leader and Mr. Shafto, were travelling in a landau hired at Penrith, on an excursion to a part of Lord Brougham's property, that the horses became restive, and overturned the carriage into a ditch ; that one of the horses stunned Lord Ilroullum with a kick on the head, and then the carriage falling on his body, killed him at once. Mr. Leader was also said to have been dreadfully hurt, while Mr. Shafto escaped. Anxious inquiries were made at Lord Brougham's house in Grafton Street—Lady Brougham te:d her daughter being at Brighton—whether any news of the fittal accident had been received from Westmoreland ; but no intelligence of the kind had reached the domestics. More than one hundred and fifty persons called. On Tuesday, the ..Vorelip:, Chsoniete and 31orninci Post, assuming that the report was well-founded, published obituary notices of his Lordship— both eloquent, and written in a very generous spirit. The Times dis- credited the rumour ; and in the course of the morning its fidsehood
as ascertained ; and it turned out, that though Lord Brougham, Mr.
Leader, Miss Men, Mr. Edmunds, and Mr. Shaft°, had gone on an excursion, and their carriage had broken down, nobody was hurt, ex- cept the driver and one of Mr. Shafto's servants: Lord Broughatn and Air. Leader walked back to Brougham Hall, a distance of thirteen
The Count D'Orsay, in his own justification, published the following letter.
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