Describing a meeting with Tom Macaulay who reported that, although he and everyone else had believed Buxton wrong to insist on a division in the Commons, Lord Althorpe had since remarked that, as Buxton had commanded so sizeable a minority even though he was in the wrong, he would be certain of a majority when in the right. The government had therefore decided to take up the cause of emancipation. He had also said that Sir James Graham had told him the government was about to appoint a committee to examine the issue. He describes the pressures surrounding his decision to force a division when all his associates were urging him to yield, including Lord Brougham and Dr Lushington, and, admitting that he found it difficult to resist, he concludes that it was prayer and divine assistance that led him to insist on it. He ends by mentioning a forthcoming meeting with Sir James Graham at the Colonial Office. (Copy.) (Memoir, pp. 296-297.)