The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 14: 1826-32
Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 21 June 1828
“Shandwick Place, 21st June 1828.
“My dear Lockhart,—I
received your letter yesterday, and observe with deep sorrow how little you
have to say on the subject which must be most at both our hearts. But
God’s will must be done. I pass to other matters.
“Your way to do with the Premier is to set your article in proof, following out the
hints I
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gave you, and send it with such queries as occur, as
briefly stated as is consistent with busy plans, and intelligible. This will
give him least trouble. You will remember that he considered that the basis of
a pacific system was laid in the alliance at Paris to which the King of France
afterwards acceded, and he considered the Holy Alliance as an hasty arrangement
made in the enthusiastic feelings of the moment, to which Britain never
acceded, and which could scarce be considered as the deliberate purpose of the
powers who did engage in it. You will look of course with a diplomatic eye at
the treatises themselves.”
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
