A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1835
Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 6 November 1835
Weymouth-street, Portland-place, Nov. 6th, 1835.
No news. All the Ministers meet here on the 12th.
John Russell is to make a great splash
at Bristol; they began laying the cloth ten days ago. I was
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invited, but I have done with agitation. I see Lord
John means to spare the House of Lords.
Everybody here is delighted with Mackintosh’s Life, and is calling
out for more letters and diaries. I think Robert
Mackintosh has done it very well, by putting in as little mortar
as possible between the layers of stone.
We are all pleased with our Paris excursion. The Liberals,
particularly the Flahaults, do not know
what to make of the last measures. If they had only been temporary, there would
not have been a dissentient voice.
Auguste Charles Joseph Flahault de la Billardrie (1785-1870)
The illegitimate son of Charles Talleyrand; after education in England and serving as
aide-de-camp to Napoleon he took refuge in England upon the restoration of the Bourbons. In
1817 he married Margaret Mercer Elphinstone.
Robert James Mackintosh (1806-1864)
The son and biographer of Sir James Mackintosh; he was lieutenant governor of Saint
Christopher (1847-1850) and governor of Antigua (1850-1855).
John Russell, first earl Russell (1792-1878)
English statesman, son of John Russell sixth duke of Bedford (1766-1839); he was author
of
Essay on the English Constitution (1821) and
Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe (1824) and was Prime Minister (1865-66).