“17th.—I dined with the
Duke. . . . Mrs.
Harvey and Miss Cator were
the only ladies. We were about sixteen or eighteen, I suppose; no strangers but
myself. One of the first things said at dinner by the Duke
was:—‘Did you see Kinnaird at Brussells, Creevey?’ to which I said:—‘Yes, I
saw him on Monday, just on the point of starting for Milan, where he means
to spend the next winter.’ Upon which the Duke
said:—‘By God! the Austrian Government won’t let him
stay there.’—‘Oh impossible,’ I said,
‘upon what pretence can they disturb him?’—and
then he paused, and afterwards
added:—‘Kinnaird is not at all busy
wherever he goes:’ to which I made no answer. This was the year
in which Lord Kinnaird took up
Marinet from Brussells to Paris, to give evidence
about the person who had fired at the Duke in Paris—an affair in which
Kinnaird, to my mind,
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