“Nothing to-day, excepting Wellington’s scrape last night in calling public meetings ‘a farce.’* Was there ever such a goose to get into such a mess? He was pummelled black and blue by Carnarvon, Lansdowne and Holland, and had not only to apologise himself, but to get Liverpool to do the same for him. . . . You never saw a fellow so vicious as Grey, but all cordiality and good fellowship between him and me.
“Pray tell me how I am to act upon a point of form. I am invited to dine on Sunday week both by the Duke of Sussex and the Speaker, and both are considered as commands. . . .”
