“. . . Sefton is seriously annoyed at the terrible state in which Lord Foley’s family have been left. They have been literally without bread of late. The present young lord, who is excellent, was induced by his father to make himself answerable for his father’s debts, and will not have a farthing left. She has a jointure of £2,500 a year, and the younger children (7 in number) have £30,000 amongst them. The family estate was £40,000 a year, all of which is either gone, or must go. Was there ever such wickedness?”
