“. . . The town at present is kept in perpetual motion by the Duchess of Kent, everybody going to her fêtes at Kensington to see the young King of Portugal, her nephew. Lady Louisa [Molyneux] tells me that he is an innocent looking lad of 20, and that he never seems happy but when talking to his cousin Victoria, and that then they seem both supremely so. What wd. I give to hear of their elopement in a cab! . . . I declare I have not read anything for ages that has interested me so much as the Duke of Wellington’s examination and evidence before the Flogging Commission in the Times of to-day. It is the image of him in his best and most natural state, and very entertaining and instructive.”
