“. . . I made a very good speech (altho’ you will find little trace of it in the newspapers), and rolled the new Buckingham Board of Controul about to their heart’s content, and to the universal satisfaction of the House. Tierney of course betrayed me by his hollow support, and then I had all the weight of Canning’s jokes to sustain, evidently prepared and fired upon me in the successive, and of course successful, peals. . . . I must, or ought to, regret very much that I let Canning off so easily; because, to do the House justice, they gave me perfectly fair play, and when I fired into the ‘Idle Ambassador’ at Lisbon, I had him dead beat. He dropt his head into his chest, and evidently skulked from what he thought might come. . . . It was a great, and perhaps the only opportunity of shewing up the Joker’s life and what it has all ended in—banishment to India from want of honesty. . . . I think I shall have full measure of these bridal visits. I dine at Ly. Anson’s to-day, on Sunday at McDonald’s, on Thursday with the young people at the Duke of Norfolk’s, to-morrow with the Whigs at Ridley’s.”
