“. . . My dear, these damned pensioners are the devil’s own to carry thro’ with us, and there can be no crowing till the Civil List Bill is fairly past. There is such an universal demand to have them flung out of window that I don’t see how they are to escape. . . . Our Vaux is not so tender-hearted in his department. By his reform he is to spread desolation by wholesale amidst the profession. I know that the Beau said yesterday:—‘I am very glad that Brougham is Chancellor. He is the only man with courage and talent to reform that damned Court.’”
