“. . . Rather sharp work this day 16 years ago at Waterloo and Brussels. . . . Lord Grey told Sefton that Lambton‡ made him both miserable and actually ill by his constant interference and persecution of him. . . . Charles Greville told me he was at Lady Jersey’s when Wellington was there, the subject of conversation being the cholera morbus. Lady Jersey said to the Duke:—‘You know what Lord Grey has done about it?’—‘No.’—‘He has given orders that all merchandise coming from the Baltic shall be instantly destroyed.’—‘Oh impossible!’—‘But I know it to be quite true.’ Just at that time she left the room and the Duke availed himself of her absence to observe to Greville—‘What damned nonsense Lady Jersey talks!’ . . .”
