“27th.—Walked in the streets; they were all alive and merry. Tierney says ‘the business of last night will end in smoak,’ which confirms me in my conviction of its infinite importance. . . . I do not think any minister that ever was could stand a public enquiry into our ordinary expeditions; much less such a minister as this into such an expedition. . . . Walked with Bainbridge. He told me that, after our conversation two months ago, in which we agreed entirely about the fatal influence of Tierney over Grey, and the necessity of these leaders having their eyes opened as to their conduct to the Insurgents,* and the utter ruin such a system would bring upon them, he was so impressed with the matter that he went down to Lord
* The extreme wing of the Opposition, who afterwards assumed the ominous title of “the Mountain.” |
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