“. . . Sefton and
I are going at 12 in his cabriolet towards Brandenburgh House, to see the
addressers and processions to the Queen.
Meantime the streets
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“Lord Holland came up to me at Brooks’s yesterday, and reproached me for never coming near my lady; and, after many civil things in his pretty manner, he said I should go and see her with him. So I did, and she was all civility and humility. At parting, she begg’d I would look in upon her in the evening, and I found afterwards she had written to Lord Sefton in the morning, begging he would accomplish this great point with me. . . .
“Apropos of Tierney, a funny thing happened about him some time ago at Cashiobury. Decaze and Tierney being both dining there, Decaze said—‘If the Opposition came in, what would they do with Napoleon?—Upon which says old Cole* in her way—‘Why, put him on the throne of France, to be sure!’ Which sentiment was sent off by a special courier to old Louis le desiré the instant Decaze returned from dinner. Old Louis forwarded the frightful intelligence to Troppau, where the Emperor Alexander has made the regular complaint and remonstrance to Gordon, our Minister there, who has returned it duly to the Foreign Office. The most comical thing is the different ways in which Castlereagh and Tierney take it. The former has sent the latter a funny message, saying he wishes he would have no more jokes with Decaze about Buonaparte, for that he has played the devil at Troppau. But old Cole is frightened out of her wits, and talks of nothing else—is apprehensive the country gentlemen will be out with it in the House of Commons, and that it may do the party a serious injury. She and Decaze had a meeting yesterday, and the latter has agreed if necessary to depose on oath that he believes Tierney’s observation was only made in joke.
“Holland set off at four this morning for Oxford, to help Lord Jersey at his county meeting.† It was with the greatest difficulty my lady let him go, and he begged me not to mention it before her, as it was a very sore subject.”
