“. . . While I was riding in the Park yesterday, I received rather a smartish spat on my shoulder from an unseen stick. When I turned round and saw my assailant in quite an ultra fit of laughing, who do you suppose it could be? No other than our Prime Minister. . . . When I said of his royal master that every new thing I heard of him raised him higher in my opinion, he said:—‘He is a prime fellow, is he not?’ . . . I heard part of the King’s letter to Lord Grey:—‘The King considers it as most important in the present crisis of affairs to give some decisive proof of his unqualified confidence in Lord Grey, and for such a purpose he trusts Lord Grey will no longer
* Afterwards 2nd Marquess of Anglesey. † Afterwards Lord Chief Justice, created Lord Denman in 1834. ‡ H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex. |
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