The life and letters of George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B.

  • Maxwell, Herbert, Sir, 1845-1937.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The life and letters of George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

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    aunt) ^ have nailed the marriage by their abuse of the girl for it, and he don't suppose the Chancellor can have just grounds to prevent it, tho' she is a ward in Chancery. Leach tells me that it is said (of course not proved) that Hobhouse, Lord B3T:on's friend, is the author of the anonymous letter to Canning, and that he beheved Canning thought himself so sure of his man that he—Leach—thought he was more justified in writing that letter than would appear at first sight. Still, I can't help thinking it the most total abandonment of all sense of dignity, and more Hke a wild Irishman than an EngUsh Cabinet minister.- . . . [No date, 1818.]— .. . Upon my word your letters to-day were dehcious beyond anything that ever was deUcious before. I really beheve (tho' it almost appears impossible) that our mutual affection encreases every year and every month and every hour. I do not suppose it is possible for any people to have a greater desire to please each other than we all have, and I feel now ten times more confident (no ! that's a he, for it can't be) than ever that you will both work hard from the beginning, not to leave the fagging to the last; but mixing that hard work with regular and sufficient exercise, wdthout which illness must be the consequence. . . . Mix your study and your exercise in due proportion, if only to please me, and I know you will both do anything for that. . . . Now adieu, my dearest, dearest boys : how shall I get thro' this term without you ? It is like Uving with one's limbs torn off. . . . Uh May 1818.— , . . Now for an account of the Belinda ball. Your sister was exceedingly well dressed—beautiful pink corsage made after a French pattern of Lady Jersey's, gauze tail given by Emily, a pretty trimming of mine at the bottom, and gauze loop'd up with flowers. Nobody in the room better dress'd, and she was admired to my heart's content. Then think of her luck, getting various spontaneous partners—Charles Trefusis,^ Henry Disborough, a young Legge introduced by Disbrowe, Robt. 1 Michael Angelo Taylor, I\I.P., lived in Whitehall, where his house was a well-known rendezvous of the Whigs. - IMuch of the pamphlet is reprinted in Lady Anne Hamilton's scurrilous Secret History of the Court of En:/land, where the authorship is attributed to Sir John Cam Hobhouse. In his reply to it, Canning, dating from Gloucester House on 10th April, addresses the pamphleteer as 'a liar and a slanderer, wanting only the courage to be an assassin.' (See Bagot's George Canning and his Friends, ii. 78-80.) * Succeeded in 1832 as nineteenth Baron Clinton.