The life and letters of George William Frederick, fourth earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.C.B.
- Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![Governor's excessive rage has entirely bouleverse every idea I ever had. . . . The girl Georgiana Lennox ^ is making an immense set at Henry Fox,^ but the Madagascar Princess ^ will never allow that to tirer a consequence. ... I hear Lord Ilchester is going to marry Miss Wynn, niece to Lady Grantham, and sister to your Cambridge acquaintance ; and Lord Prudhoe, the D. of Northumberland's brother, is going to marry the eldest girl Liddell.'* How matrimony runs in some famihes ! . . . Old Lady Georgiana Morpeth ^ has produced another daughter, being the 12th child ! There ought to be acts of Parhament to prevent people having more children after they become grandmothers. . . . Brompton Row, IthFebrimry 1823.— . . . On Tuesday I went to the House of Lords to hear his lordship ^ move the address. No two fools were ever more nervous than Lady M[orley] and me : however, he tir€d himself d'affaire unkimmon well. He spoke for full 50 minutes, and yet of all the things I ever saw / should have thought it the most nervous, for Canning, Charles EUis, Ward, Morpeth, etc. etc., were all by the throne to hear him. Lord Granville just behind him, Lord Liverpool by the side of him. I thought he did beautifully ; but, as I had never heard any sensational speaking, I was anxious to judge by comparison, and I was pecuUarly fortunate, for Lord Lansdowne and Lord Liverpool both spoke, who are both censes to be capital speakers, and then I was quite quite satisfied that his lordship had done very well indeed. The seconder was poor Lord Mayo : why on earth they got such a stick Heaven knows ; but, after having boggled out a few words which nobody heard, he coolly took his speech out of his pocket and went up to the candle on the table, and tried to read it, which he could barely do. It really was lamentable. Then that very queer man Lord Stanhope spoke and thumped the table prodigiously ; but, as we were behind Tommy Tyrwhitt's curtain,' and his back was to us, we heard very indistinctly. . . . Lord Ellenboro' (who, you know, is a fine recruit to the Opposition because Canning fills Lord Londonderry's place) got up, having evidently prepared a speech of which he was proud, and deter- ^ Lady Georgiana Lennox, daughter of the fourth Duke of Richmond, married in the following year to William, twentieth Baron de Ros. - Afterwards fourth Lord Holland: married in 1833 Lady Mary Augusta, daughter of the eighth Earl of Coventry. * Lady Holland. * Neither of these marriages took place. * Wife of the sixth Earl of Carlisle, and daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire. ^ Mrs. Villiers's brother, who had been promoted to an earldom in 1815. ' Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Black Rod.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20452378_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
