Volume I Part 2 (1/2)

Why should onder if in Greville's verses Each thought so brilliant and each line so terse is?

For surely he in poetry must shi+ne Who is, we know, so favoured by the nine[22]

_THE JOLLY TENS_

Quoth Greville, 'The commandments are divine; But as they're ten, I lay thee their number and be nine, I'd keep them all, and keep them to myself!'

Thus we trifled life away

[15] A clock tower

[16] Lady Granville

[17] E Montagu

[18] We gave him this nickname

[19] Tens, ruinous at ain

[22] _Nines_ are the grand desiderata at e Head: LADY JERSEY]

January 17th, 1819 {p012}

I went to Burleigh on the 23rd of December; there was no one there but Irby The house disappointed me very much, but it is a very fine showplace I went away on the 27th to Middleton; there were the Culling Sent, &c; it was very agreeable, and the house extremely comfortable Lady Jersey[23] is an extraordinary woood qualities; surrounded as she is by flatterers and admirers, she is neither proud nor conceited She is full of vivacity, spirit, and good nature, but the wide range of her syeneral benevolence than particular sensibility in her character She perforreat correctness, because her heart is naturally good; and she is, perhaps, froenerality of her sex She is deficient in passion and in softness (which constitute the greatest charm in women), so that she excites more of admiration than of interest; in conversation she is lively and pleasant, without being very reination, nor hu, and her judgment is too often warped by prejudice to be sound She has a retentive ether with a sort of intellectual arrangeifted by nature than to have derived it fro faculties

[23] [Sarah Sophia, eldest daughter of John, tenth Earl of Westmoreland, and heiress of Robert Child, Esq, of Osterley Park, her randfather]

I went from Middleton to Oatlands The Duke was not there We had the Se Dawson, Lord Lauderdale, &c Lord Erskine was ill, and Lord Lauderdale was taking care of him The house was very uncomfortable, and the room I was in small, noisy, and inconvenient

I camore and more every day The Opposition expect to divide 180 on the Bank question; they talk of re-establishi+ng the dinners which they used to have in Fox's tiers is in a nervous state about his poeers' poem entitled 'Human Life' was on the eve of publication The reviewers treated it more tenderly than it deserved, as appears below]

January 28th, 1819 {p013}

I went to Gorhambury on the 24th to shoot The Duke of York was there We should have had a brilliant _chasse_, but it rained We went out at three and killed 105 pheasants

There has been so in the House of Coht before last, on Dr Halloran's petition, when the Opposition (Bennet _duce_) got completely beaten Many of the new members have spoken, but Mr Lawson, a _soi-disant_ wit, and Sir R Wilson have failed lah that Wilson made a reply to an attack which Cobbett had inserted in one of his papers upon him Cobbett said that he would make a silly speech in Parliament and destroy himself, and it is just what he did The Opposition were very angry with Sir J Coffin, ith the candour of a novice, had made hi they were against his friends, said so in the House

Arbuthnot tolda friend of Mr Pitt, and in one of his speeches on the Southwark or Colchester election he praised him in opposition to Mr Fox This latter never liked hient assured Arbuthnot he had letters of Tierney in his possession thanking hi endeavoured to reton caet Tierney, as nobody would be so useful to hily, and so Tierney becaain into office a negotiation was opened with hi He was offered the Chief Secretaryshi+p in Ireland, which he wished to have, but he made it a condition that he should not be in Parliaree, as he said that he must commit himself with the to coht Hon George Tierney, Treasurer of the Navy and PC in 1803 President of the Board of Control in October, 1806, Member of the Mint in 1827]

January 31st, 1819 {p014}