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act upon his own judgment: his manner, from shyness, is against
him. I suspect that he has a love of fun in him, for he told me that he
was occupied in persuading Lewis to write a book on moral
philosophy, as he was certain from the opinions he heard from Lewis
that it would be at least entertaining. ‘For,’ says he, ‘he calls virtues
what the world holds in abhorrence as great vices, and these
paradoxes he maintains so strangely that I cannot illustrate them
stronger than by telling you that he confesses himself surprised that
Wilberforce should have published his book after The Monk. He
thinks it great want of taste to give a system of morality in a dry,
forbidding form, whereas “mine is given in a popular, pleasing
manner, which diverts whilst it instructs, annner to upbraid him for his
vote the night before, but hed is adapted to every capacity.”’
Yesterday when he came in to dinner Lds. Boringdon and Amherst
lifted up their hands in a ma rather showed an unwillingness to be
tutored. Again, during a dinner, Ld. B. leant across me to tell him he
was a rival to Julian. I immediately said, ‘I see no apostasy in being
guided by good sense and not biassed by interest.’ Ld. B. said no
more, and the Duke looked thanks for the reproof. Again Ld. B.
asked how he meant to vote upon a question which is coming on.
The question is improper to ask, and the Duke replied very well, ‘I
shall decide when I hear the arguments on both sides.’
We had a numerous party; Sir James St. Clair is lately returned
from Minorca, of which place he gives but a sorry account. His wife
is handsome; she did not love him when they first married, but his
good nature has conquered her dislike, and she is almost in love
with him. In most marriages a material change occurs in the course
of ten years, but she has the merit of singularity in hers. Ld. Lorne is
an old favourite of mine; his good humour, cheerfulness, and ease is
quite charming. Lewis’ lines in an epilogue to Barbarossa, which they
acted at Inverary, are very descriptive of him:—
And Lord Lorne’s easy air, when he got in a passion, Proved a
tyrant must needs be a person of fashion. He seemed much at home
through the whole of the play; He died in a style that was quite
dégagé. And his orders for murder, disclosed by their tone, ’Twas the
same if he gave them or let them alone.
14th Feb., 1800.—Bob Heathcote came for the first time. ‘A fool
and his money are soon parted.’ Most of his is squandered at the
gaming table, Newmarket, rare editions, sums lent to ——, splendid
dinners, and, in short, in every way that it can go. He is, however,
very good-natured, and not conceited—merits that cover a thousand
blemishes, and in society make up for most deficiencies.
A few days back Mr. Kinnaird,[60] eldest son of
Ld. Kinnaird, dined here for the first time. Being a MR. KINNAIRD
Scotchman and having studied in a Scotch
University, report puffs him high, of course. Tho’ it overdoes his
deserts, yet he merits some praise. He is clever and willing to
please; one cannot pity him for shyness, as he labours under no
embarrassment upon that score. Living in the world will set his head
right and render him useful. He is an eager politician against
Ministers.
Ld. H. is gone down to the H. of Lords, as a message from the
King to subsidise the German Princes is before the House. It is
conjectured that our magnanimous ally, the Imperial Paul, is
deserting the cause he espoused so vehemently; whilst we are to
continue fighting until ‘experience and the evidence of facts’ render a
peace proper with Bonaparte. One of the finest passages in Mr.
Fox’s speech was where he took up the expression of those who
gave for reason the not negotiating immediately, that ‘we should
pause.’ He described with energy the calamities of war, the villages
sacked, cattle destroyed, the field of battle covered with agonised
victims weltering in their blood, who, if questioned as to the cause
they were fighting in, could not answer as in other wars, ‘ambition,’
‘aggrandisement of territory,’ etc., etc. ‘No, we fight because the
English Ministers are doubtful as to the moral qualities of Bonaparte.’
Lord Carlisle is mightily disposed to vote against the Ministers, a
propensity which gives his son great alarm, as he is riveted to all the
dogmas of the Ministerial creed, the necessity of the war, faith in the
prowess of Suwarrow, the infallibility of Mr. Pitt, etc., etc.
General Fitzpatrick has published his letters to Lord Kenyon.[61]
Previous to doing so he sent them to the King, accompanied by a
letter calculated to delight him, appealing to him as the head of the
school of honour and chief among gentlemen. The motto to the
publication is very happy; it is taken from Kenyon’s own speech on
the trial of Horne Tooke in 1792: ‘Mr. Horne Tooke, I cannot sit here
to hear names calumniated and vilified, persons who are not in this
case, persons who are absent, and cannot defend themselves. A
Court of Justice is no place for calumny. You must see the
impropriety of it, and it does not become the feelings of an
honourable mind.’
I heard of a great trait of Scotch nationality. At a dinner at the
Chief Baron’s,[62] where Sylvester Douglas[63] was, the news, just
then fresh, of Bonaparte’s seizure of the Governt. was mentioned,
upon which both the Scotchmen at the same moment inquired, ‘And
what did Macdonald[64] do?’
The Prince of Wales is supposed to be dying:
whatever his illness may be besides, revived love THE PRINCE’S
for Mrs. Fitzherbert has aggravated and added to HEALTH
the measure of it. Mde. de Coigny says it’s like a
rondeau, in which variations are made ad libitum, but the return is to
the first air. He had a numerous dinner last week, composed solely
of parsons; whether this was fun or fear is uncertain. If he had been
in a vein for the former, it might have been indulged, as no set of
men abhor each other with more heartfelt hatred than those pious
brethren; each is in the way of the other, like an overloaded market
in Bengal of English beauties. The other night at D. House he fell
back in his chair and pointed to have his neckcloth loosened;
fortunately Farquhar was there, and ordered proper remedies for his
recovery.
The French have played a very good trick in return for our
publishing the intercepted letters. They pretend to have found hidden
in the wall of a house belonging to a Chouan chief, letters written by
Pitt, Windham, etc., to recommend the Royalists to make peace with
the Republicans at any rate, and then break it when the English
succours arrive. This may be a real correspondence, but if not, è
bene trovato.
Menzini,[65] the satirist, was derided for his poverty by an insolent
and haughty Cardinal, who from his balcony perceived him walking,
shabbily dressed. The Cardinal expressed his contempt in the lines
of Petrarch:—
Povera e nuda vai Filosofia.
Menzini, with great quickness, replied by the next line of the poet:—
Dice la turba al vil guadagno intesa.