'I don't
think the Negociators have left anything else for us to do this
turn.'"
"In the debate, or rather discussion, afterwards, in the House of
Lords, upon that very question, I sate immediately behind Lord Moira,
who was extremely annoyed at G.'s speech upon the subject, and while
G. was speaking, turned round to me repeatedly and asked me whether I
agreed with him? It was an awkward question to me, who had not heard
both sides. Moira kept repeating to me, 'It was 'not so', it was so
and so,' etc. I did not know very well what to think, but I
sympathized with the acuteness of his feelings upon the subject."
"Lord Eldon affects an Imitation of two very different
Chancellors--Thurlow and Loughborough--and can indulge in an oath now
and then. On one of the debates on the Catholic question, when we were
either equal or within one (I forget which), I had been sent for in
great haste from a Ball, which I quitted, I confess somewhat
reluctantly, to emancipate five Millions of people. I came in late,
and did not go immediately into the body of the house, but stood just
behind the Woolsack. Eldon turned round, and, catching my eye,
immediately said to a peer (who had come to him for a few minutes on
the Woolsack, as is the custom of his friends), 'Damn them! they'll
have it now, by God!--the vote that is just come in will give it
them.'"]
[Footnote 11: Horace, 'Odes', III. iii. 7.]
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