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April 21^st 1815 ¹

My Dear Henry

Thank you for the most amusing Letter ² I have received from you a great while – Kit ³ does not seem to be so gay, for he writes to his Mother ⁴ that he cannot bear the thoughts of your leaving Harrow ⁵ & that he shall be quite dismal. I believe she will be married in about ten days, but it is not settled yet.

Mary & Jane ⁶ went to the assembly at Lansdowne House ⁷ last Night – 800 people were asked. Constellations of the new Knights appeared there, amongst others your old friend Sir Graham Moore ⁸ had a Star glittering on his coat.

Have you heard of Lord Auckland’s accident he was thrown out of a Tilburyv & hurt his head very much, he is a great deal better. Charlotte, Isabella & Emma ⁹ left town with Miss Fry yesterday, they are to visit D^r & M^rs Fowler & then go on to Penrice. ¹⁰

Is it your new Watch that goes so ill? I mean the one M^r F. gave you the other day? There can be but one opinion as to the generosity of Buonaparte’s ¹¹ having released the Duc d’Angoulême ¹² the Bourbons would not have treated him with such lenity if they had caught him. If B. had kept the Duc d’A. merely as a hostage without doing him any harm, it could not have been reckoned unfair in political Warfare.

I shall not go to Harrow the Speech day, unless you wish it.