TALBOT6534

29 Royal Crescent Bath
Tuesday Dec^r 9^th 1857

My dear Henry

I got your letter this morning – & now write to tell you that I have this evening received a letter from M^r Gaisford ¹ dated Lyons – Saturday. He arrived at Paris on Thursday at 5 P.M. just when the fighting was going on – & no sum of money would induce any carriage to take them to Meurice’s ² – or any Porter to move their luggage. After some trouble & difficulty he succeeded in reaching Maurice’s on foot, Where he found a note from his faithless friend, saying that he thought M^r G. had been deterred from coming by the news from Paris – & as the accounts from Paris Lyons were so bad, he M^r Long, was gone back to London! & would go either by Trieste or Southampton as M^r G. pleased! This was too bad & made him naturally very angry – so he wrote to tell his friend he might go where he pleased – & that he was gone on – Luckily they fell in with a friend of his & Johnny’s ³ – M^r Hay – (our M^r Hay,) just setting off to visit L^d Brougham ⁴ at Cannes – so they travelled together very snug. Lyons is quiet, owing to the immense numbers of troops. There are 6 Regiments stationed on the Place Belcour, [sic] – L. Gallwey ⁵ writes word that Gen^l Castellano is dévoué corps et âme to the Président ⁶ – Carry de B. ⁷ is still in London –

Y^r aff^ly
Caroline

Charlie ⁸ is just come home–