Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... but am very sorry you have such an excuse to make as Lady Georgiana's illness. I should have had no curiosity, much less anxiety, upon the matter if it had not been that I wished to know whether the language, which I knew Sheridan would hold to him, had any effect and what. I think I can see by the newspaper accounts of the debate that Sheridan disliked Francis1 pressing him on the subject of the Prince very much, and that if there was any difficulty he got very well out of it. I am very sorry the Duke has so bad a fit of the gout. I do not believe the French will come: if they do, by what I see they will find us as unprepared as ever owing to the last foolish manceuvres of the Doctor.2 Yours ever, C. J. Fox. P.S.--I hear an admirable quotation of yours upon S. and his prepared Uniform. Motley your only wear should be his motto. The Earl of Aberdeen* To Augustus Foster. Edinburgh, August 14, 1804. Dear Augustus, --You will participate in my grief when I tell you that I arrived last night at Edinburgh, which is of all places the most horrible. There is a most plentiful crop of grass in the streets, which the painter of the panorama has omitted, much to the injury of the Rurality of the scene. 1 Francis--Sir Philip F., supposed author of the celebrated Letters of Junius (1740-1818). 'the Doctor--Henry Addington, prime minister from 1801 to 1803 (1757-1844). The Earl of Aberdeen--George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, prime minister from 1852 to 1855. He was a man of culture, a student of Greek architecture and antiquities, and had visited Athens by this time; hence Byron designated him as "the travelled thane, Athenian Aberdeen " (1784-1860). I am going to-morrow into Aberdeenshire. Do not imagine I shall really die, for I shall..."
