me his name, nor anything more, except that his
object was, if he had won, to pay his creditors, and he had
authorised Payne to retain the money, if he won it, for that
purpose.

We heard, while at the Oaks, that M. Dedel had signed the
convention between France, England, and Holland, on which all the
funds rose. The King of Holland's ratification was still to be
got, and many people will not believe in that till they see it.

June 3rd, 1833 {p.375}

The Government are in high spirits. The Saints have given in
their adhesion to Stanley's plan, and they expect to carry the
West India question. The Bank measure has satisfied the
directors, and most people, except Peel. The Duke of Wellington
told me he was very well satisfied, but that _they_ had intended
to make better terms with the Bank, and he thought they should
have done so. Melbourne says, 'Now that we are as much hated as
they were, we shall stay in for ever.'

As I came into town (having come by the steamboat from Margate
very luxuriously) on Saturday I found a final meeting at the
Council Office to dispose of the lunacy case. It was so late when
Horne finished his reply that I thought there was no chance of
any discussion, and I did not go in; but I met the Master of the
Rolls afterwards, who told me they had delivered their opinions,
Lord Eldon cautiously, he himself 'broadly,' which I will be
bound he did (for he hates Brougham), and that, though no
judgment had been yet given, the Chancellor's decree would be
reversed; so that after all Brougham's wincing and wriggling to
this he has been forced to submit at last.

London, June 11th, 1833 {p.376}

At a place called Buckhurst all last week for the Ascot races; a
party at Lichfield's, racing all the morning, then eating and
drinking, and play at night. I may say, with more truth than
anybody, 'Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.' The weather
was charming, the course crowded, the King received decently. His
household is now so ill managed that his grooms were drunk every
day, and one man (who was sober) was killed going home from the
races. Goodwin told me nobody exercised any authority, and the
consequence was that the household all ran riot.

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The first day of the races arrived the news that the Duke of
Wellington, after making a strong muster, had beaten the
Government in the House of Lords on the question of Portuguese
neutrality and Don Miguel, that Lord Gr