ce of the highest
principles, the clearest judgement, and the kindliest feelings.
Thus blessed in her own happy disposition, she was a blessing to
all around her. She was the ornament and delight of society, the
comfort, support, and joy of her own family. The numerous friends
who admired and esteemed her will sincerely deplore her loss; the
world, in which she never made an enemy, will render its tribute
of justice to her merit in a transient but general expression of
regret; but to the grief of her children, the bitterness of which
time alone can assuage, time itself can afford but an imperfect
consolation, for so entirely was she associated with the
interests, the habits, and the pursuits of their existence, that
every passing day and hour will bring something to remind them of
the loss they have sustained. But although it has not been
permitted to them to see her days extended to the ordinary term
of human life, and to be engaged in the tender office of 'rocking
the cradle of her declining age,' for herself it is no unhappy or
unenviable lot to have closed a useful, an honourable, and a
prosperous career in the unimpaired possession of her faculties,
without mental disquietude or bodily pain, and surrounded by all
the dearest objects of her interest and her love.

[4] [Susan, Countess of Harrowby, daughter of Granville,
first Marquis of Stafford, and wife of Dudley Ryder,
first Earl of Harrowby, died the 26th of May, 1838.]

[5] Mr. Luttrell.

June 1st, 1838 {p.097}

Nothing has happened of any importance during the last week but
the defeat of Government upon the Slave question (Sir E. Wilmot's
motion for immediate emancipation), on Tuesday last, and this
happened by an accident. Nobody expected an early division, and
people were scattered all over the town. Ben Stanley[6] was
dining at the Hollands'. In the meantime Lord Stanley persuaded
Rice that it was better to have no debate, and that it was
neither necessary nor desirable that they should speak. Rice
acquiesced, and so they went to a division, but unfortunately
before a sufficient number of their people had arrived. It was
embarrassing, but Lord John Russell has taken measures to set the
matter right before the West Indian mail goes out. The
Abolitionists, however, are determined to do as much mischief as
they can, and though they know perfectly well that Government
(and Parliament, for the Tories are in the same inten