1814-1815] Fanny Allen on the War 75 



he knows, I have no doubt that he will go. Paris will be 

 very disagreeable now I should think. I see the Louvre is 

 shut to all but the military, which is preparatory to the 

 [pictures] being moved I suppose. Lewis deserves to be 

 tied hand and foot, and thrown out of France. . . . 



I was at the Assize ball and danced with Abram Moore, 

 who was so drunk that almost everyone was smiling as 

 we went down the room. We have been at a play since 

 Jane left us, and had Dr Miller for a beau, as Kitty would 

 say, and he performed his duty well, as he walked home 

 with us afterwards. . . . Kitty and Mackintosh are still 

 dreaming on in town, and I am afraid their intention of 

 going to Maer will end this year as it did last. Kitty holds 

 a sublime and imperial silence to us, so we know nothing 

 of her movements, not even whether she has been to call on 

 the Duchess of Wellington. . . . 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her daughter Elizabeth (who is 

 staying with the John Wedgwoods at Exeter). 



ETRTJRIA, Aug. 13M, 1815. 



. . . Joe has no intention of putting a foot in France. 

 Lord Bathurst told Mrs Sneyd that it would be madness 

 in any Englishman doing it further than Paris. I fully 

 expect another explosion in France, and then what shall 

 we have got by our battle of Waterloo, what, for our 

 20,000 lives and a hundred million of money ? As for 

 Buonaparte, he is suffering retribution certainly, but it may 

 be a good lesson to the world, and it certainly is a mild 

 retribution for the murder of the Duke D'Enghien, Wright, 

 and Palm the bookseller. As to right, all war is a violation 

 of right, and I don't know what we could have done with 

 him since we engaged so wickedly in the war at all. It 

 would have been too dangerous to have kept him here to 

 set France in a flame whenever he saw a fit opportunity. 

 He will be in banishment, but he will have every comfort 

 in his banishment, and he will not be worse off than the 

 Officers of the Regiments who guard him: not but I feel 



