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all the teaching she has had. Douglas is to go to school in 

 about two years, but it is high time he was there already. 

 He is too much brought forward and grows conceited and 

 arrogant. Emily is a very pleasing little girl and very 

 clever. We had not much politics either. Sydney seems 

 to think the Whigs' case hopeless, and speaks very gaily of 

 his narrow circumstances; but he will never be distressed. 

 He has too strong a mind not to act up to circumstances, 

 and he is too wise to poison the happiness in his power by 

 outrunning his income. It is easy to see that he is a rational 

 and strict economist. He takes things very quietly. He 

 does not like the Bourbons, but he thinks it is better they 

 should be on the throne of France than Buonaparte, and he 

 thinks the sending Buonaparte to St Helena the best thing 

 that could have been done. To have kept him safely in 

 England would have been impossible and he would have 

 made disturbances. This week Parliament opens, and the 

 opposition intend to divide against the minister. Mackin- 

 tosh's furniture is sold, but not the house. I expect some 

 of his great friends will give him an invitation to their houses 

 in town, but Sydney says no, now that it would be a real 

 accommodation it would be against all rule. Kitty, I 

 expect here, and I hope she will stay long enough to make 

 it an accommodation, which by shutting up Weedon Lodge 

 it might be. I shall be very sorry to miss Mackintosh but I 

 don't expect he will ever come here. 



There has been a very great sensation here from the 

 failure of Roscoe's Bank at Liverpool and Mr Eyton's at 

 Shrewsbury. The county is certainly very much distressed 

 at this time. The farmers are ruined, and they have not 

 taken advantage of the years of plenty they have had, but 

 have lived upon the fat of the land, and they have scarcely 

 any of them made any provision for this pressure. England 

 will pay dear enough for putting Louis upon the throne of 

 France in the end. 



I am sorry to think that my little boys will leave us on 

 the 10th. They have been so amiable these holidays that 

 they will make us regret their loss very much, not a single 



