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the evidence, it remains a document altogether damning for Cromer. 

 He gives himself away in it completely. It is announced in the 

 ' Westminster Gazette ' that the matter of Denshawai will now be 

 allowed to rest in Parliament and that Liberals would support Lord 

 Cromer. 



" gth August. — Fernycroft. I have been here since the 2nd having 

 gone up to London to see Robertson. He managed at the very last 

 minute in the debate on the adjournment to bring on the Denshawai 

 case and got certain admissions out of Grey, indeed Grey gave Cromer's 

 case away bv withdrawing what had been said about fanatical unrest 

 in Egypt. This has now become political unrest, a very different 

 thing. Grey used wild words, too, about a Crown Colony in con- 

 nection with Egypt which cannot but add fuel to the fire. 



" iSth August. — At Clouds. George and Guy Wyndham have come 

 from Guy's camp at Bulford where he is commanding the 16th 

 Lancers. Last week there was a party at Tedworth for a sham fight 

 to amuse the King of Spain, the entertainer being Sir Ian Hamilton 

 and one of the party being John Burns. Burns, according to these, 

 has developed and holds advanced Jingo views, his whole mind being 

 wrapped up in army matters. His one idea now is to send a fleet 

 into the Baltic and fight the German Emperor. He knows the his- 

 tory of every regiment and is ' quite a good fellow.' Such is their 

 report. George was very brilliant at dinner with all kinds of theories. 

 ' The true way to be happy,' he said, ' is to be able to say, " I want " 

 and " I won't," ' and after dinner he wrote some blank verse lines 

 on the subject which were good. 



" At Fernycroft and Clouds I was much occupied with my ' Atrocity ' 

 pamphlet, and on the 29th my brother-in-law, Lord Lovelace, died, an 

 event which caused many family changes. 



" 13^ Sept. — My 'Atrocity' pamphlet is out and there is a capital 

 leading article on it in yesterday's ' Manchester Guardian,' and to-day 

 the ' Times ' prints a letter about it from Suez by a correspondent 

 who denounces its title as reprehensible and even abominable. Frederic 

 Harrison writes congratulations, he says it is ' a tremendous work.' 



" 2jth Sept. — Great events have happened in the last fortnight. 

 First, as to Egypt, my pamphlet has had more effect than I expected, 

 and still more my ' Times ' letters. My old adversary, Moberly Bell, 

 was tempted into the field against me and he published in the ' Times,' 

 of which he is now manager, a violent attack on me in relation to 

 the events of twenty-five years ago, backed up by as ferocious a 

 leading article. This gave me a splendid opening, as Bell had men- 

 tioned my poem, ' The Wind and the Whirlwind ' as one of my 

 crimes and I was able to quote ten stanzas from it in very effective 

 reply, which will now spread the fame of it, all the world over. It 



