54 REMINISCENCES OF 



Lord Milton is going to marry Lady Fanny Douglas, 

 Lord Morton's daughter. 



" At the Caledonian Ball there was the Duke of 

 Sussex, Prince George, Princess Augusta and the 

 Duchess of Cambridge, and numbers of noblemen, 

 beginning with Duchess Maggy, ^ Tell Louisa Mr. 

 Douglas Stewart was there, having been so ill and 

 looking so. We were quite tired of reels and bag- 

 pipes, but the thing most worth seeing was Prince 

 Zichi, His coat is all embroidered in turquoise, the 

 whole of the front and cuffs, and the buttons are, I 

 think, nearly as large as blackbirds' eggs, studded 

 with turquoise. The feather in his hat is quite full 

 of them, and his sword is quite superb, and he has 

 some on his leggings, I think — in short, I did not 

 think one man could have put so many on, it was like 

 something in the Arabian Nights. There were num- 

 bers of foreigners, all so polite ; one could hardly move 

 for the giving one seats and bowing. One with whom 

 I danced led me to the quadrille by the tips of my 

 fingers, much to my amusement. I saw Mary Kerr. 



" For a week nearly there has been no moving in 

 the streets. The town is so full and people so mad, 

 and they put up barriers at the ends of the streets to 

 prevent a crowd in the procession at the Coronation, 

 so that only one or two carriages could pass at a 

 time. We stood one hour and ten minutes on Mon- 

 day near the Park Gate without being able to move, 

 and all the small streets are as full as the large ones 

 generally are. 



^ Duchess of Somerset, nic Shawe Stewart. 



