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herbert ; but she afterwards was good-natured about 

 it, and forgave him. He assured me that he knew the 

 date and the place ; that it was performed in London, 

 at Errington's (her uncle), as at the time generally sup- 

 posed, and by a Protestant clergyman, settled in the 

 west of England, whose name Johnes refused to give/''" 



I never have been able to ascertain what view the 

 King took of my intentions, if driven to it, to bring 

 forward this case. He very possibly persuaded himself 

 that I should not, or that it might be time enough to 

 prevent me when the bill passed. 



He of course took a great interest in all that passed 

 in the House of Lords, and was informed from time to 

 time of the proceedings there. Castlereagh attended 

 regularly, and had frequent communication with his 

 colleagues in the House. Canning's friends, as Morley, 

 took part with us, and I generally found that their 

 calculations of the divisions on different questions were 

 correct. The thing which gave most vexation to the 

 King, besides the unfavourable result, was Denman's 

 personal attack, which fixed upon him the name of 

 Nero, which he for a long time conceived to have had 

 a reference to worse crimes than were meant, and 

 which created a personal aversion that prevented his 

 promotion as King's Counsel, not only all through 

 Eldon's chancellorship, but also through Lyndhurst's, 

 when I had been prevailed upon to take rank on ac- 

 count of my juniors, who suffered from my not having 

 it. To me he did not object, but Lyndhurst could 

 not prevail on the King as to Denman. It was the 



* All this was fully confirmed by Lord Stourton, who stated to me 

 that two of Mrs Fitzherbert's nearest relatives were present at the cere- 

 mony. 



