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In the beginning of February they went to 

 London from Kingsgate. On the 6th he attended 

 the opening of Parhament. He began his break- 

 fast parties again, and went out to dinners, and 

 gave dinner parties at his own house. On the 

 15th he was at a Free Trade meeting, on the 23rd 

 at the Council of Foreign Bondholders, and so on. 

 These and the hke engagements made frequent 

 calls on his time and attention throughout the 

 first half of the year. At the Chamber of Com- 

 merce meeting on March 14 he notes that " they 

 voted against the Declaration of London." The 

 following day he was at the meeting about the 

 British Empire Trade Mark, of which he writes 

 that " it was to have been at the Council Chamber, 

 but so many apphed for tickets that it was 

 decided to hold it in the Guildhall, which was 

 about half- full." With regard to the Declara- 

 tion of London and the Chamber of Commerce he 

 states with satisfaction, on April 20 : " Moved a 

 resolution of the Council of the London Chamber 

 of Commerce in favour of making private property 

 at sea free of capture and seizure, and to my 

 surprise carried it unanimously." It was a point 

 at which he had been aiming for a long while. 



During May and June he was attending 

 meetings of the British Empire League, of the 

 Festival of Empire, of the Selborne Society, and 

 so on, as well as many social functions, includ- 

 ing taking Lady Avebury to a Court. He was 

 present at the opening of the Festival of Empire, 

 which he describes as " a long day, but everything 

 very well arranged. We got our seats quite 

 easily and the Concert was very good." Then 



