L30/11/16/7

Letter from Selina Bathurst to Lady Lucas. Susan [sister] is now so indisposed that we must reluctantly give up setting out this week. ‘Her indisposition is occasioned by what must happen but what she did not expect till next week.’ Asks to put off intended visit till next week if convenient.

Sun 11 Aug, no year[1807]

From: 1807 To: 1807

Mention of Lord Wellington’s dispatches adding to the gloom of the weather. Comments about current affairs. ‘There have been some doubts raised as to the authenticity of the reports that have reached us…’ Mr [Edward] Thornton appointed minister for Sweden [1807], after having long acted there without the nomination. [Jean] ‘Bernadotte is I suppose trusted by ministers for his being sincere.’ The Prince Regent [later George IV] has been very sociable with his ministers, dining at Lords Liverpool [Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool] and Castleraegh [Robert Stuart, Viscount Castlraegh], and appearing in high spirits. The chancellor is to to give him a dinner; his birthday is to be at Windsor tomorrow – tonight Lord Yarmouth [Francis Charles Seymour-Conway gives a ball and Mr Ward gives a supper, his house adjoining Lord Yarmouth’s.

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Bathurst, Selina,
de Grey, Amabel, 1st Countess,
Hume-Campbell, Amabel, 1st Countess de Grey, 5th Baroness Lucas,
Bathurst, Susan,
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of,
Thornton, Edward,
Bernadotte,
George IV,
Jenkinson, Charles [1st Earl of Liverpool],
Stuart, Robert, Viscount Castleaegh,
Seymour-Conway, Francis Charles [Lord Yarmouth]

CORRESPONDENCE, general politics, weather