Guiche, with whom we passed the evening, were sitting with their three boys and the two tutors: as they were generally allowed when they married to be the handsomest couple in France, it is not surprising that the children should possess the same advantages, and they really are the finest family I ever saw, and brought up with the greatest care and attention. They are living here in great retirement, and not mixing with the society, either here or in Paris; their attachment to the late Royal Family remains unshaken, and no inducement would tempt them to approach the Tuileries under the present government. The Duke said to me, "If France should be engaged in an aggressive war, I would not serve even as a general; if she was invaded, I would serve even in the ranks.” I have already mentioned that at the death of Madame de Vaudemont, much anxiety was felt in certain quarters for the publication of her correspondence, particularly that with Talleyrand; but Louis-Philippe, aware how much he was implicated in all these details, despatched a party of gendarmes to her house, who broke open all the écritoires, and carried off her papers. Tuesday, the 30th.-Some surprise is occasioned in England by the appointment of the Earl of Haddington as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Glengall writes to me from Dublin, 24th December, "There certainly is an extraordinary reaction here, but to expect to obtain 170 changes at the elections is far too much. However, it is the last stake, and if Stanley gives a fair support, the thing will do. We have every 320 JOURNAL OF T. RAIKES, ESQ. [DEC. 1834. reason to believe he will. I saw a letter from the Duke saying it was certain. O'Connell will be knocked about here very much, and will lose several of his tail. The fault in the new government is, that we have too much of the old leaven." END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. LONDON: Printed by SPOTTISWOODE & Co., |