e with many gracious expressions. I have set
about making a reconciliation between the King and Lord Sefton.
Both are anxious to make it up, but each is afraid to make the
first advances. However, Sefton must make them, and he will. The
cause of their quarrel is very old, and signifies little enough
now.... They have been at daggers drawn ever since, and Sefton
has revenged himself by a thousand jokes at the King's expense,
of which his Majesty is well aware. Their common pursuit, and a
desire on the one side to partake of the good things of
the Palace, and on the other side to be free from future
pleasantries, has generated a mutual disposition to make it up,
which is certainly sensible. The King has bought seven horses
successively, for which he has given 11,300 guineas, principally
to win the cup at Ascot, which he has never accomplished. He
might have had Zinganee, but would not, because he fancied the
Colonel would beat him; but when that appeared doubtful he was
very sorry not to have bought him, and complained that the horse
was not offered to him. He is now extravagantly fond of
Chesterfield, who is pretty well bit by it. There is always a
parcel of eldest sons and Lords in possession invited to the
Cottage for the sake of Lady Maria Conyngham. The King likes to
be treated with great deference but without fear, and that people
should be easy with him, and gay, and listen well. There was a
grand consultation at the Cottage between the King, Lieven,
Esterhazy, and the Duke of Cumberland as to the way in which the
ladies should be placed at dinner, the object being that Lady
Conyngham should sit next to his Majesty, though according to
etiquette the two Ambassadresses should sit one on each side of
him. It was contrived by the Duke of Cumberland taking out one of
them and sitting opposite, by which means the lovely Thais sat
beside him and he was happy.

[21] [George Augustus, sixth Earl of Chesterfield, born in
1805, died in 1866. He married in 1830 Anne, daughter
of Lord Forester. In 1829 he was one of the most
brilliant of the young men of fashion of that day,
having succeeded to a large rental and large
accumulations in his minority.]

June 26th, 1829 {p.213}

I met Tierney and Lord Grey at dinner yesterday; the former
wanted to know what passed about the King's Speech at the Council
at Windsor the other day. I had heard nothing, not having been at