The sensitive Marquis of Londonderry fixes a very pretty quarrel
on Lord John Russell as editor of Thomas Moore's Diary. The poet notes, that on the 16th of June 1825 he breakfasted at Rogers a, with Lord John, Sydney Smith, Luttrell, Sharpe, &c. ; where it was "highly amusing " ; for a story was told, how, by mistake, in lieu of a public order of thanks, Lord Stewart had shown a private note from his brother Lord Castlereagh, telling him "to avoid the thanks to 1Sir Robert] Wilson as much as ho could" ; al- though Sir Robert was "instrumental in gaining the battle of Leipsic." If the order had existed, says Lord Londonderry, it would have passed through the hands of Lord Aberdeen "my old friend for forty years, but now your dear and excellent ally." Lord Londonderry quotes a note from Mr. John Bidwell, chief clerk in the Foreign Office, disproving the existence of any order of thanks, or any occasion for it. The story, says Lord Londonderry., current among "the buffoon coterie," is a "scandalous malignant falsehood in every point and particular." So he scuds his letter to the Dines, to follow the book wherever it may go.
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