Chapter 2

Fox's debts--Lord Holland--News from London--Interviews with Fox--The Fire at Holland House--A Visit to Tunbridge--Provision for Mie Mie--County business and electioneering at Gloucester--Lotteries --Fox and Carlisle--Highway adventures--London Society--Newmarket intelligence--An evening in town--Charles Fox and America--Carlisle declines a court post--money from Fox--Selwyn and gambling--A Private Bill committee--Selwyn in bad spirits--The Royal Society --Book-buying--Political affairs--London parks--Gainsborough--The Duchess of Kingston--Selwyn's private affairs--"The Diaboliad"--A dinner at the French Ambassador's--Politics and the clubs--In Paris --Electioneering again.