In respect to the business of our Queen, we deem ourselves truly fortunate in having been out of the country at a time when an inquiry, at which all Europe seems scandalised, was going on.
I have purposely deferred congratulating your Lordship on the marriage of Lady Mary with Lord Frederick Bentinck, which I hear has been celebrated.

My wishes for her happiness are most earnest.
With respectful compliments and congratulations to Lady Lonsdale, in which Mrs.Wordsworth begs leave to join, I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Obliged and faithful friend and servant, WM.

WORDSWORTH.[85] [85] _Memoirs_, ii.

90-104.
51.

_Shakespeare's Cliff at Dover_.
How strange that the description of Dover Cliff, in _King Lear_, should ever have been supposed to have been meant for a reality! I know nothing that more forcibly shows the little reflection with which even men of sense read poetry.