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Wellington gives a dinner, Concert & ball to exhibit their wedding, as he is anxious to give the affair as good a colouring as possible in the eyes of the French who have caught at it with great malignity. We are invited & I expect to be greatly edified: They were only married on Sunday and tomorrow is Friday, so that the lady's blushes are soon over. ------- says "they order these things better in France." The Duchess of Wellington is expected on Saturday, & as I am in a scandalous humour I will tell you that the Duke looked very [[foreign:French]] "mal a son aise" [[/foreign]] when he showed us the apartments he had been preparing for her. She is however very much liked by all his Staff, & very popular amongst the French. Caroline Fitzroy is to come with her. I was very shocked at Lady Abdey's elopement. I never gave her credit for much sense, but I had not suspected her od depravity. I am afraid you will think this letter a very stupid one, but there is no news in Paris, & I have been obliged to savour my Epistle with a little scandal, to make it at all palatable: Trusting to your knowledge of my disposition, not to think the worse for it. [[foreign: French]] Adieu [[/foreign]] my dear Dot, Yours ever affectly. S.FC. I will write to you again soon & will try to make my next letter a more sprightly one than this: -- Sarah, daughter (second) of the 4th Duke of Richmond who died of the bite of a mad fox when he was Governor General in Canada. Sir Peregrine Maitaland, G.C.B., died in 1875.
