...: but hear Mr Rush : — ' It would not lave been easy to assemble a company better fitted to iiake a dinner-party agreeable, or to have brought them...just risen, Mr Canning, and his two colleagues of the •rtbinet, Mr Hnskisaon and Mr Robinson, seemed like jirds let out of a cage. There was much small-talk,...

...of the Doctor, without losing sight of the statesman. At a dinner given at Gloucester Lodge :— " Parliament having just risen, Mr. Canning, and his...o'clock arriving, with little disposition to rise from table, Mr. Canning proposed that we should play ' Twenty Questions.' This was new to me and the o ther...

...Bentinck, Lord Francis Conyngham, Mr. Charles Ellis, of the House of Commons, and Lord Howard de Walden. It would not have been easy to assemble a company better fitted to make a dinner party agreeable, or to have brought them together at a better moment. Parliament having just...

...the house of Mr. Planta, then an under-secretary, were assembled various ambassadors and ministers. " Parliament having just risen, Mr. Canning, and his...o'clock arriving, with little disposition to rise from table, Mr. Canning proposed that we should play "Twenty Questions." The game consisted in endeavours...

...day, with such a company, we should have stuck to our wine and politics ; but hear Mr. Rush : — " It would not have been easy to assemble a company...seemed like birds let out of a cage. There was much small-talk, some of it very sprightly. " Ten o'clock arriving, with little disposition to rise from...

...day, with such a company, we should have stuck to our wine and politics ; but hear Mr. Rush : — " It would not have been easy to assemble a company...Robinson, seemed like birds let out of a cage. There wae much small-talk, some of it very sprightly. " Ten o'clock arriving, with little disposition to...