Wellesley, Catherine Pakenham

Hannah More to Marianne Sykes Thornton, 28 November 1814

I have seen part of a letter from the Duchess of Wellington in which she says that the great Paris Banker has 25,000 pound a day pass thro his hands for the Use of the English!! She also gives an account of a long formal speech which was sent to her in French to make to the king on her first public reception. I do not like making our ladies Public Orators in this way. Still less do I like the most unrighteous Speed with which half our Country are crouding that city of Sin – even Bristol Merchants are taking houses in France for whole years.