Si titulos, annosque tuos numerare velimus, Facta premant annos. Pro te, fortissime, vota Publica suscipimus, Bacchi tibi sumimus haustus. It turned out a complete _Tory_ celebration. There was an almost unmixed array of Tory names at the banquet, and one Whig lord (Poltimore), who happened to be at Dover declined attending. [1] [A great entertainment was given to the Duke of Wellington as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports on the 30th August. Lord Brougham attended it, and delivered an oration of the most hyperbolical panegyric.] September 5th, 1839 {p.238} Among other bad signs of these times, one is the decay of _loyalty_ in the Tory party; the Tory principle is completely destroyed by party rage. No Opposition was ever more rabid than this is, no people ever treated or spoke of the Sovereign with such marked disrespect. They seem not to care one straw for the Crown, its dignity, or its authority, because the head on which it is placed does not nod with benignity to them. An example of this took place the other day, when at a dinner at Shrewsbury the company refused to drink the health of the new Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Sutherland (a man not personally obnoxious), because the Duchess of Sutherland is at the head of the Queen's female household. This reproach does not apply to the leaders of the party, who are too wise and too decorous to hold such language or to approve of such conduct;[2] but is the _animus_ which distinguishes the tail and the body, and they take no pains to conceal it. [2] This was before the Bradshaw and Roby exhibitions. September 7th, 1839 {p.238} The result of the Cambridge and Manchester elections proves (if any proof was wanting), how utterly the cause of Government is lost in the country, and fully confirms the report of their universal unpopularity: Cambridge lost by one hundred, and Manchester barely won. Poulett Thomson told me just before that the Liberals had a certain majority (for any candidate) of several hundreds. September 14th, 1839 {p.238} [Page Head: BROUGHAM'S LETTER ON EDUCATION.]