Dined with Lampson,
for the time being a resident in a capital house at the farthest end of Eaton
Square. Went at eleven to Lord Chelmsford's for fifteen minutes. A youthful
dance.
The news from home a
shade more promising. A word of meditated coercion in the inaugural of the 4th
instant may be the last nail in the Union's coffin.
SOURCE: George
Mifflin Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States
Minister to Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p.
441
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