Stuart and Pozzo went to the Duke of Orleans to represent the personal danger of the King, and to desire that measures might be taken to preserve his life. The Duke is represented as having been très ému, and as having said that his character depended upon the preservation of the King's life, and the measures I mentioned were immediately taken.
Chateaubriand and Hyde de Neuville are for the Due de Bordeaux.
Stuart has, I know not why, counselled the Duc de Bordeaux's friends to be quiet.
The Duke of Wellington thinks there is Radicalism in everything-that the
Lieut.-General will have no power.
The King went in grand state through the City to the Tower. He had six carriages and six. At the Tower the Duke gave him a breakfast. He then went on to Greenwich by water, and returned to London by land. He was very well received.
August 6.
At the dinner we had the Ministers, Household, and Trinity House. Chairman and deputy-Chairman of the East India Company, Governor and deputy-Governor of the Bank, Lord Mayor, and Ward and Thompson, members for the City. The King made speeches and gave toasts as if he was Duke of Clarence at the Trinity House. He alarmed and pained us, but he did less mischief than I should have expected; and as all the people present were real friends, he only let down the dignity of the Crown.
He gave the healths of the Ministers, and afterwards of the Duke of
Wellington. Some things he said very well. The Duke answered very well.
There is so much good feeling about the King that his errors of taste are pardoned. He will improve, and wear his robes more gracefully.
August 7.