have no understanding. The excellent qualifications of the lady as an
associate are evident, she has neither conduct nor understanding.

The ball at Windsor has been the general subject of conversation this
last week. The House of Stanhope put in a good appearance. Mrs
Pierrepont was there. The supper was most magnificent. Seats were
raised above the rest for the Royal Family; during the entertainment
the King rose, and gave the Queen's health, while everybody bowed and
curtseyed. Afterwards, the Queen repeated the same compliment to His
Majesty.

Our next-door flirt complained much to Lord Grantham at being obliged
to dance a great deal with Lord Petersham, which she thought very
tiresome. Mr Kinnaird [12] seems quite off, Lord P. quite out of
spirits. Papa thinks he really loves not her purse but _her_. She
seems to love nobody, and flirts with everybody. I saw her at Court on
Thursday se'nnight looking beautifully cross at not having a man near
her. The Drawing-room was a dreadful squash.

I have seen a good deal of the Kinnairds lately, we dine there to-
morrow and stay the evening. Georgiana is very pleased and looks well.

The Royal Institution is more the _ton_ than anything and Ladies
of all ages submit to a squeeze of an hundred people in a morning, to
hear lectures on the Human Understanding, Experimental Philosophy,
Painting, Music or Geology. We only attend a course of the latter--
don't shout at the name, it means the History of the Earth. You see
how wise I grow! Mr Eyre thinks all the ladies will be pedants, and
when you have been there, you will think so too. To see so large a
party, the majority ladies, not very handsome though all listening