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Later Burton's curiosity was aroused by the news that Mr. A. G. Ellis, of the British Museum, had shown Mr. Kirby an edition of Alaeddin in Malay. "Let me know," he says, "when you go to see Mr. Ellis. I especially want to accompany you, and must get that Malay version of Alaeddin. Lord Stanley of Alderley could translate it."
Such hopes must soon have been dashed by the proceedings of the Congress of Vienna, which, as was said, "danse mais n'avance pas," and gloomy forebodings are shewn in two letters from Lord Sheffield to his son-in-law, which were received at Alderley in the autumn of 1814 and the spring of 1815.
Amongst my associates or acquaintances, two or three of whom have since become known were the last Lord Derby, Sir William Harcourt, the late Lord Stanley of Alderley, Latimer Neville, late Master of Magdalen, Lord Calthorpe, of racing fame, with whom I afterwards crossed the Rocky Mountains, the last Lord Durham, my cousin, Sir Augustus Stephenson, ex- solicitor to the Treasury, Julian Fane, whose lyrics were edited by Lord Lytton, and my life-long friend Charles Barrington, private secretary to Lord Palmerston and to Lord John Russell.
'What I suggest is that, as I have frequently proposed, with your consent, Lord Granville should be Lord President; that Sir F. Baring should be President of the Board of Trade, with a seat in the Cabinet; that Clarendon should at once enter the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; that Lord Stanley of Alderley should be Vice-President, not in the Cabinet.
From that day I would have died to serve him; and I believe that not a few of my humble flock were animated by the same kind of feeling." His yearly visits to his former parish of Alderley were looked forward to by those he had known and loved during his long parochial ministrations as the greatest pleasure of their lives.
They describe the feeling in England on the foreign situation, and also give a glimpse of the wayward authoress, Madame de Staël, who was just then on her way back to France after a banishment of ten years. Lady Maria Stanley to her sister, Lady Louisa Clinton. ALDERLEY PARK, April 30, 1814.
Your brother Francis is kind to us beyond description, and lets us take him where we will; he dined with us at Mrs. Weddell's, this dear old lady copied last year in her seventy-second year a beautiful crayon picture of Lady Dundas, and here we met Lady Louisa Stuart, Mr. Stanley of Alderley, and many others.
In many places the Holy Communion was celebrated only three times a year. At Alderley, before Edward Stanley, afterwards Bishop of Norwich, became Rector there, "the clerk used to go to the churchyard stile to see whether there were any more coming to church, for there were seldom enough to make a congregation. The former Rector used to boast that he had never set foot in a sick person's cottage."
"I'd still go to Alderley; I'd not be bothered with my children; they should keep house at home." A pair of hands, the person to whom they belonged invisible, boxed his ears on this last speech, in a very spirited, though playful, manner, and the neighbours all laughed at the surprised look of the speaker, at this assault from an unseen foe.
Stanley, afterwards Bishop of Norwich, and father of the famous Dean of our own day, was rector of the adjoining parish of Alderley. Catherine Stanley, his wife, has left a charming memorial of the home of the Gregs. Have you ever been to Quarry Bank? It is such a picture of rational, happy life. Mr.
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