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Horace Wigan, too, spoke; and Lord Granville, 'whose fluent command of extempore French excited general admiration, gave 'The Health of the Chairman, and, with a neat reference to the 'Letters from High Latitudes, then 14, not 41 years old, said: 'L'accueil que vous avez donne a son discours doit rassurer Lord Dufferin et lui faire meme oublier les succes oratoires que Latiniste incomparable, et voue au purisme Ciceronien il a obtenus dans les regions plus septentrionales. To this chaff Lord Dufferin replied in English: 'Lord Granville has been good enough to allude to what he is pleased to describe as an oratorical triumph in a distant country; and I would venture to remind you and you may take the word of an experienced person in confirmation of what I am about to say that when anybody wishes to make a speech in a foreign language, he will find it much more easy to do so after dinner than at an early hour in the morning.
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