Note 29 — BOOK THE FIRST 1807-1810

[Mr. Creevey writes in his diary, dated, November 12, 1809: “I meet Abercromby in my walk.... When I tell him Wardle is on his legs again, all he can say is, ‘Wardle is the agent of the Duke of Kent.’ Was there ever such nonsense?” (Creevey Papers, vol. i. p. 113). Creevey seems, however, to have been a personal friend of Colonel Wardle. “I can’t bring myself to think there is anything bad in him, and I have looked at him in all ways in order to be sure of him. I know he is in distress for money, but all men from his part of the country dine with him and speak well of him.”]