Note 373 — MISCELLANEOUS RECOLLECTIONS A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER BEGUN IN 1826

So Sheridan told me, but Lord John Townshend assures me it is a mistake,* and that Mr. Fox, anxious to make Sheridan’s acquaintance, prevailed upon Lord John to give them a dinner at the St. Albans Tavern, where these two great orators met one another for the first time.—V.H.

* “Jack Townshend called it by a coarser name,” one which I am afraid he has never much scruple in applying to Mr. Sheridan’s assertions.—V.H.