Lord Mulgrave first raised my enthusiasm for the Duke of Wellington,” writes Haydon, speaking of the year 1809, “by saying one day at table, ‘If you live to see it, he will be a second Marlborough.’ I never forgot this, for I believed Lord Mulgrave to be a sound judge.”
On June 23, 1815, Haydon writes in his journal:
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