“Thursday, October 10. – Got up at ½ p.10 and saw to my astonishment that a stone or rather 2 stones had been thrown at my dressing room window and 2 glasses broke; the stone was found under the window, in the little blue room next the audience room another window broken and the stone found in the room, in the new strong room another window broke, and in one of the lodging rooms next to this, another broke and the stone found in the middle of the room. This is a very strange thing, and Lehzen told Lord Surrey of it. Breakfasted at 11. Wrote to Lord Melbourne and the Queen Dowager, and Lady Normanby. Lord Uxbridge and Lady Sandwich came into my room, to see the broken window, and we went with them to look at the other rooms, where the windows were broken. Lord Surrey had been in with one of the Policemen before. Wrote to Lady Burlington. Wrote my journal. Signed. Wrote my journal. At 3 came my good Lord Melbourne and stayed with me till 20 m. to 4. He was well; talked of my having a headache and sore eyes &c. Lord M.had a letter from Lady Holland; “I don’t think you can read it”, said Lord M.; and he read it to me; she wishes one wouldn’t ride under trees at the time of the fall of the leaf – which made us laugh; and Brunow she thinks a great bore. Lord M. then asked if he might propose it to Lord Huntingdon (to be Lord in Waiting). I said he might. Talked of these windows being broken and it’s being such a strange thing; and a disagreeable thing; 1 said I would show them to him afterwards. Talked of that; of my having a headache; my having slept well; these stones; &c. He showed me a letter Lady Holland had sent him from C. Wood. I feared I had kept Lord M. from riding by asking if he would go out with us. He said not at all, and “I could hardly have ridden”. Talked of it’s being right that I should ask Mª, to go out with me; &c.; of Lord Mi’s footman who is come, as his own servant has lost his mother and went away on Tuesday till Saturday. I then asked if he would go and see these windows; “I should like to see it,” he said; and we took him first to the strong-room, then to the little blue room, and then to my dressing-room (where my 2 bonnets were standing) and where Islay was lying on my chair. Lord M. patted him. Lord M. looked at the window, and we talked about it, and he said: “It’s a very odd thing.” He thought the room comfortable. Dearest Daisy is quite recovered, thank God! […]
