It is reported that when the Duke of Wellington retired
on Friday night from the Carlton Club, he declared that he would not return to it; and we know that he immediately set off for Strathfieldsay, and that on Saturday his domestic establishment left town for the same place. We understand that his Grace said, that unless summoned hy a call of the House of Lords, it was not his intention to be in London again before June.--Morning Chronicle. [Don't believe what "his Grace said"—he is an old soldier, and counts all ruses fair. Besides, he has no right to fly off in the sulks, seeing it was his own rash order, communicated in writing to his lieutenant Peel, that misled the "pluckless" into the ambush, where the whole party got so terribly "peppered." The Tories, who in 1829 designated the Duke as a "pig-headed dragoon," are again cursing him as an incapable.]
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