“Bad as I am thought, I cannot express the horror I feel at this atrocity.”

—  Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

Letter to Mrs. Ord (24 January 1793) on the execution of Louis XVI, quoted in in E. A. Smith, Lord Grey. 1764-1845 (Alan Sutton, 1996), p. 57, n. 9.
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