G60 Notes of the Month on [JUNE, 



We have now at least a dozen of those boys, in their first cravats, 

 spouting from the back benches, and playing tlie orator with a desperate 

 ambition of Pitt, and his Chancellorship of the Exchequer at twenty- 

 four. Among the rest we shall, we presume, have on the first opportu- 

 nity, the Honourable Mr. Wentworth, a son of Lord Milton, who in- 

 herits the combined genius of his father and grandfather, and speaks as 

 well at seventeen as either of them ever spoke in their lives. At the 

 Northampton poll, Sir Charles Knightley had praised the conduct of the 

 county. He said " that county presented an exception to the conduct pur- 

 sued in most others. Their answer to the appeal of ministers was a re- 

 sponse of indignation at their iniquitous measure. If it were true that 

 in the event of their finding a majority of the House of Lords against 

 them, it was the intention of ministers to create new peers in order to 

 force this bill, then he would say the ministers were traitors to their 

 country. He was loyal, and was trying to preserve the crown in spite 

 of itself and of its evil advisers." 



In rebuke of this English sentiment, the Honourable Mr. Went- 

 worth, just turned of seventeen, by the register, and the avowal of his 

 eminent father, made the following brilliant similitude : 



" The Honourable Mr. Wentworth observed, that if ever they had seen, as 

 he had done, a salmon when first hooked, and when it was possessed of all 

 its strength, they would know that it would lie perfectly quiet; but when its 

 strength was becoming nearly exhausted, it would suddenly jump up in the 

 air some ten yards, and then fall back quite dead. Such was nearly the case 

 with their opponents ; they had jumped up the other day, and now they lie 

 lifeless. They had been told that there were a great many votes yet unde- 

 cided before the assessor, and he was glad there were ; for from all he could 

 see or hear, he believed a majority of them would be decided in favour of his 

 father." 



After this, who will say that the days of eloquence are gone by ; or 

 invoke the shades of Pitt and Burke, to account for the nonsense that 

 drivels from the souls of modern legislators. " Paulo majora canamus," 

 as Canning said, when Burdett shot Paul. We are bound to worship 

 the new star of York and Fitzwilliam. 



There seems to be some extraordinary fate in the history of ladies* 

 jewels. All the large collections are stolen at one time or other ; and 

 the thief always escapes detection. We do not include among those 

 phenomena the vanishing of a favourite actress's jewels, because, the 

 actress having generally found their acquisition a matter of remarkable 

 ase, the loss does not affect her spirits, and she generally discovers 

 among her acquaintance some opulent jewel-fancier, who rapidly rein- 

 states her emeralds and rubies. It may also happen, occasionally, among 

 those ingenious and irresistible daughters of the muse, that the robbery 

 was actually a gentler separation, a simple adjournment from the boudoir 

 to the money-lender, who held them in trust for a thousand or two : or that 

 the simple tidings of their calamitous loss might furnish an opportunity 

 of generous interposition to some heir of the peerage, or son of a fat 

 citizen, who had not fortitude enough to see beauty weep, and weep in 

 vain. 



But in all the bona-fide disappearances of jewels, where the lady was 

 not a public beauty, had not the art of irresistible tears, nor the advantage 

 of an universal acquaintance, we never heard of their being recovered. 



