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agriculturist, and au uucomproniising enemy to the Ante-corn 

 Law League, hia Grace stood pre-eminently forward. 



Aa a speaker in the House of Lords, the Duke is clear, 

 forcible, and fluent. He is ever master of the subject he dis- 

 cusses ; and in the absence of brilliant imagery, fanciful meti- 

 phor, or flowery rhetoric, briugs such a fund of good common 

 sense to his aid, that he never fails to command the attention 

 of his hearers. In reply he is quick, and generally comes oif 

 victorious when a brother legislator tries a lance with him. At 

 public meetings his Grace is an excellent chairman. There is 

 a honJiommie about him — an affable manner ; dignified, yet 

 not proud ; courteous, yet not familar — which wins all hearts ; 

 and we know no one, at au agricultural or cattle-show meet- 

 ing, who carries those prides of their country, the British far- 

 mer and Yeoraan, so much with them as the Duke of Rich- 

 mond. Whether he appears as a successful or unsuccessful 

 candidate, there is still the same joyousness of manner, the 

 same good-humoured smile, the same equanimity of temper. 

 In private life the duke is exemplary, and in society has a fund 

 of anecdote of the days of his services under Wellington. He 

 possesses the peculiar talent of suiting his conversation to his 

 hearers — the reverend divine, the military man, the politician, 

 the county magistrate, the farmer, the man of letters, the 

 sportsman, will all find pleasure in the conversation of the 

 duke. As the lord lieutenant, the magistrate and guardian of 

 the poor, the Duke is impartial, kind-hearted, and considerate; 

 and whatever defects may exist in some of the clauses of the 

 present poor law, few that see the West Hampsett Union, 

 near Goodwood, could find fault with the system there carried 

 on. As a sportsman, the Duke, when Earl of March, rode well 

 to hounds, and was, as he is to the present day, an excellent 

 shot. He also carried on his love for cricket for many years ; 

 unfortunately the "ball" he received at Orthes, and one 

 which the moat expert member of " Lord's " would have 

 found quite impossible to stop, has prevented bis Grace taking 

 up his bat for many years; aHhougii the manly game is still 

 strongly patronized by the aoble owner of the broad lands of 

 Goodwood. 



With a view of aiding the cause of the army, by not 

 only setting a brilliant example in joining the ranks of tlie 

 malitia, but of recruiting the line from his own regiment, the 

 Duke has devoted his whole time and energies to the corps 

 under his command. So great is his Grace's sense of duty, 

 that he never, except upon urgent business, absents himself 

 from head quarters ; the result has been that the Royal 

 Sussex Light Infantry stand second to none, and have done 

 the State no little service by the quantity and quality 

 of recruits they have furnished the army. It was a truly- 

 gratifying scene to witness the gallant Colonel, who has 

 bled for his country, riding at the head of a band of 

 volunteers, as they secured their places in the railway carriage 

 to proceed to their destination at Chatham ; and happy, 

 truly happy, must his Grace have been at the steady conduct, 

 the martial appearance, the soldier-like march of these 

 brave fellows, as they took leave of their comrades, with 

 but one feeling in their breast— that of serving the Queen 

 in any quarter of the globe. We ought not here to with- 

 hold the meed of praise due to the Lieut.-Colonel, Lord 

 Arthur Lennox, who in the iiold cannot be excelled ; 

 Major the Hon. II. Gage; and Captain Fuller, late of the 

 gallant 5"2nd, adjutant, for their zealous endeavours to pro- 

 mote the discipline and honour of the corps. 



Before we refer to the Duke of Richmond as an agricul- 

 turist, or allude to his farms, we will give the reader a slight 

 description of the territorial property belonging to his Grace 

 in the west of Sussex, The domain of the Duke includes 



the three contiguous estates of Goodwood, originally called 

 Godinwood ; llalnakcr, or, according to ancient phrase- 

 ology, Halnecke and Westhampnctt. The former was 

 purchased by the first duke, the son of the " Merry 

 Monarch," from the family of Compton, about the year 

 1720. Halnaker did not come into the family until 17G5, 

 when it was added by the third Duke of Richmond to the 

 other entailed estates. Westhampnctt, which comprises 

 upwards of eighteen hundred acres, was also purchased by 

 the last-mentioned nobleman. Halnaker House, which 

 was built in the time of Henry the Eighth, is now a perfect 

 ruin, and is the only specimen in that part of the country of 

 the castellated style peculiar to the age of the Tudors. In 

 one of those beautiful, yet ephemeral works of the day— 

 the Annuals — we find " A Legend of Halnecke," by Lord 

 Wm. Lennox, vdiich contains a very graphic account 

 of the visit of the unfortunate Edward the Sixth 

 to this place in 1551. The park contains some magni- 

 ficent timber, and a splendid avenue of Spanish chestnut 

 trees. 



The Manor House of Westhampnett, formerly the pro- 

 perty of Sir Hutchins Williams, Bart., is now converted to 

 the Union-workhouse ; and let those who cavil at the new 

 Poor-law system only visit this establishment, and they 

 will find that every comfort and attention that can be paid 

 to the spiritual and bodily wants of their less fortunate 

 brethren, are here dispensed with a most liberal hand. See 

 the aged, happy and content ; the children cheerful, well 

 fed, and cleanly attired ; test their knowledge in the " one 

 thing that is needful;" and it will be found that many of 

 these, poor in the eyes of the world, ai*e rich in treasures 

 far above earthly value. Return we to Goodwood, which 

 in the Burrell MSS., is thus described :— " Rot. Par., 2Gth 

 of Elizabeth. Godinwood Manor, with its appendages, 

 and two houses, four gardens, two orchards, two hundred 

 acres of park land, ten of arable, five hundred of pasture, 

 and three hundred of wood." The original mansion, a 

 gothic structure, of which we believe no print or painting is 

 in existence, was replaced by an edifice erected under the 

 direction of Sir William Chambers, and which now forms 

 part of the present building. In ICOO, the third Duke of 

 Richmond, who was a great patron of the arts, and who had 

 expended a large sum upon the improvement of the estate, 

 commenced those additions and alterations which have 

 produced the present noble domain. The house consists of a 

 principal front, with a colonnade ; a portico of six Doric 

 pillars supports another of an equal number of Ionic of 

 Portland stone, extending neatly one hundred and seventy 

 feet, and terminated by two towers with hemispherical 

 roofs ; the wings, each presenting a front of one hundred 

 and six feet, are also terminated by similar towers. With 

 the exception of the front, which formed part of the 

 building erected by Sir William Chambers, the whole of 

 the new edifice is built with square flints, collected in the 

 neighbouring downs, and which possess an advantage over 

 Portland stone— namely, that the longer they are exposed 

 to the weather the whiter and harder they become. Near 

 the principal entrance are some fine specimens of the cork 

 tree, famed for their size and beauty. Of the interior of 

 the house we shall say little, except that a visit to it will 

 amply repay the sight-seer, as it contains some fine pictures 

 of many of the most celebrated artists— Rubens, Vandyke, 

 Sir Peter Lely, Guide, Titian, Godfrey Kneller, Salvator 

 Rosa, Teniers, Rembrant, Tintoretto, Ostade, Wovermans, 

 Canaletti, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Law- 

 rence. A selectien of the above were lent by the Duke 



