JET. 50.] LORD ROSSLYN. 491 



no one could more satisfactorily perform the laborious 

 duties of the Home Department. 



He gave a very important popularity to the Govern- 

 ment he belonged to, by his constant patronage of 

 artists and learned men, and by the hospitalities (from 

 kindness of temper somewhat extended, if not rather 

 promiscuous) of Lansdowne House. 



He was always a reformer, but of a moderate type ; 

 and no one could more dislike all quackery and all 

 mob-courting, as well as all extreme courses, than he. 

 If a very moderate Parliamentary reformer, he was 

 to the end of his life a sincere and honest advocate of 

 all useful improvement. 



He always was above the narrow-minded spirit of 

 mere party and coterie. But nothing can be more 

 pure and unsullied than his party honour at all times. 



In 1831 and 1832 he was as stanch with the more 

 prominent supporters of the bill as any one could 

 desire. I believe I may say (indeed I speak from per- 

 sonal knowledge) that a leader of the House of Lords 

 so universally liked and respected by all parties never 

 has existed, nor anything approaching to it. 



There was no one more averse to the Junction than 

 Lord Kosslyn, partly from distrust of Canning, but 

 especially from his having made no stipulation for the 

 Catholic question, to which he (Rosslyn) always at- 

 tached the greatest importance, having indeed served 

 in Ireland, as attached to Lord Carlisle's Government. 

 The following letter is general, and does not touch 

 on that subject : 



" Oct. 20, 1827. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I received your letter at 

 Eaby, where I was disappointed in my expectation of 



