BECKENilAM — MR. ROBINSOK. 13 



Here Robinson,* from toils of state 

 Opinions' conflict, keen debate, 

 Retires to soothe, relax his mind, 

 Woo Nature — to us ever kind. 



If now to Bromley you extend, 

 New scenes, new subjects will befriend; 

 Nor shall the Villa, taste of Long. f 

 Be absent from my rural song. 

 Still farther would you, Lady, rove, 

 Delight attends in many a grove. 



* The Right Honourable Frederick Robinson, now Lor J 

 GouEHiCH, who, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a luminous 

 and eloquent speech, on the opening of the Budget to Parlia- 

 ment, March 13, 1826, promulgated some of the most liberal 

 and important opinions that were ever uttered by any states- 

 man. 



It is scarcely possible to estimate the effect of such senti- 

 ments on the well being and happiness of the human race,' to 

 the furtherance of viliich they so eminently tend, when io ex- 

 tensively diffused, as they necessarily must be, in reports of our 

 parliamentary proceedings; but we may be morally assured 

 that^such sentiments will never be forjiotten; and that the time 

 has indeed arrived when the minds of our enlightened states- 

 men are in accordance vvitii the opinions of an enlightened 

 people; and that, among those, while the names of a Canning, 

 jA Peel, and a Huskisson, will be prominent, the name of the 

 late Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Robinson, will never 

 he mentioned without respect and esteem. 



t The Right Honourable Sir CharlesXong, Bait. ; since 

 this was written, created Lord Farnborougii. 



