LIFE OF MYTTON. 25 



will could possibly have made him. Indeed his 

 neighbour, Sir Richard Puleston, with a felicity 

 of expression peculiarly his own, christened him 

 Mango, the king of the Pickles, and he proved 

 his title to the honour even to the end of his life. 

 But Master Mytton was withal a wonderful favourite 

 in his neighbourhood, because all his actions were 

 tempered with kindness, as indeed they were to his 

 very last hour. But how am I to describe the whole 

 career of his infant state, his scholastic progress, and 

 his academical honours ? Why the task is performed 

 in a few words. He was expelled Westminster * and 

 Harrow ; knocked down his private tutor in Berk- 

 shire, in whose hands he was afterwards placed ; was 

 entered on the books of both universities, but did not 

 matriculate at either, and the only outward and visible 

 sign of his ever intending to do so, was his ordering 

 three pipes of port wine to be sent addressed to him 

 at Cambridge. At the age of eighteen, however, 

 he went a tour on the Continent by way of some- 



* Here he spent 800/. a yenr, exactly double his allowance. In some 

 proof of how utterly inadequate this was, it may be mentioned that he 

 wrote to Lord Eldon, as Lord Chancellor, requesting an increase of 

 income, as he was going to be married — being about fourteen years of 

 age at the time ! The reply of his legal guardian was sufficiently 

 laconic : — " Sir, if you cannot live on your allowance, you may starve ; 

 and if you many 1 will commit you to prison.'' 



