184 love's meinie. 



dexterity. Also, the middle class, or Smithian 

 lout, at least manages his stockbroking or 

 marketing with decision and cunning ; knows 

 something by eye or touch of his wares, and 

 something of the characters of the men he has 

 to deal with. But the Ducal or Marquisian 

 lout has no knowledge of anything under 

 the sun, except what sort of horse's quarters 

 will carry his own, farther weighted with 

 that smooth block or pebble of a pow ; and 

 no faculty under the sun of doing anything, 

 except cutting down the trees his fathers 

 planted for him, and selling the lands his 

 fathers won. 



137. That is indeed the final result of hunt- 

 ing and horseracing on the British landlord. 

 Of its result on the British soldier, perhaps 

 the figures of Lord George Sackville at the 

 battle of Minden, and of Lord Raglan at the 

 battle of Alma, (who in the first part of the 

 battle did not know where he was, and in 

 the second plumed himself on being where 

 he had no business to be,) are as illustrative 

 as any I could name ; but the darkest of all, 

 to my own thinking, are the various person- 

 ages, civil and military, who have conducted 



