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could not allow the health of the Duchess of Kichmond 

 to be drunk by the officers of the two services with- 

 out rising to express the feelings which animated 

 him. It was natural that the Duchess of Richmond 

 should appear in that gallery to witness the honours 

 heaped upon her husband. She knew those honours 

 were most grateful to his heart, and he would return 

 the gentlemen present her best thanks for the high 

 honour they had bestowed upon her, and add a hope 

 that her children and the children of those children 

 would give themselves to the profession of arms. 

 He looked back to the early days of his life with 

 feelings of the deepest gratification, because he then 

 became acquainted with the best and most gallant 

 spirits that ever existed, not only ofiicers but privates, 

 whose names even were unknown. The Duchess of 

 Richmond felt as a soldier's daughter, as one born 

 of the right sort, and in her name he thanked them 

 for the compliment they had paid her." 



His Grace then proposed the health of their noble 

 Chairman, who, he stated, " was well worthy of the 

 station he derived from a long line of ancestors. He 

 might, when a young man, have enjoyed the sports 

 of Leicestershire, which he liked very much indeed ; 

 but he preferred his duty to his country to anything 

 else, and having joined a Highland regiment, shared 

 with it the dangers and privations of the field." 

 He remembered well, as he told his hearers, the 



