182 BECORDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



earlier productions, and mucli of their fire : but they 

 possess far more of the ringing metal of right thought 

 and compact logic. Every word has weight, every 

 sentence wisdom. Men learn, as they advance in 

 years, that life is not sustained by flowers, but by 

 fruit, and that barley-meal is better than blossoms. 

 Age tames the imagination and tones down fancy, 

 but gives insight to character, a knowledge of the 

 world, and leads to perfect confidence alone in God." 



These remarks apply most fitly to the fifth Duke 

 of Richmond. 



I must relate one of the numerous kind and con- 

 siderate acts of his Grace which his brother Lord 

 William Lennox witnessed. His Grace was able 

 through his influence to obtain a situation as porter 

 in a public institution in Portsmouth for an old 52nd 

 man who had been in every action through the 

 Peninsular War, and retired from the service on a 

 decent pension. This veteran lived in a small lodge 

 until he died. During his life the noble Duke never 

 failed to call upon him when he went to Portsmouth. 

 On one occasion he was accompanied by his brother, 

 Lord William. It was a very hot day. The old 

 pensioner's one and only apartment was stufl'y and 

 ill ventilated. The furniture consisted of a table, 

 two chairs, a coal scuttle, and a shut-up bedstead. 

 Over the mantelpiece was suspended by a piece of red- 

 and-blue ribbon a medal with ten clasps, every one 



