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CHAPTER XII. 



" He thought a trust so great, so good a cause. 

 Was only to be kept by guarding laws ; 

 For public blessings firmly to secure, 

 "We must a lessening of the good endure. 

 The public waters are to none denied ; 

 All drink the stream, but only few must guide. 

 The Constitution was the ark that he 

 Join'd to support with zeal and sanctity." Ceabbe. 



I KNOW no place more deserving of sporting notice 

 than Heron Court ; and Lord Malmsbury combines 

 in his person every knowledge of what is due to a 

 country life, as well as the more refined attributes of 

 London society. In this last year, 1852, we have 

 seen him leave his manors and rivers, his farms and 

 his gun, and, when called on to assist the Prime Mi- 

 nister, Lord Derby, with a firm hand and thoroughly 

 enlarged mind guide the foreign policy of the United 

 Kingdom; and leave the interests of his country 

 peaceably and honourably maintained, his sovereign 

 on the best of terms with every foreign power. His 

 more important duties over, and a change in the 

 government taking place, with honour he returns to 

 his hospitable hall, resumes the gun, and is as much 

 of the country gentleman and sportsman as ever. 

 Lord Malmsbury is an excellent illustration of what 

 a country gentleman and sportsman should be, as 

 recommended to the rising generation in the com- 



