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old gentleman,* residing in the former 

 place, as Cambridge, where I then re- 

 sided, was under the Duke of Rutland. 



Conversing one day with this gentle- 

 man on the representation of Lynn 

 for which place Lord William Bentinck, 

 afterwards Governor-general of India, was 

 then Member I ventured to hint that 

 Lynn, or the Lynn Corporation, of which 

 my companion was the most distin- 

 guished member, bore the same relation- 

 ship to the Duke of Portland as Ports- 

 mouth did to the Petersfield Esquire, 

 who always walked with a large cane, 

 and came down at the time of an elec- 

 tion for Members of Parliament, flourish- 

 ing it over their heads, daring the Cor- 

 poration to speak, or even think, of any 

 other candidates than those he should 

 name to them. 



Of course my companion took this as it 



* The late John Bonham, Es^. 



