100 LOED WILLIAM BENTINCK. 



as lawyers and doctors, engineers and 

 surveyors, ship-builders and ship-masters, 

 cum multis aliis. It would be difficult to 

 describe all the remarkable characters 

 that came under my observation, and 

 my limits will only allow me to sketch a 

 few. 



Lord William Bentinck accompanied me 

 on the box, I remember, on the elevation 

 of his relative, Mr. Canning, to the Pre- 

 miership. 1 found him a not very loqua- 

 cious companion, his conversation being 

 principally confined to agricultural statis- 

 tics ; for this attache to the Sicilian Govern- 

 ment this active commander and talented 

 diplomatist, and, soon afterwards, the wise 

 and popular Govern or- General of our In- 

 dian possessions had been of late years 

 acting Cincinnatus in the marsh lands of 

 Norfolk. 



His manners were cold and distant, I 

 thought perhaps properly so to one in 

 my position, and to my enquiring mind 



