102 NOKFOLK. 



and business habits, the confidence and the 

 approbation of the community.* 



In that part of Norfolk, extending 

 beyond Lynn eastward a fine shooting 

 country are situated the princely domains 

 of Holkham and Houghton, and it con- 

 tains other mansions and residences of the 

 aristocracy, whence I had, to make use of 

 a hackneyed expression, a host of clients. 

 The noble owner of Raby Gas tie, f before 

 he inherited the dukedom, living then 

 in this district, was one of the most fre- 

 quent of my passengers, and in his journey 

 up and down always sat beside me. His 

 manner was at all times affable, and his 

 conversation, if not familiar, was not ren- 

 dered disagreeable by his sense of the 

 difference of rank. 



In the Right Honourable Secretary to 

 the Treasury, whom I have before men- 



* T. Hoseason, Esq. 



f The Duke of Cleveland, then Earl of Darlington. 



