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component parts of the constituency of Lynn Hegis, 

 and gave o:ood reasons for their selection of men of 

 considerable influence with the Government and in 

 Parliament, for their representatives ; among Avhich 

 mio;ht be reckoned the drainafje of the Fens, and the 

 improvement of the navigation and the port of Lynn. 

 When I was informed of the number of Acts relative 

 to those important objects that had been, and would be 

 yet, in the House, I could but acknowledge my fallacious 

 and ill-drawn conclusions, and contrasted them with his 

 sound judgment and superior understanding. 



Indeed, he was an excellent specimen of that most 

 respectable class, the merchants and bankers of the 

 country. He was a man of great penetration and quick 

 discernment — his intercourse Avith the world, joined to 

 faculties of no mean order, gave him an intimate know- 

 ledge of his kind — he was therefore admirably qualified 

 for the office of chief inagistrate of so important a town, 

 or to preside over a deliberative body, and to guide 

 those with whom he acted in all matters concerning the 

 wants and welfare of the community among whom he 

 resided. His name will ever be remembered and spoken 

 of with gratitude and esteem by all who knew him, and 

 by none more sincerely than by the author, who takes 

 this opportunity of paying a slight tribute of respect to 

 his memory.^ 



I repaired to the coffee-room, where, over a little 



brandy and water, I again received the sanction of the 



governor of the establishment, who, having heard the 



forcible reasoning of my friend, the wine merchant, 



^ The late John Blencowe, Esq. 



