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or proclivities were, he ever conducted himself to the 

 outside world as a man of breeding, sense, and taste. 

 In this respect he presented a marked contrast to 

 many of his contemporaries. 



March is found advising ^ Selwyn on a vis-d-vis 

 he thought of importing from Paris. His lordship's 

 advice is pertment: 'Don't have a very fine one 

 made, as it will not look well unless your horses 

 and servants are very fine too ' — sound counsel, pithily 

 put, by one who knew Selwyn's resources did not 

 warrant a turnout d la Due de Queensberry. But 

 the next piece of information given by his lord- 

 ship is, that the Parisian coachbuilders of four- 

 wheel carriages in those days were as far behind 

 their London competitors as the latter are now in 

 the rear of their Parisian brethren. 



Lord March afterwards tempers his strictures by 

 special reference to the body, its fittings and 

 painting. 'You may then have your carriage - 

 made here, which will be beyond all comparison 

 better.' 



Another export of coals to Newcastle — to use an 

 expression now relegated to the shades of fiction 

 since the use of Welsh coal for steamship purposes 

 — is exemplified in this correspondence — viz. sending 



^ Appendix El. " The under part, springs, wheels, etc. 



