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his prospects at the Bar, and the result was 

 that, happily for his readers, he became one 

 of the most successful public writers of the 

 century. The fervour of his political articles 

 may be gauged by a specimen written when 

 its author was but twenty-six years old. 



It should be premised that in 1848, the 

 death of Lord Morpeth's aged father, the 

 sixth Earl of Carlisle, removed the Liberal 

 representative of the West Riding from the 

 House of Commons, and although it was 

 little anticipated at the time, practically 

 brought his public life in England to a close. 

 Lord Morpeth had been returned for the 

 West Riding on eight different occasions, 

 when, in a moment of caprice, such as all 

 great constituencies are occasionally liable to, 

 he and his Liberal colleague, Lord Milton, 

 were defeated in 1841, by Mr. Evelyn 

 Denison and Mr. John Stuart- Wortley. 

 The triumph of the two latter candidates was 

 short lived, as the following article will show. 

 It should be added that Lord Morpeth was 

 the uncle of the present Duke of Devonshire ; 

 that he was Chief Secretary of Ireland from 

 1835 to 1 84 1 ; and Lord Lieutenant (as Lord 



