304 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



feathers, and inscribed to Female Patriotism, 

 celebrated his victory at the blue and buff fete 

 of lovely Mrs. Crewe. The late Earl's boyish 

 ears must have drunk in the incidents of those 

 days as they were transmitted to his home 

 through the London journals by the ' God 

 willing, four days coach to York,' or were 

 echoed in the merry Eton quadrangle ; and 

 hence when he grew up to manhood, he 

 longed to bear his part, and soon joined the 

 Embassy of the courtly Lord Malmesbury at 

 Paris. After the death of Fox he was more 

 of a quiet spectator of political events than 

 an energetic actor in them. His own life's 

 varied experience had taught him a deep 

 historic lesson. He had heard when a youth 

 of the taking of the Bastille, and the horrors 

 of the three days of July ; and he lived to 

 see them again enacted with redoubled fury, 

 when the Tuilleries were sacked and the 

 'holy man of God,' standing between the 

 dead and the living on the barricade, sank 

 down beneath his death blow. He had 

 1 feared to speak of '98/ and, after the lapse 

 of half a century had witnessed the leaders 

 in a second rebellion about to be consigned to 



