BECKENIIAM MR. EOBINSON. 13 



Here Robinson,* from toils of state 

 Opinions' conflict, keen debate, 

 Retires to soothe, relax his mind, 

 Woo Nature — to us ever kind. 



If now to Bromley you extend, 

 New scenes, new subjects will befriend; 

 Nor shall the Villa, taste of LoxG..f 

 Be absent from my rural song-. 

 Still farther would you, Lady, rove. 

 Delight attends in many a grove. 



* The Right Honourable Frederick Robinson, now Lord 

 Goderich, who, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a luminous 

 and eloquent speech, on the opening of the Budget to Parlia- 

 ment, March 13, 1826, promulgated some of the most libera! 

 and important opinions that were ever uttered by any states- 

 man. 



It is scarcely possible to estimate the effect of such senti- 

 ments on the well being and happiness of the human race, to 

 the furtherance of which they so eminently tend, when so ex- 

 tensively diffused, as they necessarily must be, in reports of our 

 parliamentary proceedings ; but we may be morally assured 

 that such sentiments will never be forgotten; and that the time 

 has indeed arrived when the minds of our enlightened states- 

 men are in accordance with the opinions of an enlightened 

 people; and that, among those, while the names of a Canning, 

 a Peel, and a Huskisson, will be prominent, the name of the 

 late Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Robinson, will never 

 be mentioned without respect and esteem. 



t The Right Honourable Sir Charles Long, Bait. ; since 

 this was written, created Lord Farnborougii. 



