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plaints were made of the bad arrangement of the expedition, that 
the suitors had not suffered from the mismanagement, as he had 
taken his seat in Queen’s Bench at the usual hour, half-past nine. 
He was then seventy-two. 
Lord Campbell owed his success in life entirely to his own exer- 
tions, and his own innate powers of mind. He had not those ex- 
ternal accessories of address or grace to which men are sometimes 
indebted for much of their success, and from which they gain artificial 
advantage in the public eye and estimation. He was plain, in his ex- 
terior, nor had he a polished style of writing or of speaking. He had 
nothing of what is usually termed eloquence, and yet all he said and 
wrote told and produced good effect. Like Lord Aberdeen, he en- 
joyed in his lifetime the respect and consideration due to his talents 
and his success, but which are posthumous to so many good and able 
men. For him a cotemporary might very properly use the address 
made to Augustus, “ Presenti tibi maturos largiamur honores.” 
Lord Campbell never felt what so many able men feel before they 
have to give up their place in this world, — viz., that “ multa senem 
circumveniunt incommoda.” He had only one of those two seasons 
of childhood which Shakspeare has assigned to every human being, 
nor could he ever have said with Lear : — 
(l Infirmity doth still neglect all office, 
To which our health is hound.” 
He died in his eightieth year, in the midst of full occupation as a 
statesman and a judge, and with faculties, I believe, quite unim- 
paired. Few men can hope ever to attain Lord Campbell’s emi- 
nence ; few can expect to reach his years without infirmity and 
decay of mental and bodily faculties. But all may imitate his 
example in the fixed determination to do their utmost in the path 
which Providence has assigned to them, and all may follow him in 
the full resolve faithfully and honestly to discharge every duty for 
which they have become responsible.* 
John Gordon, Esq. of Cairnbulg, who died during the present 
* Those who best knew Lord Campbell in private life bear testimony to hi3 
amiable and affectionate deportment in the domestic circle. To his habitual 
unselfishness, which made him seek the comfort and happiness of every one 
before his own, and to the freshness and simplicity with which he enjoyed, with 
young people especially, the few simple pleasures for which his immense labours 
left him time. • 
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