-afield, instead of its year's produce-the estimated value of the aggregate of a succession of future receipts, instead of a representation of things existing, for consumption, or for sale in the market.

In spite of the objections which were pointed out, the plan of issuing assignats was adhered to, and Mr. Huskisson then detached himself from all further connexion with the Club. When he delivered this Speech, the Anglomanie was at its height in Paris, and the young Englishman soon found himself an object of general interest and admiration, in all the most distinguished liberal circles of that metropolis. His discourse was

loudly extolled, his talents became the theme of general conversation, and his society was eagerly courted by people of the highest consideration and fashion of both sexes.

Nor did this first promise of future celebrity escape the notice, or fail to excite the attention of many of his own countrymen, whom the rapidly increasing interest of the passing events then attracted in large numbers to Paris, and by whom an introduction to Dr. Gem was eagerly sought. Among those who particularly noticed the young politician may be mentioned Mr. Hayley, himself at that time a warm favourer of the revolution, and then enjoying a considerable literary reputation; and Dr. Warner, chaplain to the English embassy, a person of great talents and acquirements, who had been some years before made

known to Dr. Gem through their mutual friend, the eccentric George Selwyn. Mr. Hayley attached himself warmly to young Huskisson, and an intimacy was then contracted, which lasted for many years, and which gave rise to an intercourse of the most friendly and confidential nature.

To the favourable opinion of Dr. Warner, Mr. Huskisson was indebted for his first introduction to the present Marquis of Stafford, then Lord Gower, our minister at Paris. Struck with the pleasing manners and promising talents of his youthful countryman, Dr. Warner mentioned him to the ambassador-to whom Dr. Gem was well known, both personally and by reputation-in terms of such high commendation, that an introduction took place, at the particular desire of Lord Gower, and this introduction was shortly followed up by an offer of becoming his Private Secretary. This offer Mr. Huskisson willingly accepted, and took up his abode at the Ambassador's Hotel some time in the year 1790.

Thus commenced Mr. Huskisson's acquaintance with Lord Gower and Lady Sutherland; an acquaintance which ripened into a friendship subsisting uninterruptedly through a period of forty years, and terminated only by his death; during the whole of which time he received from those noble persons constant proofs of their high estimation and sincere regard, while he never ceased to hold in grateful remembrance the kindness and pro

tection which had fostered and encouraged the earliest efforts of his mind and talents.*

• The following Notes, copies of which Mrs. Huskisson has, from feelings easily understood, preserved, will prove how kindly these noble persons always interested themselves in Mr. Huskisson's public triumphs, and how warm a sense he ever entertained of their early protection and favour.

"DEAR HUSKISSON;

"Westhill, Feb. 26, 1826.

Nobody can rejoice more than I do at the success of your Speech on the Silk question. You may say, "sublimi feriam sidera vertice," with more justice than Horace could do.

"To have, by just reason and eloquence, influenced the votes of Members of Parliament has fallen to the lot of few orators, and you are now classed among that select body.

"I cannot conclude without doing justice to Lady Stafford, by saying that she enters into all my sentiments upon the occasion most sincerely. You must have great inward satisfaction in tracing your progress, from the period of your first display at the "Club de 89" to the present time.

"Believe me to be, with all the feelings of old friendship, sincerely yours,

"DEAR LORD STAFFORD;

"STAFFORD."

"Somerset Place, Feb. 28, 1826..

The recollections which you recall, and still more the kind manner in which you carry me back to such distant days, excited no ordinary feelings in my bosom, when I received, last night, your very friendly but too flattering letter of Sunday.

"To those feelings, connected with the early aspirations of youth, and the assistance which you and Lady Stafford afforded in calling them into action, I cannot so easily give utterance as I did to those of an opposite nature, which unjust imputations drew from me on the occasion to which you refer. I will therefore be more discreet than I was in replying to Mr. Williams, and not make an attempt in which powers of language, far greater than any I could hope to command, would, I am persuaded, fail.

"Believe me, dear Lord Stafford, with the truest esteem and attachment, yours,

"W. HUSKISSON."

Mr. Huskisson is described by some who remember him at Paris about this period, as being in the habit of employing a considerable part of his time in reading, but without secluding himself from society, which he always enjoyed ;—as kind and obliging in his manners, but without any over complaisance ;—and as having very much the same air, countenance, and manner which he retained through life, with less alteration than often happens through so long an interval.

Though, in common with many of the most virtuous and most eminent men of the day, he had hailed with transport the first rising of the day-star of liberty, and had openly proclaimed his zeal for the cause of reformation, yet his generous ardour for its ultimate success was speedily chilled, and he recoiled from the frightful excesses, and utter profligacy, of those who had by this time assumed the direction of the revolution. The scenes which crowded one upon another, and marked each succeeding day with some fresh outrage against humanity,-with some more flagrant violation of all laws, divine and human,―were such as to fill every virtuous breast with horror and alarm. Even the iron sceptre of royal despotism seemed preferable to the blood-dripping axe of the frantic demagogues of Paris, and when the mild virtues of the reigning monarch, and the extensive reforms and ameliorations which had already relieved the people

from their most vexatious burthens, and removed or alleviated the most galling of their grievances, were calmly weighed against the cruelties of the sanguinary tyrants of the Clubs, not a few of the best and wisest of the earliest champions of the new doctrines resolved to exert their utmost endeavours to preserve for the nation the benefits already won; but to arrest, if possible, the further progress of the revolutionary torrent, which threatened to sweep away all the land-marks of civilized government and to involve the world in one wide chaos of anarchy and infidelity.

That such a change in the feelings of Mr. Huskisson had been operated on this subject, when he resolved to accept the offer of Lord Gower, cannot be doubted,-that they were known to have experienced such an alteration may fairly be presumed, or that offer would scarcely have been made, and that the different society into which he was now thrown, and his initiation into a more extensive and confidential acquaintance with the science of politics, strengthened and confirmed his determination to withdraw from any further participation in the debates of Clubs, and from all intimate communication with those who still pressed onwards their plans of revolutionary. reform, is a supposition so reasonable that it might be asserted as a fact, even if his own authority did not survive for stating such to have been the case. The following letter paints in strong