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in the verses handed to her * He retired from the contest with a clear conscience , and resolved to lead a single life . When he had acquired a competency , the sum , namely , of one
hundred thousand pounds , part invested in India stock , part in the Three per cents , he retired from business ; and having been honoured with great part of a bow ( as he believed ) by Louis XVIII , who was passing
through the city to remount the throne of his ancestors , he resolved , when affairs were firmly settled , to sojourn a few years in France . As is
customary with persons of his rank in society , he was presented at court theref , on his first arrival ; and the only mortification he experienced was upon the very event from which he
anticipated unmingled joy . Lord Stuart de Rothesay did not hear him , when , after announcing Mr Pidcock Raikes , he said emphatically , though in a whisper , " the gentleman who brought the live turtle in his
carriage . A sort of coldness between him and his Maiestv sprang up trom this omission , although he gave as his reason for goin ^ so soon into Italy the washiness of French wines . It
is well known among his friends , that he carried a powerful antidote in his own excellent port and incomparable sherry , and had suffered as much in England from green peas and broad beans , as ever he encountered in France from the most animated , straight-forward , and
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upright hostility of champaigne . We may surmise then , on this one occasion , that his sincerity was , to a certain point , affected by his delicacy . It is beyond all controversy that , on the eleventh day of
w June , 1824 , he crossed Mount Cenis with his suite , the same notification being engraven on the eternal granite of that mountain . And here it must be observed that he was by no means an ostentatious man , and that he never entitled himself
Grand Esquire , as some Italians entitled him , nor Milord ^ neither of which are to be found in the inscription , but simply Esquire , in letters which cannot be mistaken . He was of so
liberal a disposition , and so constantly in the habit of giving encouragement , —words which were for ever upon his lips , — that when he contemplated an immortal work , he consulted at an expense of about one hundred pounds , more than twenty
of those gentlemen who had formerly been in his employment , whether he should entitle it Journey , Journal , Tour , Travels , Rambles , Reflections , View , Sketch , or Thoughts ; and whether , if Thoughts , which pleased him most , he should call them Scattered or Succinct .
To proceed in the delineation of his character . It has been remarked , that dispassionate as an observer , and modest as an orator , he never questioned the authority of older or of richer men than
himself , and that he preferred the opinions of even those uu «
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90 High and Low Life in Italy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/18/
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