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with his confidence , and has announced ( perhaps more broadly than will please them ) that Ministers will do things nextsession calculated to satisfy " all classes
of Reformers /\ he neither joins their ranks , nor will forego the gratification of wounding the self-love of perhaps every other member of the Cabinet , by scornful allusions to
accomplishments , and talents for verse . It is his opinion ( so at least the report of the speech makes him argue ) that to be an accomplished gentleman , to dance and sing , and
to write verses , proves a man to be unpossessed of the qualities necessary to form a statesman ; a personage , according to his Lordship , who requires " a greater grasp of intellect !" As if the greater the grasp , the more it did not include ! as if
the countrymen of Aristotle and Epaminondas ( himself a dancer and flute-player ) knew nothing about legislation ! and as if all the other statesmen , 1 whom we mentioned in our last
number , as having written verses , and whose beautiful poetry , or " very pretty verses /'
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—we shall exhibit in our next , the Sackvilles , Raleighs , &rid Charles Foxes , — -were a parcel of frivolous and obscure young gentlemen , not fit to stand in intellectual eminence by his Lordship ' s side . *
By this single indulgence of spleen and want of reflection , his Lordship has probably offended almost every one of his late Ministerial connexions , not seriously indeed ( for there is more than one counteraction in
the very offence to that ) , but beyond what a wise man would wish to offend anybody with whom he is at all conversant ; for Charles Fox ' s nephew
( Lord Holland ) , Lord John Russell , Lord Mulgrave , Lord Morpeth , Spring Rice , all write verses , as the Raleighs and Andrew Marvells did
before them , and the grave Burleigh himself . A certain accomplished gentlemen , " called Julius Csesar , wrote verses , and " very pretty verses " too , as may be seen by his lines upon Terence . Does Lord Durham mean to infer from this , that Csesar had no great " grasp of mind ? " or is
* * ' I will tell you in a few words why I think Mr Liddell is not fitted to be your representative . He is a very accomplished gentleman : he sings well , he dances beautifully , and he writes remarkably pretty verses . ( Much laughter . ) But , in my conscience , I believe these are not the necessary qualifications you ought to look for in your representative . ( Cheers . ) I believe you require a person of a greater grasp of intellect ; and however qualified he may be to shine in society , were I an elector of this county , I should feel bound to tell him , did he call upon me for my vote , that though nature had qualified him to grace a drawing-room ,
she had not qualified him to adorn the senate . ( Cheers and laughter . )"—Morning Chronicle , Monday , Oct . 28 . The assumption here is , that Mr Liddell is not qualified to adorn the senate ; but the only evidence adduced to make good that assumption * is that he is an accomplished gentleman , and sings and dances , &c . We know nothing of Mr Liddell ( a son of Lord Ravens worth ) , except the testimony tnua borne to his accomplishments by his opponent ; but upon the same grounds of disqualification for the senate , most of the greatest statesmen , of ancient and modern times would have been disqualified .
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Lord Durham ' s Vindication of Himself . 299
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/3/
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