whether mr walter had that evening gone over to the tory side of the house by accident i cannot say � � � � � � � � � w j f ta � � � l f i i mr chapter ix the liberal party � late mr henry hunt � mr thomas � lord mr robert mr colonel mr i begin with mr because he was the first of those i am about to name that ceased to be a member of the house of his career was short it only extended to two it commenced at a time it mi t naturally have been least expected and closed when it t have been expected to begin he was chosen by the of re parliament was when reform was carried into he was not re elected by them nor chosen by any other he was altogether a singular man it is no easy matter to give a estimate of his character he had something of the ci ce of mr and a good deal of his irritable temper bat in intellect or information he could not be for a moment compared with the member for mr hunt was not a man of much mind he was for with any great question he never took an original view of any subject and was altogether incapable of close and ingenious he held certain principles of the most kind and at his fingers ends most of the principal which other persons had urged in their when these were so were liis means of his principles his style was not good it was rough and what he in was ready wit he had few e in this respect all parties in the house not even the most themselves hard to cough him down whenever he attempted to speak it was on occasions that he generally gave the most striking proofs of his wit nothing could him the greater the uproar his to speak caused in the house the more did he enjoy it that was to him a luxury of the most exquisite kind the fact was he had been formed for scenes of confusion and had all his life long been accustomed to them at the meetings of his os hence ihey came to him quite in many or his there great one honourable member on one when mr hunt was speaking in his to cough him down mt hunt cured the of his cough by one sentence which delivered aa it waa with infinite dramatic created universal laughter mr hunt put his nd into hie pocket tumbling about for a n seconds said with the utmost imaginable coolness hat he s extremely sorry to find that he had not a few in i for the benefit of the honourable member who to be so distressed with the cough but he could assure be would provide some for him by next night never doctor more effectually not only did mr hunt s i from that moment t rid of his cough but it never at least while mr hunt waa speaking was aa bed as his it h no graceful his gesture was awkward and his voice was r and the bad effect produced by the latter vas by a strongly marked provincial accent in bodily he was tall and his at any rate it appeared so but this my have been partly owing in a in dress � � � � � � � j j large he had a double s ir witli a fresh healthy glow and though sixty years of age n speaking bad not the slightest or three years after he ceased to regular in his attendance on hie o doubt thai at his time of life his the active nature of his previous � bits that circumstance hastened his days f thomas member far and now of council m india could boast of a brilliant if f not very long career he was one of those who at once raised to the first rank in the hie maiden speech the house and called the highest compliments to the speaker from men of all es he was careful to preserve the he had thus and suddenly won he was a man of shrewd mind knew that if he spoke the probability was he not so well and that consequently could more likely means of lowering him from the which had raised himself than frequently he died i l vi member as h va duties i have n of frame and t e elevated j ad h m the house lu be was quite ht be no for met king have seen him attempt it� only however when forced to it by the he held on but in ever such instance he himself very indifferently me never made three or four speeches in the course of a � sometimes not bo many � end these were on questions some great principle of ot justice and which deep and attention at the time his speeches were most studied and to memory exactly as he delivered them he bestowed a world of labour on their preparation and certainly never was labour bestowed lo more purpose in every sentence you saw the man of genius � the profound � the deep � the close and powerful you scarcely knew which most to admire � the beauty of his ideas or of the language in which they were clothed his was his matter was strongly with the spirit of what for want of a better ex h would call the poetry of philosophy he was in this respect the same man in the house as he was when such articles tbe as bis on the genius and writings of he was an excellent speaker withal � not e or vehement carrying you away as it were by force but yoa taking you a willing captive if i may so speak by 