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The Radnorshire memorial to the late Sir G. C. Lewis,
Bart., was inaugurated on Wednesday at New Radnor.
The right hon. baronet, besides being much esteemed as a
scholar and statesman, was greedy honoured as a landlord
and country gentleman in the county of Radnor and
the adjoining districts, with which he was intimately
mine: ad._ Cloaely. 4LUied #14,4, two ancient families
(Lewis, of Harpton Court, Radnorshire, and Cornewall;
of Meccas Court, Herefordshire), be owned consider,
able landed property in both counties, and succes-
sively represented the county of Hereford and the
Radnorshire boroughs (which include Radnor, Rhaya.
der, Knighton, Presteign, Ceinllys, and Knuckles) in
Parliament. A resolution to erect a substantial monument
in Reitnorshire- to the memory of the deceased baronet was
passed at a county meeting convened by the High Sheriff
in May, 1863, in compliance with a requisition from the in-
habitants. Subscriptions were readily obtained from per-
sons of all shades of politics ; and, as the people of Radnor-
shire had subscribed towards the statue lately unveiled by
the Premier in Hereford, so the residents in Herefordshire
contributed towards the memorial just inaugurated. The
design was selected by the building committee from 59 that
were sent to them, It is mainly of Box, ground stone, and
is in the Eleanor Cross style. It is 77ft high, by 25ft at the
base, is octagonal in form, and divided into three compart-
ments or stages. On the front of the lower stage is the
following inscription

Radnorshire
To her most distinguished son,
Sir

George Comewall Lewis,
Bart.
Died 1b63.

Under the inscription is a good medallion portrait in
marble of the late Baronet, by Mr R. Boulton, of Wor-
cester. The chief stage rises from the one described
and in four recesses, divided by eight columns, stand
four allegorical figures, of Caen stone, each 6tt bin high,
representing Justice, Truth, Oratory, and Literature,
under canopies of richly-carved arches and gables. In the
compartment above are other columns of red Mansfield
stone, around an octagonal shaft, with canopies, arches, and
other decorations, and representations of the coats of arms
of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The next stage,
which is similarly ornamented, has also four large griffins,
holcing the arms of Sir George Lewis, An ornamental
spire springs from the last stage, on the top of which is a
carved cross with a circle entwined in the centre.
It had been intended that the memorial should stand
on the top of Castle Hill, close to the town of New Rad-
nor, an eminence 100 ft. shove the level of the highread.
But, in digging the foundation, the remains of the old
castle were discovered, including old floors around which
were good arched doorways, and windows were moulded
in the style of the 13th century, and in some cases pos-
sessing
the old iron stanchion and grating. Principally
from a desire to preserve these ancient relics, on account of
their historical interest, the site was abandoned, and a much
more suitable one was subsequently secured, namely, a
triangular spot upon a level in the roadways, at a junction
of three roads, one of which is used by the mail coach to
Aberystwith. Advancing towards New Radnor from King-
ton the memorial is seen to advantage, and from its height,
boldness, and richness of detail has a very handsome ap-
pearance. The architect is Mr-John Gibbs, Oxtord, the
designer of the memorial cross at Banbury, the memorial to
the Prince Consort at Abingdon (which, it is stated, the
Queen will inaugurate early in the spring), and the me-
morial toShakspere at Stratford-upon-Avon. Mr. Mansfield,
builder, Kington, has carried out the architect's plans in
an admirable manner. Mr Stephens, of Barnwell, executed
the carving. The cost of the memorial is £1,900:
It had been intended that theßail ingeommittee, accom-
panied by the Bailiff and Corporation, who hold office under
charters granted by Elizabeth and George 11. and others,
should walk in procession from the Town Hall to the monu-
ment;- but the extremely unfavourable weather precluded ,
any outdoor 'demonstration. The proceedings wore confined
to a tent, which happily resisted the drenching rain and the
violent wind that prevailed, The principal residents in the
neighbourhoA; including many ladies, were present. Sir
John B. Walsh, Bart,
M.P. and lord lieutenant of Radnor-
shire, presided ; and there were also present the Earl of
Clarendon, the Rev. Sir Gilbert and Lady Lewis (Hampton
Court)—Mr R. G. Price, M, p, for the Radnor boroughs
—the High Sheriff of the county (Mr G. A. Haigh), &c.
The Rev. L. VENABLES, the chairman of the committee,
said they had completed the work, and now handed it
over to the great body of the subscribers represented by
Sir J. Walsh.

Sir J. WALSH said they had met upon a very grave and
solemn OCCabioll to perfume an act that would close the
connection between them and the eminent man whom
they met to honour and to mourn. (Hear, hear.) He did
not mean to infer that by that day's proceedings he would
pass from their remembrance. Far otherwise. (Applause.)
He (Sir J. Walsh) was quite sure that in these retired
districts his name would become a tradition, and that
fathers would tell their children some particulars of the
great man whose name reflected such lustre upon the
country. (Applause.) Mixed with their regrets, he
feared that there would always be a feeling of bitter
disappointment. They must all regret that a career so
honourable during its whole course, and so brilliant towards
its close, met with so abrupt a termination. They must
always regret that that career had been left incomplete. It
was one of the defects of our thronged community, of our
ancient civilisation, that every profession was crowded, that
every path was thronged, and that even the greatest merit
found its way slowly to the surface, Perhaps there was
something in human nature that rendered the active com-
petitors in this race peculiarly
jealous of excellencies of a
varied and diversified character, They were jealous of see-
ing one individual associate different species of success and.'
different orders and descriptions of merit, and there were
some who bestowed their suffrages in the first instance
grudgingly and distrustfully upon claims which rested upon
different bases. So in Sir G, C. Lowis's early life everybody
knew that ho was a great and profound classical scholar,
that he was intimately acquainted with all the shades and
the beauties and delicacies of the Greek language—all who
knew him were aware that his capacious mind embraced the
whole circle of modern literature, both foreign and English.
But there were these who said that these acquirements were
admirable in themselves--they were rare in their excellence,
they were sufficient to distinguish any person, and were of
a character to enable any man to occupy with honour and
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qualities which fitted a
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A'man might be an admirable scholar and might be no man
of business. Time rolled on, and Sir G. C. Lewis was placed
in a situation which most peculiarly tested his abilities as a
man of business and of practical knowledge and acquaint.
ance with affairs. He was placed at the head of the Poor
Law, which at that time was not one of those old-esta-
blished offices where everything went on by clockwork,
when it was sufficient that the head should sign his name
to a certain number of papers, where admirable and active
clerks carried on the whole clockwork of the machine with
undeviating regularity. No; this was a very different ordeal
rules
that he passed though. The Poor Law was at that time
something entirely new. He had to create the machinery as
well as to apply it. He had to apply new rules to infinitely
diversified
t
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differentcases
circumstances . Ho had constantly
wore in themselves perfectly novel, and also very unpopu-
lar. No one could have performed so difficult a task without
possessing tho higheat administrative ability, and all ac-
knowledged that the scholar was likewise a great adminis-
and to
principles which change and to
adapt
adminis-
trator, and were prepared to admit that Sir G. C. Lewis was
as equal to deal with the business of life as he was to deal
with the literature of the present or of past ages. (Ap-
plause.) Still there were cavillers. Perhaps there were
those who wore anxious to accord the very smallest modi-
cum of merit, and to receive proof at every stop for
everything and to infer nothing, and there wore those
who might say, " He is an admirable scholar, he is a great
administrator, but it is one thing to administer well the
affairs of a department,and it is another to take a part in the
national councils, and to be not only an able administrator
but a profound and comprehensive statesman." When Sir
Geo. Lewis was well on towards middle life, he had an op •
portunity of stepping up another round of the ladder. He
had an opportunity of showing how the administrator and
the scholar was capable likewise of becoming the statesmen,
how the same mind that could grapple with details was
equally able to impart sound and wise counsels to a nation.
He was placed in one of the highest and most responsible
and most difficult positions which any statesman could
oe-
oupy in thin country, lie wee made Chancellor of the Ea.

chequer, and then there came out another feature in his
character,one of the most invaluable qualities that a states-
man could possess. He inspired confidence. (Applause.)
By that sort of undefinable sympathy by which we were led
to place our trust where trust was deserved, men trusted
him. They trusted in his wisdom, his discretion, and,
above all, in his sincerity. (Applause.) By thus going up
each round of tho ladder. ho attained au elevation which did
not make him gWdy, and which, at each step, scented to
place him in that position which, by nature, he was best
qualified to fill. (Applause.) He believed—and there were
many around him who believed—that if Sir G. C. Lewis's
life had been spared, he would have occupied the highest
Place in this country, and obtained his niche (alongside
Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, Peel, anti Palmerston. It was
not to be so, and regret must always mingle bitter feelings
of disappointment with their recollection of his career. Ile
(Sir John Walsh) placed the monument in the custody of
the family on the part of the community of Radnor. (Ap-
plause.) Ho hoped that the monument would hand down
to the latest posterity the record of Sir G. Lewis's name
and of their regard and affection. (Applause.)
The Earl of CLARENDON, who was very warmly greeted,
said he returned his sincere thanks for the invitation with
which he had been honoured, and which enabled him to
take part in that deeply interesting ceremony, and to listo
to the speech of the right hon. baronet, which contained a
complete biography of the friend whom they all alike la-
mented, and to the feeling terms in which he had dedicated
to the memory of that friend the beautiful nsonumont that
bad just been exposed to their view, (Applause.) It was
ia.monurcieut of no
_ordinary description, whether_ as re—
garded its artistic beauty or symmetric proportion
noble, generous, and affectionate sentiment that had led to
its emotion, (Applause.) Such a monument he considered
not only as a record of the feelings of those who had the
beat opportunities of kowing Sir G, Lewis's worth, but also
as an encouragement to others far and near to follow in
his footsteps and to emulate his bright example. (Ap-
plause,) Such a monument, erected to him by his
county, and, as the hon, baronet has said, by persons of
all classes and of every variety of political opinion in
that country, honoured his memory and reflected the
character of him who, neither in public nor private life,
made an enemy nor lost a friend. (Applause.) It was
a particular satisfaction to him that the hon. baronet had
so completely narrated to them the different phases of
their lamented friend's public life, because his (Lord
Clarendon's) connection with Sir G. Lewis, in more
ways than one, almost unfitted him to speak of him as he
deserved, but if there was one high quality by which he was
characterised more than by another, it was his love of
truth,'and he (Lord Clarendon) should be false to his memory
if he said a word that was tinged with exaggeration or
stamped even by the prejudice of affectation. (Applause.)
He felt that he ran no such risk when he recalled to their
memory, from which it could not have faded, from the uni-
versal response of approval and sympathy which was given
by the whole country (aye and by foreign countries also, for
among the wise and good abroad their lamented friend held
the highest place)—to that speech of Lord Palmerston at
Hereford on a similar occasion, when with all the force that
truth gave to eloquence he narrated the services Sir G.
Lewis had performed to his country, and lamented the loss
to the nation and himself of his departed colleague. (Ap.
plause.) It was a perfect picture, if a picture could be called
perfect that had no shadow. But in truth there was no shade
to introduce. He (Lord Clarendon) well remembered a re-
mark made at the time, and the correctness of which im-
pressed itself on his mind, that the calm judgment and un-
impassioned reason of Sir G. Lewis protected him from the
defects which usually accompanied and often obscured
shining merit such as his. (Applause.) It was these high
qualities which guided him in the formation of his opinions,
which woro the result of investigation and reflection, and
never of personal or party influence. He could defend,
when occasion required it, with a vigour peculiar to him.
self, but never with obstinacy.: He was always open to rea-
son, whether in or out of Parliament, whether in speech or
in writing. No one arguing with him was ever offended,
or ever omitted to acknowledge that he had contended
against a chivalrous opponent by whom no unfair advantage
would be taken. Of faculties such as his, applied in all
their fulness to public affairs, it was impossible to over-
estimate the value. The case with which ho despatched
business, the lucidity of his judgment, the correctness of his
decision, the consideration and courtesy which he exhibited
to all those who had official connection with him; in short,
his intense desire to do right and do good, which was his
view of public duty. made him prominesaly eucceeelul in
all the various noises which ho was called upon to 1111.
(Applause.) When he (Lord Clarendon) made use of that
term prominently successful, it was far trona hint to intend
that which would of all things be more distasteful to Sir G.
Lewis, to institute a comparison between himself and other
great and good anon who still remained, and would, he (Lord
Clarendon) trusted, never be wanting in this country. (Ap-
plause.) Ho know ho had the support of public opinion
when he said that the Sovereign and people of this country
were never served with greater efficiency and fidelity than
by their lamented friend—(!rear)--and yet in the midst of
all his arduous duties, up to the latest period of his exie-
name, he found time for study, and he (Lord Clarendon)
knew of no instance of any man to whom study of the be-
wrest character and of the most abstruse subjects appeared
to afford the same genuine pleasure, in fact ho was only .
exercising and indulging a power of acquiring knowledge
that in him was perfectly marvellous. His profound scholar-
ship, his intimate acquaintance with the philosophy and
literature of ancient and modern times, his many published
works upon widely different subjects, long ago placed him
in the foremost rank of men of letters—but the remarkable
thing was that he never worked for honour, and cared not
for fame, If he could remove a prevailing error, or eluci-
date au important fact, if he could furnish information that
appeared to be wanting in politics, philosophy, or science,
his ambition was satisfied, though his modesty led him to
doubt his success. (Applause.) Erudition such as
his, such honesty of purpose, such desire of
power to do good, were rarely found in tho same man.
It was rare indeed, to use the words of the Dean of St.
Paul's, to find a man who might have aspired, and
who, as the hon. baronet had fairly observed, would have
succeeded to the highest dignity in the State, who at the
same time would do honour as a Greek professor in the
most learned University in Europe. It was as his true
character, as the nature and variety of his public services
became known, that he gradually, but without any effort
or intention of his own, wound himself round the hearts of
hie countrymen and obtained their unlimited confidence.
(Applause.) It was no exaggeration to say that his death
was mourned as a national loss, because every individual
in the country felt that one had been snatched from among
them in the fulness of his intellectual power, who could and
would further serve his country, and who could be ill spared.
The public feeling was faithfully represented in Parliament.
On the day the news of his death was received, a distin-
guished member of the Opposition moved, and the motion
was seconded by the leader of the Opposition, that the house
should adjourn in honour to his memory, because they had
never had among them so trustworthy, so conciliatory, so
conscientious, or so beloved a man as Sir G. Lewis. (Ap-
plause.) As a statesman, a scholar, a man of commanding
ability and unflinching honesty, Sir G. Lewis was known
to the country at large; but the country e t large could not
follow him into private life, and there judge him es he de-
served, where he was seen to most advantage. (Hear, hear.)
That assembly and that beautiful monument attested un-
mistakably that the country appreciated the worth and
mourned the loss of such a neighbour and such a friend—
(applause)—but of what he was in the innermost circle, in
the sanctum of domestic life, he (Lord Clarendon) was per.
haps better able than any one present to testify, for during
20 years of the closest fraternal intimacy, every day of
which increased his respect and affection for him, he never
saw his temper ruffled, never heard him say an unkind word,
and never knew him miss an opportunity to do a kind act.
(Applause.) His unwavering good nature, his keen sense of
honour, his power of adapting himself to every character
and disposition with which he came in contact, made the
youngest child as much at ease with him as the most intel-
ligent man, and concentrated in him the love of the domestic
circle. (Applause.) Of the dreary and irreparable blank
that now existed there, he could not permit himself to
speak; but in the name of her to whom the hon. baronet had
alluded in such feeling terms, of her whose happiness he
(Sir G. Lewis) rendered cloudless,whose sorrow could only
cease with her life, and who would have been present in
person as she was in spirit, if her feelings and failing health
had permitted—in her name ho (Lord Clarendon) expressed
her grateful sense of the kindness which had enabled her
brother to take part in the ceremony by which Radnorshire
did honour to herself. (Applause.)
The Bishop of ST. DAXID'S said his acqua interim with
Sir George Lewis never had been particularly intimate. It
dated, however, from a period of between 30 and 40 years
ago, and was founded upon their common studies. The
precise origin of it was a periodical publication which he
(the Bishop) at the time conducted at Cambridge, and the
volumes of which were enriched by many most valuable
contributions from the pen of Sir G. Lewis, who had stated
in his work on " The Languages of Europe derived from the
Latin," that that work was originally intended as a contri-
bution to that periodical. The bond of their acquaintance
such as it was, was formed by their fellowship in the studies
in which they took a common interest. He (the Bishop)
looked back, however, to that bond with very great personal
pride and satisfaction. Sir G. Lewis was of all men least
ambitious of fame or glory. That kind of glory, indeed,
which was associated with the roar of cannon and the blare of
trumpets was one which he not only did not seek, but which
he would have shunned. There was, however, another kind
of glory which, though he did not seek it, he most eminently
achieved. A definition of true glory, which he would have
adopted, said it consisted of three things in general : love,
general confidence, and general admiration. No man pro-
bably Wee ever more extensively loved ; no inn ,as they all