Star.
London, England, 1822-10-12 00:00:00

tom ELDON.

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TO VIE EDITOR OF IMF. STAR.
rely upon your candour for admitting a
few observations on a not over-goodnatured para- I
graphs which appeared lately in your columns, con-
cerning a distinguished Nobleman—the circulation
whereof, in a variety- of other Papers, has surprised
me less than seeing it in your's, which, though often
much opposed to my political feelings,l have, for above
five-and-twenty years, preferred to all others, on ac-
count of its honourable rejection of everything bor-
dering upon personal detraction. • That Lord Eldon
might, when young, have (as he has even done in his
maturity) aided the abilities which PROVIDINCE be-
stowed on him by more than ordinary industry, or
that without that early industry he would scarcely
have arisen to his present elevation, I feel no inclina-
tion to dispute ; but if he really had a master of the
name of Bray, who could be so unworthy of the
trust reposed in him as to stigmatise that industry by
the appellation of plodding, or so undiscerning as to
suppose that he had several pupils of superior talent,
I should be indeed surprised could I suppose him to
be related to the venerable and enlightened Editor
of Evelyn's Memoirs. But that any gentleman of
the name of Bray was the person who deterred him
from retiring to Newcastle, I not only positively deny,
but I am induced to state who that person really was,
by being thus enabled to mention a pleasing and in-
disputably authentic anecdote of another eminent
legal character, lately deceased. Upon its being ru-
moured that Mr. Scott (who had even then attracted
the notice of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Thurlow)
had taken a house in Newcastle, Mr. Mansfield (who
was much his senior, and was in considerable prac-
tice at the Chancery Dar), though personally unac-
quainted him, accosted him one day as he was going
out of Court, and asked him whether such a report
could possibly be true ? Mr. Scott replied in the
affirmative, alleging as his motive the hopes which
had been held out to him of sufficient business there
to ensure a present competence ; and Mr. Mansfield
having strongly remonstrated on the want of spirit
there would be in relinquishing for them his flat-
tering eventual prosperity, he candidly confessed
himself compelled to do so, with a sigh, by the
imperious necessity of an immediate subsistence.—
Whereupon Mr. Mansfield, much affected, inquired
what he should consider as a sufficient immediate
subsistence to induce him to remain in London? and
a very moderate sum having been mentioned, an-
swered that he would himself undertake instantly to
throw into his hands conveyancing business enough
to produce him double the amount, an office which
he immediately accepted and punctually fulfilled ;
and Lord Eldon had, in due time, not only the satis-
faction of making that very Mr. Mansfield Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, but of recalling
the circumstance to his recollection when he an-
nounced to him his appointment. Whether the fa-
mily whose name was so unkindly introduced in the
newspaper paragraph were influenced in their dis-
like of a match by the ordinary calculations of
prudence, or not, it would be quite useless to in-
quii e ; but to assert that the fortunate holder of the
Great Seal had a base pleasure in fixing it to the
downfall of his wife's family, is what the writer of the
paragraph in question could not have a right to as-
sert, since he could not know it—whatever he might.
deduce from the feelings in his own bosom ; but at all
events he might at least have completed his case, by
adding, that if Lord Eldon really retained any angry
feeling, he at length took a nobler revenge, by pro-
curing for this Lady's brother the Receivership of
the County of Northumberland; by bestowing on the
Clergyman who had married her the most lucrative
preferment in his gift; and by providing, out of the
patronage placed by the laws of his country at his
disposal, for nearly evety member of the numerous
family. I am, Sir, your's, &c.

JUSTITIA.

• The article to which our Correspondent alludes did not origi-
nate with the Seca, but was copied from a blerning Papez.—ED.

•

rim ARMY.
ORDER RESPECTING HORSES OF CAVALRYe
REMOUNT HORSES.
The moot favourable season for the purchase of remota tweak
is during the maims, and the Commanding Officers of Reid
-
silents, when they require horses to complete their establish-
ments, are to make their purchases, as far as. possible, doting
this period ; but it is not intended to preclude them from avail-
ing themselves of the opportunities which the fain, held during
the spring and summer, may afford.
Hones, If bought in the winter, would require peculiar at.
tendon to against the dlae2ses to which they are subject
in coming guard
or from the open fields, into stables.
The exercise of remount horses must be regulated by their age, I
strength, and condition ; they seldom join a Corps in a state fit i
for immediate work; as a general rule, therefore, it will be pro-
per, that walking nerdy only should be required of them for the
first two or three weeks; the duration of their daily exercise
should be gradually increased as their feed on hard corn is aug-
mented, and at no time must their work be such as to break
their spirit, or to reduce their condition.