Delaware journal., 1827-10-05
From d London Correspondent.

PARLIAMENTARY CHARACTERS.-ih ne new Lord
Chancellor is person Of very striking figure and
counteDance. He seems exceedingly at his ease on
the woosack | heard him one occasion retort
on Lord Elenborough with as much asperty Of tone
and manner as have ever witnessed on triiling
occasion
The duke Of Wellington is fdgetty and talkative
person while their ordships are in deIiberation.-H
is perpetually shifting his position, and whispering
to the person who happens to sit nexthm.
Lord Goderlch is person whose speech is better
to the sight, Or paper than to the ear. The re-
verse. probably. may be said Of Lords Dudley and
Ward i; there is great precision. smoothiees ahd
force, in what he delivers. Lord LansdoWn. how
ever, appears to be the best speaker in the upper
house. He is one of the best sentence makers
ever heard and what he does in this way is done
with amazing facility. A writer. who is particular
about his periods and lastidious in the co'iocuton
of words especially when the ideas to be expressed
have good deal Of complexi,y, knows well the uni
ty of pause, and an opportunity for emendaton
The greatest niceties of phrase, and elcitles OF ar
rangement, exhibited by him off hand, and with
out the least show of hesitation effort. When
say in the upper house," mean, of course in the
active discharge of its duties. | refer only to the
members whose voices are familiar to the ears OF
those who hear its debates. | can scarcely yet re-
gard Lord Plunket OF the band OF the :" Lords
Temporal" He isas yet non-enty IN their sphere
but when he thinks proper to exercise his energies,
his station master of eocutlon, will, n course,
be what it was in the region from which he has as
cended--that is, it will place him above all compe-
tition and rivalry.
Peel looks yet very young but increased fullness
of person and gravity of countenance, mark in some
measure the progress of time. | should suppose he
is now about 40. for he made his maiden speech III
favor Of the Walcheren expedition in lS09 and he
must have been 81 at that time. His appearance
is that Of SMOOTH self satisfied man OF 40.
who has husbanded his health, and with whom the
world in general has thrven. He is said to be fond
Of the relaxation and quiet Of domestic life, and
that he does not make an empty boast when he says
that he has ratherfled from than been the pursner d
Office 1t would not probably be easy to estimate
how much he owes of the character he has for dis
interestedness and integrity to his tendency Of his
feelings and habits. He is Indifferent to office pro
bably because he is careful of his health. is font
OF his wife, or is rich, or has poor relations t.
provide for, or has got great deal OF station and
some fame by accident, and does not wish to hazard
the loss of any portion of them in official squad
bes or from any other cause equally defectable to
self. Probably his predictions to be traced to
success more strongly marking the magnanlmlty oil
his character but be this as it may, it is shrewdy
supected that, with the colleagues he had. he never
would have been able to introduce the little in
novatlon he has attempted in the criminal laws. q
he was not ready at all times to say, that he did moi
want office, and that he would be thankful to be c
,eved from its solicitude. There is certainly some
thng very imposing in an apparent contempt of au
thorlty and pef in contention for which, the worle
as kept in such agitation aud turmoil. Would tina
all public men shared in the sentiment, or could
successfully affect to do so ! | could lay my hnge
upon one great man who, by the mere show Of til,
dlslnterestedness of which the entire Peel family ar,
so boasted, could, in all human Likelihood, on NOR
occasions than one. have given freedom to a who'll
A q "a
pacity, it is, think, manltestly on the decline il
the House. Fortune intended high destiny 70
him-nature very humble one. Probably the iickl
goddess has now abandoned him to his own energe
and these, as think is already evident cannot, al
ter the lapse of very little time, keep him abov
the level of the fourth or fifth class even OF the mer
debaters Ne,0 York Times.