The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-11-06
LORD BROUGHAM.
by AN AMERICAN.

L nave been often al westminster E1dH anu
st. Stephens. There are no places in London
which | have so frequently visited. | love TO
linger under their venerable shadows, and read
the history of English jurisprudence and legisla-
ton inscribed in hogry characters upon their
walls. The first time | entered the House of
Lords, | was surprised and disappointed at its
diminutive size and gaudy appearance. 1t is
but little larger than your Supreme Court Room
at New York; and its walls aud ceiling, as well
as It's seats and wooIsack, are of a blazing scar
let color, tricked off with fashy gilt trappIngs.
How far removed from the severe grandeur for
which was looking.
The Parliamentary lions-Brougham, Wei
lington, Lyndhurst, Melbourne, are in their.pla-
ces. An exciting debate is going forward. Yon-
der is Brougham, stretched out half his length
ON one of the ministerial benches; now listening
to the Earl of Winchelsea, whom he eyes with a
portentous scoWl; and anon whispering a word
to Lord Melbourne. What an ungainly figure !!
Those long legs and arms, loosely hung in their
sockets, give him an ugly, slouchlng air. Ills
iron grey bristles over his low broad forehead,
like the quilts of the ffetful porcupine. His eye
brows seem alive with nerves. He must be
deeply agltated with the debate, for he writhes
as though his red cushion were a sheet of hot
iron. He suddenly starts up, as if impatient at
the prosy speaker, walks hastily TO the door, and
while saying a few pleasant things 10 one Of the
peeresses, his tormentor stops, and the eX-Chan-
%cellor cries out with startling emphasis, my
Lords J and slowly advances towards the wool
sack. An audible h-u-s-h runs through the
house. Listen to that first sentence. How II
~plunges into the very centre Of the subject.
Every word is an argument, every line IS a de-
moGstIation. The first blow knocks the key
stone from the Earl of Winchelsea's argument,
and the whole fabric tumbles on his affirighted
head and shoulders. And the dandy young lord,
who, in the speech he recised SO prettlly an hour
ago, travelled out of his way to sheer at Brough-
an--see the blood flee from his cheeks as bis
little bit Of rhetoric comes rafting in fragments
around his ears. As The lion fixes his eye upon
him, he would give his coronet and his curls if
he could stink into a nutshell.-a glance Or two
wlthers him, and the monarch of the debate pas
SEES Oh TO grapple with worthier antagonists.
What compact argunent--wh fertility of illus
%tration What subtle distinctions-what nice
Determinations among the shades of thought.
How large the field of his comprehension-bow
exhaustlcss and rich his resources. Great in
matter, his speech is equally powerful in manner.
Violating every law Of rhetoric and oratory pio.
mulgatod by the schools, he is law unto himself,
original, commanding, majestic. 'Brougham's
powers are filling say the Tory papers. But
he still towers head and shoulders above his COM
peers, like Saul among the lsraelites.
Lord Drou2ham has been described a hundred
times by American travellers so often, indeed,
that not only bis public history and mental char
ooforisfior brt Lta ,arro,ul .oo,lo ritiog poo thn
nervous tWitcajHg of his eyebrows, are as lamili-
ar to our countrymen as TO the nightly loungers
in the House of Lords. How often is he com
pared with Webster. The attempt is unjust to
both. Each has his own sphere Of greatness.
The Bostonjan never enters the field Of contro-
vefsy unless clad in afmor to his fingers ends. A
safe d strong debater. Notso with the Londoner.
lie often rushes sword in hand, without scabbard
or shield, into the the thjckest of the conflict, and
Igets sorely CALLED. Nor do little arrows pierce
Webster, hor ordinary occasions summon forth
his giant weapons. Brougham will fight with
any body, and OH any terms. The smallest Lii
Iiput in the House can sting him into terrible pa
roxisms with his needle spear. But woe TO the
assailant. TIE bolt that annihilates the Earl of
Mosquito is equally heavy with that which
strikes down Lord Lyndhurst. As a whole,
B~rougham is unlike any of our public men.
When dissected, many of his parts have their ST.
militudes on our side Of the Atlantic. Could we
mix into one compound, Webster, Clay and Ad-
ans, and divide the mass into three equal parts.
we might, by adding a %tincture of Calhoun, have
three pretty good Broughams.
A portion of the London Press is wont to de-
clare that Brougham's popularity is gone.--irre-
| y IaunIlu unna n,,a ~ UhA cunt mill
tell them a different story.--There are two men
in England who can never be unpopular with the
people, say or do what they may. Though eve
~ geography and dictionary in the kingdom were
annihilated, Waterloo and Reform would be
househould words, from John O'Groats' House
to Lands End forever. The veriest sans culoht
Chartist in Great Britain, while be curses the
Premier Wellington, will shout hozannahs TO the
conqueror of Napoleon. The most bigoted Tory
in the nation will point to the rare achievements
of the great lawyer, orator, philosopher and states
man, and say with an EnglishInan's pride, lie is
my countryman.'
But | had forgotten that we were in the House
of Lords, listening to a bate.--Brougham hav,
Ing castigated half a dozen of their Lordship:
TO his hearts content, resumed his seat; wheI
the Chancellor arose from the woolsack and com
mehced a speech. His calm, slow, cool mannei
contrasted strongly with the storm which haC
Just passed over our heads. 1t reminded me o
those devy showers which sometimes follow il
the trail of a dark cloud after its thunder ant
cataract have passed on, Lord Cottenham dis
plays a fine, portly person, and wears a yer.
blooming cheek for SO old a man. Twill tell yol
something more of him, dear G., when ! speal
of the Court of Chancery,
RATHEk A Poor CHANCE FOR A WrFE-
Printing Office When DR.. FRI nklin's mother
lin-law first discovered that the young man had