Before the murder Green had been appointed comptroller of the customs at Boston, and had also been employed to provide horse meat and litter for the King's stables; afterward, if we may trust a note by Strypebut I own I cannot find his authorityhe was advanced to be receiver of the Isle of Wight and of the castle and lordship of Portchester.

Next wo come to the interesting series of letters of 1815-16, published with the Memoir of Mr. Hodgson, to whom, along with Hobhouse and Scrope Davies, his lordship in a will and codicil leaves the management of his property.

Previous to the publition, Mr. Moore confesses to have gratified his lordship with the expression of the fear that Childe Harold was too good for the age.

My Lord Elibank did not answer my letter to his lordship for some time.

Lord Holland, who returned from Geneva, a few days ago, told Mr. Gallatin that he was the bearer of a considerable cargo of verses from his lordship to Murray the publisher, the subject not known.

Thou hast heard that heaven and earth are subject to my son because of his lordship over gods and men.

" West, the American, who five years later painted his lordship at Leghorn, substantiates the above half-satirical anecdote, by the remark, "He was a bad sitter; he assumed a countenance that did not belong to him, as though he were thinking of a frontispiece for Chlde Harold."

Seating himself on one side of the table with his lordship on the other, Lewis handed to him the bills one by one and requested him to set aside those that were forged.

This, my lords, is surely a precedent which I have a right to quote, and which will vindicate me to your lordships from the imputation of partiality and malignity; since it is apparent, that I do only in the case of another, what I willingly submitted to, when an inquiry was making into my conduct.

Or rather, to save time, I wish to request your most illustrious and reverend lordship by these present to relieve me of the annoyance to which I have been subject seventeen years, at the orders of the Popes, working without remuneration.

I have been only capable of restraining him by representing your lordship as the most furious and impracticable of mankind.

He now contributed every thing in his power to inflame his lordship against Mr. Prettyman.

Your Lordships will not suspect me of having any desire to hurry the Bill, but I remember that when Lord Cross brought in the Bill of 1892 Lord Kimberley, so well known and so popular in this House, used language which I venture to borrow from him, and to press upon your Lordships to-day

But before long Stephen's death gave the full lordship into his hands.

I have, within the last two hours, amid the new mass of papers laid before your lordships within the last forty-eight hours, culled a sample which, I believe, represents the whole odious mass.

He includes his Lordship along with Lord Bolingbroke, in a charge of neglect of the papers which Pope left by his will; when, in truth, as I myself pointed out to him, before he wrote that poet's life, the papers were 'committed to the sole care and judgement of Lord Bolingbroke, unless he (Lord Bolingbroke) shall not survive me;' so that Lord Marchmont had no concern whatever with them[180].

Could I telephone and ask?" He did so and received the reply from Turner that Countess Shulski was at home, but could not receive his lordship until half-past four o'clock.

CHAPTER XXVIII CENTURIES TO FORGET "My lord," said Saunders the next day, appearing before his lordship after an agitated hour of preparation, "it's come to a point where something's got to be done."

Lord Baltimore writes to the Earl of Anglesey, the President of the King's Council, in 1681,"I have already written twice to your Lordship about Christopher Rousby, who I desired might be removed from his place of Collector of his Majesty's Customs,he having been a great knave, and a disturber of the trade and peace of the Province"; which letter, it seems, had no effect,as Christopher Rousby was continued in his post.

I will now give them to your lordships without reserve.

After they had pulled his Lordship out of the grave, and I knew there would be no more fighting, I began to feel the strain he had put upon me.