estentur. Is enim erat qui inter primos
et perpaucos summo labore et eloquentia contendebat, ut ubicunque orbis
terrarum ecclesia Anglicana pervenisset, episcopatus quoque eveheretur.
Et quamdiu e secretis Reginae fuit, ecclesia Anglicana apud colonos
nostros plurimis locis labefactam sua ope stabilivit, et patrocinium
ejus suscepit. Neque vero publicis negotiis adeo se dedit quin
theologiae, philosophiae, artium studio vacaret. Quae cum ita sint, si
delegatum, Academici, cooptare velimus, qui cum omni laude idem nostris
rebus decus et tutamen sit, et qui summa eloquentiae et argumenti vi,
jura et libertates nostras tueri queat, hunc hodie suffragiis nostris
comprobemus.'

[202] Stafford Northcote had been private secretary to Mr. Gladstone at
the board of trade. On the appointment of his first private secretary,
Mr. Rawson, to a post in Canada in 1842, Mr. Gladstone applied to
Coleridge of Eton to recommend a successor. He suggested three names,
Farrer, afterwards Lord Farrer, Northcote, and Pocock. Northcote, who
looked to a political career, was chosen. 'Mr. Gladstone,' he wrote to a
friend, June 30, 1842, 'is the man of all others among the statesmen of
the present day to whom I should desire to attach myself.... He is one
whom I respect beyond measure; he stands almost alone as representative
of principles with which I cordially agree; and as a man of business,
and one who humanly speaking is sure to rise, he is preeminent.'--Lang's
_Life of Lord Iddesleigh_, i. pp. 63-67.

CHAPTER II

THE HAWARDEN ESTATE

(_1847_)

It is no Baseness for the Greatest to descend and looke into their
owne Estate. Some forbeare it, not upon Negligence alone, But
doubting to bring themselves into Melancholy in respect they shall
finde it Broken. But wounds cannot be cured without Searching. Hee
that cleareth by Degrees induceth a habit of Frugalitie, and
gaineth as well upon his Minde, as upon his Estate.--BACON.

I must here pause for material affairs of money and business, with
which, as a rule, in the case of its heroes the public is considered to
have little concern. They can no more be altogether omitted here than
the bills, acceptances, renewals, notes of hand, and all the other
financial apparatus of his printers and publishers can be left out of
the story of Sir Walter Scott. Not many pages will be nee