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If such a policy must be called opportunism, it was opportunism in its best form; and opportunism in its best form, under the conditions of party government, is not far removed from political wisdom. Sir George Nicholls, History of the English Poor Law, vol. ii., see especially pp. 242, 243. Hatherton, Memoir; Creevey, Memoirs, ii., 285-88. See Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, viii., 446-57.
Then he speaks and swears so like old Falstaff, that damn me if I was not ashamed to walk into the room with him. When, a few years later, the trial of Queen Caroline came on, it was inevitable that Creevey should be there. He had an excellent seat in the front row, and his descriptions of 'Mrs.
Creevey, who, finding he could get nothing for breakfast, while King Jog was 'eating his own fish as comfortably as could be, fairly lost his temper.
'King Jog, the 'Bogey, 'Mother Cole, and the rest of them they were either knaves or imbeciles. Lord Grey was an exception; but then Lord Grey, besides passing the Reform Bill, presented Mr. Creevey with the Treasurership of the Ordnance, and in fact was altogether a most worthy man. Another exception was the Duke of Wellington, whom, somehow or other, it was impossible not to admire.
Creevey has an ill- natured fling at him, as he has at everybody else, but a kinder-hearted and more perfect gentleman would be difficult to meet with. His personality was a marked one. He was a little man, with very plain features, a punch-like nose, an extensive mouth, and hardly a hair on his head.
Creevey will make a botanist of you if you will let her, and I fancy a very good botanist, though I cannot speak from experience, but she will make a poet of you in spite of yourself, as I very well know; and she will do this simply by giving you first the familiar name of the flowers she loves to write of.
Mr. Creevey, it is obvious, was not the man to be abashed by the presence of Royalty. But such public episodes were necessarily rare, and the main stream of his life flowed rapidly, gaily, and unobtrusively through the fat pastures of high society.
He and his staff, it turned out, had taken that precaution, and the great man amused himself, while the stream of royal inquiries poured on, by pointing at Mr. Creevey from time to time with the remark, "Voila le monsieur qui n'a pas dejeune!" Settled down at last at Amorbach, the time hung heavily on the Duke's hands.
I shall be contented with the same arrangement, without making any demands grounded on the difference of the value of money in 1792 and at present. As for the payment of my debts," the Duke concluded, "I don't call them great. The nation, on the contrary, is greatly my debtor." Here a clock struck, and seemed to remind the Duke that he had an appointment; he rose, and Mr. Creevey left him.
Some friends of his recall with delight a day of this kind which they passed with him, when he made the whole party act over the Battle of the Pyramids on Marsden Moor, and ordered "Captain" Creevey and others upon various services, against the cows and donkeys entrenched in the ditches.
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