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I hope things will now improve; and it is my opinion that good estates will do, and others will fall to the ground. Old Mr. Tytte is dead, and his son Alexander made stipe for the district. The Governor's speech respecting women has done a great deal of harm. None of the women want to work. If Lord Glenelg had made such a mistake, he would have heard enough of it.
Glenelg stared, when I told him it was thirty-six miles shorter to go from Bristol to New York by the way of Halifax, than to go direct warn't slow. It stopt steam for that hitch, that's a fact, for he thort I was mad. He sent it down to the Admiralty to get it ciphered right, and it took them old seagulls, the Admirals a month to find it out. "And when they did, what did they say?
Murchison, factor to the Laird of Macleod in Glenelg, sent us a bottle of rum and some sugar, with a polite message, to acquaint us, that he was very sorry that he did not hear of us till we had passed his house, otherwise he should have insisted on our sleeping there that night; and that, if he were not obliged to set out for Inverness early next morning, he would have waited upon us.
He seems to have at first had sufficient good sense to decline the proffered honour; but he allowed himself to be talked into accepting it by Lord Glenelg and his under-secretary, Mr. Stephen. As I have said elsewhere: "The result of an appointment made under such circumstances was disaster to the Province, and something nearly approaching ignominy to himself.
Richardson, in his curious characterization of the man in Eight Years in Canada. Sir F. B. Head to Lord Glenelg, February, 1836. The references to Baldwin in the Elgin-Grey Correspondence are, without exception, most cordial, and usually complimentary. The Hon. W. H. Draper, a moderate Conservative. Quoted in Hincks, Lecture on the Political History of Canada, p. 19. Ibid. pp. 18-19.
On the river Glenelg, which was discovered about a month after they had left Pyramid Hill, the land appeared everywhere alike good, alike beautiful; whether on the finely-varied hills, or in the equally romantic vales, which opened in endless succession on both banks of the river. Further on in this lovely district, the British explorers came upon fresh scenes of surpassing sweetness.
A vast extent of land lying low and level near the banks of the river Glenelg, and well fitted, if properly drained, for the abundant growth of useful and valuable produce, was found, during the rainy season, to be in the state of a foul marsh, overgrown with vegetation, choking up the fresh water so as to cause a flood ankle-deep; and this marshy ground, being divided by deep muddy ditches, and occasionally overflown by the river, offered, as may be supposed, no small hindrances to the progress of the travellers.
There were several other persons of note present at this breakfast, whose conversation I had not an opportunity of hearing, as they sat at a distance from me. There was Lord Glenelg, brother of Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, whose beautiful hymns have rendered him familiar in America. The favorite one, commencing "When gathering clouds around I view," was from his pen.
Macaulay is invited to stand for Leeds The Reform bill passes Macaulay appointed Commissioner of the Board of Control His life in office Letters to his sisters Contested election at Leeds Macaulay's bearing as a candidate Canvassing Pledges Intrusion of religion into politics Placemen in Parliament Liverpool Margaret Macaulay's marriage How it affected her brother He is returned for Leeds Becomes Secretary of the Board of Control Letters to Hannah Macaulay Session of 1832 Macaulay's Speech on the India Bill His regard for Lord Glenelg Letters to Hannah Macaulay The West Indian question Macaulay resigns Office He gains his point, and resumes his place Emancipation of the Slaves Death of Wilberforce Macaulay is appointed Member of the Supreme Council of India Letters to Hannah Macaulay, Lord Lansdowne, and Mr.
Poets and soldiers compared. Life of a sailor. Landlord's daughter at Anoch. September 1. Glensheal. The Macraas. Dr. Johnson's anger at being left for a little while by the authour on a wild plain. Wretched inn at Glenelg. September 2. Dr. Johnson relents. Isle of Sky. Armidale. September 3. Colonel Montgomery, now Earl of Eglintoune. September 4. Ancient Highland Enthusiasm. September 5.
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