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As the Canadian portion of the biography was the work of Sydenham's secretary, Murdoch, it carries with it considerable authority. Murdoch was, indeed, one of the most competent of the men round Sydenham. Sydenham to Russell, 26 June, 1841. Hincks, Lecture on the Political History of Canada, 1840-1855, pp. 22-23. Poulett Scrope, p. 243.
One thing bothered Jack, though he did not exactly put the idea that worried him into words. There was not much fun really in this shooting, billiards, etc., since Jack broke all the rules alone. Now, if Poulett, or Wilson, or Rogers, or Grim had been with him, that would have been jolly.
Lord John Russell, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Luttrell, Monsieur Thiers, Monsieur Mignet, and Mr. Poulett Thomson, dined here yesterday. The party was an agreeable one, and the guests seemed mutually pleased with each other. Monsieur Thiers is a very remarkable person quick, animated, and observant: nothing escapes him, and his remarks are indicative of a mind of great power.
The choice of the government seemed both wise and foolish. Poulett Thomson had had an admirable training for the work. In a colony where trade and commerce were almost everything, he brought not Durham's aristocratic detachment but a real knowledge of commerce, since his was a great mercantile family.
N. of Martock, with a modern church built on the site of an old chapelry or chantry. Lopen, a parish 4 m. N.W. of Crewkerne, is noteworthy as being the place where Cardinal Wolsey, when holding the cure of Limington, is said to have been put in the stocks by Sir Amyas Poulett. Lovington, a parish 3 m. N. of Sparkford.
Of course, we all know fisticuffs are not what they were; for every strenuous mill of to-day there used to be fifty in the old days, and the green turf which formerly was the scene of terrific combats between fellows of the Upper School now only quaked under the martial hoof of, say, Rogers, the prize fag of Biffen's, and Poulett, the champion egg poacher of Corker's, and other humble followers of the "fancy."
Some years before the voyage of the "Beagle," Mr. Poulett Scrope had pointed out the remarkable analogies that exist between certain igneous rocks of banded structure, as seen in the Ponza Islands, and the foliated crystalline schists.
Poulett Scrope, Life of Lord Sydenham, pp. 141-2. Richardson, Eight Years in Canada, p. 117. See an interesting letter of January, 1838 in Christie, History of Lower Canada, v. 109. Kaye, Papers and Correspondence of Lord Metcalfe, p. 453. Metcalfe undoubtedly overestimates the influence of these men, as compared with the church, over the habitant class. Ibid. p. 267.
Poulett Scrope, then representing the borough of Stroud in Parliament, took much interest in Irish questions, more especially during the Famine; at which time he, in a series of letters addressed to Lord John Russell, put forward his views on the legislation which he considered necessary under the existing circumstances of this country.
Bell, Hints to Emigrants, p. 101. Lord Sydenham to Lord John Russell, 22 January, 1840. Quoted from Dent, The Last Forty Years, ii. p. 192. That is, his bill for dividing the Reserves in certain proportions among the churches. Poulett Scrope, Life of Lord Sydenham, pp. 160-1. Christie, History of Lower Canada, v. pp. 113-14.
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