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It is now a farmhouse, but its two battlemented towers proclaim its former importance as the chief seat of the family of Metcalfe. The date of the house is about 1459, and the walls of the western tower are 4 feet in thickness.
Metcalfe shewed him great respect, and sent him a note that he might have the use of his carriage whenever he pleased. Johnson is very much obliged by the kind offer of the carriage, but he has no desire of using Mr. Metcalfe's carriage, except when he can have the pleasure of Mr. Metcalfe's company. Mr.
He not only bestowed liberally out of his own purse, but what is more difficult as well as rare, would beg from others, when he had proper objects in view. This he did judiciously as well as humanely. Mr. Philip Metcalfe tells me, that when he has asked him for some money for persons in distress, and Mr.
In such a storm it was in vain to follow him, even if they had dared to attempt it. In vain Sir Thomas Metcalfe fumed and fretted in vain he heaped curses upon the bullies for their negligence in vain he hurled menaces after the fugitive: the former paid little heed to his imprecations, and the latter was beyond his reach.
Rose refused to take notice of his raillery. "It was Mrs. Metcalfe who got Miss Sampson for Clare. She heard of her through some agency. What has made Aunt Lucy take such an interest in her, Tom? She was down here again yesterday, wasn't she?" "Yes. Have you seen her, Rosie?" "For a moment or two. She looked nice, I thought. But I can't imagine what Aunt Lucy can find for her to do."
It contained a review of the political history of Canada from the time of the rupture between Metcalfe and his ministers, up to the time when the principle of responsible government was conceded. Brown argued that Reformers were bound to stand by that principle, and to accept all its obligations.
William Sedgwick have all remarked on this physical resemblance; and Dr. Metcalfe, in a dissertation delivered before this society in 1855, observed that in the cases of widows remarrying the children of the second marriage frequently resemble the first husband.
The actual struggle lay between two schools directly opposed in their interpretation of responsible government; and since Sir Charles Metcalfe definitely and avowedly set himself against cabinet government, the party system, and the place of party in allocating patronage, the ministers were not free to allow him to appoint men at his own discretion.
Robinson himself had gone to London to obtain advice on the subject, while Sir Thomas Metcalfe, who was a man of violent disposition, had threatened to take forcible possession of Raydale, if it were not delivered to him without delay, and to eject the Robinson family.
Hincks, Reminiscences, p. 15. Poulett Scrope, Life of Lord Sydenham, p. 165. See, for example, a despatch Metcalfe to Stanley, 24 June, 1843 descriptive of troubles on the Beauharnois Canal. A bill of 1833, penes me. Metcalfe to Stanley, 23 December, 1843.
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