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While on a visit to Lord Lansdowne at Bowood, years after they had left Cambridge, Austin and Macaulay happened to get upon college topics one morning at breakfast. When the meal was finished they drew their chairs to either end of the chimney-piece, and talked at each other across the hearth-rug as if they were in a first-floor room in the Old Court of Trinity.
This perhaps may be regarded as burlesque, and so may his sympathetic remark to the gushing connoisseur "I got into dreadful disgrace with him once, when, standing before a picture at Bowood, he exclaimed, turning to me, 'Immense breadth of light and shade! I innocently said, 'Yes; about an inch and a half. He gave me a look that ought to have killed me."
Bentham's intimacy at Bowood led to more important results. In 1788 he met Romilly and Dumont at Lord Lansdowne's table. He had already met Romilly in 1784 through Wilson, but after this the intimacy became close.
Dugald Stewart, who was out walking, has come in the same dear woman! I have seen Mr. Stewart very, very weak he cannot walk without an arm to lean on. BOWOOD, Nov. 4, 1818. The newspapers have told you the dreadful catastrophe the death, and the manner of the death, of that great and good man, Sir Samuel Romilly. My dearest mother, there seems no end of horrible calamities.
His conversation is very various and natural, full of information, given for the sake of those to whom he speaks, never for display. What he says always lets us into his feelings and character, and therefore is interesting. To MRS. EDGEWORTH THE GROVE, EFFING, Oct. 4, 1818. I mentioned one day at dinner at Bowood that children have very early a desire to produce an effect, a sensation in company.
Visits in England Wycombe Abbey: Lord Carrington, Madame de Stael, and Buonaparte David Ricardo Bowood: Lord Lansdowne, Bowles Miss Joanna Baillie's: Brodie, Dr. Holland, Lord Grenville Anecdotes of Lady Salisbury and Wilberforce Le Bas, Sir James Macintosh, Dumont. Letters from London to Mrs. Edgeworth, Mrs. Ruxton. Life in London Frank Lady Lansdowne, Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, Calcott, Mrs.
I am all anxiety to see your January number. To the Marquis of Lansdowne 62 Rutland Gate, January 25th. My dear Lord Lansdowne, I have omitted, but not from forgetfulness, to express to you the very high gratification Mrs. Reeve and myself derived from your most kind reception of us at Bowood, and I am sure we shall always retain the liveliest recollection of this most agreeable visit.
SPRING FARM, N.T. MOUNT KENNEDY, June 1818. I am, and have been ever since I could any way command my attention, intent upon finishing those Memoirs of himself which my father left me to finish and charged me to publish. Yet I have accepted an invitation to Bowood, from Lady Lansdowne, whom I love, and as soon as I have finished I shall go there.
I was at Bowood last week: the only persons there were seashore Calcott and his wife, two very sensible, agreeable people. Luttrell came over for the day; he was very agreeable, but spoke too lightly, I thought, of veal soup. I took him aside, and reasoned the matter with him, but in vain; to speak the truth, Luttrell is not steady in his judgments on dishes.
How intimately Johnson knew him is, like almost everything about Shelburne, uncertain; but it is known that they used to meet in London and that Johnson once at least was Shelburne's guest at Bowood. A greater man who was never Prime Minister was a much more intimate friend. Fox talked little before Johnson; and the two men were as different in many ways as men could be.
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