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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Is it true," said I; "that I am to congratulate you upon the certainty of your return for Lord Dawton's borough of ?" "I believe so," replied V . "Lord Dawton engaged it to me last week, and Mr. H , the present member, has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. You know all our family support Lord Dawton warmly on the present crisis, and my return for this borough was materially insisted upon.
In the humour I was in with Lord Dawton, I received him with greater warmth than I had done of late; and he also, being in a social mood, seemed so well satisfied with our rencontre, and my behaviour, that he dismounted to walk with me.
On the ninth, I began to think it high time I should hear from Dawton; and finding that I had eaten two rolls for breakfast, and that my untimely wrinkle began to assume a more mitigated appearance, I bethought me once more of the "Beauties of Babylon."
Heaven knows why! but I had established among my uncle's friends, a reputation for talent, which I by no means deserved; and no sooner had I been personally introduced to Lord Dawton, than I found myself courted by that personage in a manner equally gratifying and uncommon.
I shall meet you, perhaps, at Brookes's, to morrow evening, and report to you respecting my success." Lord Dawton pressed my hand warmly, and followed me to the door. "He is the best premier we could have," thought I; "but he deceives himself, if he thinks Henry Pelham will play the jackall to his lion. He will soon see that I shall keep for myself what he thinks I hunt for him."
I imagine, of course, that you would wish them to adopt the contrary side to Lord Dawton; and upon receiving a line from you to that effect, they shall be empowered to do so. I trust we shall yet play the Bel to this Dragon, and fell him from his high places. "Pity me, my dear friend; I dine out to-day, and feel already, by an intuitive shudder, that the soup will be cold, and the sherry hot.
To this personage Lord Dawton implored me to be the bearer of a letter, and to aid, with all the dexterity in my power, the purpose it was intended to effect. It was the most consequential mission yet entrusted to me, and I felt eager to turn my diplomatic energies to so good an account.
"For God's sake, Pelham, drive on," cried Glanville; "let me, for once, escape that atrocious plebeian." "Thank Heaven!" said Glanville, and sunk back in a reverie, from which I could not awaken him, till he was set down at his own door. When I returned to Mivart's, I found a card from Lord Dawton, and a letter from my mother.
Glanville seemed not only perfectly untouched by it, but even wholly unconscious of its existence, and preserved invariably, whenever he was forced into the crowd, the same stern, cold, unsympathizing reserve, which made him, at once, an object of universal conversation and dislike. Three weeks after Glanville's first speech in the House, I called upon him, with a proposal from Lord Dawton.
"I wish," sighed Lord Dawton, as we were calculating our forces, "that we could gain over Lord Guloseton." "What, the facetious epicure?" said I. "The same," answered Dawton: "we want him as a dinner-giver; and, besides, he has four votes in the Lower House." "Well," said I, "he is indolent and independent it is not impossible." "Do you know him?" answered Dawton. "No:" said I. Dawton sighed.
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