was dissolved in 1826, when for the third time I stood for Westmoreland; and, after a hard-fought contest, was again defeated.  I have no wish to enter into the local politics of that county, but I cannot resist quoting an extract from a letter of my esteemed friend Bishop BATHURST to Mr. HOWARD of Corby, by whose kindness I am enabled to give it:  “Mr. BROUGHAM has struggled nobly for civil and religious liberty; and is fully entitled to the celebrated eulogy bestowed by Lucan upon Cato—­

    ‘Victrix causa Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.’

How others may feel I know not, but for my own part I would much rather be in his situation than in that of the two victorious opponents; notwithstanding the cold discouraging maxim of Epictetus, which is calculated to check every virtuous effort—­[Greek:  Aniketos einai dunasai, ean ouk eis medena agona katabaines, ou ouk estin epinikesai] [=You may be invincible if you never go down into the arena when you are not secure of victory:  Enchiridion, cxxv.].  He will not, I hope, suffer from his exertions, extraordinary in every way.  I respect exceedingly his fine abilities, and the purpose to which he applies them” (Norwich, July 10, 1826).  As Cato owed Lucan’s panegyric to the firmness he had shown in adhering to the losing cause, and to his steadfastness to the principles he had adopted, so I considered the Bishop’s application of the lines to me as highly complimentary’ (’Life and Times,’ vol. ii. pp. 437-8).  It seemed only due to the subject of WORDSWORTH’S invective and opposition to give his view of the struggle and another’s worthy of all respect.  Unless the writer has been misinformed, WORDSWORTH and BROUGHAM came to know and worthily estimate each other when the exacerbations and clamours of provincial politics had long passed away, and when, except the ‘old gray head’ of WELLINGTON, none received more reverence from the nation than that of HENRY BROUGHAM.  In the just-issued ‘Memoirs of the Reigns of George IV. and William IV.’ by GREVILLE, BROUGHAM and WORDSWORTH are brought together very pleasingly.  (See these works, vol. iii. p. 504.)

The Author’s personal relations to the Lowthers semi-unconsciously coloured his opinions, and intensified his partisanship and glorified the commonplace.  But with all abatements these ‘Two Addresses’ supply much material for a right and high estimate of WORDSWORTH as man and thinker.  As invariably, he descends to the roots of things, and almost ennobles even his prejudices and alarms and ultra-caution.  There is the same terse, compacted, pungent style in these ‘Two Addresses’ with his general prose.  Bibliographically the ‘Two Addresses’ are even rarer and higher-priced than the ‘Convention of Cintra.’

(e) Of the Catholic Relief Bill, 1829.