The late Lord Holland succeeded to the talents and to the fine natural dispositions of his House.  But his situation was very different from that of the two eminent men of whom we have spoken.  In some important respects it was better, in some it was worse than theirs.  He had one great advantage over them.  He received a good political education.  The first lord was educated by Sir Robert Walpole.  Mr. Fox was educated by his father.  The late lord was educated by Mr. Fox.  The pernicious maxims early imbibed by the first Lord Holland, made his great talents useless and worse than useless to the State.  The pernicious maxims early imbibed by Mr. Fox, led him, at the commencement of his public life, into great faults which, though afterwards nobly expiated, were never forgotten.  To the very end of his career, small men, when they had nothing else to say in defence of their own tyranny, bigotry, and imbecility, could always raise a cheer by some paltry taunt about the election of Colonel Luttrell, the imprisonment of the lord mayor, and other measures in which the great Whig leader had borne a part at the age of one or two and twenty.  On Lord Holland no such slur could be thrown.  Those who most dissent from his opinions must acknowledge that a public life more consistent is not to be found in our annals.  Every part of it is in perfect harmony with every other part; and the whole is in perfect harmony with the great principles of toleration and civil freedom.  This rare felicity is in a great measure to be attributed to the influence of Mr. Fox.  Lord Holland, as was natural in a person of his talents and expectations, began at a very early age to take the keenest interest in politics; and Mr. Fox found the greatest pleasure in forming the mind of so hopeful a pupil.  They corresponded largely on political subjects when the young lord was only sixteen; and their friendship and mutual confidence continued to the day of that mournful separation at Chiswick.  Under such training such a man as Lord Holland was in no danger of falling into those faults which threw a dark shade over the whole career of his grandfather, and from which the youth of his uncle was not wholly free.

On the other hand, the late Lord Holland, as compared with his grandfather and his uncle, laboured under one great disadvantage.  They were members of the House of Commons.  He became a Peer while still an infant.  When he entered public life, the House of Lords was a very small and a very decorous assembly.  The minority to which he belonged was scarcely able to muster five or six votes on the most important nights, when eighty or ninety lords were present.  Debate had accordingly become a mere form, as it was in the Irish House of Peers before the Union.  This was a great misfortune to a man like Lord Holland.  It was not by occasionally addressing fifteen or twenty solemn and unfriendly auditors that his grandfather and his uncle attained their unrivalled parliamentary skill.  The former