gether unprofitable, Durham's resignation[2] the
only event, the _denouement_ of which nobody can guess. The
Ministers ought never to have sent him, knowing what he was, and
this has not been their only fault. Norman Court[3] is a very
enjoyable place; close to it was (for it has lately been pulled
down) the house from which Lady Mary eloped with Mr. Wortley.
There I met the doctor who attended young Sam Day (who won the
St. Leger for me on Mango) after the fall of which he died, and
he gave me a striking account of the deathbed scene, the actors
in which, albeit of an humble and unpolished class, displayed
feelings not the less intense from the simplicity of their
expression, and the total absence of that morbid or conventional
sensibility which gives a sort of dramatic dignity to the grief
of the great ones. The boy himself died like a hero, with a
firmness, courage, and cheerfulness which would have been
extolled to the skies in some conspicuous character on whom the
world has been accustomed to gaze, but which in the poor jockey
boy passed unheeded and unknown, and it is only the few as
obscure as himself who witnessed his last moments who are aware
that, wherever his bones rest--

in that neglected spot is laid
A heart once pregnant with celestial fire.

[2] [Upon the receipt of the intelligence of the
Declaratory Act, Lord Durham at once announced in
Canada his determination to resign. The disallowance of
the Ordinance and his official recall crossed this
intimation on the road.]

[3] [Norman Court was at that time the seat of Mr. Baring
Wall. After his death it passed to Mr. Thomas Baring.]

November 8th, 1838 {p.134}

At Newmarket, and at Euston for a day (probably for the last
time), and to London on Monday. The stillness of the political
atmosphere has been rudely broken in upon by Lord Durham's
astounding Proclamation: for once the whole of the press has
joined in a full chorus of disapprobation, and this may be
considered conclusive as to public opinion. Indeed there can
scarcely be two opinions on the subject, for such an appeal to
the people of the Colony over whom he is placed from the acts of
the Government and the legislature of the mother country is as
monstrous as it is unexampled.[4] It seems incredible that he
should not have been deterred by the men who are about him, who
are not deficient i