o guineas given out of his private
pocket-money to a poor sufferer by a fire, Dr. Smith gave him a public
reward of some books. Lord Carmarthen{10} here came to the title, on the
death of his eldest brother. Here too he found the Jacksons, and what
was more, the Jacksons{11} found him. Lord Foley had, during his stay
here, two narrow escapes for his life, once being nearly drowned in the
Thames, and secondly, by a hack-horse running away with him: the
last incident was truly ominous of the noble lord's favourite, but
unfortunate pursuits{12}. Sir John St. Aubyn is here said to have formed
his attachments with several established characters in the commercial
world, as Mr. Beckett, and others; which afterwards proved of the
highest consequence to his pursuits and success in life. Lord Bulkley
had the credit of being one of the handsomest and best-humoured boys of
his time, and so he continued through life. Michael Angelo Taylor{13}
was remarkable for his close application, under his tutor Hume, and the
tutor as remarkable for application to him.

Hatton, junior. Lawyers, if not always good scholars, generally are
something better; with much strong practical sense, and a variety of all
that "makes a ready man; "Hatton was all this, both as to scholarship,
and the pertinent application of it. Though a nephew of Lord Mansfield,
and bred up under his auspices, he was not more remarkable than his
brother George for the love of bullion. His abilities were great, and
they would have been greatly thought of, had he been personally less
locomotive. "Ah, ah," said his uncle, "you'll never prosper till you
learn to stay in a place." He replied, "O never fear, sir, do but get me
a place; and I'll learn of you to stay in it."

10 The present Duke of Leeds.

11 Dr. Cyril Jackson, afterwards sub-preceptor to his
Majesty, George the Fourth, and since canon of Christ
Church, Oxford. He refused the primacy of Ireland; was an
excellent governor of his college, and died universally
respected at Fulpham, in Sussex, in 1819. Dr. William
Jackson, his brother, who was Bishop of Oxford, was also
Regius Professor of Greek to that university; he died in
1815.

12 His lordship's attachment to the turf is as notorious as
his undeviating practice of the purest principles of honour.
It will not excite surprise, that such conduct has not been
in such pursuits successful.

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