nged from all animal food but fish, and
every fermented liquor. According to the old Latin distich, the poetry
of a water-drinker is said to be short-lived, and not fit to live:
was this proverbial doom extended to what was not poetry, it might be
checked by the prose of the Duke of Portland. Most of his common letters
were among the models of epistolary correspondence.

The Duke of Beaufort{14} exhibited at school more of the rudiments of
a country gentleman, than the rudiments of Busby; he knew a horse
practically, while other boys took it only from description in Virgil.

_Stare loco nescit_, was however his motto; and through all the demesnes
adjacent to his little reign, on the water, and in the water, he was
well; on horseback he was yet better; and to ride, or tie, on foot, or
on horseback, no boy of his time was more ready at every good turn. He
loved his friend; and, such were the engaging powers of his very frank
and pleasant manner, his friends all loved him.

Some encumbrances, _solito de more_ of all boys, with the coffee-house,
for jellies, fruit, &c, left when he left school, he afterwards
discharged with singular eclat.

In regard to scholarship, he was by no means wanting; though it must
be owned, he wanted always to be better strangers with them. Like many
other boys, he knew much more than he was aware of; for he had as much
aversion to the Greek Epigrams, as the best critic could have; and
in Terence, as he could find nothing to laugh, Lloyd often raised an
opposite emotion. Lloyd, had he lived to this time, would have taken
Terence as a main ingredient in his enjoyments. So benevolent is nature
to fit the feelings of man to his destiny.

M'Donald, afterwards Solicitor General, was in college, and had then
about him much that was remarkable for good value.

The different ranks in college are rather arduous trials of temper; and
he that can escape without imputation through them, and be, as it
is called, a junior without meanness, and a senior without obduracy,
exhibits much early promise, both as to talents and virtue.

This early promise was M 'Donald's. He was well-respected in either
rank, and he deserved it; for he obeyed the time, without being
time-serving; he commanded, as one not forgetting what it was to obey.

_Par negotiis, neque supra_, characterised his scholarship.

14 Died in 1803.

~80~~He had in every form sufficiency, and sometimes eminence. He
had more facility in G