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At
Eton
he
was
called
Miss
Crawley
;
and
there
,
I
am
sorry
to
say
,
his
younger
brother
Rawdon
used
to
lick
him
violently
.
But
though
his
parts
were
not
brilliant
,
he
made
up
for
his
lack
of
talent
by
meritorious
industry
,
and
was
never
known
,
during
eight
years
at
school
,
to
be
subject
to
that
punishment
which
it
is
generally
thought
none
but
a
cherub
can
escape
.
At
college
his
career
was
of
course
highly
creditable
.
And
here
he
prepared
himself
for
public
life
,
into
which
he
was
to
be
introduced
by
the
patronage
of
his
grandfather
,
Lord
Binkie
,
by
studying
the
ancient
and
modern
orators
with
great
assiduity
,
and
by
speaking
unceasingly
at
the
debating
societies
.
But
though
he
had
a
fine
flux
of
words
,
and
delivered
his
little
voice
with
great
pomposity
and
pleasure
to
himself
,
and
never
advanced
any
sentiment
or
opinion
which
was
not
perfectly
trite
and
stale
,
and
supported
by
a
Latin
quotation
;
yet
he
failed
somehow
,
in
spite
of
a
mediocrity
which
ought
to
have
insured
any
man
a
success
.
He
did
not
even
get
the
prize
poem
,
which
all
his
friends
said
he
was
sure
of
.
After
leaving
college
he
became
Private
Secretary
to
Lord
Binkie
,
and
was
then
appointed
Attache
to
the
Legation
at
Pumpernickel
,
which
post
he
filled
with
perfect
honour
,
and
brought
home
despatches
,
consisting
of
Strasburg
pie
,
to
the
Foreign
Minister
of
the
day
.
After
remaining
ten
years
Attache
(
several
years
after
the
lamented
Lord
Binkie
's
demise
)
,
and
finding
the
advancement
slow
,
he
at
length
gave
up
the
diplomatic
service
in
some
disgust
,
and
began
to
turn
country
gentleman
.
He
wrote
a
pamphlet
on
Malt
on
returning
to
England
(
for
he
was
an
ambitious
man
,
and
always
liked
to
be
before
the
public
)
,
and
took
a
strong
part
in
the
Negro
Emancipation
question
.
Then
he
became
a
friend
of
Mr.
Wilberforce
's
,
whose
politics
he
admired
,
and
had
that
famous
correspondence
with
the
Reverend
Silas
Hornblower
,
on
the
Ashantee
Mission
.
He
was
in
London
,
if
not
for
the
Parliament
session
,
at
least
in
May
,
for
the
religious
meetings
.
In
the
country
he
was
a
magistrate
,
and
an
active
visitor
and
speaker
among
those
destitute
of
religious
instruction
.
He
was
said
to
be
paying
his
addresses
to
Lady
Jane
Sheepshanks
,
Lord
Southdown
's
third
daughter
,
and
whose
sister
,
Lady
Emily
,
wrote
those
sweet
tracts
,
"
The
Sailor
's
True
Binnacle
,
"
and
"
The
Applewoman
of
Finchley
Common
.
"
Miss
Sharp
's
accounts
of
his
employment
at
Queen
's
Crawley
were
not
caricatures
.
He
subjected
the
servants
there
to
the
devotional
exercises
before
mentioned
,
in
which
(
and
so
much
the
better
)
he
brought
his
father
to
join
.
He
patronised
an
Independent
meeting-house
in
Crawley
parish
,
much
to
the
indignation
of
his
uncle
the
Rector
,
and
to
the
consequent
delight
of
Sir
Pitt
,
who
was
induced
to
go
himself
once
or
twice
,
which
occasioned
some
violent
sermons
at
Crawley
parish
church
,
directed
point-blank
at
the
Baronet
's
old
Gothic
pew
there
.
Honest
Sir
Pitt
,
however
,
did
not
feel
the
force
of
these
discourses
,
as
he
always
took
his
nap
during
sermon-time
.
Mr.
Crawley
was
very
earnest
,
for
the
good
of
the
nation
and
of
the
Christian
world
,
that
the
old
gentleman
should
yield
him
up
his
place
in
Parliament
;
but
this
the
elder
constantly
refused
to
do
.
Both
were
of
course
too
prudent
to
give
up
the
fifteen
hundred
a
year
which
was
brought
in
by
the
second
seat
(
at
this
period
filled
by
Mr.
Quadroon
,
with
carte
blanche
on
the
Slave
question
)
;
indeed
the
family
estate
was
much
embarrassed
,
and
the
income
drawn
from
the
borough
was
of
great
use
to
the
house
of
Queen
's
Crawley
.
It
had
never
recovered
the
heavy
fine
imposed
upon
Walpole
Crawley
,
first
baronet
,
for
peculation
in
the
Tape
and
Sealing
Wax
Office
.
Sir
Walpole
was
a
jolly
fellow
,
eager
to
seize
and
to
spend
money
(
alieni
appetens
,
sui
profusus
,
as
Mr.
Crawley
would
remark
with
a
sigh
)
,
and
in
his
day
beloved
by
all
the
county
for
the
constant
drunkenness
and
hospitality
which
was
maintained
at
Queen
's
Crawley
.
The
cellars
were
filled
with
burgundy
then
,
the
kennels
with
hounds
,
and
the
stables
with
gallant
hunters
;
now
,
such
horses
as
Queen
's
Crawley
possessed
went
to
plough
,
or
ran
in
the
Trafalgar
Coach
;
and
it
was
with
a
team
of
these
very
horses
,
on
an
off-day
,
that
Miss
Sharp
was
brought
to
the
Hall
;
for
boor
as
he
was
,
Sir
Pitt
was
a
stickler
for
his
dignity
while
at
home
,
and
seldom
drove
out
but
with
four
horses
,
and
though
he
dined
off
boiled
mutton
,
had
always
three
footmen
to
serve
it
.
If
mere
parsimony
could
have
made
a
man
rich
,
Sir
Pitt
Crawley
might
have
become
very
wealthy
--
if
he
had
been
an
attorney
in
a
country
town
,
with
no
capital
but
his
brains
,
it
is
very
possible
that
he
would
have
turned
them
to
good
account
,
and
might
have
achieved
for
himself
a
very
considerable
influence
and
competency
.
