Personal Remembrances of Sir Frederick Pollock (Volume 1); Second Baronet, Sometime Queen's Remembrancer (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X COLIN MACKENZIE In 1845 my wife again accompanied me on the Summer Circuit, and among other places afterwards visited was Cheltenham, where we stayed with Dobson, then newly established as headmaster of the school, which, under his high scholarship andgood tact, became so excellent and renowned. Here we fell in with Colin Mackenzie, an old friend of the Herries family, who did so much good service as a diplomatic agent on the Continent during the great French war, wearing on public occasions the uniform of the City Light Horse Volunteers, which had been commanded by Colonel Herries, to which he belonged. We had an amusing walk with him, and he obtained entrance for us to Lord Northwich's gallery of pictures. He was supposed to have been the person who gave information of what 184S DWARKANAUTH TAGORE 233 had been agreed between Napoleon and the Emperor Alexander at their meeting on the raft at Tilsit, and there was a joke that he had obtained it by diving under the raft disguised as a Newfoundland dog. Northern Circuit, Liverpool, lyi August 1845. My Dear Cousin--Greville's book on Ireland must be taken as a party pamphlet, written on a particular occasion in support of particular views, and of course it puts in the most favourable light all that makes for those views, and keeps out of sight all that makes against them. Nevertheless it contains a good deal of unpleasant truth? which can hardly be got rid of. Whether the remedy suggested, and now in great measure actually adopted to meet the admitted evils of the case, will succeed is a question which a short time will answer. I think at least he has the merit of having collected and put together in an attractive form all that was to be said on his side of the question. Dwarkanauth Tagore has been...