[The anecdote told by Lord Campbell (but much better by Lord Eldon
himself in Twiss's Life of the great Chancellor), does not refer to the
_late_ Duke of Norfolk, but to his predecessor Charles (the eleventh
duke), who was a Protestant. The late duke never sat in parliament till
after the Relief Bill passed. In 1824 a Bill was passed to enable him
to exercise the office of Earl Marshal without taking certain oaths,
but gave him no seat in the House. We may as well add, that Lord
Eldon's joke must have been perpetrated--not on the bringing up of the
Bill, when the duke was not in the House--but on the occasion of the
_Great Snoring Bill being reported_ (April 2, 1811), when the duke
appears to have been present.]
_The Beggar's Petition._--I shall feel obliged by your informing me who the
author is of the lines--
"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door."