From a painting by JOHN HOPPNER, R.A., in CHARLES JAMES FOX From a painting by KARL ANTON HICKEL, in LORD ERSKINE From a painting by RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. VOL. III. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE 2 100 262 Frontispiece From a steel plate. GEORGE CANNING From a bust by F. CHANTREY, R. A., in the 2 National Portrait Gallery. LORD MACAULAY. 50 From a painting by Sir FRANCIS GRANT, P. R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery. JOHN BRIGHT RICHARD COBDEN From a portrait by LOWES DICKINSON. From a photograph. LORD BEACONSFIELD From a painting by Sir JOHN E. MILLAIS, in the National Portrait Gallery. 96 156 204 VOL. IV. ROBERT LOWE (VISCOUNT SHERBROOKE) PAGE Frontispiece From a photograph. DANIEL O'CONNELL From a painting by BERNARD MULRENIN, R. H.A., in the National Portrait Gallery. LORD PALMERSTON From a photograph. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN . From a photograph. LORD ROSEBERY. From a photograph. 2 120 286 314 THE younger Pitt was the second son of Lord Chatham, and was seven years of age when his father in 1766 was admitted to the peerage. The boy's earliest peculiarity was an absorbing ambition to become his father's successor as the first orator of the day. His health, however, was so delicate as to cause the gravest apprehensions. Stanhope tells us that before he was fourteen "half of his time was lost through ill health," and that his early life at Cambridge was "one long disease." There is still extant a remarkable letter that reveals better than any thing else the fond hopes of the father and the physical discouragement as well as the mental aspirations of the son. Chatham wrote: “Though I indulge with inexpressible delight the thought of your returning health, I cannot help being a little in pain lest you should make |