CHAPTER II. Go now, my son, and learn the world; Remember craft in politics Is statesmen's surest chance, Must with your fame advance. SIMON GURTY. THE education of Frederick Rosendale was of the most regular and finished kind. On account of the delicacy of his brother's constitution, teachers were brought to reside in the family, for the purpose of giving the children private instruction. From this, however, Arthur did not derive much benefit; for he could neither bear confinement, nor brook contradiction; and his father began plainly to see that he was not destined ever to make much figure in the world. But for the vexation which this occasioned, the active progress that Frederick made afforded him some consolation; and he comforted himself, with the re flection, that he had the prospect of having at least one son who might yet be eminent in his generation, and add new dignity to the name of Rosendale. It was, therefore, a great object with him to instil a taste for politics into Frederick's mind, as soon as it was capable of receiving impressions of that nature, so that, by his activity and talents in the national legislature, he might make some amends for that indolence of patriotism which the family had hitherto displayed, and which, he conceived, arose altogether from not having had a turn for such matters implanted in their minds by early education. He had of late years observed, with considerable pain, that many of his youthful competitors, who were in reality much inferior to him in both the gifts of fortune and the endowments of mind, had, merely by their zeal and industry in political affairs, attained to an eminence and distinction in the eye of the nation, to which he ́ could make no pretension. It was now too late for himself to begin a public career with any prospect of success. His habits of privacy were long formed; and, however much he might desire personal distinction as a political character, he dreaded much more that exposure of his inexperience, with which he justly believed the experiment would be attended. He resolved, however, that the benefit of the VOL. I. B promising talents of Frederick should not be lost to the nation, nor their lustre to the fame of his family, by that want of a proper species of early education, which he felt so prejudicial to himself. He therefore enjoined his tutors to ground him well in the history of nations, and especially that of England and his own country. At the same time he wished them not to overlook any other species of learning requisite to form the man of knowledge and the gentleman. By the time therefore, that Frederick was sixteen, his mind was not only well-stored with a large share of classical and historical information, but he had also become acquainted with several sciences not usually acquired at so early an age. Mathematics, astronomy, botany, and chemistry, were familiar to him. As to the arts and the ornamental part of his education, such as elocution, drawing, music, horsemanship, fencing &c., in each of them he was calculated by nature to excel, even if he had not enjoyed such an excellent opportunity. of receiving instruction; so that at eighteen there was, perhaps, no young man in the country whe surpassed him in any of these accomplishments, and certainly none who equalled him in them all. The attempt, however, which his father had made to render political ambition his governing principle, had not altogether succeeded. He was not indeed insensible to the charms of political distinction, and had a heart that would have thrilled with ecstacy at the sound of a nation's gratitude: but his modesty whispered that there were thousands in the country more capable of acquiring such distinction, and more worthy of enjoying such gratitude. If his lot, indeed, should bring him forward to public view, and his duty should require the management of public trusts, he would endeavour not to shrink from the important charge; but as his country might never need his services in such an exalted sphere, he saw no reason why he should feel any anxiety to undertake their performance, or why he should wish that she should need them. Some will, perhaps, think these notions of political duty too refined for a young man of eighteen ; -but it is a fact that he had imbibed them: how he happened to do so may now be explained. One of the first tutors who had been brought to preside over his education was a young man of the name of Carlow. He had been educated for the ministry of the established church, and shortly before his introduction to Lord Rosendale's family had received ordination. He was soon appointed chaplain to his Lordship, and had the charge of a cure in the neighbourhood. Having bestowed his affections on a lady to whom circumstances pre In vented him from becoming united, he had hitherto continued a single life in his lordship's family, every member of which felt interested in his welfare. Even the stubborn heir himself could not refrain from occasionally showing him his countenance, and calling him the good Mr. Carlow. deed any improvement of mind that Arthur posBessed was altogether owing to the assiduity and delicate management of this gentleman; and as soon as the ill-temper of the self-willed boy had in some measure given way to the more rational reflection of approaching manhood, he began to appreciate the value of Mr. Carlow's instructions, and to esteem him for them. Still his pride was too great to permit him to express these sentiments and feelings towards his benefactor, with that cordiality which would have made them valuable. But Mr. Carlow's chief favourite was Frederick. In him he found no reserve, no coldness, no petulance of temper, nor dulness of comprehension. He perceived his heart to be warm, his understanding good, and his dispositions virtuous. He was the child of his tuition; and he grew up under his care, just as he could have wished him grow had he been his own son. to Frederick on his part returned the affection of his amiable preceptor, with all the warmth and |