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Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 100 CHAPTER V. 1S06. POLITICAL CHANGES. OBTAINS PBEFEBMBNT. 1S07. GOES TO SONNING IN THE AUTUMN. WBITES PETEB FLYMLEY. ITS EF- FBCT. -- MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF LOBD STOWELL. -- BEVISITS EDINBUBGH. -- GOES TO HOW1CK. -- NO HOUSE ON THE LIVING. -- NON-BESIDENCE PERMITTED. THE BESIDENCE BILL PASSED. -- GOES DOWN TO SEE THE LIVING. -- DIFFICULTIES. BETUBNS TO LONDON. -- PUBLISHES SBBMONS. -- BEMOVE3 FAMILY TO YORK- SHIBE. -- TRIES TO NEGOTIATE EXCHANGE OF LIVING. DIFFICULTIES OF EXCHANGE. -- NECESSITY OF BUILDING. SETTLES AT HESL1NOTON. In 1S06 those political changes took place which so unexpectedly, and for so short a period, brought the Whigs iuto power. To one who, as he says, " had lived so long on the north side of the wall, this ray of sunshine was very cheering, and gave some hopes that he who had so well and so honestly fought the good fight, would now have some opportunity afforded him of exerting himself in his profession." But as he had no connections and little political interest, I do not know what might have been the result, had it not been for the indefatigable exertions of his friends at Holland House, who never rested till they saw justice done to him, and had obtained from the Chancellor, LordErskine, the living of Foston-le-Clay, in Yorkshire, for him. For this he always felt that he owed Lord and Lady Holland a deep debt of gratitude; as, in addition to the immediate increase of his income, being a permanent provision, it gave him the first feeling of independence and security that he had enjoyed after a l
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