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PERSONALITIES IN PARLIAMENT

Outstanding Men Of

The Session

NELSON SECRET

REVEALED

His Last Completed Letter

The announcement that a holò- graph letter from Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, dated from the Victory, Sept. 16, 1805, has, been Disraeli said of the House of to himself when he speaks on d acquired by the new National deeply | Maritime Museum at Greenwich, Commons that it was a dull place subject by which he is relleved by moments of excite- moved, he will hear passages i recalls the astonishing fate of an ment writes ¤ correspondent. the most persuasive eloquence. even more remarkable ... Nelson However true that might have understanding and reason touched letter been fifty or sixty years ago (it by emotion, is really a question whether the House is ever uninteresting) the way it should now be put-as the events of the Session just closed have demonstrated-is that the House has its flat moments, but on the whole is a place of con- tinuous human interest.

What makes it 80 is not so much its legislative measures. though these, of course. are of supreme importance to the na tion, as personality-the exhibition of the qualities of its leading members

Bir Austen Chamberlain holds a

A men position that is unique. ber called from the back-benches to the Treasury Bench undergoes a transformation. He appears to

Tris. the last letter Nelson completed before his death, was sold at Sotheby's on May 13, 1909, for £1.030. It has

been seen since.

never

Now, for the first time, I am able to reveal a 31-year-old secret. The

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The letter was dated, "Victory off Lisbon, Sept. 25, 1805." This was nearly a month before Nel- son's death, and nine days after the "letter which has just been given to the National Maritime Museum.

be a much bigger man mentaly letter has not been seen because, a By the reverse process, a Minis- few days after the sale, It was ac- ter who redres to

the back-cidentally, thrown on a benches shrinks almost to the bonfire. common level. Not so Sir Austen Chamberlain, As he speaks from the third bench below the gang- way, on the Goverment side whence his father" dominated the |House in Gladstone's last Parlia The Session has shown that the ment-he is a greater force than strongest "pull," or influence, on he ever was as a Minister, and the mass of members continues to that is saying a great deal. 1 cannot recall a similar Bench for be exercised by Mr. Baldwin and Sir Austen Chamberlain in about an even more commanding place equal measure. This Parlament | on the back-benches, becoming

When it came up for sale in 1904 the late Lady Langattock, already the owner of many Nel- son relics, told Mr. Tom Hodge, at Sotheby's old rooms in Weiling- the letter at any price. At first

she thought that £500 would be "stiff," as no Nelson letter riad approached that figure,

is more lacking in "characters" there the first of Private Mem-ion-street.. that she "must have than

the many I have bers, the most esteemed of Elder any of known. It has fewer men

of Statesmen, speaking with an in-. strongly marked individuality. Of dependent and critical voice, all these the greatest "original" s the more persuasive or that ac- Mr. Baldwin. He is distinct and count. Sir Austen Chamberlain's speeches on the international apart by reason of his uncommon

situation were particularly appre- qualities.

clated by the House.

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Oratory has been described by Mr. Baldwin as "the harlot of the arts" a strange remark coming from an eminent parliamentarian, and considering the supreme part in which oratory has played

Should Constitutional progress. those who have not heard Mr. Baldwin inter from that remark that he is not eloquent, they would be mistaken. It is true he does not harangue or cratorise. Usually he is slow and deliberate. But if Mr. Baldwin will only Isten

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She did, and after a lively duel with an Americn collector, secured the letter for £1,030. Her Identity was kept secret, since she used the pseudonym of. "Mr. Hamilton."

Lady Llangattock took her prize to her town house. As she was

Another reputation which has been much enhanced in the Bes sion is that of Bir Samuel Hoare. His steering of the India Bill concerned with the greatest of the Imperial problems-through House of Commons, was a Parlia- mentray achievement of the first order. It was marked by thorough leaving for her house at Monmouth Knowledge of the vast subject, she told her butler to hide. the unwearied palence in the expoal-letter in a hatbox, among the tis- tion of its complicated detalis, and readiness and good temper in dealing with attacks. Mr. Churchill, who led the opponents of the Bill, was often very cross with Sir Samuel Hoare for his unexpected skill in baffling him 10 argument, and even getting the better of him in repartee.

!

Mr. Lloyd George, because of his long unbroken membership, s Father of the House. He looks it; being now quite patriarchal, which becomes him. He is also disposed to appear in the role of the stern parent, especially when he reproves the Government for not walking in the footsteps, political and economic, which he has left on the Bands of time.

sue paper inside a bonnet. But before the servant at Monmouth tould be warned of Its contents the "packing paper" was thrown out and sent with a mass of other old paper to a bonfire in the garden.

Such was the fate of this mem- orable letter, but I took a copy' of it at the time. It read;

"Victory off Lisbon, Sept. 25. 1805.

"I am anxious to join the fleet,

for it would add to my grief if any other man-was to give them the Nelson touch, which WE say is warranted never to fail.

"I have read, my Emma, with much interest your letter which I got at Merton, but I must have many others sfoat. I do feel by myself what you must have felt at not hearing from me from Jan. 29 to after May 13. I fanc'ed that they had been stopt by the Admir- alty on the account of St. John's orders. „

Mr. Churchill continues to re the most conspicuous figure in the House, outside the Front Benches. As he sits in his corner only the "I mention all these circumstan- few feet of the gangway separate ces that my dearest Emma should him from the Treasury Bench, never think that her Nelson neg- physically: but he has drawn lects or forgets her for one mo- farther away from the Government. No, I can truly say, you are ment in spirit during the Session. | always present wheresa ere I go. As leader of the Conservative "I have this letter ready in case Opposition, he was a persistent I should fall in with anything from speaker. He interposed in almost Lisbon homewards steering. May every debate. Yet it is not to be God bless you, my best, my only said that he is too much with beloved, and with my warmest af- us. Though he is now a Parlia-fection to Horatias, be assured I mentary veteran. it is remarkable am forever your most faithful and

with what freshness and force he can still deal with any subject thai engrosses the attention of the House, Taking him all in all, Mr. Churchill remains our most brilliant orator.

affectionate.

MESSAGE FROM TRAFALGAR

Mercifully, in the British Mu- seun reposes that last (unfinished) letter which was found in the hero's cabin after Trafalgar. Be- ginning "My dearest beloved Em- Sir Herbert Samuel continues ma, the dear friend of my bosom, ably to lead the Liberal Oppost-the signal has been made that the tion and uphold the principles of enemy's combined fleet are coming Free Trade in an unresponsive gut of port," and ending, "May

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at raillery, which is almost a those fellows, and enable us to get lost art in the House.. Mr. Lans-a peace," this pathetic letter has bury, as Leader of the Opposition, the crowning touch of pathos, in has not been so much in the fore- the lines which Emma herself front of the debates this Session. added: He left the speaking chiefly to "Th'a letter was found open on Major Attlee, Mr. Greenwood, and HS desk, and brought to Lady 'Sir Stafford' Cripps, his leading Hamilton by Capt. Hardy, Oh, lieutenants. But he sticks to his raiserable, wretched Emma! Oh, post as leader. He is rarely ab-glorious and happy Nelson!"

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