The Hazlitts: an account of their origin and descent . eph Severn atHunts cottage in Hammersmith, and received aninvitation from him to go over and see him at histemporary residence in Eccleston Square. I did Reynell said to me : I went after the Revolu-tion of July, 1830, to congratulate your grandfatheron the triumph of Liberalism ; but I found him inno very sanguine humour about the ultimate result. Ah ! said he, I am afraid, Charles, things will goback again. One generation has been said to stand on theshoulders of another. The fatlier often lives to seethe son, whom he may have roc
The Hazlitts: an account of their origin and descent . eph Severn atHunts cottage in Hammersmith, and received aninvitation from him to go over and see him at histemporary residence in Eccleston Square. I did Reynell said to me : I went after the Revolu-tion of July, 1830, to congratulate your grandfatheron the triumph of Liberalism ; but I found him inno very sanguine humour about the ultimate result. Ah ! said he, I am afraid, Charles, things will goback again. One generation has been said to stand on theshoulders of another. The fatlier often lives to seethe son, whom he may have rocked in the cradle, aman of middle years and the head of a grown-upfamily. Rut it is rarely the case that a man ofninety-four can look on one whom he held in hisarms as a child in swaddling clothes, and who livedto stand side by side with him an octogenarian ;yet such was t!ie relationship between my maternaluncle and my late ffither. The latter was born in1811. The former recollected how, in 1809, tlieJubilee year of George III., he mounted up to the. WILLIAM CAREW HAZLITT F7-om a photograph (1897). THE REYNELLS 3G1 top of the house in Piccadilly, which was higherthan some of those which surrounded it, to see thebonfires and illuminations in Hyde Park. He hadseen the gigantic Irish porter at Carlton Houselook over the outer entrance-door to discover whowas claiming admittance before he took the troubleto open it. The ornamental enclosure in St. Jamess Parkwas in his remembrance a mere field with somefine elms and broken sheets of water. It used tohave deer till Farmer George placed beeves in itinstead. There was a half-witted fellow appointedto tend them, whom the boys called Lai, andimpishly tormented. In Kensington Gardens, too, there were deer atone time, and they were similarly replaced—in thatcase by some merino sheep, which had been sentover to the King, in 1791, I suppose, as in thatyear he made a present of a ram of this breed toArthur Young of Bradfield. My uncle of
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