. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . r to his own when he spoke of Scotland and her sons, we mayadd that the middle class is proud of him. When we have once fairly begun upon the story of the states-mans life, we shall turn aside only to notice those of his contem-poraries who, in any respect, approach to the plane upon whichhe stands ; let us, then, in this place, trace out something furtherof his family, as we shall not again return to the subject. Mr. John Gladstone had already been chairman of the WestIndia Association when, in 1814, his name was closely associatedwith the
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . r to his own when he spoke of Scotland and her sons, we mayadd that the middle class is proud of him. When we have once fairly begun upon the story of the states-mans life, we shall turn aside only to notice those of his contem-poraries who, in any respect, approach to the plane upon whichhe stands ; let us, then, in this place, trace out something furtherof his family, as we shall not again return to the subject. Mr. John Gladstone had already been chairman of the WestIndia Association when, in 1814, his name was closely associatedwith the trading carried on with the East Indies. The oldmonopoly was broken in that year? and his firm was the first to Ancestry and Education. 25 send a private vessel to the ports so long under the control ofthe East India Company. Nor was ho progressive and enter-prising in matters relating to his business alone. It is interestingto trace in the father the liberal public spirit, the breadth ofview, and the desire for the amelioration of the condition of. Gladstone and His Sister (From a picture painted in 1811). every class, that have so long been manifested in the son. Thefact that he addressed, with no mean eloquence, a meeting whichwas called in 1818 to consider the propriety of petitioning Par-liament to take into consideration the progressive and alarming-increase in the crimes of forging and uttering forged notes ofthe Bank of England, may be thought only proper to the prud-ent and prominent business man, anxious to check the spread ofan offence peculiarly troublesome to him and his associates. Hisactivity in another matter, however, shows him to be warm-hearted as well as keen-sighted. It was by his efforts that, in1823, the Steamboat Act included a provision that each vesselshould be obliged to carry a sufficient number of boats to accom-modate the passengers, in case of any accident j a simple enough 26 Ancestry and Education. precaution it seems to us, but so neglected pr
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