Punch’s Almanac. 1846.
——:o:——
Manners and Civility.
Let Laws and Commerce, Arts and Science die,
But leave us still our old Nobility!
Lord John Manners (now Duke of Rutland).
The New Age thus describes the august writer of that couplet:—
“The wreck of a beau, of a bard, of a spouter,
The seed of a Duke, he was bound by all rule
To furnish Disraeli, that scorner and flouter,