ABSTRACT
In the great contention between the patriotic and the cosmopolitan principle which has hardly begun, and on the issue of which the fate of this island as a powerful community depends, Lord George Bentinck appeared to be produced to represent the traditionary influences of the country in their most captivating form. His courage and his constancy were never surpassed by man. He valued life only as a means of fulfilling duty, and truly it may be said of him that he feared nothing but God. Lord George Bentinck himself never felt in better health or was ever in higher spirits, and greatly enjoyed the change of life and that change in a scene so dear to him. The terrible news of Lord George Bentinck death reached Nottingham on the morning of the 22nd at half-past nine o'clock, and immediately telegraphed to London, was announced by a second edition of the Times to the country.
