text:  Who could suppose that after Lord Eldon's success up to this point; his distinction on the principal circuit; the compliments of the judges; the respect of his seniors in the profession some of them very remarkable men; his silk gown in the days of Erskine; his seat in Parliament; and more than all the consciousness which men of large faculties naturally have of their suitableness and almost their certainty to command fortune at some tine or other; we should find the future peer and chancellor desponding? Yet what but deep complaints of his cloudy prospects could have produced this reply from his clever friend Lee (who within three weeks' became Attorney-General?) DEAR SCOTT--Your letter which I received this minute was a very cheering one to me