to follow him to England, and a duel ensued, in which the latter was wounded; Lord Bellamont was seconded by the Hon. Mr. Dillon, and Lord Townshend by Lord Ligonier. When Lord North's administration was removed, Lord Townshend, who had supported the minister in the American war, found it necessary to resign his place as Master General of the Ordnance; however, after the coalition in 1781, he once more filled that office, but only till the new administration was ejected by the influence of the late premier, Mr. Pitt.

In respect to his private life, the English Gleaner, Mr. Pratt, has depicted him in a point of view highly flattering. In the neighbourhood of Fakenham, he observed, "There is something better than the finest edifice, something more delightful, even to the traveller, than glassy lakes, vi vid lawns, or luxuriant woods, namely, the urbanity and benevolence of its present noble possessor.

By means of the first quality, every stranger who has the air and manners of a gentleman, may become a guest; and by virtue of the last, all whose deservings are at all known may become its objects; and those who have claims upon that benevolence on the sirapie recommendation of poverty, will have their claims allowed." But one of the strongest testimonies of the public feeling, in behalf of the Mar quis, at least in Ireland, was the cele bration of his birth-day in Dublin, during a course of thirty-one years, as an annual tribute of gratitude esta blished by his friends, and observed ever since he had been Lord Lieutenant. As a public character the marquis has been very little known during the present war, or since the French revolution; he is succeeded in his title by his eldest son the Earl of Lei cester.

During the king's memorable illness, Lord Townshend took a decided part with the heir-apparent; notwithstanding which, after his Majesty's recovery, he succeeded General Honeywood in the government of Hull; and in October, 1787, his lordship was created Marquis Townshend, of Rainham, agreeable to a promise his Majesty had made to the Hon. Charles Townshend, some time before, that his family should not be forgotten. In 1792, on the death of Lord Orford, he was nominated Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk; and in 1792, he was appointed to command the eastern district, and had his headquarters near Warley Camp. In 1796, he was promoted to the rank of FieldMarshal, and had only three names above him on the list, two of whom M. JOHN LEWIS DE LOLME, are of the blood-royal. The Marquis (whose death, and some account of his has also been complimented as a wit, works we noticed in page 426 of our Maa punster, and a caricaturist; among gazine for May) had a surprising exothers, since his decease, the following tent of knowledge on all subjects, and anecdote of him has been circulated: was worthy of rivalling Mr. Burke in When his lordship was very young, he the variety of his illustrations. was at the battle of Dettingen, and was remarkably temperate and simple marching down very close upon the in his mode of living, and possessed enemy, appeared in so thoughtful a an admirable temper, with a strong mood as not to seem to take notice turn for humour; indeed, all his conthat a drummer's head was shot off, versation, even on the most serious and so very near him, that a consider subjects, was marked by something of able quantity of the brain was scatter- an arch shrewdness. He did not much ed over his cloaths. A veteran officer sacrifice to the graces in point of dress observing him, went up with the in- and personal delicacy; but his comtent of rousing him, saying he should pany was always valuable on account not think so gravely. His lordship of the stores of his mind. During his availing himself of his usual presence residence in England, it has been said, of mind, immediately replied, "O notwithstanding his superior abilities, dear Sir, you mistake my reverie he suffered many conflicts to which quite; I was just considering what, in poor authors are liable, with a consithe name of common sense, could derable degree of irritability. bring a fellow here who possessed such 4 quantity of brains."

He

This alludes to a bargain he made with an eminent bookseller, now no

more, for an advance upon his labour several recluse situations, alleys, &c. for preparing a second edition of one in the neighbourhood of Chick-lane, of his most valuable productions; Black-Boy-Alley. Another peculia but whom M. De Lolme detected in rity in him, was never to keep any multiplying the copies of his first edi; fire in his apartment after his milk or tion without his privacy or consent. coffee was warmed. His appearance Another time, such was the fertility however, was always genteel though of his mind, he was engaged in a suit, not uniformly so: for, if his hair was in consequence of writing a very long dressed, his shoes or stockings were preface to an old work of De Foe's, in- sure to be dirty; or if these were stead of a short one. It should have clean, some other article was as cer been observed that when M. De Lolme tainly neglected. This, however, was first came to England, he subsisted by not strange, M. De Lolme was a propreparing the copal varnish for coach- jector in the strictest sense of the word. makers, &c.; and that some years af- Among the many mechanical improve ter, the only honor conferred upon him ments of which he was the author, in consequence of that literature with that of the ship's bolts was the only one which he enriched this country, the that met with encouragement; another title of doctor of laws was conferred for locking rudders occasionally, in upon him by the University of Ox- bad weather, and righting rigging ford. Nor was M. De Lolme's known with more facility than the usual connection with a M. Dundas, while mode, was not countenanced by Lord the former lodged with several other Howe. The model of these, and foreigners at a coffee-house near St. some other curiosities, M. De Lolme Paul's, of any signa benefit to him; has left in the hands of Mr. Rusted, at that economical gentleman, it seems, the circulating library, in Shoe-lane, thought that even national services to whose house he used sometimes to were amply requited with a guinea refer as his residence. M De Loime, per week! And further, as M. De from his sagacity in tracing the proLolme's native independence of mind bable course of events during the first did not admit of his booing and booing, seven years of the present war, was at he was by no means calculated to length induced to hazard some of his make his way by flattery, or wha wants property in the stocks, in which he me. M. De Lolme even carried this was ultimately so considerable a singularity so far, that he would not lodge in a house where the door was not kept open; and though never in debt with any one, he was averse to letting any but a few intimate friends, know where he lived, which was always in some obscure outlet towards the fields, and invariably by a cowhouse. His first residence of this description was about twelve years ago, near Grays-Inn-lane; his last near Spittal-fields, where he was acciden- M. De Lolme was further persuaded tally discovered by the writer of this that the system of taxation in this sketch, who, while he was conversing country would ultimately deprive the with Mr. Wagstaff, son of the Wag- inhabitants of their last guinea; and staff eminent as the only purveyor of generally speaking, so infallible was scarce divinity, secing M. De Lolme he in his political predictions, that an pass, being induced to ask Mr. W. if accidental call of his at a newspaper he knew who that was, he replied in office, where he was friendly with the the negative, but that the same gen- editor, was deemed no small acquisitlemau passed his door regularly at tion. With several remarks, that are stated hours, morning and evening; probably forgotten, the writer of this and so extremely singular was he in article recollects, that some time behis notions of privacy, that he once fore the event M. De Lolme even spoke to an intimate acquaintance, pointed out the route that General with a degree of rapture, about the Pichegru would take from French

gainer, that about five years since he availed himself of a fortunate event to retire to the mountainous parts of Switzerland, where he died last year, in the neighbourhood of the Richterberg, in one of the houses that about six weeks before that event was swept away by the sudden fall of part of that mountain, and the inundation that involved so many of the neighbouring inhabitants in inevitable ruin.

Flanders into the Austrian Nether- Waterpark, in early life, was one of lands, and the consequent defeat of the most celebrated leaders of the the allies, the whole of which was fashion in Dublin. The second fancy realised accordingly.

ball given in that city, was by her ladyship, who appeared as the Enchantress Fatima, with her four daughters as attendant Sylphs. For some years she devoted herself to painting, in which she was an adept, as well as in every other elegant fashionable accomplishment; and since Sir Henry's death has lived very retired; he died the 3d of August 1804, and that day three years her ladyship followed him. The present Lord Waterpark is married to Miss Cooper, and has eleven

BARONESS WATERPARK (see page 175) was heiress and only child of the late Mr. Bradshaw, of Cork, whose estates and name descended to the Hon. Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, her ladyship's second son. Her ladyship has left eight children, four sons, and four daughters; Sir Richard, now Baron Waterpark, Augustus, George, and Frederic; the Baroness De Ville, Lady Musgrave, Countess of Mount norris, and Lady Kilmaine. Lady children.

VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL;
With Notices respecting Men of Letters, Artists, and Works
in Hand, &c. &c.

MR. the Locky on the the condition of the poor,

R. BLAIR of the Lock Hospital lines of a further plan for bettering

Effects of Nitrous Acid and other ana- In the press a course of Lectures logous Remedies, which have been addressed to the Students in Surgery: lately proposed as substitutes for comprising a systematic reform of the mercury, in the cure of the venereal modern practice of adhesion, particudisease. This third edition will be larly in relation to the abuses of the much improved and enlarged. thread suture in the surgery of

When the late Mr. Gilbert Wake- wounds, &c. By Samuel Young, of field published his proposals for a the London College of Surgeons, &c. Greek and English Lexicon, a gentle- Queen Hoo-Hall, or a History of man who had, during a considerable Times Past, by the late Joseph Strutt, time before, been employed on a si- in four volumes foolscap octavo, is in milar work desisted from it, on the the press; as are also the whole works supposition that Mr. Wakefield's was of Henry Mackenzie, Esq. revised and ready for the press. But as it appears corrected by the author, with various from the memoirs of Mr. Wakefield, pieces not published before. that he had not proceeded much far

James Grey Jackson, Esq. Prother in the collection of materials than fessor of the Arabic and African his interleaved Hederic, which has languages, formerly agent for the been destroyed by fire, the gentleman states-general, commercial agent to has resumed his own work, and will the Danish ambassador, merchant in a short time present the public with at Mogador and Santa Cruz, is pera copious and accurate Greek and paring for publication, an Account of English Lexicon. Travels in various parts of the Empire The second and concluding vo- of Morocco, across the Atlas Mounlume of Jones's History of Brecknock- tains, and through the Independent shire will he ready for publication in Provinces.

a short time.

Sir Ralph Sadler's State Papers, Mr. Carpenter, the author of Ob- including his Negociations with King servations addressed to Grand Juries, James V. and Regency of Scotland, has nearly ready for publication, Re- and a collection of curious and imflections that have suggested them- portant Documents conceruing Queen selves from Messrs. Whitbread, Elizabeth's private Negociations with Malthus, Rose, Weyland, and Col- the Scottish Reformers, the confine quhoun's, plans and opinions on the ment of Queen Mary in England, subject of the Poor Laws, with out- &e. in two volumes quarto, will soon

be published with portraits. Auto- customs, its government, &c.; with a graphs, &c. are preparing for the vocabulary of the Madagascar lanpress. A Memoir of Sir Ralph Sadler, guage. with some historical notes are added from the pen of Mr. Walter Scott, whose new poem, entitled Marmon, or a Tale of Flodden Field, is also in the press.

Two volumes from the Deipnoso phists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, are getting ready for publication.

Mr. Taylor proposes to publish a translation of the Organon of Aristotle, with copious elucidations from the commentaries of Simplicius and Ammonius.

Lord Valentia's Journal of his Travels in the East, is intended for publication; and this, with an interesting work of Views taken in the East by Mr. H. Salt, his lordship's secretary, will be a very important work, parti cularly to the readers of Bruce.

Dr. Drake's Essays on the British. Classical Essayists will make two more volumes, in addition to the three already published on Addison, and will form a history of periodical com position, from the time of Steele, to the commencement of the nineteenth century.

Mr. Southey intends to publish a translation from the Spanish, of the The Rev. George Rogers, of New interesting Chronicle of the Cid, in- ton Barry, in Ireland, intends shortly cluding all that the poem of the Cid, to publish, by subscription, in three the Chronicle and the general Chro- volumes octavo, the Beauties of the nicle of King Alonzo, contain. A Bible, or Sacred and Sublime Selecsketch of the previous History of tions from Scripture, particularly Spain is to accompany the work, from the Prophecies, Parables, Mira with a critical and biographical ac- cles, &c. count of the authors consulted.

Struggles through Life is in the The chorusses of Aschylus are press, in two volumes octavo, exem printing at Cambridge, by Dr.Thomas plified in the various travels and adBurney, with notes and illustrations. ventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and The Rev. FrancisWrangham is pre- America, of Lieutenant John Harriet, paring a new edition of Laughorne's resident magistrate of the Thames Plutarch, with corrections and consi- Police. derable additions.

Professor Porson is about to reprint, in one volume, the four plays of Euripedes, before published separately. The Leverian Museum, on the Surrey side of Blackfriar's Bridge, it is understood, is to be converted into a Literary Institution, on the plan of the Royal and London Institutions. From its central situation, and its remote distance from the others, it may add much to the facility of diffusing knowledge.

Dr.Robertson intends to publish by subscription, in two volumes octavo, a View of the Natural History of the Atmosphere, its influence upon Medicine and Agriculture, with an Essay on Contagion.

A commodious and extensive building is erecting in Lincoln's Inn Square, for the reception of the Mu seum of the late John Hunter, whose choice and rare collection of natural and artificial curiosities have been pur chased by government, and presentMr. Sowerby intends to publish ed to the Corporation of Surgeons. a Chromometer, or Scale for measur- Here will be at once concentered the ing colours upon a simple and easy plan, so as to measure any simple tint to infinity.

The Rev. Mr. Faber's work on the Restoration of the Jews, is in the press.

Corporation Hall, the Anatomical Theatre, the Repository of Curiosities, the Offices, &c. &c. The grand front will be towards Portugal-Street, and the whole structure completed early next spring.

The Adventures of Robert Drury, Mr. Donovan has formed his extenduring fifteen years captivity in the sive collection of Animals, Vegetaisland of Madagascar, will shortly be bles, Minerals, &c. into a Museum, published, containing a description of which he has opened for public inthat island, an account of its produce, spection under the appellation of the manufactures, trade, manners, and London Museum.

A Female Penitentiary is to be esta- characters and manners of the Arabs blished in a commodious house in Pen- of Kermesir, those of the Desert of tonville, situated in the centre of a Arabia, the Kurdes, the Turcomans, garden, and surrounded by a substan- the Usbecks, the Lesgay Tartars, &c. tial wall. Dr. Pinchard is physician, M. Olivier had the intention of giving Mr. Blair, surgeon, and Mr. S. a particular account of Fetah Ali Griffith, apothecary. Chah, but as the documents which he procured relative to this Prince, did not appear to him to be sufficiently authentic, he had contented himself with some exact details of the ances tors of this Prince's family, and with displaying the hopes entertained by the Persians from the circumstance of seeing the nephew of Mahomet Chah upon the throne of the Sophis.

America.

A traveller lately arrived at Baltimore, has brought an enormous tooth of a Mammoth, from the banks of the -Missouri. Being employed in search ing for mines near that river, the extent of a quarter of a mile square was found filled to the depth of six feet with bones of an enormous size. For a certain sum he has offered to produce a complete skeleton of a Mammoth, 54 feet long, and 22 in height. The middle toe of the fore foot of this skeleton is 7 feet 8 inches long. Each jaw has eight enormous grinders. The dimensions of the tooth, which he has actually brought with him, and presented to the Baltimore Museum, are not mentioned.

Mr. Alexander Wilson, of Philadelphia, has now in the press, the American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States.

Denmark.

The valuable library of the late Professor Hensler, of Kiel, in Holstein, consisting of more than 1500 volumes, including the best of the Greek and Roman Classics, has lately been purchased and imported to Edinburgh, by Messrs. Constable and Co.

France.

The new relations formed between France and the Persian Empire have led the French to suppose that these hopes have been in a great measure confirmed. The internal tranquillity of Persia is already re-established, agriculture and commerce have revived.

It is also asserted, with respect to the present work, that no voyage of equal importance has been published for a long time past, nor in many re spects of so great an interest as that of the beautiful countries which M. Olivier has seen and described, and which embraces the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, the Archipelago, Crete, Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Under the present circumstances, all eyes are fixed upon those vast possessions which recal such important recollections.

M. Geoffrey Saint Hilaire, professor of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History, and who was a Member. of the Institute of Cairo, in Egypt, is nominated a Member of the First Class of the Institute, section of Anatomy and Zoology, in the place of M. Broussonet,

M. G. A. Olivier, Member of the Institute, &c. has published a Voyage into the Ottoman Empire, performed by order of government during the first six years of the republic. The A potter of Paris has discovered a two last volumes of this work contain method of glazing earthen vessels an account of Persia and Asia Minor. without the use of lead or tin; by Persia, the French critics observe, which he proposes to reduce the cost ought to interest the reader very of a given quantity of enamel from warmly after the many revolutions it 320 to 20 francs.

has suffered. M. Olivier has traced. The voyages of M. M. Humboldt thefn all from the invasion of the fero- and Bonpland, in the interior of Amecious Afghans, in 1722, down to the rica, in the years 1799 to 1803, are in period of 1798, when the present sove- great forwardness at Paris. They will reign Fetah Ali Chah, took the reins make several volumes. The second, of government. In addition to these third, fourth, and fifth, contain the details, there is a curious parallel be- historical narrative of their proceedtween the Turks and Persiaus, and ings, &c. and three folio atlasses of some very accurate sketches of the plates; the first of these consist of pic