à la Priere de plusieurs Personnes interressées à cette Charité. Traduit de l'Anglois." A Utrecht, 1712, 4to.

No extract from this translation is likely to be required. But the occasion may here be taken of adding, that RICHARD VERNEY, who succeeded this lord in title and estate, was prompted by more than a furor poeticus to write what he called verses, on the the marriage of Anne, princess royal, with the prince of Orange in 1732.3 Mr. Reed has a small quarto tract in his library, which appears, from the title, to have proceeded from the same quarter: "In Honorem Legis Oratio, Latina Lingua, scripta ab Honorabile Richard Verney, Barono Willoughby de Broke," 1739. He died August 11. 1752.4

See lord Orford's Works, vol. i. p. 474., where George Verney, the dean, seems to be confounded with Richard, his successor; from whose nonsensical nuptial tribute, the following lines are given.

"At Helvoetsluys see pleasure all on float,

See no laborious men, no careful boat:

Could fishes know how they're employ'd in merry schemes, Thus to escape, they'd bless themselves in quiet streams." • Collins's Peerage, ut supra.

From an

PEREGRINE OSBORNE

Jecond DUKE of LEEDS

Original by Petitet in the Collection
His Grace the Duke of Leeds

of

PEREGRINE OSBORNE,

DUKE OF LEED S.

NOTHING can be slighter than my authority for mentioning this peer as an author. In a catalogue of a sale of books was

"An Account of the Brest Expedition, by Lord Carmarthen."

But having never seen the book, I know not whether the name of the author was specified; or if not, on what ground it was so ascribed.

[Mr. Reed had given me a fuller title of lord Carmarthen's tract, but the book itself was found in Mr. Brand's extensive collection of rarities, and proved to be "A Journal kept at Sea, between the 29th of May and 15th of June, 1694; with an exact and impartial Relation of the Expedition and Attempts in Camarett Bay, near Brest." Lond. 1694, 4to.

The marquis of Carmarthen was at that time rearadmiral of the blue, and had drawn up this journal for the purpose of sending it to his father, the first duke of Leeds; but being seen by the editor, was found so very just in every particular, that he thought

he should do an acceptable service to the public by printing it, which was therefore done, "word for word, without any manner of alteration."

The publication, however, would afford no better extract than any Extraordinary Gazette.

His lordship is said by Collins 2 to have commanded in several expeditions at sea, and on many occasions to have been distinguished for his gallant behaviour; which in 1697 procured him to be made rear-admiral, and in 1703 vice-admiral of the red.

Macky says he understood all the parts of a sailor well; but was very rakish and extravagant in his manner of living, otherwise he had risen quicker. He contrived and built a ship called the Royal Transport, which proved so good a sailer, that it displayed his knowledge of that part of navigation also. He was bold enough, adds the writer, to undertake any thing. 3 His grace died June 25. 1729, in the seventy-first year of his age.]

2 Peerage, vol. i. p. 241.

3 Characters of Officers, &c. p. 170.