he has left so little to speak for him, the same friendship must be indulged in expatiating a moment longer on so singular and amiable a character: and if, when I am reprinting my own works, I am perhaps but burying the dead, let me please myself in placing a tablet in the same cemetery to the memory of my friend! I may with propriety mention hịm here, or in my Anecdotes of Painting. In the latter art he had the genius of a master, before he could write man. His drawings were at once correctly true and great. He could deliver his ideas with his pencil as precisely as with language, and no man was ever more exact in seizing the point of truth, or in reducing it with perspicuity. His eye never saw falsely; his tongue knew not how to be false. It was this impression of truth that constituted the reigning peculiarity of his character. He felt it to minuteness; and had no more notion of affecting a virtue he did not possess, than he was capable of concealing a fault of which he was sensible. He spoke his own thoughts, and mentioned his own actions, with as much indifference as if he had no property in them. His manner and style were very particular; and not the less so, for not being affected. Nature made him what affectation makes others, singular; but with the advantage that nature always has over art, his singularity was pleasing. To be agreeable is the most difficult task that art finds in copying nature. With the most excellent talent for imitating whatever he saw, no entreaties could engage him to exaggerate. A heart without gall checked a hand that was master of caricature. That he had defects, it would be unworthy of a friend of his to deny: if I slide over them, it is pardonable. It was becoming in him alone, not to conceal them, yet it is strict justice to his memory to aver, that he never had a fault but to himself; he never had an enemy but himself. [Lord Mount Edgecumbe succeeded his father, the first lord, in 1758, until which time he sat in the commons as member for the borough of Penryn. In December 1755 he was appointed a lord-commissioner of the admiralty, but resigned his seat at that board in November 1756, on being constituted comptroller of his majesty's household. He was a majorgeneral in the army, lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of Cornwall, and dying unmarried the 10th of May 1761, the peerage and estate devolved on his brother George. Collins, vol. vii. p. 29. His lordship's skill as a draughtsman is declared by his noble eulogist to have been such, as might entitle him to a place in the Anecdotes of English Painting, while the ease and harmony of his poetic compositions give him an authorized introduction here. The print of Mary Squires, the gipsy, who was tried for stripping Elizabeth Canning 3, may be pointed out as a memento of his lordship's attainment with the pencil; and the following sportive sally of his pen occurs in the New Foundling Hospital for Wit 4, where he is characterised as a man of fine parts, great knowledge, and original wit; who possessed a light and easy vein of poetry; who was calculated by nature to serve the public, and to charm society; but who unhappily was a man of pleasure, and left to his gay associates a most affecting example, how health, fame, ambition, and every thing that may be laudable in principle or in practice, are drawn into and absorbed by that most destructive of all whirlpools-gaming! This giant vice should not have been silently slided over by lord Orford. It is the bottomless grave of every social virtue. "FABLE OF THE ASS, NIGHTINGALE, AND KID. Trahit sua quemque voluptas. "Once on a time it came to pass, Upon a trip -no matter whither. s See Bromley's Catalogue, p. 457. It was taken from a drawing by lord Edgecumbe. 4 Vol. vi. p. 106. And through a village chanc'd to take We're not in haste,' First cries the nightingale,' and I 'Let's have a tune.'- · 6 Aye, come, let's stop,' Replies the Kid, and take a hop.' 'Aye, do,' says Jack; the meanwhile I Will wait for you, and graze hard by: 'You know that I for song and dance They go a romping-then call me.”” A metrical epistle to his mistress on a journey, was printed in 1752; and several copies of verses are ascribed to him.] HENRIETTA LOUISA JEFFREYS, COUNTESS OF POMFRET, [DAUGHTER and sole heiress of John, second lord Jeffreys, and Charlotte, daughter of Philip, earl of Pembroke. In 1720 she was united in marriage to Thomas, lord Lempster, who soon after was created earl of Pomfret. The countess and her friend lady Hertford were both ladies of the bedchamber to queen Caroline, at whose death in 1737 they retired from courtly life; the latter to domestic enjoyment in England, and the former on a continental tour with lord Pomfret, through France, Italy, and part of Germany 2, for about three years, during which time her correspondence continued with lady Hertford, and has very recently been given to the public.3 Lord Pomfret died in 1753, and a part of the Arundelian marbles having been purchased by his father, they were presented by the countess in 1755 to the uni 2 Collins's Peerage, vol. v. p. 55. 3 In 3 vols. 12mo. published by Phillips. See art. of lady Hertford, duchess of Somerset, p. 239. ✦ Virtue, an irregular ode, written for the Encænia, 1755, in honour of the countess of Pomfret, and on her giving the family collection of ancient marbles to the university of Oxford, has been printed in Poems by Gentlemen of Devon and Cornwall. 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