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tration of the day, at the head of which was Mr. Pitt and, in conjunction with that able and firm defender of his country's weal, preserved inviolate in all its dependencies, the venerable constitution in church and state, from the destructive aims of revolutionary assault. Throughout all the dissentions and distractions of the then prevailing parties, Mr. Jenkinson maintained that uniform tenor of conduct which evinced a comprehensive and enlightened mind, prompt in just conception, powerful in resources, and decisive in all its conclusions.

Mr. J. entered into parliament as member for Rye, under the auspices of that accomplished statesman, the late Earl of Liverpool; and he shewed himself worthy of such a parent. Those who saw in him the early proofs of that vigourous intellect which they had so long witnessed and admired in the father, formed the most sanguine anticipations of the future eminence of the son-these have been amply fulfilled; and the bright promise of his first essay as a Representative of the people has been confirmed in all the maturity of intelligence and judgment as a member of the Government.

There have been few of those who have risen, for the first time in the British Senate, to give proof of their qualifications for the important duties which they had undertaken, who so fully redeemed their pledge, or so generally improved the first favourable impression of their abilities as Mr. J. did. His maiden speech was remarkable for the political knowledge which it comprehended, and the eloquence with which it was delivered, although he was little more than twenty-one years of age; the polity of his country seemed to have been long familiar to him, and her true interests to have constituted his unwearied study. He was heard with profound attention, and his noble father was universally congratulated by both sides of the House, upon having a son who possessed so just a claim to their consideration.

So able a speaker, and one so well informed on pablic business as Mr. J. shewed himself to be, was not likely to remain long without becoming an ob ject of acquisition to the strength of ninistry; more especially as, at the same time, the ascendancy of his illustrious father was deservedly great in the administration, both on account of

his political and literary acquirement and the patronage and confidence with which he was honoured by his Majesty. In 1796, Mr. J. whose talents were every day increasing his influence in the Senate, was appointed a Commissioner of India Affairs; the responsibilities of which office he is well known to have fulfilled with the highest credit to himself and advantage to the Company. In 1801 he was nominated Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he exchanged, in 1804, for the Home Department. In 1803 he was called up to the House of Peers, by writ, with the title of Baron Hawkesbury, and placed in the seat of his father's barony, who had been created Earl of Liverpool. In the same year he exchanged the situation of Foreign Secretary for the Home Department; which he resigned in 1806, on the death of Mr. Pitt, whom he succeeded as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. In 1807 he was again appointed Secretary for Home Affairs; and, in 1809, exchanged it for the Foreign Department.

In all this succession of appointments what has been said of the late Earl may also be applied to the presentfrom his first engaging in public business he never solicited an office for himself; but has invariably shewn, by his assiduous attention to the duties of office, and his unremitting zeal for the public service, that a more disinterested, active, and efficient minister never formed a part of any administration of this country. Associated by principle with the ministry of Mr. Pitt, he supported his measures from a conviction of their wisdom and necessity; and he has ever since pursued them. Unawed by faction, and unmoved by obloquy, he has kept on the same undeviating course, conscious of the pu rity of his motives and the propriety of their adoption; and, notwithstanding the changes which have taken place at various intervals in the public mind, he has persevered in the same dignilied and unaltered career. The result has justified the means, and he has proved, by such procedure, that he has best maintained the real advantage and hap piness of his country. In this opinion we are sure of being upheld by the sentiments of every honest and truly pa triotic subject of these realms; and while, with grateful acknowledgment of the firmness and judgment with which he has controverted the argy

ments and baffled the efforts of the turbulent and disaffected adversaries of our internal peace, we rejoice in the completion of his plans and the accomplishment of his hope, as they relate to those measures by which the prowess of our arms, and the efficacy of our national strength have been made in strumental to the restoration of independence to Europe, the increase of Britain's glory, and the renewal of our commercial prosperity.

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If we look back through the short space of five years, and contemplate the unpropitious aspect which affairs of our country then wore, we cannot but acknowledge that, although despondency had not checked our energies nor chilled our ardour, yet it cannot be denied that our anticipation of good began to yield in some degree to the recurrence of disappointed exertion. The clamour of the discontented was raised against those efforts of our good faith which they secretly wished might fail; and the means which they undervalued they hoped, in the impotency of their deceit, would be carried into execution; that their malignant minds might be gratified by their miscarriage:-steeled against the real suffferings of their native land, as they originated in the hatred of our inveterate enemy, they were easily alive to those imaginary ones which had no existence but in the exaggerations of their own malignant falshoods-they felt no other impression of the evil of a protracted and inevitable warfare, than as they might convert the disastrous necessity into a cause of accusation against the government, and an opportunity to defend and extol the ambitious projects and the victorious fortunes of their idol, the implacable adversary of their country's weal.

By such minds the approximation of that crisis, on the issue of which were suspended the future peace and happiness of the whole civilized world, was viewed with agonizing anxiety: had victory continued constant to the san guinary banner of their hero, they sanguinely hoped that their designs of subversion would no longer be checked by the ill-brooked constraints of established restrictions, and thenceforward these licentious debasers of their country's cause would glory in her defeat and trample upon her weakness. If, on the contrary, he fell beneath the avenging sword of the long-insulted

nations, they knew that all their pretexts of reform, so artfully put forth to cover their hopes of a revolution, would at once be exposed to the detestation and scorn of the kingdom, while they would have no other alternative than to hide their guilty heads in the silence and shame of disgraceful exclusion from the countenance of the virtuous and honourable part of society. By the intervention of an auspicious Providence, and the valour of those who, as the defenders of all that can be dear to man, encountered the legions of the tyrant, the arm of Justice prevailed, and, in one signal instant of stupendous overthrow, this dagon of their treacherous hopes was crushed never to rise again.

Maddened by this unlooked for, and, by them unwished-for termination of his power, they raised the voice of murmur even among the triumphant shouts of millions-Their restless spirit, unable to restrain its indignant consciousness of repulse, yet compelled to hail the returning prospect of universal peace as the object of their constant cry, they still assailed, with all the bitterness of invective, the only procedure which could have effected this glorious event of retribution and deliverance. But, aware that to diminish the greatness of the exploit, and so arraign the courage of their gallant countrymen who so materially conduced to its achievement, were to tread on dangerous ground, and to give at once a sanction to the suspicious already formed of their repuguance to unite in the general joy, they seized upon those natural and inevitable consequences of a sudden transition from a long continuance of war to a state of peace, which no hu man provision could prevent, and made it a source of reproach and condemnation of ministers; and the same turbulent impatience as had hitherto been put into action against the principles of their government, was still exerted to spread discontent throughout the land, in ungrateful rejection of the blessing which heaven had vouchsafed to bestow.

This malevolent enterprise of sedition was but too successful, and the flames of discord were kindled from one end of the kingdom to another. A stagnation of trade in the large manufacturing towns, as it threw thousands out of employ, was too favourable an engine for them to neglect; and the wants of

the necessitous multitude were made the means of a cold-blooded aggravation of their miseries, by exciting them to dissatisfaction and tumult. Insidious comparisons were drawn between the ease of the rich and the destitution of the poor. A specious scale was formed of the expenditure of the nation, as it respected the well-earned remuneration with which the throne had recompensed the past services, or had distinguished the zeal, of its faithful servants. This was held out as a wanton waste of public money; and a false estimate was drawn of its more salutary appropriation to the relief of those who were taught to consider themselves a starv ing people. The dignity of the throne was vilified, and the illustrious representative of our afflicted monarch was made the object of open insult, and treasonable attack. At length it became imperative upon Government to stop the daring rush of the mischief; and a powerful instrument of restraint, which the extreme exigency of the times rendered indispensable, was had recourse to. But the artifice of party had well nigh rendered this abortive, and the advocates for popular favour took occasion to decry it, for the purpose of securing stability to their own views of self-aggrandizement; thas indirectly becoming the abettors of that popular vehemence by which the na tional safety was endangered, and confusion threatened to render nugatory and void all those benefits which returning peace was sure after a short interval to bring in its train.

In this troublous season of commotion the Earl of Liverpool stood undaunted and firm in the resolves of a just and vigorous mind, and although the station which he filled in the government of the country did not immediately implicate him in the personal responsibility for the steps which it was expedient to take, in order to stem the progress of the danger, he manfully avowed himself a participator in the suggestion of them; and in his speeches, by the argumentative strength of his reasoning, left no possible access to those opinions which would have grounded themselves on the presumed invalidity and unjustifiable assumption of the means employed.

While we are thus recapitulating events which we trace with regret, we rejoice that we can close the recital with the happier sequel of more de

sirable results. The tide of prosperity has returned, and our commercial greatness is fast reviving. To those whose prospective contemplation of causes and consequences leads them to a more enlarged view of things than presents itself to many who judge of the future only by their present experience, this was not unforeseen-and the prediction of this return was made the basis of many of the Earl of Liverpool's observations. The noble Lords who answered him took a narrower range for their reasoning, and coutended that they were not called upon to argue for the future, but upon the present pressure of the evil, for which a remedy was required. This we take upon ourselves to assert was somewhat unfair, because it certainly was not just in argument. If the cause had been inevitable, the consequence ought to be borne with submission; but if the latter brought with it difficulties as inevitable as the cause, those difficulties could receive no better alleviation than what the contemplation of their prospective remedy could afford-and when this remedy is proved to be within the compass of natural and concurrent probabilities, the argument which enforces these is to be allowed as more acceptable than that which rejects them.

Thus far then we have attempted to give a brief sketch of the public principles on which the Earl of Liverpool has acted in the most trying periods of his political connection with adminis tration. We might, indeed, have selected others, in which his talents have been called into application, of no less energy and ability than those which have been mentioned; but in none has he manifested a more impressive exertion of talent, or a more manly deci siveness of conduct. And we scruple not to declare that by both he bas acquired to himself the gratitude and esteem of all who can appreciate the superior claim of just principle formed upon an experienced judgment over the hasty adoption of popular feeling, too often grounded in the unwarrant able assumption of a misunderstood and abused privilege.

It is now our pleasing task to speak of his Lordship as a private individual. In doing this we shall first notice that part of it which introduces our readers to him at the University of Oxford, There his noble father emincutly dis

tinguished himself, and the son followed him with equal step, after having been educated at the Charter house, where the late Earl also received those rudiments of instruction which he afterwards improved into the most extensive literary attainments. In the various departments of service through which he passed to his degree, he acquitted himself with the highest reputation as a scholar, and endeared himself to all who had the satisfaction to enjoy his society, by the affability and kindness of his manners. By these he was as much beloved for the virtues of his heart, as he was respected for the superiority of his understanding. From the University he passed as it were per saltum to the Senate, a gradation which few who are not as richly endowed with natural and acquired talents as himself ought to venture upon. He subjected himself to the trial, and proved to his country that she had judged aright of what he could accomplish.

On the 25th of March, 1795, he married Lady Theodosia Louisa Harvey, daughter of Frederick, late Earl of Bristol, and sister to the present Earl, an union which gave to his Lordship one of the most amiable of her sexwho, by her private virtues as a Christian, and a member of society, has given an exaltation to the dignified condition that she fills, which neither the splendour nor the affluence of rank can of itself bestow. To her the plaint of sorrow and distress has never been made in vain, and in all her deeds of unaffected charity, numerous as they are, the boon of compassion has ever been given with that truly Christian grace which has never failed to enhance the value of it, munificent as it has always been. True, indeed, it has never been unaccompanied with the injunction, See thou tell no man of it—but such has been the fulness of heart which the generous nature of it has produced, that so much the more has the beneficent act been made known.

In all this purity of the Christian character does his Lordship largely share. To him no appeal is made in vain that has for its object the relief of the wretched; and in his public capacity the cause of Christianity has found in him a powerful patron, and an anxious supporter. To the intervention of

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buted the late excellent plan of increas ing the number of churches, for the accommodation of the poor. By his intelligent mind, the expediency of the measure was instantly acknowledged, and so effectually arranged, as to meet every case of the exigency. It is little to say, that his Lordship possesses great talent, unwearied application, consummate knowledge, and much practical experience in public affairs. All this is but the necessary consequence of a commanding intellect; but to say that he is a Christian in practice as well as profession: to say that he considers both his duty, and in both fulfils it-to say that he presumes not upon his taJents, but as they are to be made subservient to the purer obligations of pious principle, and holiness of lifeto say, in short, that he is not merely all that he can be, but that he endeavours to be what he ought to be, is to give him a title far above all that the creations of sovereign favour, and superior merit can confer. It is to say, that he is a Christian not only in name, but in deed; and with this impression we close the memoir of this good man and truly ennobled peer, in the earnest wish that he may long live to exemplify the virtues and the genuine nobility of the human heart, to the benefit and instruction of the age which he adorns.t

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cal education, was possessed of great vivacity of wit, and not unfrequently proved his talent at repartee to be of no mean quality. He was one evening present at a party, the young members of which had arranged themselves for a dance. As he was always ready to promote the happiness of all around him, he took upon himself the office of Maitre des Ceremonies. Just as the first couple had tripped off, a young curate of a village about seven miles distance came to the room. He had walked, and as the evening was dark and the road solitary, some of the females expressed their surprise at his venturing on foot. O, said this sprig of divinity, who it seems was hot from the University of Cambridge-" My dear ladies, Cantab-it vacuus coram Latrone Viator." The joke itself was stale; but the curate, willing to assume the merit of it to himself, after making the females stare at what they did not understand, turned round to Mr. Warmington, whom he knew, and said to him with an air of pedantic insolence"There, sir, there's a line of Horace for you, can you construe it?" "O, my young sir." replied this natural genius, nothing more easy—D—n'd hard times for poor curates." The guess was good and the hit palpable: the clerical gentleman was silent; but the laugh against him was loud.

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Mr. Warmington was Mayor of Yarmouth, and had taken his station in the church upon the occasion of a charity sermon, at the head of the corporation pew. The Bishop of Norwich was to preach. The Rev. Dr. Cooper, Rector of Yarmouth, read prayers. After the service was begun, Dr. Parr came into the church, and took his seat by the side of the rector in the reading-desk; both these reverend gentlemen wore full-bottomed wigs. An officer of a recruiting party had been admitted into the pew of the corporate body, and as a stranger, was courteously placed next to the mayor. The important appearance of the two reverend doctors arrested his attention, and he applied to Mr. Warmington for the reason of those two dignified characters being in that situation. My dear sir," replied Mr. W. in expression strictly conformable to the technical phraseology of the inquirer When a bishop preaches two doctors always mount guard."

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(From the Whitehall Evening Post, April 24th, 1725).

"In a few days (if God permitt) will sett out for the Bath, a large Commodious Waggon which will conveniently hold 36 persons, and there being but 6 places yet taken such weak persons as are willing to take the advantage of this conveyance are desired speedily to send their names to Robert Knight Waggoner at the 3 Crowns in Arlington Street-The said Waggon Inns at the kings head near the kings bath at Bath— NB. This invention is of the same nature as Mr. Greens Carriage to Scolland but much improved as containing 3 times the number of Passengers."

A clergyman being on the road to his country living, (to which he pays an annual visit), was stopped by a friend, who asked him, where he could be going so far from town - Like other poor people," replied be, “to my parish."

Sir Brook Watson was an extremely polite mau; and one who new him well, upon hearing that he had lost a leg by the bite of a shark while bathing in the sea, exclaimed, “Ah! I can see how that was; if he had not staid to make a bow to the shark, the accident would never have happened."

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