the church; and Sir Patrick, Lieutenant of his Majesty's guards. Mungo, second Viscount Stormont, married Anne, only daughter of Sir Andrew Murray, of Balvaird, brother to the first Viscount; and, after her death, Anne, daughter of John, Earl of Weems, widow of Alexander Lindsay, of Edzle, but had no issue. On his death, in 1642, the lordship of Scone, and the honour of Viscount of Stormont, went to James, then Earl of Annandale; and, being the less dignity, it was merged in the higher honour of the Earldom of Annandale. On the death of the Earl, without issue, in 1658, the honour of Viscount of Stormont was revived, in the person of David, then Lord || Balvaird, heir-male and of entail to David, first Lord Scone, and Viscount of Stormont. Sir David Murray, first Viscount Stormont, was cup-bearer to King James VI. Having been instrumental in saving the life of his royal master from the attempt of the Earl of Gowrie, and his brother, Mr. Ruthven, at Perth, in the year 1600, he became a great favourite with his Majesty. On the 7th of April, 1605, he was created Lord Scone; having previously received a grant of the whole abbey of Scone, of which the Earl of Gowrie had been commendator. His Lordship was advanced to the Viscounty of Stormont on the 16th of August, 1621; but, having no issue, he obtained a reversionary clause in the patent, conferring his honours upon his kinsman, Sir Mungo Murray, son to The ancestor of the Lord Balvaird here the Earl of Tullibardine, who had married mentioned was William Murray, of Lethis niece; and, failing heirs-male in him, terbanachie, second son of Sir David Murto John, Earl of Annandale, and his heirs-ray, of Arngosk, and of Dame Janet Lindmale. Dying in 1631, Lord Stormont was say, his wife, daughter of John, Lord interred in a vault within the church of Lindsay, and uncle to David, first VisScone, beneath a magnificent monument count of Stormont. erected by himself many years before his death. On this monument is the follow-death of the Earl of Annandale, became ing somewhat quaint inscription: "The Right Honourable Sir DAVID MURRAY, of Gospertie, Knight, son to Sir Andrew Murray, of Balvaird; his grandsire, brother to the Earl of Tullibardine; his mother, daughter to the Earl of Montrose; his good dame of the father, daughter to the Lord Lindsay; his good dame of the mother, daughter to the Earl Marischal; who for his good services done to King James VI., whom he faithfully served from his youth in many honourable employments, from a cupbearer, master of his horses, comptroller of his rents, captain of his Majesty's guards, one of his honourable privy-council, was created Lord Scone. He married dame Elizabeth Beaton, an ancient Baron's daughter, of Crich, died without issue, left his estate to his nephew, of Balvaird, and to dame Agnes Murray, his niece, whom he married to a brother of the Earl of Tullibardine's, from whom he first descended. He helped his other friends, who enjoy the fruits of his labour; his buildings pruifs he was politique; good men knew he loved virtue, and malefactors that he maintained justice. He founded this hospital, and builded this church; his soul enjoys happiness: and under this tomb, builded by himself, lyeth his body, expecting the joyful resurrection." David, Lord Balvaird, who, on the fourth Viscount Stormont, was the son of Sir Andrew Murray, created Lord Balvaird in 1641. He married Elizabeth, || daughter of James, Earl of Southesk, and widow of James, Earl of Annandale; and, dying in 1668, he was succeeded by his eldest son, David, fifth Viscount Stormont, and third Lord Balvaird. His wife was Margery, only daughter of David Scot, of heir-male of the noble family of BucScotstarvet, in the county of Fife, Esq., cleuch. The eldest of his six sons (besides eight daughters) was David, sixth Lord Stormont, a nobleman distinguished by his extensive learning and knowledge. His Lordship married, in 1726, Anne, daughter and heiress of John Stuart, of Innernytie, Esq., by whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1748, he was succeeded by his eldest son, David, seventh Viscount Stormont, who afterwards become second Earl of Mansfield. In 1731, the year that David, fifth Viscount Stormont died, his Lordship's third son, William, afterwards Earl Mansfield, was called to the English bar. This noble THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LOUISA, VISCOUNTESS STORMONT. 147 remainder, in the event of his dying without male issue, to his nephew, David, Viscount Stormont." His Lordship died on the 20th of March, 1793; and, leaving no family, the barony of Mansfield, created by the patent of 1757, became extinct; the title of Countess of Mansfield, in the county of Nottingham, descended to his niece, Louisa, now Countess of Mansfield; and the title of Earl of Mansfield, of Ken-Wood, on his nephew, David, seventh Viscount Stor mont. This nobleman, father of the present Earl of Mansfield, was born on the 9th of October, 1727. He, at an early period, gave proofs of a refined taste in the belles lettres, and of capacity for public business. As it has been seen, he succeeded his father in the Viscounty, in 1748. Having embraced a political life, he, in the reign of George II., was Envoy-Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Poland; and, after the accession of George III., he was nominated one of the Ambassadors to the proposed Congress at Augsburg. After the conclusion of the peace, he was sworn of his Majesty's Privy Council, and constituted Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna. In 1772, he proceeded, in the same character, to Versailles, where he resided, until the conduct of the French Court, in publicly assisting his Britannic Majesty's American subjects in their attempt to become independent, occasioned his recal, and man, the success of whose forensic and political career was unprecedented, was born at Scone, on the 2d of March, 1705. He was "brought to England at three years old; educated at Westminster school; and entered at Christchurch, Oxford, 1723, where he took his degrees, and then travelled on the Continent; and, on his return, entered at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar. He became known to the wits of his day for polite acquirements, and was eulogised in the polished verses of Pope. In 1738, he married Lady Elizabeth Finch, daughter of Donnel, Earl of Winchilsea, which connected him with an English family of considerable power. In November, 1742,|| he was made Solicitor-General, and elected member of Parliament for Boroughbridge. In 1754, he became AttorneyGeneral; and, in November, 1756, was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench. In the following year, during the unsettled state of the ministry, he held, for a short time, the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. He held the office of Chief Justice till June, 1788, when he resigned, after having held it nearly thirty-two years."* This brief and faint outline might be extended and filled up, and wrought into a splendid and glowing picture; but the life and character of the great Earl of Mansfield enter|| so largely into the history of his time, and are there so proudly blazoned, that we refrain. "On his elevation to the Bench, he was created Baron Mansfield,|| and, on the 31st of October, 1776, Earl of the commencement of hostilities. On the Mansfield, in the county of Nottingham,|| with remainder, in the event of his dying without issue male, to Louisa, Viscountess Stormont, wife of his nephew, David, Viscount Stormont, and the heirs male of her body, by her said husband. This limitation arose from the idea then entertained, but since abandoned, that no English peerage could be granted, even in remainder, to a person actually seised of a peerage of Scotland; and as soon as the contrary doctrine was established, his Lordship was created, on the 11th of August, 1792, Earl of Mansfield, of KenWood, in the county of Middlesex, with * Vide THE POCKET PEERAGE, by Sir Egerton Brydges, Vol. I., page 339. 27th of October, 1779, he was oppointed one of the Secretaries of State; in which office he remained till the change of ministry, in 1782. In the coalition ministry of 1783, he was appointed President of the Council. Amongst other appointments which his Lordship held, was that of Lord Justice General of the Court of Justiciary in Scotland. This nobleman married, first, at Warsaw, on the 16th of August, 1769, Henrietta Frederica, daughter of Henry, Count Bunau, Privy-Councillor to the Elector of Saxony, and Envoy to the Court of St. James's, of the branch of Rouen, by his wife, daughter of Gustavus, Baron of Ragnitz, by his wife, Mademoiselle Schomberg. By this mar riage, his Lordship had two daughters: Elizabeth Mary, mother of the present Earl of Winchilsea, married, in 1785, to George Finch Hatton, of Eastwell Park, in the county of Kent, Esq., nephew of George Earl of Winchilsea; and Henri- || etta Anne, who died an infant. Baron of Scone and Balvaird, in the peerage of Scotland; Lord Lieutenant of the county of Clackmannan; Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Scone; F.R.S., F.S.A., &c. His Lordship was born at Paris, on the 7th of March, 1777; and he married, on the 16th of September, 1797, Ten years after the death of his first Frederica Markham, daughter of his wife, his Lordship married, secondly, Grace, William, Lord Archbishop of (May 5, 1776) the Hon. Louisa Cathcart, || York,† by whom he has had a family of third daughter of Charles, ninth Lord nine children :Cathcart, and sister to the present Earl Cathcart, by his Lady, Jane, daughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton, Governor of Jamaica, brother to James, Duke of Hamilton. His family, by this second union, were as follows:: 1. William, present and third Earl of Mansfield ;-2. George, born in 1780, a Major-General in the Army, and late Lieutenant-Colonel of the royal regiment of Life-guards ;-3. Charles, born in 1781, married, in 1802, Miss Law ;-4. Henry, C. B., a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, and late Lieutenant-Colonel of the 18th Light Dragoons; born in 1784, married, in 1800, Miss Devisme;-Caroline, born in 178-. On the decease of his uncle, William, the first Earl, in 1793, his Lordship succeeded to the title of Earl of Mansfield, of Ken-Wood, in the county of Middlesex; and, at the same time, his Lady became Countess of Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, in her own right. Dying on the 1st of September, 1796,* he was succeeded by his eldest son, William, present and third Earl of Mansfield, and Baron Murray, of the county of Middlesex; Viscount Stormont, Surviving her husband, the Countess was married, on the 19th of October, 1797, to the Hon. Robert Fulke Greville, second son of Francis, first Earl of Brooke and Warwick; by whom (who died on the 27th of April, 1824) she had issue : 1 Georgiana, born in 1798, married, in 1824, to the Right Hon. George Cathcart, third son of the present Earl Cathcart ;-2. Louisa, born in 1809, married, in 1825, to the Rev. Daniel Heneage Finch Hatton, brother of the present Earl of Winchelsea ;3. Robert Fulke, born in 1801, married, in 1822, Georgiana Cecilia, daughter of Charles Locke, Esq. - || 1. Frederica, born in 1800, married, in 1820, to the late Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel James Hamilton Stanhope, brother of Earl Stanhope, and died in 1823;-2. Elizabeth Anne, born in 1803;-3. Caroline, born in 1805;-4. William David, Viscount Stormont, husband of the Lady whose portrait is prefixed to this memoir; --5. Georgiana Catherine, born in 1807;—6. Charles John, born in 1810;-7. David Henry, born in 1811-8. Cecilia Sarah, born in 1814;9. Emily Mary, born in 1816. William David Murray, Viscount Stormont, and heir-apparent to the earldom of Mansfield, was born on the 21st of February, 1806. His Lordship, one of the representatives in the present Parliament, of New Woodstock, married, on the 8th of April, 1829, Louisa, daughter of Cuthbert Ellison, Esq., M.P. + His Grace, William Markham, Archmuch by his virtues and diligence, as by his bishop of York, a prelate distinguished as liberality and learning, was born about the year 1720. At an early age, he was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School, whence he was elected to a studentship at Christchurch, Oxford, where, in 1745, he took his degree of M.A. About five years afterwards, he became Master of Westminster School. In 1752, he took the degree of Doctor of Civil Law; in 1759, he was advanced to a Prebendal stall at Durham; in 1765, he obtained the Deanery of Rochester, which, in 1777, he vacated for that of Christchurch; in 1771, he was consecrated Bishop of Chester; and, in the same year, he was appointed tutor to his late Majesty; an office which he held with great reputation till 1776, when he was succeeded by Dr. Hurd. In 1777, Dr. Markham was translated to the Archiepiscopal See of York, which he enjoyed till his death, in 1807-a period of thirty years. AN ESSAY ON EYE-GLASSES. "The glass of fashion."-Hamlet. "James, bring some glasses !"— Anecdotes of Conviviality. Annals of Dramatic Criticism. I KNOW not of what colour or quality || garrulity at no such rate of self-indul the reader's eyes may be-whether grey or blue, black or hazel-whether capable of discerning St. Paul's from the Round Tower at Windsor without the aid of a telescope, or incapable of recognising a friend, though separated only by the width of St. James's-street. However this may be, I trust he will bear with me whilst I devote a paragraph or two to those antiremedies for defects of the visual organs, called eye-glasses. gence. I shall confine my investigation to the eye-glass-or, as my motto setteth forth, "the glass of fashion.” Now I will not say that this same glass is invariably worn for ornament, and not for use; but I risk little by asserting that the great majority of human eyes have no more occasion for such an appendage to costume, than the reader has for skaits to stroll in Pall-Mall with. If a person wished not to walk, but to stumble, it would be wise in him to resort to his skaits, and endeavour to think the sunny pavement a sheet of ice; and in like manner, if he wishes not to see, but chooses that his eyes should have a sinecure, he cannot do detter than possess himself of a certain quantity of black riband with an elegant specimen of bijouterie attached to it. The glass in this case ceases to be a superfluity; for I have frequently observed, that when one gentleman does not wish to see another, he immediately raises his glass to his eye, compresses the muscles of the brow to retain it there, turns his face in the direction of the object There was a very pleasant and ingeni- || ous book published lately that treated of the manufacture of glass, of its origin and uses, of its properties and composition. If I were fifty years older, I should be very apt to display my erudition upon the subject, by commencing with the origin; and then, passing gradually through the history of every possible species and description of glass, I should arrive (some- || where about the twentieth page) at the economy of that particular eye-glass, proposed as the theme for discussion. I should commence possibly with the plateglass of a drawing-room window, looking out upon a lawn, sprinkled with spring-whom he intends to be invisible, and flowers, and presenting a still pleasanter view of distant copses and "winding wood-walks green;" thence I should pass -nothing loth, notwithstanding my love of nature in her green and sunny clothing to the looking-glass, which would detain me two hours at least; when, the dinner-bell ringing, my attention would be attracted by the champagne-glass, which would of course beget another protracted but more pardonable fit of admi-ing, and you will find him perusing Mr. ration; the ball-room would be the next scene, where the cut-glass diamond-like lustres, outsparkling all previous attractions, would be rivalled only by the gentle and happy eyes that glanced and glistened beneath them. But I shall gratify my gazes as if on vacancy, without the slightest symptom of recognising any earthly creature before him. This habit of star ing a "nobody" in the face, on purpose that you may not perceive him, is by no means a paradox, or so uncommon as may be imagined. Of course there are the same conveniences attached to the glass with respect to a non-observation of other objects. Call upon a friend in the morn Macauley's speech (printed in small type), without the slightest idea that he possesses such an item as a glass; he would as soon think of putting on his spurs to read the paper; but catch him at night at the Hon. Mrs. F.'s soirée, and you may observe him pretending to examine, not with his eye but with his glass, the prints, annuals, and specimens of vertu, with which every receptacle in the apartment is luxuriantly littered. His mind is occupied by other images and impressions; he is in no mood for admiring prints or reading poems; and he therefore applies to his glass for aid-for security against seeing what he appears to be looking at. || tance, that they feel ashamed to have recourse to an accessory, however attractive, for which they have no natural occasion; and yet are sensible of its seductive charms, and live slaves to its fascinations. These inheritors of provokingly perfect optics, are probably more to be pitied than those who have no eyes at all. Their miseries are the offspring of their felicity; they are doomed to suffer under the greatest of all blessings; they live on, There is not the slightest question but year after year, without any diminution of the glass in this sense is a utility as well sight; and perceive, with agonizing clearas a decoration; but there is likewise no ness, that their friends' faculties are hourly doubt of the existence of a very large fading, and that one by one they are inclass of glass-wearers, who have adopted dulging in the delights of a glass-while the appendage for no earthly reason but they themselves continue to discern obthat others have done so before them.jects, whether near or far, as well as ever. The glass is to them merely as a buckle I must confess to having had once or that fastens nothing, or a necklace, that twice some slight touch of this affliction nobody suspects of being worn with any myself—not with reference to one glass, idea of securing the head to the shoulders. but to two. When I saw the brilliant It has no more reference to the improve-eyes of one of the "foremost men of all ment of the sight, than a diamond eardrop has to the feeling with which the owner of it listens to an exquisite passage of music. It might as well be applied to the organ of any other sense as to the eye; and it would unquestionably be applied to all the senses, promiscuously, but that the prejudice seems to have run in favour of its application to the visual organ in particular. It was remarked, doubtless by some wicked satirist, that after the battle of Waterloo, when so many officers returned home wounded, it became a point of etiquette among the fashionable young men of the day to wear their left arms in slings-the left arm being that which they could most conveniently spare. Hundreds, if report err not, aspired about that period to the luxury of a shattered limb, who had nothing in the world but a black handkerchief to shew for it. How true this may be, it is not for me to say; but it is diffi-sight, but confesses its hearing to be uncult to regard it as altogether incredible, when we reflect upon the thousands who are daily contending for the far less honourable distinction of a mere weakness of sight. The black riband certainly seems to be a small edition of the black handkerchief. There is another class of persons, the excellence and perfect capability of whose eyes are so well known to their acquain this world" glistening through his spectacles, I could not help fancying that the pebbles added a grace to intellect, and I returned home longing to look wise in the same way, and secretly dissatisfied with my own exemption from optical defect. It must be admitted that the twisting and swinging of the glass, as it hangs || gracefully from the neck, furnishes one with a pleasant recourse when one has nothing to say or to do; and it may likewise be acknowledged that the lifting it slowly and scientifically to the eye admits of a pretty display of attitude, and under certain circumstances of a graceful position of the head; yet the same effects might be produced by the adoption of another instrument, which, though sometimes used, is never affected. The instrument alluded to is an ear-trumpet. The world pretends to a deficiency of impaired. Yet one implement may be enough to meet Dumbness even |