IN the life of this Gentlemen, we are presented with a most striking evidence of what the union of talents and industry may effect, by an unremitting course of laborious employ. A period of personal activity, extended to the extraordinary length of forty years, enabled him to fulfil the duties of several most important offices; and in all of them he displayed, not only the greatest promptitude for business, but also an unimpeachable integrity of ser vice, a testimony which even the tongue of party cannot invalidate, nor the misrepresentations of prejudice per vert. And our satisfaction in recording it is the greater, because we have witnessed the very difficult path which he had to pursue, the toils which he was compelled to undergo, and the severe opposition to which he was continually exposed. We rejoice, therefore, in pay ing our humble tribute to the memory of an individual, who, to say the least of his deserts, richly merited the favour of his Sovereign, and vindicated his claim to the esteem of his Country. And, however Envy might be disposed to dispute the former, the latter is beyond the reach of her most invidious efforts; it is grounded upon the conviction of experience, and established in the recollection of his well-tried character.

From the continued course of his cooperation with successive administrations, he was necessarily subjected to the scrutinizing ordeals of many conflicting opinions. And it is no mean fame, for any one so peculiarly situated

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as Mr. Rose was, to have silenced the suspicions of his adversaries, and justified the support of his friends. Indefatigable in office, true to his trust, and. always evincing an anxious desire to expedite the business before him, he could neither be accused of unnecessary delay, nor of selfish indifference to the interests of his Country; neither were these in any instance sacrificed to his own; for he uniformly proved by his diligence that whatever place he held, it was filled by an able and assiduous officer, and its duties performed by a conscientious servant. He was faithful to his King, and just to his Country; and the emoluments of office, however magnified in the eye of Malice, were no greater than what the Country might well bestow for the advantages which she reaped from his abilities and unwearied exertions. And, in whatever degree the vulgar mind of Detraction may have laboured to distort the truth, those who possessed the most intimate opportunities of communicating with Mr. Rose in the routine of office, knew him to be at all times easy of access, courteous in his attentions, liberal in his conduct, and considerate in the exercise of his authority. He was a man of business, and he exacted no greater efforts from those whose services he had occasion to command, than what he felt bound to make himself. Hence, in every department of which he was the head, he not only inspired a willing confidence among his depen dents, but gave to all, who had any concern with its negociations, the satis

faction of knowing, that, be the result what it might, their object was secure from all injurious procrastination.

Such was Mr. Rose in his public capacity as an officer of the state, and these were qualities which rendered him, as a Minister, essentially useful to whatever administration he co-operated with. The measures which he adopted he manfully avowed, and the men to whom he united himself he supported with a zeal that did honour to the cause which he served.

Throughout the whole of Mr. Rose's parliamentary career, he shewed that he possessed a clear head and a liberal heart. His speeches were always remarkable for the perspicuous view which he took of the question before the House. If we must not be allowed to rank him among the most finished orators of his day, his sentiments were at all times, and upon all subjects, such as he never had occasion to retract, nor to regret having uttered. The transcendant eloquence of many of his coadjutors received an intrinsic strength from the sound sense and judicious arguments with which be enforced their opinions and he was invariably listened to with respect by both sides of the House. The petulancies of irritation, as they never escaped from his own mouth, so when they fell from the lips of his opponents in the heat of debate, he either passed by in the silence of conscious rectitude, or rebuked with the generous remonstrance of an unprovoked spirit.

In his political character, be all along espoused the principles of Mr. Pitt; who, with a just appreciation of his aptitude for business, and the honourable firmness of his mind, placed him by his side, and opened to him the fullest opportunities for working his way to that eminence of station which he soon after reached. These principles he has invariably maintained; and ever since the decease of that great man, until the day of his own death, he stedfastly retained the conviction of their purity, justness, and expediency.

The Writer of this Memoir, upon a peculiar occasion, had the gratification of bearing witness to the affectionate ardour with which, at one of the Anniversaries of the Pitt Club, Mr. Rose spake of his early patron, and bis departed friend. It was a burst of unfeigned feeling, which made an impres sion upon the mind of every one who

heard him, that will not soon be effaced. And although his voice faultered under the oppression of melancholy reminicence, yet with all that intelligence which ever embodied his opinions, he asserted, by the incontrovertible test of facts, the momentous necessity, urged upon the conviction of every truly patriotic mind by the then alarming con dition of affairs, for upholding the same measures, and employing the same means, as his lamented compeer had applied, to stem the revolutionary torrent which threatened to overwhelm our venerable Constitution, the honour and dignity of the Throne, the sacred inte rests of our Religion, and the real happiness and glory of the nation.

Mr. Rose lived to see the effectual vindication of that perseverance which he constantly enforced. And it must have been a consolation full of selfapproval in his dying hour, to see the inflexibility of his political principles justified by the return of Universal Peace among the nations of Europeand this glorious event brought about by the wisdom of those counsels in which he took so large a share, as well as by that valour of his countrymen which he was ever anxious to encourage and reward,

It was on the 13th of January, in the present year, that Mr. Rose, at the age of seventy-three, closed a life of useful. ness, integrity, and toil, at Cuffnells, near Lyndhurst, the family-seat, in Hampshire. He had for some months been in a declining state of health, from which there was no hope of recovery.

Mr. Rose was Treasurer of the Navy, President of the Board of Trade, Clerk of Parliament, Keeper of the Records on the receipt side of the Exchequer, one of the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council, an Elder Brother of the Tri nity House, Verderer of the New Forest, Hants, and Member for the town of Christchurch in the same county.

He was born in the county of Nairne, but was educated in England from the early age of four years. His father was a clergyman of an antient family, the Rev. David Rose, of Lethnet, in Scotland. He was brought up until his eighteenth year by his uncle, Dr. Rose, who for many years conducted a very large seminary, of considerable repute, at Chiswick. Dur ing the period of his education, he made no small progress in general learn ing, and particulary in mathematics, la