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the united bands playing " God save the lute of artillery, and amidst the acclamations King,” Mr. Harris and Mr. Kemble having of the multitude. After the ceremony Mr. paid tbeir respects to his Royal Highness, ush- Harris received a letter from Colonel M.Macred him to the marquee. "Mr. Smirke, the bon, stating he had it in command from his architect, now presented a plan of the build- Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, to exing to his Royal Highness, who, attenued by press to the proprietors and the architect his all the gặand masonic officers, then proceeded very high approbation of the extreme order to the ceremonial. On a signal given the and regularity with which the arrangement stone was raised several feet, his Royal High of the whole ceremonial had been formed and ness advanced to the north-east corner of it, conducted. and deposited in a space cut in the basement, About two o'clock in the morning of Sa. a brass box, containing the British coins of turday, the 21st of January, a fire was discothe year, and a bronze medal bearing a like- vered in St. James's Palace, near the King's ness of the Prince with this inscription on the back stairs. An alarm was instantly given, reyerse :

but it was several hours before water could be Georgius

procured for the engines kept in the palace Princeps Walliarum

and those belonging to the various Insurance Theatri

offices which had hastened to the spot. The Regiis instaurandi, Auspiciis, fames during this interval had made considerIn Hortis Benedictinis

able progress, and they were not subdued Londini

till they had' consumed the whole of the pri. Sua Manu Locavit

vate apartinents of the Queen, those of the M. DCCC. VIII

Duke of Cambridge, the King's Court, and Another medal, also accompanied the above, the apartments of several persons belonging engraved by Gragory, with the following in to the royal household, who will severely scription:

feel the loss they have suffered. The Dutch Under the auspices of

chapel nearly under the Armoury-Room "has his most sacred majesty George III. sustained considerable injury; the most valuking of the united kingdons of Great Britain able part of the property in such of the royal and Ireland,

apartments as are destroyed, has been preserthe foundation stone of the Theatre, Covent ved; but unfortunately a young woman,' ser. Garden,

vant to Miss Rice, one of the assistant dres, was laid by his Royal Highness sers to her Majesty, perished in the conflaGeorge Prince of Wales,

gration. M.DCCC.VIII.

The General Bill of all the Christenings On the reverse of this medal is inscribed :- and Burials within the Bills of Mortality, Robert Smirke, Architect.

from December 15, 1807, to December 13, Six hod-men now conveyed the necessary 1808, is as follows: Christened in the nine. quantity of cementing mortar, which was ty-seven parishes within the walls 1088; spread on the base stone by the same number buried 1372.-Christened in the seventeen of workmen. His Royal Highness then, as parishes without the walls 4503; buried grand-master, finished the adjustment of the 3969.-Christened in the twenty-three out. inorcar with a silver trowel presented to him parishes in Middlesex and Surrey 10,10.5; by Earl Moira; the stone was then lowered buried 9737. Christened in the ten parishes to its destined position, all the bands playing in the city and liberties of Westminster of Rule Britannia,” and the people applauding 4210; buried 4876. wi'h the most animating cheers. The Prince

Christened

Males... 10,189 then tried the work by the plumb, tbe level,

Females.. 9,717 S

19,906. and the square, which were presented to him

Buried

Males....10,228 hy the proper masonic officers, and then finish

Females .. 9,726

19,954. ed laying the stone by thice strokes of his Whereof have died mallet; three silver cups were then succes

Under two years of age. 6,075 sively presented to him, containing the an. Between two and five 2,466 cient offerings of corn, wine, and oil, which Five and ten..

847 he poured over the stone with impressive so- Ten and twenty

643 lemnity. His Royal Highness then restored Twenty and thirty

1,200 the plan of the building into the hands of Thirty and forty

1,792 the architect, desiring him to complete the Forty and fifty

1,971 structure conformably thereto; and addressing Fifty and sixty

1,690 Mr. Harris and Mr. Kemble, wished prospe- Sixty and seventy

1,499 rity to the building and the national objects Seventy and eighty

1,200 connected with it. Thus closed the ceremo. Eighty and ninety.

504 ny, and his Royal Highness, who performed Ninety and a hundred

65 his part with dignity, and whose manners A hundred during the whole time were highly captiva- A hundred and two ting, retired to his carriage under another sa- Increased in the burials this year 1,630.

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At Twickenham, Major Charles Ward Orde, of the 9th light dragoons, to Miss Browne.

At Lambeth, C. H. Wohrman, esq. of Riga, to Miss E. Scongall, eldest daughter of George S. esq.

At St. James's, Robert Townsend Farquhar, second son of Sir Walter F. to Maria, youngest daughter of the late Francis Lautour, esq.

At Mary-le-bonne Church, Henry Drury, esq. fellow of King's College, Cambridge, to Caroline, second daughter of A. W. Taylor, esq. of Burham House, Herts.

At Waltham Abbey, Mr. John Whitehead, of Dalton, Yorkshire, to Miss Esther Walton, eldest daughter of William W. esq. of Epping Forest.

At Chiswick, the Rev. Henry Hunter, of Hammersmith, to Miss Graham, of Turnham-green.

At Wanstead House, his serene Highness the Prince of Condé, to her serene Highness the Princess Dowager of Moraco.

At St. George's, Queen-square, Samuel Welchman, esq. of Stamford street, to Charlotte, daughter of the late Edward Gordon, esq. of Bromley, Middlesex.

Captain M Leod, of the royal navy, to Miss Bennett, of Half Moon-street, Piccadilly.

At St. Saviour's, Southwark, the Rev. W. Harrison, chaplain of that parish, to Miss Hunt, of Walcot place, Lambeth.

By special license, at the house of the Earl of Kenmare, in Seymour-street, Portmansquare, Sir Thomas Gage, birt. of Hingrave Hall, Suffolk, to Lady Mary Ann Brown, his lordship's second daughter

At St Pancras, Mr. R. C. Sale, of Surreystreet, Strand, solicitor, to Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of the late George Wye, ⚫f Oporto, esq.

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At his house, near London Bridge, in his 69th year, Francis Garratt, esq. an eminent tea dealer. A gentleman whose upright and conscientious conduct as a tradesman had gained him the respect of all his mercantile and commercial correspondents, and whose pleasing inoffensive manners had obtained the esteem of, and commanded general admiration from, an extensive circle of friends and acquaintance.

In Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, William Bond, esq. second son of Sir James B. bart. 21.

At Dulwich, Miss Suft, daughter of R. F. S. esq. of Lambeth Terrace

In Tudor-street, Mr. Joseph Cobb, second son of T. C. esq. banker, of Lombard-street. In Cornhill, Josiah Barnard, esq. banker. At Mr. Watkins's, Charing-cross, Miss Sophia Walker, late of Stalford, 14.

At Deptford, Miss Mary Anne Milne, daughter of the Rev. Dr. M.

In Westminster-bridge-road, Mrs. Mary Anne Cook, wife of Mr. Mr. James C. surgeon. In Blandford-street, Robert Coningham, esq. late of Londonderry.

At Clapham, Mrs. A. Walde..

In Fetter-lane, Mr. J. D. Browne, attor

ney.

In Little College street, Mr. M'Daniel. At Camden-town, Mr. T. Austin, of Castle street, Leicester-square.

In Prince's-street, Bank of England, Ralph Johnson Wall, esq.

In Grosvenor-place, the Hon. Henry Percy, son of Lord Lovaine.

In Queen-Anne street, West, William Blauw, esq. 61.

At his son-in law's, Gloucester-terrace, William Phillips, esq. of Chase green, Enfield.

In Surry-place, Kent-road, Joseph Lindley,

esq.

At Battersea Rise, Mary Sophia, wife of T. Eardon, esq.

71.

In King-street, Cheapside, G. Slack, esq.

In Camberwell grove, Mrs. Agrey, 77. In Sloane-street, Patrick Home, esq. of Wedderburne, in the county of Berwick, for which he was many years a representative in parliament.

At Osborne's Hotel, Lieut. William Skelton, of the royal navy, 27. He was the third son of the late Arnoldus Jones Skelton, esq. of Papcastle, in the county of Cumberland, and first cousin to the present Marquis Cornwallis.

At Long-acre Chapel, during divine service, Mrs. Baldie, of Meard's-court, Wardourstreet. Just as the minister was about to conclude his sermon, she suddenly fell from her seat and instantly expired.

In Bennett-street, the Rev. Dr. Ackland, rector of Christ Church, Surry, and chaplain to the Fishmongers' Company, 65.

Peter

Peter Pierson, esq. one of the benchers of the Inner Temple.

In Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn fields, Mr. William Nunn, only son of Mr. James N. bookseller, 24.

At Greenwich, Captain John Bouchier, lieu tenant-governor of the Royal Hospital, 61.

In Upper Seymour-street, Miss Emily Charlette Chambers, eldest daughter of Sir Samuel

C.

At Camden place, Mrs. Ellis, widow of Major-general E, of Kempsey, Worcestershire.

In Seymour-place, the Hon. Mrs. Cornwallis, sister of Lord Bayning.

fortunately, other advice prevailed. Towards the latter end of the war, he was brought up from Scotland, for the purpose of being sent with overtures to the American general; delays, indecisions, and at length the resignation of the minister finally prevented that measure being resorted to. Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart will be long and sincerely regretted by all who enjoyed his friendship, as one not only possessed of the best abilities, and great knowledge of the world; but of the most benevolent qualities of the heart: with such polite accomplishments and amiable manners, as are the true characteristics of the well bred and finished gentleman.

At his house in Grafton street, the Most Mr. Andrew Oswald. He was the fifth son Noble John Denis Browne, Marquis of Sligo, of the late Andrew Oswald, of Glenhead, in Earl of Altamont, Viscount Westport, and Stirlingshire; he was bred to the honourable Baron Mounteagle, in the United King- and lucrative profession of a writer to the Sigdom; also a governor of the county of Mayo, net, in Edinburgh, and his talents were such, and custos rotulorum of the county of Clare. that he might, in a few years, have been His lordship was born in 1756, succeeded to eminent, had not his attention been taken up the family honours and estates in 1780, and with the politics of the day, which ran very in 1787 married Lady Louisa Catharine, high a few years ago in Scotland; and as he, daughter of the late Earl Howe. On occa- from principle, espoused the cause of the opsion of the union between Great Britain and pressed and persecuted, had a more general Ireland, he was, elevated to the dignity of and correct knowledge of public affairs, than marquis in December, 1800, and in 1806 was many of his contemporaries; and was more created a peer of the United Kingdom. He capable of expressing himself, clearly and disis succeeded by his only son Howe Peter, tinctly, on public men and measures, which of Altamont, born in 1788. often confounded, and frequently against their Hampstead, aged 80 years, Lieutenant- will, convinced his opponents of their error; el Robert Stewart, who had been many his superior abilities often created him enee a martyr to most distressing and compli- mies, for those who have an interest in sup- complaints, which he bore with the great porting a corrupt system, very seldom like to fortitude and resignation. This gentlemen, acknowledge that they are defeated in arguered early in life into the service of his ment. When the whig ministers came into ntry, in 1754: and in 1755 was particularly power, Lord Lauderdale was appointed as godistinguished at the battle of the Monongahela, vernor to India. Mr. Oswald, had then a comin North America, where he commanded a munication with his lordship, respecting an troop of light horse, raised principally as appointment under him, in that settlement; body guard to the commander in chief, Ge- but another arrangement took place in the neral Braddock. During the course of that ministry, and Lord Lauderdale was sent ambasbloody action, he had the honour to remount sador to France, which completely frustrated the General four times, having two horses Mr. Oswald's expectations. Soon after that killed under himself; and after the general had disappointment, he returned to Stirling, where received a mortal wound, and the remnant of he followed the profession of writer; but his bo army had retreated, he had the good for- mind being rather unhinged from his hopes of ssisted by only four privates of his own going to India being defeated, he soon left and vest being either killed or wounded),went to Glasgow, where he staid but a short mmander in chief off the field of time, and then returned to Edinburgh. In this broad river, under a heavy fire unsettled state, and being fond of society, and y, thereby rescuing his person frequently of convivial company, perhaps, as ty of the savages. In the course consequence of some irregularities, by which e was intrusted with several dif he contracted a consumptive habit, which rapidds, and had the happiness to give ly increased; and by the advice of his friends in ction to the different generals un- Edinburgh, he took a journey by sea to Lonserved, of which the most am- don, in the hope that the change of air and cliies, remain among his papers. mate, might restore him to health, and to his t-Colonel Stewart lived in great friends again; but the disorder had taken too and intimacy for many years, with deep root to be removed; it baffled the skill of ly good and great man the late mén eminent in the healing art. For four Washington. At the beginning of months, (the time he had been in London) he American war, he endeavoured to was gradually declining, until he was reduced the very erroneous opinions the mini- at last to a mere skeleton. He kept his bed that day had formed of the general's only about nine days, and died the 9th of Noter, and military-abilities; but most un- vember, 1808, aged 33 years, Mr. Oswald,

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was well known and much esteemed, in a very respectable circle of private friends and acquaintance: he was zealously attached to the genuine principles of freedom, and warmly and judiciously defended them in numerous Letters and Essays, in the periodical journals and in pamphlets under various signatures. The last of his productions, was a series of letters addressed to the Duke of York, in the Sunday Review, under the signature of "Ignotus," written under great debility of body; the last was finished on his death bed, and was a post humous publication. He possesed a strong memory, had read much, and was particularly conversant with universal history; was a classic scholar, and acquainted with several of the living languages; and as he was very communicative, and full of anecdote, it made him a pleasant and useful companion, and his company courted by some of the first people of Edinburgh. He had travelled a good deal through Scotland, and was acquainted with the history of more families in that country, than perhaps any other man; for what he once read, or heard related, his memory retained.

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of the same kind, it might have lain in the warehouse of his bookseller, and he himself remained for ever in obscurity, had it not been for the intervention of a gentleman of the same county, with whom he luckily became acquainted. Sir Edward Turner of Ambroseden in Oxfordshire, being of an ancient family, and possessing a large fortune, was desirous to represent his native county in parliament. Having attained considerable influence by means of a large estate, and a hospitable and noble mansion, since pulled down by his successor, he accordingly stood candidate as knight of the shire He was, however, strenuously but unsuccessfully opposed; for in addition to his own, he possessed the court interest. The struggle, nevertheless was long and violent, and it still forms a memorable epoch in the history of contested elections ; but for nothing is it more remarkable, than by being the fortunate occurrence in Mr. Jenkinson's life, which produced all his subsequent greatness. The contending parties having, as usual, called in the aid of ballads, lampoons, verses, and satires, this gentleman The Right Honourable Charles Jenkinson distinguished himself by a song in favour of Earl of Liverpool, and Baron of Hawkesbury, Sir Edward and his friends, which so captivated (whose death was mentioned at p. 592 of our either the taste or the gratitude of the baronet, last volume) was descended from a family which that he introduced him to the Earl of Bute, had been settled more than a century, at Walthen flourishing in all the plenitude of power. cot, near Charlbury, in Oxfordshire. His It is known but to few, perhaps, that his lordgrandfather, Sir Robert Jenkinson, married a ship, who placed Mr. J. at first in an inferior wealthy heiress at Bromley, in Kent; and his office, was not at all captivated with him; for father, who was a colonel in the army, resided it was entirely owing to the repeated solicitaat South Lawn Lodge, in Whichwood Forest. tions of the member for Oxfordshire, that he Charles Jenkinson was born in 1727, and reextended his further protection. After a ceived the first rudiments of his education at longer trial, he became the Premier's private the grammar-school of Burford. He was af- secretary, and in some respect a member of his terwards placed on the foundation in the Char- family, participating in his friendship and fater-house, from which seminary he was reyour, and living with him in an unrestrained moved to Oxford, and was entered a member and confidential intercourse. Such a connexof University college. There he took two de- ion as this could not fail to prove advantageous; grees, that of B.A. and A.M. and seems to and, accordingly, in March, 1761, we find him. have made himself first known to the public appointed one of the Under-secretaries of State, by some verses on the death of the Prince of a station which presupposes an intimate acWales, father of his present Majesty. In quaintance with the situation of foreign af1753, he removed from Oxford, and possessing fairs, and a pretty a curate knowledge in rebut a small patrimonial fortune, he commenced spect to the arcana imperii in general. He now his career as a man of letters, and is said to became a declared adherent of what was then have supplied materials for the Monthly Recalled "the Leicester-house party," by whose view He next commenced political writer; influence he was returned to parliament at the and, in 1756, published A Dissertation on the general election (in 1761) for the borough of Establishment of a national and constitutional Cockermouth, on the recommendation of the Force in England, independant of a standing late Earl of Lonsdale, his patron's son in law. Army. This tract abounds with many manly He, however, did not remain long in this staand patriotic sentiments, and has been quoted tion; for he soon received the lucrative apagainst himself in the House of Peers, on pointment of Treasurer of the Ordnance. This which occasion his lordship did not deny that he relinquished in 1763, for the more confihe was the author, but contented himself with dential office of joint Secretary of the Treaapologising for his errors, on account of his ex-sury; a situation for which he was admirably treme youth. Soon after this he wrote "A Discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great Britain, with respect to neutral Nations, during the present War." To this production, his rise in life has been falsely attributed; it was indeed allowed by every one to be amable performance ; but, like many others

qualified, by his knowledge of the state of parties, and the management of a House of Commons, of which he himself had been some time a member. To the Rockingham adıninistration, which succeeded in 1765, he was both personally and politically odious, and he accordingly lest all his appointments; but in

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the course of the same year, he had one conferred on him by the king's mother, the late Princess Dowager of Wales, which no minister could bereave him of; this was the auditorship of her Royal Highness's accounts. That cir cumstance, added to his close intimacy with the discarded minister, awakened the jealously of the patriots; and if we are to credit theirsuspicions, he became, in the technical language of that day, the "go-between" to the favourite, the princess-mother, and the throne. When Lord Bute retired into the country in disgust, promising to relinquish public affairs, a great personage is said to have construed this into an abandonment, and to have looked out for advice elsewhere; from that moment Mr. Jenkinson was ranked as one of the leaders of the party called "the king's friends," and his Majesty ever after distinguished him by a marked partiality. Honours and employments now fell thick upon him. In 1766, he was nominated a Lord of the Admiralty, and in 1767, a Lord of the Treasury, in which place, be continued during the Grenville and Grafton administrations. But under that of Lord North, we find him aspiring to some of the higher offices of government; for in 1772, he was appointed one of the Vice-treasurers of Ireland, on which occasion he was introduced into the privy-council. In 1775, he purchased of Mr. Fox, the patent place of clerk of the Pells in Ireland, which had constituted part of that gentleman's patrimony, and next year was appointed master of the Mint in the Room of Lord Cadogan. In 1778, he was elevated to the more important post of Secretary at War, in which situation we find him in 1780, and 1781, defending the estimates of the army, in the House of Commons. The contest between the friends of Mr. Jenkinson and opposition, now became critical; the majorities which had implicitly voted with the ministry, were reduced in every division, and at last abandoned a premier, who tottered on the Treasury Bench. Mr. Jenkinson thought he had now ample leisure to compile his collection of Treaties; but he was soon by another change in politics, called back from his literary labours, into active life, and took a decided part in behalf of Mr. Pitt. In consequence of his exertions on this occasion, in 1786, he was nominated to the lucrative post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, created baron of Hawkesbury, in the county of Gloucester, and appointed President of the Committee of Council for the affairs of Trade and Plantations. For the last situation, his lordship's regular and progressive rise, added to the various othces in which he had acted, admirably qualified him. Further emoluments were, however, reserved for him, for in 1780, on the decease of his relation, the late Sir Banks Jenkinson, who held the lucrative patent place of collector of the customs Inwards, he procured the

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grant. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate his great influence than that occurence; for this was one of the sinecures which the premier had all along declared his intention to abolish. To these favours, in 1796, was added that of Earl of Liverpool, on which creation he was authorized by his Majesty to quarter the arms of that commercial city with those of his own family. As an orator, his lordship spoke but seldom, either in the House of Commons or Peers, and of late years he had attended but little to public business, în consequence of his advanced age and infirmities. Besides the works which have already been mentioned, his lordship was the author of the following:- "A Collection of all Treaties of Peace, Alliance and Commerce between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Treaty of Munster in 1648, to the Treaties signed at Paris in 1783," 3 vols. 8vo. (1785): and, "A Treatise on the Coins of England, in a Letter to the King," 4to. (1805.) Whatever odium may be attached by his political enemies to the general line of conduct adopted by this nobleman, they will not deny that he deserved great praise for the attention which he always bestowed on the trade of this country. Among other things, he drew up the treaty of commercial intercourse with America, and is also said, not only to have pointed out, but to have created the whale fishery in the South Seas. His lordship was married, for the first time, in 1769, to Miss Amelia Watts, daughter of the Governor of Fort William, in Bengal, by whom he had a son, the present Earl; and secondly, in 1782, to Catharine, daughter of the late Sir Cecil Bishopp, Bart. and widow of Sir Charles Gope, by whom he has left a son and daughter, the Hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, MP. for Sandwich, and Lady Charlotte, married to the present Viscount Grimstone. Lord Liverpool partly inherited, and partly, accumulated a large fortune during the course of a long and brilliant career. He has left to his eldest son, the present Earl, 15,000l. per annum, of which only about 3,5001. per annum is in land. To his widow, the Countess of Liverpool, only 7001. per annum for life, in addition to her former jointure, as Lady Cope, of 10001. per annum. But the present Earl has added 5001. more per annum to his father's bequest; and it is understood that the Duchess of Dorset, her daughter, adds 3001. per annum more. To the Hon. Cecil Jenkinson, his second son, he has left 10001. per annum. in addition to an estate of near 30001. per annum, of which Mr. Cecil Jenkinson is already in possession, by the death of a relation. To Lady Charlotte Grimstone, now Lady Forrester, he has left only the 7001. per annum bequeathed to the Countess of Liverpool, after her decease. The landed propeity is entailed to all the family of the Jenkinsons, in tail male, to a great exent.

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