502 The Hon. William Bouverie — Lord Thurlow. [Dec. I , 



ment to numbers of induftrious men, in the but an enemy to party politics. When the 

 various improvements which he planned and country was threatened with invafion, he ac- 

 executed. Brayton-houfe, near Cocker- cepted a military corauiand, and his attention 

 mouth, was his favourite refidence. The to the Cumberland rangers was equally cre- 

 gothic hall which he built there, was furnilh- ditable to his charaftcr :is an officer and a pa- 

 ed with the military trophies, armour, and triot. Unfortunately, the early attacks ofaa 

 weapons of his ancertors. Their original hereditary gout proved a feriius obftacle to his 

 portraits, arrayed in the co'lume of their tln-.e, aftive exertions. To alleviate the feverity of 

 were hung upon tie walls. Thefe interefting this diforder, he was aJvifed by his phvficians 

 objeds, tin;od by the warm light from the to vifit Bath, for which place he quitted Bray- 

 ftained glafs windows, had a );r ind charac- ton-houf;: early in March Uft. After having 

 teriftic eifedl Healfo erctted a nohle librarv, ufed the waters there for fome time, he re- 

 which he enriched with a copiou'- feleftion of moved to Chcltt.nham, where, to the inex- 

 the bcil antient and modern writers. He preilible rejret of all his friends, lie died on 

 added an aviary and menagerie, upon a com- the 1 1th of June, in his 4.'3d year.] 

 modious fcale, and a commanding range of [Further particuhirs cf the Uon. WJ.'lam 

 Out-olnccs; which latter were unluckily de- B'm-verie, ■zii'rfe tiotb is iKcntioucd af f>. 50S, of 

 ftioycd by fire laft Spring. His giounds were 2\'u»:ier 118. He was a gentleman emi- 

 judjcioufly laid out; and, wlicn the orna- nently diftin^uillied by the polilhed elegance 

 mental plantations reach liieir due growth, of his manners, the urbanity of his difpofition, 

 notwithrtanding foine local difadvantagcs, the and his literary acquircnnents. There were 

 whole will form a jkafing and varied profpeft. few fubjefls on which lie was not accurateK 

 His moral charailer was irreproachalile. In informed ; and on whiSi he could not 

 the firft year of his marriage his lady mifcar- difcourfe in a manner the mo(V intercftin^ 

 ri'vd, in corfequence o! a fright j and ihe long and inftruftiv: : fo that his fociety was much 

 remained in a lingering (late, during which courted, particularly by men of fcicnce. The 

 fhe experienced the tender attentions of an depth and foundnefi of his judgment, and the 

 affedionatc huiband. He was a kind maftcr, extent of his knowledge, attra^ed their ad- 

 »n indulgent landlord, affable and humane to miration and iefpe£t ; v.hile the goodnefs of 

 all. His tradefmcn, tenant*, and domeftics, his heart fccured tlieir efteem and reverence, 

 lieavjly deplore hi.'; lofs. He was equally free Among otlier fciences he was particularly at- 

 lioni the vices and the affcflatiun of his time, tached to the fludy of medicine, and lived in 

 Too many of our nobleman and gentlemen conilant habits of the moft friendly intimacy 

 pietcnd to fpeak with difdain of the produc- and adbciation witii fome of the nioft diflin- 

 tions of their own country, and to hold in guilhed charaftcrs in that profeffion, particu- 

 contcmnt the works of every Britifh artift. larly the celebrated Dr. Mufele\ , in whom 

 Sir Wilfred L. had the courage to think for he placed great confidence, and for wiiom he 

 himfelf, and to rife above tiielc fcnfelefs and always expreffed the fir... reft regard. As a 

 difgraceful prejudices. He neither fought tlic politician, he was firmly and honeftly att.ich- 

 rejiutation of a connoiHeur, nor did lie at- cd to tiie Whig intere!^, not from the felfilh 

 tempt to decide, in a peremptory tone, on the view of perfona! aggrandifement or advantage, 

 merits ot pictures. He did not purchafc a but on the found, liberal, and confilfer.t nrin- 

 eonipofition becaufc it was antient or niodern, ciples of integrity and tonvi6>ion. Mr. B. 

 er becaufe of the celebrated name of the niaf- had for fome years labnured under infirm 

 ter, but becaufe it gave him phaf.irs as a health. He «as a member of Univerfity 

 work ot merit His apartments were decorat- college, Oxford ; and married in 1T77, the 

 ed with paintings, includi-ig a few good Lady Bridget Douglas, daughter of James late 

 Flemifn and Italian piflures,and a fine collec- J^ari of Morton, and filler of the prefent earl, 

 t.on of the works of living EngliHi mafters. by whom he had ifTue a fon, now a captain in 

 He was for many year., a liberal patron of the army, and three daughters, w'^o, having 

 that admirable artilt Reinagle ; and he had a been educated under the irv.meJiate eye of j 

 tew choice produflions by the pencil of our moft affectionate father, and with the bright- 

 Engli.fh Snydcrs, Northcole. ,n his collec- eft example ke.bre them of every C(Jnjugal 

 tion o! engravings he manifeftcd the fame in- and maternal exceHence in their truly amia- 

 depcndent tafte. He had in his fn.ijS the ble mother, are dcfervedly rar.ked among the 

 Works or Albert Durer, Marc Antonio, Rem- moil: elegant and accompliftied young ladies in 

 brandt, and their fch«.'ols ; of Nanteiul, Ede- England.] 



link, the .Audrans, anJ all the beft old maf- [Furtb.r particulars of the late Lord Thur- 

 ters ; but he alfo coIlei>ed the works of low, ivhoje death is recorded at p. Sr>4, ht our 

 Strange, Vivares, Wooiiett, and Bartolozzi ; laji numter. As Mr. Sheridan and Mr. 

 with tr.e publications of Boydell, Macklin, Courtney were coming out of the Houfe of 

 Bo.vyer, Burn, and all the works of our other Lords, after the Chancellor's famous fpeech 

 good Engliih engravers. He was refpefted as on the Regency Bill, which he concluded 

 a conlcieutious magiftrate, who lent a ready with the emphatic fentence — " When I 

 ear ro the complaints of the poor, and admi- forget my King, may God forget me !" 

 niftered juilicj according to the merits of the the iormer obfrvcd, " that it would be a 

 cale be. I re him. He was a fiiicere frieni to good thing if God would forget him."— 

 the liritifli conttitution, and a lo_) al fubjeCl, " No, no, (replied Courtney), you mif- 



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