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able literary attainments, and of a cheerful 
disposition, temperate in his habits, a strict 
disciplinarian, but conciliatory and kind to 
those under his command; a warm and 
zealous friend, and an indulgent and affec- 
tionate husband and father. His remains 
were interred with the highest military ho- 
nours, the day after his death, the General 
commanding the station, and the troops, all 
attending the funeral. . 
THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL. 
The Right Honourable Robert Banks 
Jenkinson, Earlof Liverpool, Baron Hawkes- 
bury, of Hawkesbury, in the county of 
Gloucester, and a Baronet, K.G., late First 
Lord of the Treasury, a Lord of Trade and 
Plantations, a Commissioner for the Affairs 
of India, Constable of Dover Castle, War- 
den, Keeper, and Admiral of the Cinque 
Ports, a Governor of the Charter-House, an 
Official Trustee of the British Museum, 
Elder Master of the Trinity-House, and 
High Steward of Kingston, in the County 
of Surry, &c., was born on the 7th of June, 
1770. His lordship’s ancestors were settled, 
a century and a half ago, at Walcot, near 
Charlebury, in Oxfordshire. His great- 
grandfather, Sir Robert Jenkinson, Bart., 
married a wealthy heiress of Bromley, in 
Kent ; his grandfather, who was a colonel 
in the army, resided at South Lawn Lodge, 
in Wychwood Forest ; and his futher, Sir 
Charles Jenkinson, Bart., created Baron 
Hawkesbury, and afterwards Earl of Liver- 
pool, was first known in public life as Secre- 
tary to the Earl of Bute, in 1761. He 
afterwards filled some of the highest po- 
litical offices in the country. 
The late Earl’s mother, who died in the 
month succeeding his birth, was Amelia, 
daughter of William Watts, Esq., Governor 
of Fort William, Bengal. He was placed, 
at a very early age, at an academy at Par- 
son’s Green, Fulham ; whence, after mak- 
ing considerable proficiency in the classics, 
he was removed to the Charter-House, where 
also his father had been educated; and, 
from the Charter-House, he was sent to 
Christ Church College, Oxford. There he 
was distinguished amongst his associates—of 
whom the late Mr. Canning was one—ra- 
ther for assiduous attention to his studies 
than for those shewy qualities which fre- 
quently gain for young men a premature 
and unsound reputation for talent. Political 
economy is understood to have been the 
leading object of his attention. 
Mr. Jenkinson was at Paris, in 1789, at 
the very time when the Bastile was de- 
stroyed. He is said to have been an eye- 
witness of many of the most horrible crimes 
which were at that time perpetrated. At- 
tentively watching the progress of the Re- 
volution, he conveyed much important in- 
formation to Mr. Pitt upon the subject. 
After his return to England, in 1790, he 
was elected M. P. for the borough of Rye, 
twelve months before the attainment of his 
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majority. The interval between the period 
of his election and that of his taking his 
seat, in 1791, he employed in a continental 
tour. His maiden speech was delivered in 
opposition to the resolutions of Mr. Whit- 
bread, respecting the war between the Em- 
press of Russia and the Ottoman Porte. 
His speech was distinguished by a profound 
knowledge of the subject, force of argument, 
and perspicuity of language.—In 1793, Mr. 
Jenkinson was appointed one of the Com- 
missioners for the Affairs of India; in 1794, 
he was made Commander of the Cinque 
Ports’ Cavalry ; and, in 1796, he was ap- 
pointed Master of the Mint, made a Privy 
Councillor, and named one of the Commis~ 
sioners for Trade and Plantations. On the 
retirement of Mr. Pitt, in 1804, he suc- 
ceeded Lord Grenville, as Secretary of State 
for Foreign Affairs; and, when Mr. Pitt 
returned to office, in 1804, on the renewal 
of the war, he quitted the Foreign for the 
Home office. 
On the 21st of August, 1806, in his fa- 
ther’s life-time, Mr. Jenkinson was sum- 
moned, by writ, to the House of Peers, as 
Baron Hawkesbury. When Mr. Pitt died, 
a few months before, he respectfully declined 
the offer of the premiership ; and, unable to 
retain office under Lord Grenville and Mr. 
Fox, he resigned. However, though in 
many points an opponent of ministers, he 
supported the war. When Mr. Pitt’s friends 
returned to power, in the following year, 
Lord Hawkesbury resumed his former sta- 
tion, still declining to take upon himself 
any higher office. On the death of the 
Duke of Portland, the nominal head of the 
ministry, in 1809, Mr. Perceval, the efficient 
chief, still finding Lord Hawkesbury (the 
death of whose father had just made him 
Earl of Liverpool) averse to the premiership, 
united in his own person the two offices of 
Lord High Treasurer and Chancellor of the 
Exchequer. The Earl of Liverpool then 
became Secretary of State for the War 
Department.—The deplored assassination 
of Mr. Perceval, in 1812, left the ministry 
in so disjointed a state, that Lord Liverpool 
yielded to the request of the Prince Regent, 
to place himself at its head. This was 
deemed a fortunate event for the country ; 
the unimpeachable integrity, high honour, 
and eminent moral worth of his lordship, 
stamping respectability on the cabinet, and 
inspiring foreign as well as domestic confi- 
dence. It would be a waste of time to fol- 
low the Noble Lord in his political career. 
To his lasting credit, as a statesman, he 
conducted the most arduous war in which 
this country had ever been engaged, to an 
honourable, successful, and triumphant close. 
Perhaps the most difficult task which he 
ever had to perform, was that of introducing 
and carrying forward the Bill of Pains and 
Penalties against Queen Caroline, in 1820. 
His conduct was distinguished by tempe- 
rance ; but there are yet many who con- 
sider that, by abandoning the Bill—proba- 
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