ACCOUNT OF BOOKS. 
pounds, and passed the king of 
Great Britain’s bankrupt. servant 
into his own country, for which 
humane action this friendly officer, 
(Marchetti by name) was arrested 
at Paris, and by the count D’Aran- 
da remanded back to Madrid, there 
to take his ohance for what the in. 
fluence of France may find occasion 
to devise against him. 
‘¢ Your memorialist, since his 
return to England, having, after in- 
numerable attempts, gained one only 
admittance to your lordship’s per- 
son for the space of more than ten 
months, and not one answer to the 
frequent and humble suit he has 
made to you by letter, presumes 
now for the last time to solicit your 
consideration of his case, and as he 
is persuaded it is not, and cannot 
be, in your lordship’s heart to de- 
yote and abandon to unmerited 
ruin an old and faithful servant of 
the crown, who has been the father 
_of four sons, (one of whom has 
lately died, and three are now car- 
‘Tying arms in the service of their 
king), your memorialist humbly 
prays, that you will give order for 
him to be relieved in such manner, 
as to your lordship’s wisdom shall 
seem meet. 
All whichis humbly submitted by 
Your lordship’s most obedient, 
And most humble servant, 
Richard Cumberland.’ 
<¢ This memorial, which is, per- 
haps, too long and loaded, I am 
persuaded lord North never took 
the pains to read, for I am unwil- 
ling to suppose, that, if he had, he 
would have treated it with absolute 
neglect. He was upon the point of 
quitting office when I gave it in, 
and being my last effort, I was de. 
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sirous of summing up the circume 
stances of my case so, that if he had 
thought fit to grant me a compen- 
sation, this statement might have 
been a justification to his successor 
for the issue; but it produced no 
compensation, though I should pre- 
sume it proved enough to have. 
touched the feelings of one of the 
best tempered men living, if he 
would have devoted a very few mi- 
nutes to the perusal of it. 
‘¢ It is not possible for me to call 
to mind a character in all essential 
points so amiable as that of this de- 
parted minister, and not wish to 
find some palliation for his over- 
sights; but if I were now to say 
that I acquit him of injustice to me, 
it would be affectation and hypo- 
crisy; at the same time I must 
think, that Mr. secretary Robinson, 
who was the vehicle of the promise, 
was more immediately bound to so- 
licit and obtain the fulfilment of it, 
and this I am’ persuaded was com- 
pletely in his power to do: to him, 
therefore, 1 addressed such remon- 
strances, and enforced them in such 
terms as no manly spirit ought to 
have put up with; but anger and 
high words make all things worse $ 
and language, which a man has not 
courage to resent, he never will have 
candour to forgive.” 
Some Account ef the Life and 
Writings of Lope Felix de Vega 
Carpio, by Henry Richard Lord 
Holland. 
We have already given an ac. 
count of Lope de Vega, extract. 
ed from this interesting work, 
and im the poetical part of the Re- 
gister are some specimens of his 
4A® lordship’s 
