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the walk of landscape, antJ one of 

 the oldest members of the Royai 

 Academy. 



12. Miss Lovofh, only surviving 

 daughter of the late Bishop Lowth. 



13. The Earl of Uxbridge, Lord 

 Lieutenant of the counties of An- 

 glesey and Stafford, &c. &c. aged 

 68. He left a numerous family, 

 and is succeeded by his eldest son 

 Henry William Lord Paget. 



15. The Hon. Lieut.-Gen. Vere 

 Poulett, of Addington House, 

 Bucks. 



18. John Home Toolce, esq. aged 

 76, a distinguished character both in 

 the political and the literary world. 

 Mr. Home, as he was first named, 

 was the son of a poulterer in West- 

 minster, and was brought up for 

 the clerical profession. He receiv- 

 ed his school education both at 

 Eton and Westminster, and about 

 liis 18th year was entered, of St. 

 John's college, Cambridge. He 

 took orders, and obtained the cha- 

 pelry of New Breniford, the only 

 preferment he ever possessed. The 

 clerical character, indeed, was that 

 in which he had no ambition to 

 excel ; and after a tour to the con- 

 tinent, he plunged into the politics 

 of the day, and closely connected 

 himself with Mr. Wilkes, whom 

 he assisted in fighting his battles 

 with ministerial power. It was 

 not long, however, before a rupture 

 took place between them, in which 

 Mr. Home, at least, did not Jose 

 ground in the estimation of the 

 public. When that extraordinary 

 political phenomenon, Junius, made 

 his appearance, among many other 

 objects of his virulent attacks, Mr. 

 Home came in for a share; but 

 the spirited manner in which he 

 repelled and returned the hostility 

 left that formidable masked cham- 



pion little cause of triumph. True 

 to his political principles, when 

 the contest broke out with our 

 (then) fellow-subjects of America, 

 he became a warm advocate for 

 their cause ; and after the battle of 

 Lexington, having publicly deno- 

 minated the bloodshed of the day, 

 a " base murder by the King's 

 troops," he was prosecuted by the 

 attorney-general, and was sen- 

 tenced to imprisonment in the 

 King's-bench. 



He had now resigned his cleri- 

 cal function, and attempted to pre- 

 pare for the bar, for which he was 

 excellently qualified, but his inde- 

 lible character, excluded him from 

 the inns of court. His political 

 influence with the popular party 

 was, however, considerable, and 

 he exerted it to render odious that 

 coalition brtween the members of 

 the North ministry, and the oppo- 

 sition, which eventually proved so 

 prejudicial to the latter. He 

 twice became a candidate for 

 Westminster, Mr. Fox being each 

 time one of his opponents, and he 

 was twice defeated, but not with- 

 out having taken occasion to read 

 to the House itself a very home 

 lesson on the corruptions openly 

 practised at elections. Mr. Tooke 

 (he had now assumed that name 

 in compliance with the request of 

 Mr. Tooke, of Purley, in Surrey), 

 was not a man who could view the 

 great event of the French revolu- 

 tion without an application of its 

 principles to those parts of our 

 own constitution, which, in the 

 opinion of many wise men and 

 good citizens, stood in need of 

 essential reforms. He became an 

 active member of the leading so- 

 cieties instituted for thosepurposes; 

 and when government thought 



proper 



