CHRONICLE. 
Odes,” His mnse was at that 
time certainly not deficient in se- 
verity; and he was the author 
of that keen invective against 
Mr. Pitt in the Rolliad, be- 
ginning 
Pert withoat fire, without experience sage. 
He afterwards changed his party 
in. politics; and on his return 
from having accompanied Lord 
Malmesbury on his mission to 
Lille in 1797, he was introduced 
to Mr. Pitt, who, with great good 
humour, relieved him from the 
embarrassment occasioned by the 
recollection of this attack. It was 
perhaps by way of atonement that 
_ he joined the confederacy of wits 
who amused the public, and serv- 
ed the ministerial cause, by the 
«* Antijacobin.” In 1790 Mr. 
Ellis acquired reputation as an 
antiquary, by: publishing ‘ Speci- 
mens of early English Poetry, of 
which an enlarged edition was 
given in 1801. This collection, 
with that of ‘* Specimens of our 
early Romances,” in which vi- 
vacity was joined with anti- 
guarian research, rendered agree- 
able a kind of reading which is 
too commonly devoted to mere 
dulness. His “ Essays on the 
formation and progress of the 
English language” were suc- 
‘cessful attempts in a more solid 
branch ofliterature. The private 
character of Mr. Ellis endeared 
him to his friends, one of whom, 
Mr. Walter Scott, in his introduc- 
tion to the fifth canto of Mar- 
mion, addresses and describes 
him in the following lines : 
_Thou who canst give to lightest lay 
» An unpedantic moral gay ; 
Nor less the dullest theme bid flit 
On wings of unexpected wit ; 
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In letters as in life approv’d, 
Example honour'd and beloy’d, 
Dear Ellis ! to the bard impart 
A lesson of thy magic art. 
13. Edw. Morris, esq. a Mas- 
ter in Chancery, and many years 
M. P. for Newport, Cornwall. He 
was the author of several dra- 
matic works. 
James Ware, esq. an emi- 
nent oculist in London, and 
author of some esteemed writ- 
ings in that branch of medicine. 
17. -Thomas Noel, Viscount 
Wentworth, in his 70th year. 
18. Right Hon. Lady Frances 
Flood, relict of Sir Henry Flood. 
29. General Stewart, Colonel of 
the 72nd regiment. 
30. Lady Clerke, wife of the 
rev. Sir W. Hen. C. rector of 
Bury. 
Lately, W. Roxburgh, M. D. 
chief botanist to the East India 
Company, and many years su- 
perintendant of the Company’s 
garden at Calcutta. ' He was the 
author of a large work, entitled 
“Coromandel Plants,” and of 
many tracts on botanical subjects. 
May. 
6. Sir George Thomas, batt. 
13. Sir John Ingilby, bart. in 
his 58th year. : 
Lady Anne Boynton, relict of 
Sir.Griffith B. bart. 
15. Dr. Wm. Cleaver, Bishop 
of St. Asaph. This prelate was 
the son of the rev. W. Cleaver, 
master of Buckingham school, 
two of whose sons were bishops 
at the same time. Dr. Cleaver 
was entered of Magdalen Col- 
lege, Oxford, and afterwards be- 
came a fellow of Brazen-nosé 
