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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 78. 



Eichardson ilid little as an author. His comedy 

 of The Fugitive, acted and piiblislied in 1792, was 

 well received, and is much praised. "Why has 

 this production so completely disapjienred ? 



General Fitzpatrick was born in 1749, and died 

 in 1815. He was the second son of John, Earl of 

 Upper Ossory ; twice Secretary-at-War ; once 

 secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the 

 Duke of Portland ; but what he regarded as his 

 highest distinction, and it is recorded on his tomb, 

 was the friendship of Fox during forty years of 

 their lives. 



Some of his speeches on the union with Ireland 

 will be found in the thirty-fourth volume of the 

 Varliumentary History. 



His epitaph, by himself, is inscribed on a sar- 

 cophagus in the church-yard at Sunning Hill, in 

 which he describes himself — what his friends ad- 

 mitted to be truth — a politician without ambition, 

 a writer without vanity. 



Which is the true reading in the following lines 

 by Fitzpatrick on Fox ? In my copy the word 

 " course" in the third line is erased, and the word 

 "mind" is substituted. 



" A patriot's even course he steered, 

 JMid Faction's wildest storms unmoved : 

 By all who marked his course revered, 

 By all who knew his heart beloved." 



Sheridan says most justly : 



" Wit being "generally founded upon the manners 

 and characters of its own day, is crowned in that day, 

 beyond all other exertions of the mind, with splendid 

 and immediate success. But there is always sometliing 

 that equalises. In return, more than any other pro- 

 duction, it suffers suddenly and irretrievably from the 

 hand of Time." 



Still some publications, from their wit and bi-il- 

 liancy, are sufficiently buoyant to float down 

 to posterity. The publication in c[uestion, the 

 Rolliud, is one ; the Anti- Jacobin another. You 

 may not be iinwilling, in your useful pages, to 

 give a list of some of the writers in the latter 

 publication. My own copy of it is marked from 

 that belonging to one of the writers, and is as 

 follows : — 



Nos. 1. 4. 9. 19. 2G, 27—33., by Mr. George Ellis. 

 Nos. 6. and 7., by Messrs. Ellis and Frere. 

 Nos.20, 21, 22. 30—36., by Mr. Canning. 

 No. 10. by M. ; No. 13. by C. B. ; No. 39. by N. 



To the remaining numbers, neither names nor 

 initials are affixed. Can any of your readers ex- 

 plain the initials, M., C. B., and N. ; and give us 

 the authors of the remaining numbers ? 



In replying to I\Ir. Turner's Queries, I shall at- 

 tend to the wish expressed by so old and so valued 

 a friend, and substitute for initials, of which he 

 disapproves, the name of J. H. Markland. 



RICHARDSON TICKELL FITZPATRICK. 



(Vol. iii., p. 276.) 



I am much surprised at Mr. Dawson Turner's 



in(|uiry about these names. I will not say with 

 him that, " not to know them argues himself un- 

 known." On the contrary, my wonder is, that 

 one, himself so well and so favourably known as 

 Mr. Turner, should have need to ask such a 

 question about men with whom, or, at least, with 

 whose fame, he must have been a contemporary, 

 presuming, as I do, that he is the same Mr. Daw- 

 son Turner with whose works we have been 

 accpiainted for above half a century. Since, how- 

 ever, he has made the Query, I will answer it as 

 succinctly as I can. 



The Right Honourable Richard Fitzpatrick was 

 the only brother of the last Earl of Upper Ossory, 

 and prominent in fashion, in politics, and in ele- 

 gant literature, and not undistinguished as a 

 soldier. lie sat in nine successive parliaments (in 

 two which I knew him). As early as 1782 he was 

 Secretary for Ireland, and in 1783 Secretary-at- 

 War, which office he again filled in 1806. In the 

 galaxy of oj^ijosition wits, when opposition was 

 wittiest, Fitzpatrick was generally admitted to be 

 the first, and there were those who thought him 

 in general poiuers superior even to Fox and She- 

 ridan. His oratory, however, did not do justice to 

 his talents, and he was both shy and indolent. 

 His best speech was that in December, 1796, for 

 the release of Laf\iyette, to which even the ridicule 

 of the Anti- Jacobin allowed the merit of pathetic 

 eloquence. His share in the liolliad was consider- 

 able, and there are many other sprightly and some 

 elegant specimens of his poetical talents scattei'ed 

 through various publications. I wish they were 

 collected. 



Richard Tickell, the grandson of Addison's 

 friend, and brother-in-law to Sheridan, was the 

 author of Anticipation, one of the liveliest ])olitical 

 pamphlets ever written. He published many 

 occasional poems, the best of which is a poetical 

 " Epistle from Charles Fox, partridge shooting, to 

 Lord John Townsend, cruising." Mk. Dawson 

 Turner will find more about him in the Hio- 

 g7-aphical JJiciionary. 



Joseph Richardson, who died in 1803, was M.P. 

 for Newport in three parliaments. He was an 

 intimate friend of Sheridan's, and partner with 

 him in Drury Lane Theatre. He wrote a play, 

 entitled The Fugitive ; but he is only remembered 

 for his contributions (whatever they were) to the 

 Rolliad. In the Gentleman s Magazine (vol. Ixxiii. 

 p. 602.), Me. Dawson Turner will find a longer 

 notice of him. 



There are a few remarks on the authors of the 

 Rolliad in Moore's Life of Sheridan, i. 420. C. 



