I 791- ANEC. OF THE LATE EARL OF ERROL. 30^ 



Lady Errol, whofc health had nevcrbeen re-eftabliflied , 

 lived in a calm retirement, cultivating the friendfhip 

 of thofe around her, and delighting in afts of pious 

 charity. She died at Bath, where fhe had been or- 

 dered by her phyficians, in the year 1761, much regret- 

 ted by all her acquaintance. By this lady he had one 

 only daughter, whofe education was entruiled to the 

 care of a maiden filter of Lady Errol, who entertained 

 a warm attachment for her infant niece. 



Lord Errol afterwards married Mil's Carr, daughter 

 of William Carr of Etal, Efq; in Northumberland, a 

 lady of great beauty and perfonal attraftions. 



The greateft bleihng that heaven can beftow upon a 

 man of an upright dilpofition of mind, and a feeling 

 heart, is a wife whofe approbation will tend to cheriib 

 tJiefe difpofitions, and whofe condutl is calculated to 

 keep alive thofe tender domeftic anxieties that confti- 

 tute the chief happinefs of man. Such a bleffing Lord 

 Errol had the good fortune to receive on this occafion. 

 Young, innocent, mild, — cheerful though fympathyz- 

 ing, and fenfible without knowing the extent of her 

 undenlanding, the manners of lady Errol were capti- 

 vating ; and her converfation afforded a never-failing 

 fcurce of enjoyment, which conllituted the chief hap- 

 pinefs of his Lordlhip through the remainder of his life- 

 Having, before this time, left tlie army for ever, 

 home now became the object of his tendcrell regards. 

 He never left it but with reludtance, and always re- 

 turned to it with joy. In the bofom of his family, in 

 the innocent prattle of line children, he experienced 

 a tender enjoyment, far different from the turbulent 

 pleafurcs of his early years, the recoUeftion of which, 

 and its confequences, proved the only alloy to his hap- 

 pinefs. 



Lord Errol, now tired of courts, though notdifgufted 

 with mankind, finally retired to his family feat, Slaius 

 cafllc, in Aberdecnfliire. Here, indulging this natural 

 beneficente of difpofition, and beloved by all around 



