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plain and frank, an indication of an honest and good heart. 

 He was benevolent and generous, a tender parent, and a 

 warm friend, and very highly respected in the circle of his 

 acquaintance." There is a portrait of him, painted by An- 

 derson, and engraved by Ridley. A copy is given in the 

 Mirror, (published by Vernon and Hood), of Nov. 1799. 

 Another is given in the Gentleman's Magazine. He died at 

 West Ham, Essex, in 1808, aged 69. Mr. Lysons, in the 

 Supplement to his Environs of London, gives a few particu- 

 lars of him. 



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HORACE WALPOLE. He was the youngest son of Sir Ro- 

 bert Walpole, who so long guided the destinies of England, 

 and whose attractive and benevolent private life, seems to 

 have fully merited the praise of Pope's elegant muse : 



Seen him I have ; but in his happier hour 

 Of social pleasure, ill exchanged for power 

 Seen him uncumber'd with the venal tribe, 

 Smile without art, and win without a bribe. 



The best portraits of this intelligent and acute writer, Ho- 

 race Walpole, are the portrait in Mr. Dallaway's richly deco- 

 rated edition of the Anecdotes of Painting, from Sir Joshua 

 Reynolds, and that in Mr. Cadell's Contemporary Portraits, 

 from Lawrence. Dance also drew him. Another portrait is 

 prefixed to the ninth volume of his works, in 4to. 1825, 

 from a picture in the possession of the Marquis of Hertford. 

 There is another portrait, engraved by Pariset, from Falco- 

 not. Mr. Walpole died in March, 1797, at his favourite 

 seat at Strawberry-hill, at the age of eighty. His manners 

 were highly polished, from his having, during the course of 

 a long life, frequented the first societies. His conversation 

 abounded with interesting anecdote and playful wit. Felicity 

 of narration, and liveliness of expression, mark his graceful 



