328 Biographical Notices of Broison and Whately. 



the recommendation of Lord Cobham, George the Second appointed him to 

 the same situation at Hampton Court and Windsor. He died in 1783. The 

 following pleasant passage is from a letter, written by Lord Chatham to Lady 

 Stanhope : — 'I will not fail to obey your Ladyship's commands by writing 

 to Mr. Brown. 1 do so with particular pleasure, persuaded that you can- 

 not take any other advice so intelligent or more honest. The chapter of 

 my friend's dignity must not be omitted. He writes Lancelot Brown, Esq., 



en litre (Voffice. Please to consider, he shares the private hours of [the 



king]; dines familiarly with his neighbour ofSion [the Duke of Northumberland], 

 and sits down at the tables of all the house of Lords, &c. To be serious, 

 madam, he is deserving the regard shown to him, for I know him, upon very 

 long acquaintance, to be an honest man, and of sentiments much above his 

 birth. As he lives at Hampton Court, and has many calls upon his time, he 

 may not be at liberty.' " {ChaUiam Corresjoondence, vol. iv. p. 430.) 



The following note to a letter from John Calcraft, Esq., to the Earl of 

 Chatham, is dated Sackville Street, January 22. 1771. It is extremely inte- 

 resting, as showing that Mr. Whately was appointed to a situation somewhat 

 analogous to his taste, and as fixing the year of Mr. Whately's death. The 

 passage in Mr. Calcraft's letter, to which the note is appended, is as follows ; 

 — " Bathurst is chancellor, De Grey is chief justice of the common pleas, 

 Thurlow attorney-general, Mr.Wedderburn solicitor-general and queen's chan- 

 cellor. Good Mr. Whately', for his services, has the choice either of board 

 of trade or green-cloth." 



" 1 Thomas Whateley, Esq., at this time under secretary to Lord Suffolk, 

 and member for Castle Rising. He had held the office of secretary to the 

 Treasury, during Mr. Grenville's administration, and was that gentleman's 

 private secretary when he was one of the secretaries of state, at which time 

 Sir Philip Francis [author of the Letters of Junius] held a situation in the 

 same office under Lord Egremont : ' this contiguity of station,' observes the 

 author of Junius identified, 'affording him frequent opportunities of acquiring 

 all that intimate and oracular knowledge of Mr. Whately," which is evinced 

 in the following extract from Junius: — ' This poor man, with the talents of 

 an attorney, sets up for an ambassador, and with the agility of Colonel Bo- 

 dens, undertakes to be a courier. Indeed, Tom ! you have betrayed your- 

 self too soon. Mr. Grenville, your friend, your patron, your benefactor, who 

 raised you from a depth, compared to which even Bradshaw's family stands 

 on an eminence, was hardly cold in his grave, when you solicited the office of 

 go-between to Lord North. You could not, in my eyes, be more contempt- 

 ible, though you were convicted (as I dare say you might be) of having 

 constantly betrayed him in his lifetime. Since I know your employment, be 

 assured I shall watch you attentively. Every journey you take, every 

 message you carry, shall be immediately laid before the public. Tom Whately, 

 take care of yourself.' (Vol. iii. p. 310.) Mr. Whately was the author 

 of two pamphlets in defence of Mr. Grenville's financial measures, and also of 

 an ingenious work, entitled An Essay on Design in Gardening." [This is a 

 mistake ; the essay alluded to is by Mr. George Mason. Mr. Whately was the 

 author of Observations on Modern Gardening, the first and the best of all the 

 works on landscape-gardening that have ever appeared.] " In January, 1772, 

 he was made keeper of the king's private roads, gates, and bridges, and 

 conductor of his person in all royal progresses, and died in the June follow- 

 ing." {Chatham Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 75.) 



In the notes to these Letters, the excellent taste of the Earl of Chatham 

 in laying out grounds is repeatedly mentioned, more particularly by 

 Bishop Warburton. The places on which he exercised his taste are the 

 South Lodge on Enfield Chase, noticed in our preceding volume, p. 513., and 

 Hayes in Kent, noticed in one of our earlier volumes as being the place 

 where Brugmansia sanguinea was first raised from seed. 



