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24. Lytta ocellata: black, woolly ; legs teflaceous; 
head, thorax, and lliells, yellowilh, the latter with fix 
ocellate black fpots in the middle. Inhabits the Cafpian 
fea, and has been defcribed particularly by Pallas. Like 
the quadrimaculatus and feneftrata, it exudes an agreeable 
oil from its legs. 
25. Lytta peftinata: antennte peflinate; body black; 
front red. Inhabits Siberia. 
26. Lytta cinnabarina: black; thorax above, fhells, 
and head on each fide, red. Inhabits Carniola. 
27. Lytta rufa : black; head rufous. Inhabits Carniola. 
28. Lytta fubvillofa: yellowifh, fubvillous; antennae 
tapering. Is found in many parts of France. 
29. Lytta bicolor: teltaceous; fhells tipt with black. 
Inhabits France. 
-30. Lytta formicaria: brown; the fore-part of the ely¬ 
tra, and" the thorax, which is elongated, are red. This is 
found in France and other parts of Europe. 
31. Lytta pubefcens: black; head and thorax pubef- 
cent; fhells yellow, with a ferruginous fpot on each fide 
behind. This infe< 5 l has been found only in mufeums by 
modern naturalifts. 
32. Lytta ferruginea: ferruginous; head and thorax 
-rufous ; fhells brown, teflaceous at the bafe. Inhabits 
various parts of Europe. 
LYT'TELTON (Edward), Lord Lyttelton of Moun- 
flow, keeper of the great feal in the reign of Charles I. 
was eminent for his probity and his moderation at the 
commencement of .that monarch’s difputes with his fub- 
je£ls. Without forfeiting his fidelity to the king, he pre- 
ferved the efteem of the parliament till 1644., when he 
was made colonel of a regiment in the king’s army at 
York. He died in 1645 ; and the title became extinft. 
JBefides feveral of his fpeeches which have been printed, 
he wrote Reports in the Common Pleas and Exchequer, 
printed at London in 1683, in folio; feveral arguments 
and difcourfes, &c. 
LYT'TELTON (George), Lord.Lyttelton of Frankley, 
an elegant writer and hiltorian, was the eldett fon of fir 
Thomas Lyttelton, hart, of Hagley in Worcellerlhire, 
where he was born in January 170S-9. He received his 
fchool-education at Eton, from which feminary he was re¬ 
moved to Chrift-church college in Oxford. At both thefe 
places he was diftinguifhed for his proficiency in claflical 
literature ; and fome of his poems were the fruit of his 
earlieft ftudies. In his nineteenth year he fet out upon 
a tour to the continent, in which he vifited France and 
Italy, and made fome flay at the court of Luneville in 
Lorraine. His letters to his father during this abfence are 
replete with remarks difplaying folid judgment and found 
principles ; and afford a moft pleafing example of filial af- 
feftion and duty, joined with the unreferved confidence 
jof intimate friendfhip. While abroad, he wrote a poeti¬ 
cal epillle to Dr. Afcough, his Oxford tutor, which is one 
of the beft of his works, and another to Pope, elegantly 
complimentary of that great poet. His condufl on his 
travels was highly meritorious, and a contrail to that of 
the difiipated young men of fortune who too often dis¬ 
grace their country in the eyes of foreigners. After his 
return in 1730, he was chofen reprefentative in parliament 
for the borough of Oakhampton. At this time his father 
was one of the lords of the admiralty, and of courfe a fup- 
porter of the exilting miniftry, that of Walpole. The fon, 
warmed with that patriotic ardour and hatred of corruption 
which fcarcely ever fails to inlpire the bofom of virtuous 
and liberal youth, took the contrary part, and diftinguifhed 
himlelf among the oppofers of adminiflration. In every 
important debate his name appeared in the minority; and 
he zealoufly concurred in every meafure adopted by Pul- 
teney, Pitt, and other leaders of that party. In 1735 be 
publifhed a work entitled Perfian Letters, upon the mo¬ 
del of the Lettres Perfannes of Montefquieu. They were 
the effufions of a juvenile mind, well-dilpofed, but not yet 
slifcipliued to corre£tnefs of judgment on the topics dif- 
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cuffed in them. When, near the clofe of life, he medi¬ 
tated a colleftion of all his works, he informed Dr. War- 
ton that he meant to reje£l this, as containing principles 
and opinions which he retraced. 
Frederic prince of Wales, having quarrelled with the royal 
court, formed a feparate court of his own, in 1737, at which 
the diftinguifhed members of oppofition were cordially re¬ 
ceived. The character an<| talents of Lyttelton could 
not fail of obtaining notice in this circle, and he w r as ap¬ 
pointed the prince’s fecretary with an advanced falary. 
It is fuppofed to have been at his mitigation that the 
prince aflumed the patronage of lettersand Mallet and 
Thomfon felt the benefit of his recommendation. Pope, 
who, though not formally enlifted in party, was inclined 
to encourage attacks on the minifter, bellowed his praife 
upon Lyttelton among other patriots, and well repaid his 
former compliment by an animated couplet: 
Free as young Lyttelton her caufe purfue ; 
Still true to virtue, and as warm as true. 
In 1741 he married Lucy, the daughter of Hugh For- 
tefcue, efq. a lady for whom he entertained the pureft af- 
feClion, and with whom he lived in perfeft conjugal har¬ 
mony. The expuliion of Walpole from the miniftry hav- 
ingat length given ad million to theoppofition party,Lyttel¬ 
ton, in 1744, was appointed one of the lords of the treafury. 
As a member of adminiflration he was affiduous in his 
parliamentary attendance, and a vigorous fupporter of the 
meafures in which he partook, but never attained the fta- 
tion of a leader. He fpoke with eafe and fluency; but 
his oratory was marked with elegance and good fenfe, ra¬ 
ther than with the fervour of genius. 
In early life, Lyttelton had been led to entertain doubts 
of the truth of revelation ; but a ferious enquiry into the 
evidences of the Chriftian religion produced in his mind 
a firm conviflion of its divine authority, in which he per- 
fifled to the end of life, with a zeal tempered by modera¬ 
tion. He gave a public tellimony of his attachment to 
the caufe by a “ Diflertation on the Converfion of St. Paul,” 
printed in 1747, which is regarded asamafterly performance 
of the controverfial kind. It obtained for him many ap- 
plaufes from the friends of religion ; among which, that 
of his own father, expreffed in a moft: affectionate letter, 
was doubtlefs peculiarly grateful. About this time his 
fortitude and refignation were feverely tried by the lofs of 
his beloved wife in childbed. On this occafion he com- 
pofed a monody, which ftands prominent among his poe¬ 
tical works, and difplays much natural feeling amidlt the 
more elaborate ftrains of a poet’s imagination 5 and on her 
monument he infcribed the following lines : 
Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes: 
Though meek, magnanimous; though witty, wife; 
Polite, as all her life in courts had been ; 
Yet good, as {he the world had never feen ; 
The noble fire of an exalted mind 
With gentlell female tendernefs combin’d. 
Her fpeech was the melodious voice of love; 
Her fong the warbling of the vernal grove. 
Her eloquence was fweeter than her long. 
Soft as her heart, and as her reafon ftkmg. 
Her form each beauty of her mind exprels’d ; 
Her mind was Virtue by the Graces drefs’d. 
In 1749 he married again; but the condu£l of his fecond 
wife proved fo little to his fatisfaClion, that a feparation 
by mutual confent enlued in a very Ihort time. By the 
death of his father in 1751, he fucceeded to the title and 
eflate. His tafte for rural ornament he dilplayed at Hag- 
ley, which he rendered one of the moft delightful places 
in the kingdom. He occupied feveral polls under govern¬ 
ment; but at^the diffolution of the miniftry in 1759 * le 
went out of office,, and was, as a reward for his fervices, 
raifed to the honour of a peerage, under the Ityle and ti¬ 
tle of Baron Lyttelton of Frankley in the county of Wor- 
cefter. From this period he chiefly devoted hiinfelf to the 
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