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obtained permission from the king to go as a volunteer to Gib¬ 
raltar, which was then under siege by the Spaniards. When 
this siege broke up, he visited the Spanish court, and was 
nominated by the king “ colonel-aggregate” of one of the 
Irish regiments. Discouraged in his wishes to be actively 
employed in the service ot the Pretender, he went to Paris, 
and with singular effrontery paid a public visit to the En¬ 
glish ambassador, Horace Walpole; informing him, upon 
taking leave, that he was going to dine with the bishop of 
Rochester, though it had been made criminal to hold any 
communication with that exiled person. At this time a bill 
of indictment for high treason was preferred against him in 
England, for having appeared in arms against his majesty’s 
fortress at Gibraltar; but a wish to reclaim him induced sir 
Robert Walpole to send two friends to offer him his re-es¬ 
tablishment and the possession of his estate, if he would 
only sue for pardon. This he refused to do, consenting only 
to accept a pardon if freely granted him. His allowance 
from home was discontinued, and he was overwhelmed with 
debts abroad. From Rouen, where he had for some time 
resided, he removed to Paris, living meanly, and providing 
for himself by various dishonourable expedients. Having 
obtained a small sum, w'hen all his resources had failed, he 
took his duchess with him, and -went by water to Bilboa. 
From thence he proceeded to join his regiment, subjecting 
his duchess to extreme distress, in which she was occasionally 
relieved by the bounty of the duke of Ormond, who was 
himself an exile. In 1730 his health declined, and he 
amused himself in composing a tragedy, on the story of 
Mary queen of Scots; but his end was approaching. In 
his way to a mineral spring, in the mountains of Catalonia, 
where he had once obtained relief, he was obliged to stop at 
a small village, when his condition was so pitiably destitute, 
that the fathers of a Bernardine convent took compassion 
upon him, and brought him to their house, where by atten¬ 
tion and cordials his life was prolonged for about a week. 
At length without a friend or acquaintance to close his eyes, 
having performed the last duties of penitent devotion, he ex¬ 
pired on May 31, 1731, in the 32d year of his age, and was 
interred the next day after the manner of a poor monk. 
Pope has recorded his character, in the first epistle of his 
Moral Essays, in the following beautiful lines: 
“ Thus with each gift of nature and of art, 
And wanting nothing but an honest heart; 
Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt. 
And most contemptible to shun contempt; 
His passion still, to covet general praise ; 
His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; 
A constant bounty which no friend has made; 
An angel tongue which no man can persuade; 
A fool, with more of wit than half mankind; 
Too rash for thought, for action too refin’d; 
A tyrant to the wife his heart approves; 
A rebel to the very king he loves: 
He dies, sad outcast of each church and state. 
And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great.” 
Wharton was one of the warmest patrons of Young, who 
dedicated to him his most celebrated tragedy “ The Re¬ 
venge,” and gave him the credit of having suggested the 
most beautiful incident in that composition.— Biog. Brit. 
Pope's Works. Johnson's Lives of the Poets. 
WHARTON (Thomas), a physician and anatomist, was 
born in Yorkshire in 1610, and educated at Pembroke-hall, 
Cambridge. Before the civil wars he resided in Trinity col¬ 
lege, Oxford,as private tutor to a natural son of lord Sun¬ 
derland. Upon the commencement of the war he removed 
to London, and engaged in the practice of physic. After the 
surrender of Oxford to the parliament in 1646, he returned 
to Trinity college, and was created M.D. by the recommen¬ 
dation of general Fairfax. Returning again to London, he 
became a member and censor of the college of physicians, 
and acquired considerable practice and reputation. In 1652 
he read lectures before the college on the subject of the 
glands; but labouring, as other anatomists of that day did, 
under a scarcity of human subjects, he was under a necessity 
of availing himself of animal dissection. In his work, 
intitled “ Adenographia, sive Glandularum totius Corporis 
Deseriptio,” 1656, 8vo., his descriptions are almost wholly 
taken from brute animals, and therefore cannot stand the test 
of modern accuracy. Nevertheless he revived and improved 
the knowledge of the salivary ducts on the side of the tongue, 
to which he affixed his own name; and he furnishes useful 
observations on the diseases of the glands. He died in 1673. 
Haller. Gen. Biog. 
WHARTON, or Warton, a township of England, in 
Cheshire; 2 J miles west-north-west of Middlewich. Popu¬ 
lation 888. 
WHARTON, a township of England, in Herefordshire; 
2| miles south-south-east of Leominster.—2. A township in 
Lincolnshire; 3| miles north-east of Gainsborough.—3. A 
township in Westmoreland; 2 miles south of Kirkby Ste¬ 
phen. 
WHARTON, a post village of the United States, in St. 
Tamminy’s parish, Louisiana.—2. A township of Fayette 
county, Pennsylvania. Population 922. 
WHASHTON, a township of England, in Yorkshire; 4 
miles north-west of Richmond. 
WHASSET, a hamlet of England, in Westmoreland ; 
miles west-by-north of Kirby Lonsdale. 
WHAT, pronoun, [hpset, Saxon ; wat, Dutch.] Thai 
which: pronoun indefinite. 
What you can make her do, 
I am content to look on; what to speak, 
I am content to hear. Shakspeare. 
Let them say what they will, she will do what she list. 
Drayton. —Which part.—If we rightly estimate things, what 
in them is purely owing to nature, and what to labour, we 
shall find ninety-nine parts of a hundred are wholly to be 
put on the account of labour. Locke. —Something that is 
in one’s mind indefinitely.—I tell thee what, corporal, I 
could tear her. Shakspeare.- —Which of several.—Comets 
are rather gazed upon than wisely observed; that is, what 
kind of comet for magnitude, colour, placing in the heaven, 
or lasting, produceth what kind of effect. Bacon. —An in¬ 
terjection by way of surprise or question. 
What .' canst thou not forbear me half an hour ? 
Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself. Shakspeare. 
What if I advance an invention of my own to supply the 
defect of our new writers ? Dryden. 
What Though. What imports it though ? notwith¬ 
standing. An elliptical mode of speech. What though a 
child may be able to read; there is no doubt but the meanest 
among the people under the law had been as able as the 
priests themselves were to offer sacrifices, did this make sacri¬ 
fice of no effect ? Hooker. 
What though none live my innocence to tell, 
I know it; truth may own a generous pride, 
I clear myself, and care for none beside. Dryden. 
What Time, What day. At the time when; on the day 
when. 
What day the genial angel to our sire 
Brought her, more lovely than Pandora. Milton. 
[Pronoun interrogative.] Which of many ? interrogatively. 
What art thou. 
That here in desart hast thy habitance > Spenser. 
What is’t to thee if he neglect thy urn, 
Or without spices lets thy body burn ? Dryden. 
Whate’er I begg’d, thou like a dotard speak’st 
More than is requisite; and what of this ? 
Why is it mention’d now ? Dryden. 
To how great a degree, used either interrogatively or in¬ 
definitely. 
Am I so much deform'd ? 
What partial judges are our love and hate ! Dryden. 
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