~ 1809.] 
_was well known and much esteemed, ina very 
tespectable circle of private friends and ac- 
‘ quaintance: he was zealously attached to the 
genuine principles of freedom, and warmly and 
judiciously defended thera in numerous Let- 
cers and Essays, in the periedicat journals and 
in pamphlets under vaticus signatures. ‘The 
last of his productions, was a series of letters 
addressed to the Duke of York, in the Sunday 
Review, under the signature of <Ugnotus,” 
written under great debility of body3 the last 
was finished on his death bed, and) was’a post- 
humous publication. He possesed a Strung 
memory, had read much, and was particularly 
conversant with universal history; was a clas- 
sic scholar, and acquainted witlr several of the 
living languages 5 and as he was very commu- 
nicative, and fullof an-cdute, it made bim a 
pleasantand useful companion, and his company 
courted by some of the first people of Edin» 
burgh. He had travelled a good deal through 
Scotland, and was acquainted wich the history 
of more families in that country, than perhaps 
any other man; for what he once read, or heard 
related, his memory retained. 
The Right. Honourable Charles Seukinson 
Eurl.of Liverpool, and Baren of gUawkesbury, 
(whose death was mentioned at ® 592 of our 
last volume) was descended from a familyw!ich 
had been settled more than acentury, at Wal- 
cot, near Charlbury, in Oxforcshire, His 
grandfather, Sir Robert Jenkinson, married a 
wealthy heiress at Bromley, in Kent; and bis 
father, who was acolonel in the army, resided 
at Seuth Lawn Bodge, in Whichwoud Forcst. 
Charles Jenkinson was born in 1727, and re- 
ceived the first rudiments of his education at 
the grammar-school of Burford. He was at- 
terwards placed on the foundation im the Onar-. 
ter-house, from which seminary he was re- 
moved to Oxiord, and was entered a member 
of University college,» Vhere he took two de- 
grees, that of B.A. and A.-M. and seems to 
have made himself firse known tothe public 
hy some yerses on the death of the Prince of ° 
Wales, father of his present Majesty. In 
1753, heremoved from Oxford, and possessing 
but a small patrimonial fortune, he commenced 
hic career as a man of letters, and is said to 
have supplied materials for the Monthly Re- 
view He next commenced political writer ; 
and, in 1756, published A Dissertation on the 
Establishment of a narionaland constitutional > 
Force in England, independant of a standing 
Army.) This tract abounds with many manly 
and patriotic sentiments, and has beeu quoted 
against himself in the House of Peers, on 
which occasion his lordship did not tny that 
he was the author, but contented himself with. 
apologising for his errors, on account of his ex- 
treme youth. Soon after this he wrote ‘* A 
Discourse on the Conduct of the Government 
uf Great Britain, with respect to neutral Na- 
tions, during the present War.”” To this pro- 
duction, his rise in live has een falsely attri- 
buted ; it,was indeed allowed by every one to 
be an able performance ; but, like many others 
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99 
of the sime kind, it might have lain in the 
warehouse of his bookseller, and he himself 
remained for ever in obscurity, nad it not been 
for the intervention of a gentleman of the 
same county, with whom he luckily became 
acquainted. Sir Edward ‘Turner of Ambrose- 
den in Oxfordshire, being of an ancient fa- 
mily, and possessing a large fortune, was de~ 
-sirous to represent his native county in par- 
liament. Having attained considerable infu- 
ence by means of a large estate, and a hos- 
pitable and noble mansion, since pulled dowa 
‘by his successor, he accordingly stood candi= 
date as knight of the shire. He was, however, 
strenuously but unsuccessfully opposed 3 for in 
addition te his own, he possessed the court in- 
terest. The struggle, nevertheless was long 
and‘ violent, and it still forrns a memotable 
epoch inthe history of contested elections 5 
but for nething is it more remarkable, than 
by being the tortunate occurrence in Mr. jen- 
kinson’s lite, which produced all his subse- 
quent greatness. The contending parties 
having, as usual, called in the aid of baliads, 
Jampoons, verses, and satires, this gentleman 
distinguished himself by asong in favour of 
Sit Edward and his triends, whichso captivated 
ether the taste or the grati:ude of the baronet, 
that he introduced him to the Earlef Bute, 
then flourishing in all the plenitude of power. 
Iris known but to few, perhaps, that his lord- 
“ship, who placed Mr. J. at first in an inferior 
office, was not at all captivated with him; for 
it_was entirely owing to the repeated solicita- 
tions of the member for Oxfordshire, that he 
extended his further protection. After a’ 
longer trial, he became the Premaier’s private 
secretary,and in some respect a member of his 
family, participating in his friendship and fa- 
Vour, and living with him in an unrestrained 
and confidential intercourse. Such a connex- 
ionas this could not fail'to prove advantageous; 
and, accordingly, in March, 1761, we find him 
appointed one of the Under-secretaries of State, 
a scation which presupposes an intimate ac- 
quaintance with the situation of foreign af 
fairs, and a pretty accurate knowledge in ree 
spect to the arcana imperii in general. Henow 
became a declared adherent of what was then 
called ‘* the Leicester-house party,” by whose 
influence he was retarned to pariiament atthe 
general election (ia 1761) for the borough of 
Cockermouth, on the recommendation of the 
late karl uf Lonsdale, his patron’s son in law. 
He, however, didnot remain long in this sta- 
tion; for he soon received the lucrative ap- 
pyintment of Treasurer of the Ordnance: This 
he relinguished in 1763, for the more confi- 
dential oilice of joint Secretary of the Trea- 
sury; a situation for which he was admirably 
quahhed, by his knowledge of the state of par- 
ties, and the management of a House of Com- 
mons, of which he himself had been some 
time a member. Yo the Rockingham ‘admi- 
nistration, whieh succeeded in 1763, he was 
both personally and politically odious, and he 
accordingly lost all his appointments; but in. 
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