06 Account of the late Eurl of Liverpool. 
the course of the same year, he had one ccn- 
ferred on him by the king’s mother, the late 
Princess Dowager of Wales, which no minister 
could bereave him of; this was the auditorship 
of her Royal Highness’s accounts. That cir 
cumstance, added to his close intimacy with 
the discarded minister, awakened the jealously 
of the patriots ; and if we are to credit theirsus- 
picions, he became, in the technical language 
of that day, the ‘‘go-between” to the fa- 
vourite, the princess-mother, and the thryne. 
When Lord Bute retired into the country in. 
disgust, promising to relinquish public affairs, 
a great personage is said to have construed 
this into an abandonment, and to have looked 
out for advice elsewhere; from that momentMr. 
Jenkinson was ranked as one of the leaders of 
the party called ‘‘ the king's friends,” and his 
Majesty ever after distinguished him. bya 
~ marked partiality. Honours and employments 
now fell thick upon him. in 1766, he was 
nominated a Lord of the Admiralty, and in 
1767, a Lord of the Treasury, in which place, 
he continued during the Grenville and Grafton 
administrations. But under that of Lord North, 
we find him aspiring to some of the higher offi- 
ces of government; for in 1772, he was ap- 
pointed one of the Vice-treasurers of Ireland, 
on which occasion he was introduced into the 
privy-council. In 1775, he purchased of Mr. 
Fox, the patent place of clerk of the Pells in 
Ireland, which had constituted part of that 
gentleman’s patrimony, and next yar was ap- 
poiated master of the Mint in the Raom of 
Lord Cadogan. In 1778, he was elevated to 
the more important post of Secretary at War, 
in which situation. we find him in 1780, and 
1781, defending the estimates of the army, in 
the House of Commons. The contest between 
the friends of Mr. Jenkinson and opposition, 
now becamecritical ; the majorities which had 
implicitly voted with the ministry, were re- 
duced in every division, and at last abandoned 
2 premier, who tottered om the Treasury 
Bench. Mr. Jenkinson thought he had now 
ample leisure to compile his collection of 
Treaties; but he was soon by another change in 
politics, called back from his literary labours, 
into active life, and took a decided part in be= 
half of Mr. Pitt. In consequence of his exer- 
tions on this occasion, in 1786, he was nomi- 
nated to the lucrative post of Chancellor ef 
the Duchy of Lancaster, created baron of 
Hawkesbury, in the county of Gloucester, and 
appointed Presidentof the Committce of Coun- 
cil. for the attairs of Trade and Plantations. 
For the last situation, his lordship’s regular 
and progressive rise, added to the various offi- 
ces in which he had acted, admirably qualified 
him. Further emoluments were, however, 
reserved for him, for in 1780,-on the decease 
of his relation, the late Sir Banks Jenkinson, 
who held the lucrative patent place of col- 
lector of the customs Inwards, he procured the 
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grant. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate 
his great influence than that occurence; for 
this was one of the sinecures which the pre- 
mier had all along declared his intention.to 
abolish. ‘To these favours, in 1796, was ad- 
ded that of Earl of Liverpool, on which cre~ 
ation he was authorized by his Majesty to 
quarter the arms of that commercial city with 
those of his own family. As an orator, his 
lordship spoke but seldom, eitherin the House. 
of Commons or Peers,,and of late years he had 
attended but little to public business, in conse- 
quence. of his advanced age and infirmities. 
Besides the works which have already been 
mentioned, his lordship was the author of the 
following :—= **A Collection of all Treaties of . 
Peace, Alliance and Commerce. between 
Great Britain and other Powers, from the 
Treaty of Munster in 1648, to the Treaties 
signed at Paris in 1783,” 3 vols. 8vo. (1785 }e 
and, **A Treatise on the Coins of England, in 
a Letter to the King,” 4to. (1805.) What- 
éver.odium may be attached by his political 
enemies to the general line of conduct adopted 
by this nobleman, they will not deny that he 
deserved great praise for the attention which 
he always bestowed on the trade of this coun- 
try. Among other things, he drew up the 
treaty of commercial infercourse with America, 
and is also said, not only to have pointed out, 
but to have created the whale fishery in the 
South Seas. His lordship was married, for the 
first time, in 1769, to Miss Amelia Watts, 
daughter of the Governor of Fort Williams; in 
Bengal, by whom he had a son, the present 
Ear]; and secondly, in 1782, to Catharine, 
daughter of the late Sir Cecil Bishupp, Bart. 
and widow of Sir Charles Gope, by whom he 
has left a sen and daughter, the Hon. Charles 
Cecil.Cope Jenkinson, M.P. for Sandwich, 
and Lady Charlotte, married to the present- 
Viscount Grimstone, Lord Liverpool partly 
inherited, and partly accumulated a large for- 
tune during the course of a long and brilliant 
career. He has left to his eldest son, the pre- 
sent Earl, 15,0001. per annum, of which only 
about 3,5001. per annum isin land. To his 
widow, the Countess of Liverpool, only 7001. 
per annum for life, in addition to her former 
jointure, as Lady Cope, of 10001. per annune. 
Bui the present Earl has added 5001. more per 
annum to his fathea’s bequest ; and it is under- 
stood that the Duchess of Dorset, her daugh- 
ter, adds SOOl. per annum more. To the Hon. | 
Cecil Jenkinson, his second son, he has left 
20001. per annum. in addition to an estate of 
near 300@1. per annum, of which Mr. Cecil 
Jenkinson is already in possession, by the death» 
ofarelation. ‘To Lady Charlotte Grimstone, 
now Lady Forrester, he has left only the 7001. 
per annum bequeathed to the Countess of Li- 
verpuol, after her decease. The landed pro- 
perty is entailed to all the family of the Jen= 
kinsons, in tail male, tea great exent, 
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