1807.) 
and his proficiency during his fhort career 
of life, was.as moft fully anfwerable. A 
fever intercepted,.as to this world, the 
fairett and higheft promifes, and took of 
this admirable youth in a very few days. 
His Poems have been printed in a finall 
octavo. His Manufcripts are in his 
brother’s hands, and whatever may be 
found in a ftate for publication, will, I 
feel convinced, be laid before the public 
in a manner worthy of the perfon who has 
ebarged himfelf with this oflice of alfec- 
tionate refpect to his memory. To ime 
Memoirs of the late Duke of Richmond, 
“49 
he was known only by correfpondence. 
I cannot even fay, Vide tantum. Imagi- 
nation, energy, and tendernefs. of teel- 
ing, and appropriate diction, he poffelt in 
a high degree, with much dignity of num- 
bers and beauty of cadence. From his 
profile, with which 1 am favoured by his 
brother, bis countenance appears to have 
been of a very noble and amiably ex- 
pretlive character. Your's, &c. 
Trofton, Cape Lorrr. 
December, 1806. ' 
MEMOIRS OF EM 
INENT PERSONS. 
—— 
THE LATE DUKE OF RICHMOND. 
*¢ En la Rofe je FLEURIE.” 
MIDST the recent changes which 
have taken place in Europe, we | 
have equally to lament the fall of flou- 
rifhing {tates and of illuftrious men. 
Of thofe who fought the battles of li- 
berty, in either houfe of Parliament, 
during the American war, {carcely one 
remains. The Earl of Chatham died at 
his polt, and was buried at the public 
expence, amidit the lamentations even 
ef his enemies. The Earl of Camden 
with his dying breath gave his affent to 
that Bill which enables Juries to decide 
on both law and facts, in cates of libel, 
notwithftanding the captious objections 
of moft of thofe who, hke himfelf, had 
been educated tothe profefiion of the law. 
The Marquis of Lanfdowne, alfo, is 
no more, fle, too, advocated the rights 
of America ; and, even while a Minifter, 
allented to the propofition of a reform of 
Parliament: thus affording a folitary ex- 
ception to nearly all thofe who have tafted 
the {weets of power, and attained the 
objects of their ambition.—Burke, for- 
midable on account of his talents, and 
the father, if not the fuperior, of all our 
modern orators, has alfo paid the great 
debt of nature; but lis latter days were 
not aufpicious, and the glory of the fet- 
ting fun, thyt burut fo fiercely in the me- 
ridian, was intercepted by a thick cloud. 
He accordingly deicended to the grave, 
fhorn of half his honours; and his mo- 
tives, however plautible, appeared ne- 
cellarily equivocal, becaute they appeared 
to be interetted.—Fox, too, has. difap- 
peared! Great only when out of place, 
ke has achieved but little as a practical 
fiatefinan ; and, with the exceptiog of 
one fingle Act,* hiftory will have nothing 
to record of hini as a Minifter, 
It will be thus feen, that moft of our 
* The folemn refolution of the two Houfes: 
of Parliament to putan end to the Slave Trade. 
sreat charaéters, with a very few excep- 
tions,* have unfortunately forgotten their 
pledges to the public; and, leaving the 
interetts of the many to their fate, have 
but too often taken care of thofe only 
appertaining to the individual. Tow tar 
the fubject of the prefent Memoir may be 
free from; or deferving of, this reproach, 
will be eatily gathered from an attentive 
furvey of his parhamentary conduct. 
The late’ Charles Lenox . poffefied ne 
lefs than three ducal coronets. He was 
Duke of Richmond, Earl of March, and: 
Baron of Settrington, in England; Duke 
of Lenox, Earl of Darnley, Baron Tor- 
bolton and Methuen, in Scotland; and 
Duke of Aubigné in France, as coffirm- 
ed and regiftered by the Parliament of 
Paris in 1777. + 
ae 
* The Marquis of Rockingham is the only 
Minifter, perhaps, of our day, who perform- 
ed, in place, all he had promifed while vute 
+ His defcent, which on one fide was royal, 
may be briefly traced as follows: The Du- 
chefs of Orleans, fitter of Charles Il. having 
come to England in the year 1660, brought 
in her train a Mademoifelle Louife Renee de 
Pennecourt, of Keroualle, in France. His 
Majefty, proverbially amorous, was immedi- 
ately captivaced with the charms of this tady, 
whom he foon after created Duchets of Port{- 
mouth, Countefs of Farnham, and Baronets 
of Petersfield, all inthe county of Hants, to 
enjoy the fame during her natural life, by 
letters patent, dated at Weftminiter, on Au- 
guft 19, 1673. 
Charles Lenox, fo called after Charles 12, 
and the only fon of the Ducheds of Portf{mouth, 
was born on July 29, 167235 and in the third 
vear of his age, was created’by his royal fa- 
ther, Baron of Settrington in the county of 
York, Earl of March, from the Marches in 
Wales, and Duke of Richmond in Yorkshire. 
His Majefty alio beftowed the eftate and duke- 
dom of Lenox, &c. on him; and, after the 
demife of his mother, he became entitled to 
the dukedom and territory of Aubigné in the 
province of Brittany, by fpecial gramt from 
the French King. 
