1807.] 
Cornwallis, and reccived’ in return, the 
command of the royal regiment of Horte 
Guards Blue. 
Soon after this, he retired from public 
life, and refided chiefly at the family-leat 
in Suffex. Goodwood was, by his: care, 
and under his own Athenee infpection, 
in part rebuilt, and contiderably enlarged 
by the addition of two fine wings. ‘The 
bricks were made out of his own earth, . 
and by his own workmen. ‘The timber 
was felled, meafured, and cut out, under 
his. eye, and all the eftimates srepared 
with a degree of accuracy “a weg 
nefs that would have done credit to any 
builder in the kingdom. 
Of late, the health of this nobleman 
has been.on the decline, and he a be 
fairly faid to have been dying for the latt 
fixteen months. 
tion yielded in the firugele, and he re- 
figned his life at his favourite manfion 
of Goodwood, in the 71ft year of his 
ave. 
While fumming up the charaéter of: 
the Duke of Richmond, he muft be al- 
lowed to have been one of the greatett 
men of his day, and to have derived this 
greatnefs neither from his rank, which 
was eminent, nor his fortune, which he 
had, by a prudent economy in his eita- 
blifiment, greatly increafed, but by his 
talents and abilities alone. 
Tie commenced his education as an- 
at the India Houfe, and was at 
orator 
firft but little efteemed on the fcore of 
eloquence.* It muft be allowed, that 
* It has been faid, that the witty Charles 
Townfhend having been afked what he 
thought of his firitt fpeech, which proved a - 
pretty long one, he replied, “* that it re- 
fémbled a diabetes, as it proceeded entirely 
from weakne/s of parts.” 
/ 
Original Poetry. 
At leneth ‘his conftitu- 
& 
59 
he never, at any period of his life, ac- 
quired an eafy flow of language, or was 
enabled to call into his aid thofe happy 
allufions, or that claflical imagery, pak 
wlrech the minds of fome of his con- 
temporaries were fully ftored. Gut his 
arrangement was judicious; his facts, 
pointed ; his charges manly ; his accu- 
{ations bold, and it may be added, ge-_ 
nerally unatifwerable. ; 
All this, however, applies to an early 
period of his life, when young, ardent, 
and in Oppofition; for, after his Grace . 
had fully attained the obje é&ts of his am- 
bition, he appears to have been vee s for- 
tanate in his fpeeches, and lefs happy 
in ihe furject of them, as they were ge- 
nerally occupied with the defence of the 
political conduét of his colle ecacue Mr. 
Pitt, or his own fchemes of fortilic ation, 
whieh feemed calculated, according 6 
the opinion of many disie men, to lat 
the nation. into a ftate of heedlefs fecu-> 
rity, and render our attention to the 
Navy but a fecondary obje¢t. 
The remains of the Duke were in- 
terred, January 1807, in the family-vault. 
at Hae Cathedral-church of Chichefter, - 
The infcription on the central plate of 
the coffin was as follows: 
“6 The Moft Noble Prince CHARLES, .. 
Third Duke of Richmond and Lenox, 
Farl of March and Darnley, 
Knight of the Moft Noble 
Order of the Garter, ' 
Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum 
- Of the County of Suffex, 
Colonel of the Militia of the faid County, 
Field-Marfhal of His Majefty’s Forces, 
Colonel of the Royal Regiment of 
Horfe Guards Blue, 
And High Steward of Chichefter 5 
Born 29d of February, 1735, 
Died 29th of December, 1306. 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
Se 
AN 
IRREGULAR ODE TO THE MOON, 
By rHe Late THOMAS DERMODY. 
NOW, when faint purpling o’er the wefern 
hk 
Y> 
The lord of day his faded luftre weaves, 
And thre’ yon wild-wood’s trembling leaves 
Shoots his laft folitary ray: 
O! let me woo thee, from 8 fapphire 
fhrine ; 
To my rapt eye thy fnowy besatt difplay. 
The tranquil paufe, the ecftacy divine, 
The vilion’d fcene, ferenely bright, 
And all the witcheries of the Mufe are 
thine! 
Montury Mas. No. 133, 
The poet’s*fabling fancy told, 
How, erft in filent pomp defcending, 
O’erLatmios” brow thy radiant crefcent bending; 
Thou came?{t to blefs a fhepherd boy ; 
And pouring thy delicious charms, 
'Forfook thy fhining {phere, 
immaculately clear, 
‘To tate immortal love in mortal arms. 
But Slander tun’d the’felon lyre, 
Refin’d and chafte, thy veftal fire, 
Averfe to arnorous pangs and ruder joy ! 
Queen of the pteoe thought, 
Forgive his fault 
Nor to another bard ae 
The silinefs of th ‘y Wt sis the fondnefs of 
thine eye 
Leh 
