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PASHIONARLP: IyTELLICENCE.

11010-41;0rib, the name of qiintakeil and Old nine
A brother achotil-fellow of hla, no 141.; a man than the
Ilarnuiti of lluckgmbam, ipet, and reeuguised him !milt
ita Ireland, and with the moat roasted solicitude of friend-
ship, dill everything hut assist him, in obtaining a troop
of dragsmos, which 1w bad much at heart.
TICS 51.1., minor, abould then hare had the eulogy of
;hate mach elder art than than My years! In those early
days his exercises, read publicly in school, gave Me uaii-
ripation ref what time awl advancing years have brought
faith. He was an admirable rehidar, and a poet from
nature; forcible, neat. and discriminating. The fame of
his igandsire, the of Addisun, was not hurt by the
descent to hint.
Ilia sister, who was the beauty of iVindsor castle, and
the admiration of all, early excitor' a passion in a boy then
at school, who afterwards married her. Of this sister lie
' was very fond; but he was not less so of another female at
%Windsor, a tensed since terminated in a better way with
his present wife.
Ilia pamphlet of Onticioation, it is said, places! him
. where he since was, tinder the auspices of Lord North ;
but his abilities were of better quality, and deserved a bet-
; ter situation for their employment.
Lord Peowortrr, then lord Irintlaor, hail to boast
!some distinctions, which kept bin, aloof front the boys of
his time. lie was of that inordinate size that, like Pal-
I sit " Cour STUMP yards 011 even ground were so many
mikes to him ;' and the struggles which he underwent to
raise himself when down might have been matter of in-
struction to a minority M miser. In the entrance to his
; dame's gate much circimispeetien was necessary ; for, like
some good men woof rover, he found it difficult to get is.
Lard Leif vault had the reputation of good selitnar-
ship, and not mide servolly. In regard to poetry, how-
coo., lie was sometimes apt to bask the eighth command-
ment, and prove he read more the Mane Rtnneuses than
, his Prayerohook. Inheritino it from Lord Townsend, the
father of caricaturists, he there pursued, with nearly
equal ability, that turn for satiric drawing. The master,
the tutors, slender Prior, and fat Roberts, all felt in rota-
tion the effects of his pencil.
There too, as well as since, he had a most venerable af-
fection for heraldry, and the same love of collecting to
old titles, and obsolete mottos. Once in the military,
(From the gsg/reo Spy, Part 111. I be hail, it may he said, a turn F" arms. In a seal of this
kind he once eot over the natural mildness of his temper,
The LITTLVION—father and son—Conned two and was heanl to exclaim—" There sire two griffins is my
opposite characters in their times. The former hall a ills- 1./Omifir that have been missing 14c.w Three centuries, and by
hartiolud turn for pastoral poetry, arid wrote some things • (; )71 hare them Icwk again !"—This passion was after-
at Eton with all the enthusiasm of varly years, and yet I wards ienproveal into 110 perfect a knowledge, that in the
with all the judgment of advanced life. creation of l'eers he was applied to, that every due ct•re-
The latter 'hoard thin-, in some traits of disposition, mania' might be observed ; and he never failed in his re-
what was to be expected front bun ; but he too loved the collection on these antiquated subjects.
Muses, and cultivatol the TOM PLUMMER gave then a specimen of that quickness
Ile there too displayed the strange contraries of being an land vivacity of parts for which he was afterwards famed.
ardent admirer of th.. virtues of classic limes, while he was But not as a scholar, not as a poet, was he quick alone ;
cheating at chuck and all-fours ; and though lie affected jhe was quick too in the wean;; en4s of things, as well as
every species of irreligion, was, in filet afraid of Ilia own the right, With a plausible aroount tofollow it.
1111440 W. In tact, lie was born for the law ; clear, discriminating,
The whole Nowt"; family have, in succtasion, arlornai • icious, alive, and with a noble impartiality to all sides
this school with their talents which in the different branchts of questions, and which none could defend better. This
were various, but all of mart am! vivacity. To the younger goes, however, only to the power= of his head ; in those
part, Dampier was- the tutor ; who, having a little of the heart no one, and in the best and tenderest qualities
agreement with Frank North on the hunth'ell oder°, coining lof it, ever stood better. Ile was liked universally, and
down from the terrace, at Windsor, they adjusted it, by should be so; for no man war ever more meritorious for
Frank North's Telling his tutor very quickly down the being good, as he who had all the abilities which some-
whole of them. The tutor has since risen to sonic emi- times make a man otherwise.
nente in the church. In the progress of life oiled changes often, and body
Lord CoH I.DsoNnt: LEV was early in life a boy of great almost always. Both these nth s, however, 611%1.11 to con-
parts, and they leave coutinuesl so ever since, though not trailict ; for his talents and his qualities retained their
lively one". virtue, and when a boy he was as tall as when a man, and
Earl of Brea is:foram was a plain good scholar, bitt apparently the same,
would have been better at limy other schoul ; for lie was no Lord 111N1'111 N 1: Rim r, from the earliest period of tri-
pod., anti a verse is here one of the first requisites ; be" fancy, had all the marks of the Aliontagu family. Ile had
shiers, he had an impediment in his speech, which, in the a good bead, and a red head, anil a Homo nose, and a
hurry of reloading a lesson hefore a number of boys, was turn to the ars amatnritt of c hill, and all the writers who
always increased. It was Inculcated to him by his (taint— may have written on love. As it teas its the beginning_
.that Ise must look upon himself as the reverse of a woman may he said now,
in everlthing, and not bold—that srhoova "deliberates Though in point of schalorship he was not in the very
is lost.' first line, the di seemlant of Lord Sandwich could not but

UM Chaplin has issued canal of invitation for a ball on tbq let
Jona, at Mae Wane in t ir:illon.stre,i.
Mr. and Mr.. I 'WWI' entertained the llowafec Ducitar of Rich.
flood and a dhaitioriti•hed parry at dinner on Thu y, at their
haulm in 11MrMrIA..n•rt.
Lord Ilchtrave hail a strand dinner party yesterday, at his house
in Groarrrita,ntinris.
Dowager Lady Salmon has issued cards of invitation for a boll on
Tonalty, the 4:2th inoiti:l, at hl.r br'a'e in 'innherl.nd.strect.

. , .
Vul:llseles Ifitior. Wirt. entertamed a izrge prtty at diniar yes-
terday, Olds Itnisse.s3 !lea Itt..l.ldAtoc..,trePr. .

.-"J;fin iVeyl3 d. E. 141. hid a dinhiltiatty yeatertlay, at his home
ID COrklarri.

The lion. 31r.. lb-v.llO entertained a Loge ty of Lishionables
year/they evening, at her-hoax in Portland-1i e.
The Connie.. of Cloailli. gave a most in lint A Al 111.111141 id
eirosohly on Thimollay evening. et her house in Privy.gardrns, to
i *r AIM T41%111111 id the highest diatinc:inn. Six f,lOlll, were thrown
open. The grail, gallery of fine Finnish tapestry Tlfunted the
prateat delight to all the visitors. The great di.play of chins,
gold plate, nod other ilertrrioora, were super:). Among the dis-
tinguished petwavagys proicot wee..
The l'ritirea Saugloyko 4 I 'n...ut .Munster; the !hikes of Grafton
Aid Athollt the Dot-hoots of Kichningd, Leeds. and Dorsett tic
Margolis of Dandy; the Slarciriont-os of IViucheovr; F:nrl
IbltbY f the Earl of Shaftesbury ; the Connie.. of Cathcart ; the
Earl and Connuiss rind the ladies Coins:tie ; Lord Duncannun:
lewd De Dunoanville; the Earl of VVestutorland and Lady I.
Vane; Lords litretortno, Sydney, anti ifidnionth ; lord and Lady
John Thynne; Lathisitfahnun and Cumidiell; land ilayo: Lord
Rod Lady Carrington, and the ltlisses StLith; lady Win. Wynn,
Ai. . AC. Si e.
... .. _ .

The Owners:l of Saridwkh has lift town, for her b&nt, Hinchin-
or.tokr, Uunting.loo.
Lod Geortte 4.e.nnow has left town, :at his seat, :4laleolin,
Suisse:.

Atrivals Fentim's ilatel. St. Jai. s's-atreet :—M. IVevill.
Zs+ AI.P. tram his seat in Viirkshire; IL Norris, Esq. Irmo his
Neat, Ruin Park. Dams; Captain ster.iri, 15th Iltessars, from
a ?mu.; and-l;aplain flnk P.oker, K.N. ditto.
Arrivals at tl#e Ifriash Ilioel. Jerniymstrret :—Captain Bust,
Ma !Mit; rtaill Campbell, Esti. from his scat in Essex; and
. yce, %op from a tour. Departures:—The 31i,sco %Whim-
krt. ter Cheltelphipp.
Art! ato flinaltrs Jeemymatrcet :—.3lr. and Mrs. ran
roll tw,. trims ; G ~ Om onger, from Hampton ;
A esandre. rm. from loosest. Seven Oaks, Kent; and Ow.
frau Citeltavihani.

RECOLLECTIONS OF .1N OLD E TONL4X.

Lord HAMA' N n T ON was a boy of much natural spirit.
lo the great rebellion under Forster. when all the boys
threw their hooks into the Thames, and marched to Salt-
kill, he was amongst the foremost. ,tt that plate each
took an oath, or rather swore, he would be el-4 if ever
he returned to school again. When, therefore, he came
to London to the old Lord Harrington's, and sent up hit
name, his father would only speak to him at the door, in-
sisting, at the same time. on his immediate return. " Sir,"
sail the son, " Mishit/ I shall be 11-41 if '1 do!" " And
I,- answered the father, " will be d----d if you don't!"
" Yes, my Lord," replied the son, " but you will be d—d
whither do or ins!'
liaaav Cow way, brother to the resent Marquis of
Hertford, though younger in point of learning, was older
than his brother, Lead Beauchamp; but he was not ass
forward as to slim this : a somewhat of mo-
desty, a consciousness of being younger, alwaya kept bins
back from displaying it. In fact, they were perfectly un-
like two Irish boys,—the Wades, who followed them, and
who. because. the younwr was taller, used to fight about
which was the driest.
s. A 'lime well known for Barnard's commenda-
tion of it, and fur his exercises in the ;Wimp Etliuccres.
lie was amongst the best poets that Eton ever produced.
K lassie AW, son to the late Doctor, of Leeds, and since'
Fellow of T • • y College. When his father would five
taken him away. he made a singular request that he
might stay a year longer, not wishing to be made a man
so early.
Many satiric Latin poems bear his name at Eton, and
be continued that turn afterwards at Cambridge. He was
remarkable for a very large head; but itabould likewise

have ability, and h' hail it; hut this was so mixed with
the wanderings of the heart, the vivacity of youthful ima-
gination, and a turn to pleasure, that a steady pursuit of
any one object of a literary turn could not be enacted.
;isms.—Some wen are overtaken by the law, and same
few overtake it themselves. In this small, but happy num-
ber, may be placed the name in question ; and a name of
better prmuis.•, whether el man or boy, can scarcely be
found any hi re.
At school be was oi the foundation ; and though amongst
the I. 'ollegers, whin. the vies of future life, and hope of
better days, arising from their own industry, make learning
a Itecossity, yet t.) that he added the better qualities of
genius and talent.
As a classical scholar, he was admirable in both lan-
guages. As a poet, be was natural, ready, Anil yet dis-
tinguished. Amongst the hest exercises of the lime, his
were to be reel:tined, and are yet remembered, with praise,
For the medals gireii by Sit John Dalrymple for the best
Latin poem, he was a eamli late ; but though his produc-
tion was publicly read by Ihtetor Forster, and well spaces
of, he was obliged to give way to the superiority of another
on that occasion.
Describing tho u hiding of the Thames through its
banks, it had this Iteantiful line:—
" Radii entn.bileas radii sinuamine ripas--."
Perfect as to the picture, and beautiful as to the flowing
of the poetry.
Ile bail the good fortune and the gond temper to be liked
by everybody of his own age; and he was not enough
found out of hounds, or trespassing against " sacred
order," to be disliked by thus.: of greater age, who were
I set over him.

he witted, their wasrt good deal in it.
On this he.til, his father avid to ho!il fnrtb lu the faun-
try. Ile was, without a figure, the head of the school,
awl was afterwards in the mind at the University.

Atter pascing through all the i!lfferent forms at Eton,
he was ninor•ctil to Cambridge, where he disting►►ished
himself not less than at school in trials for different literary
honours.

•
~l~rhuilAw, under 113rnanl, dist i oguishod hiorrielf very
early as a scholar. and fur a logien' aeuteners, which does
not often fall to the share of a boy. Ile was distinguislud

There he heenrue assistant tutor to Sir Peter Darrell,
who then listuncil to his instructions, and has not since
forgotten thew.

too both by hind and by water; (or while he was amongst
the most informed of his tittle, in school hours, in the

playing &Ida. •is the water, with the etirbratell bUatman,

The DeWitt Free Jourisal of Wednesday says—
" We are happy to :tare it in our power to state, that the
Governor and Company of the (lank of Ireland have
agreed to lower the rate of discount upon bills from five
to four per cent., and that this regulation will be carried
into vfll'ct this day."

my palms piper, at rrirka, or in riming, Ike was always
the breinost. Hs nseil to bow, that he should in time be

a.! goal a boxer father wiet, though he used to add,

Aari never could he exactly known, as he could not de-
cently have a set:to with him.

FA. W Exta, II:410r, with the time turn fur
Elcalque as his luotber, but snore oniat imueituoum in
is manner, more unritiervati its him behaviour, then maul-

A petition to the llou3o of Commons is in course of sig-
nature, praying for inccvliotion into the cireummtanees
which led to the condemnation of Mr. Smith, late Mis-
siunary at Donernru. and for the personal safety and pro-
tection of all other missionary labourers. l.ie, rpm!
r.

Snaqd, what ha has siuec dawn, thy bun rieunt of every so-
eicay, sad was then, as since, the admired companion in

every party.
11 r t'A.:. Amongst the best tennis-players that Eton
ever sr tit up to Windsor, where he always was. As a trot
be distinguished himself greatly, by winning one of the
sairdals given by tier John Dcdryinple. flits exercise on
occasion was the subject of much praise to lb. Forster,
then master. and of much envy to his contemporaries in
the sixth form, who said it was giYen to him because he

_
It is eimsidered pmbahle that Sir George rh..ttryntl, at
no very distant period, V. ill resign the ('hair at theStaltbrd-
shire Sessions, on areettut of his removal to the family seat
at (:rent Warwickshire. He gave notice at the late
Sessions that he should bring the subject forward on some
future occasion.—Dt rhy
The subscriptions at the Anniversary Festival (on
Thursday) of Qom' Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital,
amounted to 1,134.

was had boy.
These were his arts; besides which bu b.'. many tricks
as any boy ever ha I. llc had iwthilig when prcrwiter,

The lkr'si Mereurp sayP, " Our theatre was °pencil for
1111 Thursday, when Mr. Kean appeared in
the arduous eliaracler Richard Mr Third. Ile
performed (Ara. en Friday, and Sir Giles Orer-reneh en
Saturday ; thus exhihiting the versatility of his powerful
talents to the lovers of the drama in this town and neigh-
bourhood."

and of rairse ruling under Imes, of ili;:mity about 1 • , or
of what might enforce his authority. When he ought to
base hem angry, some monkey trick always Gime across
him, and he would make a serious eon:plaint 11,4ainst a little
boy, in a hop, atop, and a jump.
Mn!crn ii c. //aVillg a great pretlee,:ssor befivre him
under the appellant)? of " 1 blutungue," heil always a
consolatory comparuon in this way in his favour. In
truth, at times lw waisted it, for he was what has been
termed a geuiNA : but he was likewis:.• NO in talent. Ile
win an admirable pot, and hail a neatness of expression
seVom discoverable at such early years. In proof, may Ike
blinught a line fruru a ,11.40 pocin uti Cricket :
" Clavigeri !Mit without—viral) radii."
And anotherynseraping a man down at the .11. Zia 'loud :
. .

The intrepid and meritorious individual, Mr. Sadler, in-
' tends to ascend from the Cattle-market, Lime-stieet, on
Thursday, the instant, Lhould the weather prove fine,
land if this should, un,.,rtunately, net be the case, on the
first fair day after. We hear that this ascent is under-
tarn to gratify R. H. Peel, Esti., of the 341 Dragoon
Guards, and to make a number of experiments on a new
plan in the inflation of :talfoons.—Lieerpoo/ Coilcier.
Thursday se'nnight, in honour a opening the Rochdale
t ;as IVurks,Alr. Sadler, accompanied by AI r. Platt. a gentle-
man fmm Lire rpool, made a mot successful and imposing
asc: nt from the satin workv, the balloon being filled gratu-
itoesly with gas supplied by the new company.
On Monday the 3,1 lust. the foundation stone of a monu-
ment for the late John Earl of I fig-smut' was laid on the
top of Byres-hill, sit (tan tl on the north side of I laddinvtoll,
and the pmperty Of the Noble family of llopetottn. Several
Lodges of the craft convened at Iladdiugton, and walketl in
procrsaion to the summit of the hill, attended with a band
of music, when the usual formalities were observed at lay-
ing the foundation-stone. A great concourse of people
from Iladdirgton and the surrounding count)). attended.

" Radii arAcv:ai
The scratching of the foot on the musty door is admirable.
During a vacation bond Sandwich kwk him to Holland ;!
and he aporttd on his return a ,Dutch-built coat for teatty
weeks. The boys used to call him .1111uhr..r .11ualli6ige;
hut his common habit of utklity soon got the better of
his coat. _

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He ruse to be a young man of great promise, as to abi-
lities; and died tuo immaturely tier hie fame.
Tie K rt., the elder. Jfanu firagig yearn eapile should
have been his motto. Hy natural instinct lw loved fight-
ing, and knew not what ftsr in.s. 1k went amongst his