The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

MEMOIR OF THE LATE
EARL. OF WESTMORELAND.

What cloth he get, who e'er prefers
The scutcheons of his ancestors ?
This chimney-piece of gold or brass ?
That coat of arms blazoned in gilts.; ?
When these with time anti age have end
Thy prowess must thyself commend.
The sooty shadows of some one
Or other trophies carved in stone,
Defaced, are things to whet, not try
Thine own heroicism by.
True nobleness cloth those alone engage
Who can add virtue to their-parentage.
(Poems by Afildmay, Second Earl of -Westmoreland, 1648
TI

le above words do honour to the Westmore-
lands. Throwing aside to empty vaunts which one-
halfot our worn-out aristocracy suporciliowly and
vainly adopt, the manly author taught that man
should stand upon the alone grounds of his own
worth and virtue, and cast aside with praise•
worthy disdain, all the adventitious blazonings
and hollow boasts derivable from pedigree and
ancestors.

The motto of the late Earl, who has just been
gathered to his fathers, was equally remarkable
tOr the just and honest sentiment it contained.
" Ne vile taro"—" Bring nothing base to the
temple," or with the
,den de mots " to nine,"
which is the ancestral name of the Westmore-
land family, stands conspicuous for the stately
idea which it embodies; and when it is consi•
dered that the Barons of this house date their
origin from the simple and frank.!hearted abori-
gines of Wales, it may, without prejudice, be
said, that they lay claim to higher estimation in
the minds of Englishmen than many of the upper
houses.

Long antecedent to the Conquest, the old pro-
genitor of the late Earl was Howell ap Vane, of
Monmouthshire. Henry, the son of the eighth
Earl, married Charlotte, the only daughter of
Nicholas Howe, the celebrated poet. Mildmay,
whom we have noted above, was himself no in-
different poet; and in the list of Parkeb's royal
and noble authors, stands as the author of a
very scarce volume, printed only for private
circulation, in 1648, and bearing the title of
" Otia Sacra," from which we have given an ex-
tract. Thomas, the eighth Earl, who was also
I.P. for Lvme Regis, married the daughter of
William Swymmer, a merchant of Bristol ; and
indeed, it is pleasing to observe that the amalga-
mations of this family, in a variety of instances,
with the middle c(titsSs of the country, entirely
takes from it that imperious and exclusive air
which so often disgraces the intermarriages of
the aristocracy. _ _

The most noticeable occurrence in his Lord-
ship's life was his acceptance of the administra-
tion of the Irish Government, committed to him
by Mr. Pitt, and which office his Lordship un-
dertook in January, 1790, continuing to fill it for
five years.

As successor to the Marquis of Buckingham,
who had been twice sent out to govern Ireland,
but who as a moderate, hard-working Viceroy,
with a Popish wife, did so little to conciliate the
Irish, it was difficult to find a sterling and effi-
cient ruler. Mr. Pitt, however, pursued his
object with indefatigable industry and persever-
ance. A Nobleman of high rank, undistinguished
and inoffensive—neither proud nor humble—
talented or otherwise—extravagant nor parsimo-
nious—was sought for a Viceroy, and was found
in the late Earl.

According to Mr. Pitt's expectation, the Earl
of Westmoreland was by no means ill-adapted to
the Irish people. He was sufficiently reserved
to command respect, and splendid, enough to up
hold his station. His moderate conviviality pro-
cured him rational partisans, and his hospitality
engendered, at least, temporary friendships. He
was honourable and good-natured whilst among
the higher orders and his intimate associates; he
was a popular Viceroy.
The period of Lord Westmoreland's Govern-
ment was certainly the summit of Irish prospe-
rity. Though he met with a strong opposition
in Parliament, it was an honest opposition—the
guardian of public liberty, and not a faction.
Only two subjects of importance were intro-
dticed during his administration, most of the
others being plausible demands, calculated rather
to gratify the people than to produce any radical
change in the system of the Government. A
Place Bill, a Pension Bill, and a Responsibility
Bill, an inquiry into the sale of Peerages,
and into the -Police of Dublin, were amongst
the most material measures of his Vice-royalty
The Place Bill, however, eventually became the
most important that had ever been passed by the
Irish Parliament. The three ether Bills were
proposed by Grattan, acceded to by the Viceroy,
and passed into laws.
During the administration of Lord Westmore-
land, the first question, which so deeply affected
the subsequent events of Ireland, was the partial
emancipation of the Irish Catholics. All
that they then required the Catholics obtained.
The concessions were most important, and
greater than could have been credible betbre
Lord Westmoreland's Administration. The elec-
tive franchise was the act more of his Govern-
ment than of himself. The 40s. franchise was
then-granted to the poorest, most illiterate, and
most dependent peasantry of Europe, who
might one day be influenced by one motive, and
the next by its reverse. Strong doubts, how-
ever, were tlten, and still are, entertained as to
the wisdom of this extraordinary_measure. Mr.
O'Connell, the most earnest and able advocate
for the general emancipation of the Catholics,
and many of his friends, seem to have been of
this opinion. Though Lord Westmoreland was
powerfully opposed in Parliament during the
whole of his government, he was zealously sup-
ported by the friends of the Administration.
Had he not been recalled,for reasonswhich have
never been stated, it is but fair to suppose that
his place could not have been much better filled.
The Westmoreland patrimonial estates were
delightfully situate, the one at Brimpton, in
Somerset, the other at Apthorpe, or Apel-
thorpe, in the county of Northampton.
Time latter was the Earl's most favourite
and noble seat. It is a fine quadrangu-
lar edifice of free-stone. On the south side of it,
a statue of King James the First commemorates
a visit paid to the family by that Monarch in his
journey from Scotland in the year 1603, and he
is said to have contributed the timber towards
the completion of the building. It was here, too,
that the King first noticed Villiers, afterwards
Duke of Buckingham. The various apartments
are richly ornamented with numerous paintings,
among which are two full-length portraits of
Philip and Mary, said to be painted by the cele-
brated Holbein. In the adjoining church of Ap-
thorpe there exists a truly gorgeous monument
of a member of the Westmoreland family.

THE GREAT MEETING AT LEEDS

Subsequently to inserting the Report of the
Meeting at Leeds, from the Manchester Guar-
dian, we were favoured by a more extended re-
port from the office of the Leeds Times, of which,
though we regret that we cannot now insert it,
we shall make considerable use. We are glad
to observe, from the remarks of our Contem-
porary, that half measures will not suit the
suffering and energetic men of Yorkshire. The
Leeds Times says :
" The report which we have given of the pro-
ceedings will show that statements of the utmost
importance were made—statentetti:se
cdoenvseelogpuieni
a series of extraordinary and startling facts, which
must open the eyes of. all to the fearful depres-
sion sion of trade in this district, and I
deplorable condition of the masses of its inhat
fly of men of
tants. It will not be • forgotten, too, that these
n integrity,
statements were made on thoefaluitol.tiodr.
ileitisnen
ramifications:in the subject,
unimpeachable character,
extended means of knowledge of
is fami-
laitaulf. to
'these,wlwn too,trad ea
arc
en atil
the most practi-
cal and best informed -men—who are the most
o
uncompromising in their
Corn-
laws, and will be satisfied pPosition to the Corn-
total and immediate abolition. with nothing less than
dis-
satisfaction with which, The marked
the proceedings, a towards the latter part of
step, inch by in the
timid, hesitating, step by
and Holdsworth t doctrines of .Messrs. Aldan'
and , the representatives of Leeds
..,Wakefield, were received by the assembled
deputies, and the bold, earnest, energetic, and
unanswerable replies of Messrs. Plint and Forbes,
expressing, f
as from the enthusiasm with which
they were received they evidently did, the kel-
ings.and opinions of the meetinix, will be subjects
of congratulation to all who feel anxious for the
progress of the cause. It is not by the inch-by-
juell progress advocated by Messrs. Aldan and
noldsworth, that the people of this country can
hope to extricate themselves from the mass of
misery in which they are new involved, and
which is every day closing and deepening around
them." - -
It is only by bold measures that success can be
commanded, and we believe that the landlords
will not give up their prey till they are terrified
from it by a distinct declaration on the part of
the manufacturing classes that they will not sub-
mit to be plundered by and for the landlords.

The late Mr. Courteney, late M.P. for Bridg-
water, %%hose death took place at the Adelphi Hotel ut
Liverpool, was father of the ill-fated Lieutenant William
Hayley Courteney, of the Ist Royals, who, with Lord
Fitzroy Lennox, Mr. Wykeham Martin, and Mr. Power,
the comedian, unhappily perished on board the Presi-
dent steamer in March las

„EvENI:No Su

LITERATURE.,

3 va; Denikg, Ltnidun, 1841.
THE VETERAN S CHE LSEA HOSPI-
TAL,
One or two of the stories in this collection
Lave, -if tWe.are not mistuken, already appeared
in the pages of " Bentley's Miscellany." " Du-
'Halton s Story," in particular, we well remem-
ber; and as we expressed our opinion of. it at
the time of its publication, there is no further
need to enlarge on it. The work is from the pen of
Mr. Gleig, and though it is ably written in places,
yet we cannot rank it among his best pertPrtn-
ances. In general, it is characterised by an air
of tameness and langour, as if the author's heart
were not in his task. The cleverest tale in tLe
collection is that entitled " Sturrey's Story," -in
which we find a brief but spirited sketcleorthe
attic of Barossa, and several interestiug.pPr-
sonal reminiscences of the Peninsular War. The
tale is supposed to be a yarn spun by an old
Chelsea pensioner, who draws upon Lis t'w;' re-
collections for the chief incidents contained in
it. The principal defect of the work is a want of
dramatic spirit ; the tales are-all in the narrative
form, and an animated dialogue is quite a rarity

LECTURES ON SCOTTISH SONG

AND MUSIC.

A second lecture, as 'richly interspersed as the pre-
ceding with song, anecdote, and rummiscencts, was. deli-
vered by Mr. 'Wilson yesterday evening at the Music
Hall, Store-street. The -numbers of his audience were
trebled, and his reaeptien throughout enthusiastic.
Oral tradition appears to have handed down from re-
mote antiquity must of the Scottish airs and songs.
Transmitted fruit one generation to another, they were
sung "at the wheel and at the flail"-asy the spinster in
the cot, and the shepherd on the hill, first Jeollec-
don of printed songs in 1547, under the title ,of tha
" Complaint of Scotland," was composed of songs which
had " theretofore been Bung in the wholesome -great
field, and by the rinnin' brook." The earliest instrus
ments which" acComppicd them were the bagpipe, re-
corder, trump; and corn-pipet the last vas the et:lames
of the Roman shepherd. The trump was the plain Sew's'.
harp—the'recOAter w'hi an instrument whose .sOftand
mellow tone had smote the harmonious heart of4Miltoa,
and led hint to make. "-flut'es'' and soft' recorders" :gargle
in his verSe - But the bagpire was 'leader of all. At
Waterloo- its 'tones," pOWerfut e, thiAg of the "shrill
:Spartan fife," tined- alouil for the victory.. Clarke, tliP
piper of the st, when sorely Wounded,-called out- to' his
fellows, " llold to't, lads, ye craia' fight without music ;."
and a I lighlmalerovhoniet .a regiment pliying the fan-
tastic airs of thelZhifie,.cried out
,to them to e'r'ase their
" German jinglings;" and strike up 4' Over the hills antl
far away." Even nHi litUteiar themselves the pipe•has
operated. With ' the " voice of the charmer." • A." Seotit .
piper was pursued by a wolf--he threw hint scrap- by
scrap, • every 'individest tjoriteat of his wallet----still 'the
wolf follutVedi.'haViitt no oilier- resource he struck up
his bagpiliethe'wOlf fled -inemitinently. " HO, ;"
cried Davies-"iffd •to be to fund o' the pipes,
ye should ha' had the-music before your supper." I -
In 1666, Forhes'printed a collection of Scottish songs,
the chief citriesity of which was the preface -whieh-beiog
dedicated to the- ProvOst and Magitrates Of Edinburgh,
expressed itseltita , harmisnieus and heavenly concert
of as many mitskiiitts as MigiStrates.", But the
cation of thenitious- "Tea:Table Miscellany," by Allan
Ramsay; and the ann'4le''subsequently adapted to it,
brought' on. -the true '- ‘"fs•ilileti • age "-of Scottish song.
Haydn was an enthusiasHnhthis derrartment of• melody,
and the itiiinoriOl 'harmithist the walls of his roinit
covered with Caledonian songs and airs. The " Beggar's
Opera " had, on its first appearance, most of its catches
and roundelays set to Scotch airs. In truth, they were
about this period universal favourites, and Allan Ramsay
attests, in a passage of his poems, that from " Lady Char-
lotte" and "Lady Jane," down to "Bonny Bess dancing
barefoot on the green," they were trilled by every tongue,
and sweet-warbled by every lip. •
The first air sung by Mr. Wilson, being the first of
the ten in his evening's programme was " My love is like
the red, red rose"—afsong which, though now addressed
to a blooming, bright-cheeked beauty, originally sting
to an ill-natured set of words, most crabbed in their im-
port, commencing " My father is a cankered keel," but
filial piety and parental love has happily found forget •
fulness fur these by its sweeter and fairer substitute.
The slow and mellowed progression of " Roy's wife of
' Aldivalloch " cadenced most harmoniously to the est. :
strange, however, to say, this equable flowing melody
was anciently adapted to a set of words called " The
Ruffian's Rant."
Arcady might be ransacked, and the Bucolics of its
shepherd-singers tasked, before a more beautiful pastoral
melody than " The Broom of Cowdenknowes " might
be discovered. Its antiquity manifests itself in
its etymology. The song alludes to two little
hills situate in Berwickshire, and its compound syllables
are expressive of those " wooded mounts" which existed
at the period when the Celts occupied those regions.
Mr. Wilson's method of singing it, combined with its
euphonious lines, made one dream of Drummond of
Ilawthornden, as he distilled the sweetness of his Doric
pipe. The finest string or wire could not have surpassed
'lllr. Wilson's tenor. The sighings of the fund rdess
after her true-love swain were most felicitously expressed
in " Saw ye Johnnie cumin', quo' she ;" and no lint-
white singing in the broom could have warbled it with
more simple and delicate beauty. In contrast with the
liveliness of the preceding, " John Anderson, my Jo,"
proceeded in a slow and tnonraut mex,ur But
the wildness and sprightliness of " lip in the morning
early," removed theshmle of melancholy from his audience
which it produced. Assimilating itself in simplicity
to the Swiss,—" Up in the morning early," was first
committed to paper in 1578, being in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, and in a MS. still extant in the Advocates'
Library at Edinburgh, it is set as a country dance, with
an injunction at certain bars that stoppage was here to
be made for the couple "to drink." The Puritans when
they adapted their sacred Names to music adopted this
for one of their devotional tunes, and Queen'Elizsbeth
had it frequently played before her by Purcell, while
Mrs. Arubella limit sang it with touches of the
lute. It is bold„ jocund, and spirited. The flinging
forth of the vocalist's voice in some passages was
royal ; and the tripping trochaic movement at the
words " gang supperless," exhibited a most masterly
and skilful variation. To give it with due execution,
much lusty strength of vcice is required and it
is told of Abram the singer, that he was lifted up in a
chair by order of one of the Stewarts, over a court-yard
filled with bears, and so compelled to sing it as heartily
as he could, whereby he confessed that he never sang it
better in his life. The exquisitely pathetic ballad of
sweetheart, or " Highland Mary," in addition to
its sadness of melody, has a painful history attached to
it. Mary Campbell, when Burns first plighted him-
self to her was a dairywoman at Coilstield Itemise,
and on a subsequent visit to him at a distance,
j vas attacked with kver, and died
h,• belt-re she saw
him. Burns dearly worshipped
hallowed s
in
aw
his hear', tu.til one night his .
reamcenlratites
rair_
clothed themselves in words. Agitated by his thoughts,
the top of a corn stack, laid
and throwing himself on
with full faese gazing on the mid-
Mrs. Burns describes the poet to have lea the house,
stars were bright, and almost lumi-
nous two hours in this situation he
mid-
night •
d then wrote these lines, and his ode
cluiaopi
_ltioilisnet
as
in
sticiites(b;sco:iko:ahnit;
choice little. morceau descriptive of a robust little boy-
"To Mary in Heaven." "My Boy Timunie" was a
ho goes wooing the " White Amalie " with
j her led cheek and cherry mon'." In
addition'
to the naivete and artless beauty infused into it by Mr.
Wilson's manner, the sweet and simple touches which
bne'ake
auti f7l l.;htelellninse°Patieldis unsophisticated
ac;e'lr‘atllitnaine''e' vceonmP°Moseliearelares
achieved in his " Innocent Maiden."
Mr. Wilson, on conclusion of his lecture, informed
his-audience that ut his third lecture, tO be delivered on
the 27di instant, he should treat upon llieVand as well
as Lowland melodies. This subdivision will allOrd his
powers an opportunity for greater versatility, and eveu.
richer variety of display.

el2r:eAllVililliT: LIEUT..
- -
detny, atGENERAL PHIPPS .-...
Woolwich 1)1i rzesd, of the
fill:.e,y:(l,l,elAolc!klitayzteArdc:aly-
morning at his residence, Woolwich common. This
Gallant Officer was 81 years of age, and was a eomtnis-
sioned officer for the long ikriod of sixty two years,
having entered the service as an ensign in the Royal
Engineers on the ',lst of April, 1779. On the 20th of
December, 1786, he was promoted to the rank of Lieu-
tenant, and in the following year was appointed Quarter.
master to the Royal Military Artificers on the formation
of that corps in October, 1787, and continued to act in
that capacity for many years after he was promoted to
the rank of Captain.e
ifeiriis:oelel:7ol.m9bi2ne
jir;i;l:yiiioB.anoil6(B,ar2;s,l
January,
jas
(GllB::tite:°eed;;lBtlih,li4e(72tAt.lll-iseaeti°°lNirot-)(nt"';e:eio'nfellt January, 1837. Major Cupp:we,
of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Pester, of the Royal
llorse Artillery, are nephews of the deceased. •
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER (MARY ANNO
COUNTESS OF BELmonu.—The above venerable lady died
on Monday last, at Bath, in which city her Ladyship had
resided many years, and was• deservedly respected aA
esteemed for her manifold charities. The ileechT„n,l
Countess, who was the eldest daughter of the hat
James Caldwell, was third of Arnim, tittt Earl I
Belmore, grandfather of the present Earl, to %Ilksm °-
Ladyship was married in' 1794. The Countess her
cairn «1 the great age of eighty-six years. 110110

.. :,
BREAKING UP OF THE LATE EARL Op Hi hit.
woio's 111iikistoti.—IIarewood is now quite' a* d(Sirt.
The 1 resent'Earl has resolved upon living at Goidsbuit
,IlixiantoA%(%)ha.tch the house. a'he
oxt !Ouse
House %%
Attitileurlianteg
Earl's death
dtiematel!trWc:Owere;
be:.
here he resided at the time of his father's.d ~ -
ecease,
of utivnsionfircoi.
ft",.‘ir.leice Ili be (:(111 closed.ot emene s months,
t
number.. Al,
though the late Earl's splendid path of hounds will it-
tet)lll tit'fbil;:ll)N:til'drnaoo. antilhi talstil.lkeut.s:lpeltineeolcipe4Y'r are ot' this
main in their kennels tor the season, they have been
handed over to George Lane Fox, Esq , jun. ~nit, late
Earl's Awl of horses will be' shortly ottemd for sale. ' '
There was a general rise yesterday in the puke
, .
of butcher's meat in the metropolis,
mid at no shop
could it be procured under tad. or 9d. per lb. This is
the weather, which is
g
I,ng, as to the near af
avestymuteulidao;:aitir teo tiCleitsst4ktecell
proaeh of Christmas, when butchers arc loth to kill.
This will add.hauch ty the privations of the poor, and la-
bottring, elaSses,,who urc2Jprt:ady severely tried by. want7'.
A corps:de-garde, in stone, ris now build!noe
one of :the courts.of the llotel des Invalides, inuai!:
diately adjoining the dome, where the guard, which ill
constantly , watch over the Emperor's coffin and tomb,
will be posted.