The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

We much regret to have to record the death of his
Grace the Dula. of Newcastle, which took place at
his residence at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, on
the afternoon of Sunday, tho 12th instant, after a i,)ng
and painful illness. We subjoin a few particulars
illustrative of the life and character of the deceased
nobleman.

Henry Pelham Fimnes-Pelham Clinton, Duke of
Newcastle, was the son cf the third Duke, by the fifth
daughter of the second Earl of Harrington. He was
horn on the 30th of January, 1785, and succeeded to
the family honours as the fourth Duke on the death of
his father in 1795. At an early age he was sent to
Eton, where he remained for seven years. After
having attained the distinctions of that celehr4ted
school, it wJs thought advisable that the young. Duke
should travel, and he accordingly accompanied a por-
tion of his family to the continent, where, in conse-
quence of the troubles which prevailed at that day,
h?, with his relatives, was detained a prisoner for some
years. In 1807, shortly after his return to England,
his Grace married Ci-orgiants Elizabeth, daughter of
Mr. Edward Miller Mundy, of Shipley, in the county
of D.-rby, by whom he had a numerous family.
The oKosition of the Duke of Newcastle to Ca-
tholic Emancipation, and to the claims of the Pro-
testant Dissenters, found expression in Parliament
and in his published letters.

In Committee on the Reform Bill in May, 1832,
the Duke of Newcastle declared the extent to which
he would go in the way of amendment in the repre-
sentative system. " He must," he said, "avow his de-
cided hostility to the Bill in ev‘ry shape or stage ;
and he therefore thought it of little consequence
whether their Lordships proceeded to consider the
enfranchising or the disfranchising clauses. The Bill
was calculated to produce revolution, and therefore
he was determined to oppose it. He knew that this
declaration would subject him to much hostility, and
many reflections from those who thought differently;
but he felt it his duty to express the opinions he en•
tertained, and act up to them fairly and conscientiously.
With respect to the nomination boroughs, he was
quite ready to adopt any plan which would have
the effect of tying down the patron in the exer-
cise of the power of interference or dic-
tation, and in so purifying the system as
to leave the person nominated the full and free
exercise of his discretion. He had no objection,
either, to the enfranchisement of the large towns,
which had risen into importance by the increase of
commerce and manufactures." In the debate which

took place on the 18th of the same month, upon the
proposed ministerial arrangements, the Duke of
Newcastle strongly denounced the suggested creation
of new peers to secure the passing of the Bill. After
the large division by which the Tower Hamlets had
been placed in the schedule of the Bill, Finsbury was
ordered to stand part of schedule C, without opposi-
tion ; but upon the question that Marylebone should
stand part of the schedule, the Duke rose and de-
clared that he would take no further share in the
proceedings. "He felt," he said, " trampled in the
dust by the miserable situation in which the House
was placed. He did not quarrel with Noble Lords
opposite, because they were consistent; though he
thought they were taking a part which would most
assuredly overturn the country ; but he quarrelled
with Noble Lords on his side of the House, who
turned round, in harlequin fashion, and expected that
he should turn round with them. This measure
would render the House ridiculous in the estimation
of the world. From this time he should take no fur-
ther part in the proceedings of the House. To save

its character, he would move that the Earl of Shaftes-
bury should read through the clauses of the Bill pro
forma. He would give no further countenance, in
his own person, to this disgraceful proceeding." The
Duke of Newcastle shortly afterwards left the House,
and from that time forward took but little part in
Parliamentary politics.
His persistency in his printiples was carried into
all his public acts. As Lord-Lieutenant of Notting-
hamshire he refused to insert the name of a gentleman
in the commission of the peace, on account of his not
being a member of the Established Church. Lord
Cottenhatn, then Lord Chancellor, remonstrated with
the Duke on this refusal, urging the obvious grounds
why the nomination of the Government should be
complied with. But the Duke replied by a stern
refusal and a warm avowal of his reasons; and the
result was his removal from the Lord• Lieutenancy,
in which post he was succeeded by the Earl of Scar-
borough.
The deceased Duke was custos rotulorum of Newark,

steward and keeper of Sherwood Forest and Folewood
Park, and high steward of Retford ; and he was the
patron of eight livings. He was descended from
John, Baron Clinton, who lived in the time of Ed-
ward I. The ninth Lord Clinton, an eminent naval
commander, obtained the Earldom of Lincoln from
Queen Elizabeth. The ninth Earl inherited the
Dukedom of Newcastle under a special remainder,
from his wife's uncle, the first Duke, and he assumed
the name of Pelham on succeeding to the title.
The late Duke is succeeded by his son, the Right
Hon. Henry Pelham Clinton, Earl of Lincoln ; and
a vacancy is thus created in the Parliamentary re-
presentation of the Falkirk district of boroughs.