position not insensible of his rank, yet unassuming in the use of it it is not improbable that his love of ease, and tendency towards indolence, made him sometimes too ductile, and the dupe of those, by whom the rectitude of his understanding would not yet suffer him to be deceived. In this respect he was, perhaps, not unlike his brother-in-law and relation, the Duke of Devonshire.

As a statesman, his high rank and princely estates, his long familiarity with public affairs, the plainness of his understanding, and his constitutional principles, gave him many important qualifications for the high offices which he held. It would be idle flattery to assert that he possessed the vigour and brilliancy of genius, or even eminent talents: but on his public conduct his country may look with approbation; and his posterity may feel a just pride that he so discharged the high duties he undertook for his country, that his name will stand honourably on her annals, while many of his cotemporaries of equal rank and advantages will sink into the oblivion which is the price of a selfish privacy.

His son, Lord William Bentinck, was advanced to be a lieutenant-general in the army, June 4th, 1811; appointed to the command of the twentieth dragoons, January 4th, 1810; and is now commander in chief in Sicily. He has issue a daughter.

Lord Charles is retired from the army; and married September 21st, 1508, Miss Seymour.

His Grace was succeeded by his eldest son,

WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH SCOTT, FOURTH and PRESENT DUKE OF PORTLAND, who is Lord Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex. By his Majesty's permission, his Grace, in September 1795, added the name of Scorт to that of BENTINCK, and annexed the arms of Scott to his own. His issue are,

First, William Henry, Marquis of Tichfield, born October 22d, 1796.

Second, Lady Caroline, born July 6th, 1799.

Third, Lord John, born September 18th, 1800.

Fourth, Lady Henrietta.

Fifth, Lord George.

Sixth, Lord Henry.

Seventh, Lady Charlotte.

Eighth, Lady Lucy.

Ninth, Lady Mary.

P. 41. The seat at Bulstrode is now sold to the Duke of

Somerset.

DUKE OF DORSET.-P. 90.

P. 111. The Mirrour for Magistrates, in the second edition of which, 1563, Sackville's Induction first appeared, is now republishing in the fourth volume of the British Bibliographer, with a careful collation of the various alterations in all the editions of that curious and once popular work.

P. 179. Lady Mary Sackville, sister to the present Duke, married, Aug. 5, 1811, Other Archer, present Earl of Plymouth.

PELHAM CLINTON, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.-P. 181.a

P. 212. Henry Clinton, second son of the late Sir Henry, was advanced to the rank of MAJOR-GENERAL, July 25th, 1810, and has now a command under Lord Wellington, in Portugal.

P. Lady Anne Maria Clinton, eldest sister of the present Duke, married, January 1st, 1801, the present Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton, Bart. and died May 31st, 1807.

Lady Charlotte, the other sister, died, unmarried, May 23d,

1811.

His Grace, the present Duke, has issue,

First, a daughter, born August 6th, 1808.
Second,

Earl of Lincoln, born May 22d, 1811.

DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.-P. 217.

P. 365. Lady Julia Percy, died 1812.

HUGH, Earl Percy, was called up to the House of Peers, by the title of BARON PERCY, in March, 1812.

MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER.-P. 396.

P. 58. Lord Henry Powlett is now Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and Colonel of Marines.

The MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER has issue,

First, JOHN, Earl of Wiltshire, born June 3d, 1801.

Second, Lord Henry, born August 12th, 1803.

Third, Lord George, born July 7th, 1804.

Fourth, a daughter, born August 9th, 1805.

Fifth, a daughter, born November 24th, 1806.

a P 208. Charles Fynes, D. C. L. is Prebendary of Westminster. His son, Henry Fynes, Esq. M. P. for Aldborough, married, January 6th, 1812, Catherine, third daughter of Dr. Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.

MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.-P. 390.

P. 420. Died, on Monday evening, March 16th, 1812, at a few minutes before ten o'clock, at Buckingham House, in Pall Mall, the Most Noble Mary Elizabeth Nugent, Marchioness of Buckingham, Lady of the Marquis of Buckingham, and Baroness Nugent, of Carlanstown in Ireland, in her own right.

Her Ladyship was the daughter and heiress of the late Robert Craggs, Earl Nugent in Ireland; was married to the Marquis April 16th, 1775, and created Baroness Nugent December 29th, 1800. It would be difficult, within the limits which we prescribe to ourselves, to do justice to the amiable qualities and su perior virtues and merits of this lady. To all that dignity of deportment which was suited to her rank, she added the most charming affability and frankness of manners, so as to diffuse delight and happiness every where around her, and to give life and animation to the circle of relations and friends who enjoyed the benefit of her society. In all the duties of life her conduct was equally praiseworthy and exemplary; as a wife, a mother, the mistress of a family, and as a friend to her neighbours of every rank. Her ladyship possessed considerable taste and skill in works of genius, manifested in her drawings and paintings, many of which decorate the superb mansion at Stowe, where the Marquis and she principally resided. But the chief trait in her character was her charity and benevolence, of which the instances are without number, as well in the metropolis, as in those parts of Buckinghamshire and Essex where she had the means of discerning the wants of her fellow-creatures. So that, independent of the impressions of admiration excited by her exalted worth and accomplishments, there would be' enough in her acts of beneficence alone to endear her memory to every feeling heart. She had complained of an increasing dimness of sight, unattended by any other symptoms of illness, and had come to town the week preceding to consult the best oculists, as well as her own physicians, on the state of her eyes. She had been out every forenoon, and appeared perfectly well in health till Sunday evening, when she was seized with an acute pain in her head; and the next morning, her physicians, considering her in danger, dispatched an express for the Marquis, who was on his road from Stowe, and had reached Uxbridge, when he met with the heart-rending tidings of her death.

It will be easier to imagine than to describe the depth of affliction in which his Lordship and all the family were involved. The loss of such a lady must be long and deeply felt by the relations and friends who survive her; and by the poor, in the districts where her personal attentions and charitable assistance extended comfort and relief to so many who stood in need of it. A large portion of the nobility were put in mourning by this event, as related either to her own or her husband's families. She has left three children. Gent. Mag. March, 1812.

First, RICHARD, EARL TEMPLE, married to Lady Anne Eliza, daughter of the late Duke of Chandos.

Second, Lady Mary Anne, married to the Hon. Everard Arundel.

Third, Lord George Grenville, who, by his mother's decease, becomes Baron Nugent of Carlanstown, and is heir to the Nugent estates. His Lordship published, in the spring of 1812, a poem, entitled Portugal, which has met with somewhat severe treatment from the Reviewers.

MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.-P. 422.

P. 440. JOHN, SECOND MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, died at Lansdown House, Berkeley-square, November 15th, 1809, æt. forty-four. Early in life great expectations of his future career on the pulic stage of the world were formed, from the appearance of abilities which he displayed. But the opinions which he afterwards cherished, verging on the extreme of whiggism, met perhaps with some blights, which threw him into retirement, and encouraged habits in which his amusements took a somewhat eccentric turn. He deserted Bowood, and fitted up a whimsical 'residence on the site of the old Castle at Southampton. He kept a yacht, and spent much time in maritime excursions.

He was succeeded by his only brother (by the first Marquis's second wife),

HENRY, THIRD and PRESENT MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, who, in 1806, was appointed CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER in the administration of Lord Grenville, (which succeeded the death of Mr. Pitt).

His Lordship married, March 30th, 1808, Lady Louisa Emma, fifth daughter of Henry Thomas Fox Strangways, second Earl of Ilchester; and has a son and heir,

Earl of Wycombe, born May 12th, 1810.

MARQUIS OF STAFFORD.-P. 441.

P. 452. Lady Georgina Augusta Gower, wife of the Hon. William Eliot, died in 1806.

Lord Granville Leveson Gower married, December 24th, 1809, Lady Henrietta Cavendish, second daughter of William, late Duke of Devonshire; and has a daughter, Susan Leveson Gower, born in November, 1810.

MARQUIS TOWNSHEND.-P. 454.

P. 479. Lady Elizabeth, wife of General Loftus, (who is lieutenant of the Tower) died March 21st, 1811, leaving issue five sons, George, Arthur, Charles, Ferrars, and Frederick; and one daughter, Charlotte, married March 24th, 1812, to her cousin, Lord Charles Townshend.

Lady Henrietta, youngest daughter of the first Marquis, married, September 16th, 1811, the Hon. William Blaquiere, second son of John, Lord De Blaquiere.

Hardy, in his Life of Lord Charlemont, Vol. I. p. 241, thus speaks of the Marquis:

"His Vice-Royalty (of Ireland) forms a peculiar epocha in the history of his country. A gallant soldier; the military associate of Wolfe; frank, convivial, abounding in wit and humour, sometimes, it is said, more than was strictly consonant to the vice-royal dignity; capricious, uncertain, he not unfrequently offended the higher orders; but altogether, had his parliamentary measures been more agreeable, few Lord Lieutenants would have been more acceptable to the Irish. His brother, the celebrated Charles Townshend, was then Chancellor of the Exchequer; but scarcely had the Lord Lieutenant kissed hands on his appointment, when Charles Townshend died, and his political importance suffered of course much diminution. A very novel system as to this country, had, previous to his departure from England, been resolved on by the English cabinet. The Lord Lieutenant was in future to continue here for some years, and a'l the patronage of the lord justices consigned to him; a wise system for Ireland, had it been carried into execution, as it should have been."

"The session for 1768 will be long memorable for the passing of the Octennial Bill into a law; a measure, which whether Lord