tleman distinguished himself by a song in favour of Sir Edward and his friends, which so captivated either the taste or the gratitude of the baronet, that he introduced him to the earl of Bute, then flourishing in all the plenitude of power. It is known but to few, perhaps, that his lordship, who placed Mr. J. at first in an inferior office, was not at all captivated with him; for it was entirely owing to the repeated solicitations of the member for Oxfordshire, that he extended his further protection. After a longer trial, he became the premier's private secretary, and in some respect a member of his family, participating in his friendship and favour, and living with him in an unrestrained and confidential intercourse. Such a connexion as this could not fail to prove advantageous; and, accordingly, in March, 1761, we find him appointed one of the under secretaries of state, a station which presupposes an intimate acquaintance with the situation of foreign affairs, and a pretty accurate knowledge in respect to the arcana imperii in general. He now became a declared adherent of what was then called "the Leicester-house party," by whose influence he was returned to parliament at the general election (in 1761) for the borough of Cockermouth, on the recommendation of the late earl of Lonsdale, his patron's son-in-law. He, however, did not remain long in this station; for he soon received the lucrative appointment of treasurer of the ordnance. This he relinquished in 1763, for the more confidential office of joint secretary of the treasury; a situation for which he was admirably quali. fied, by his knowledge of the state

of parties, and the management of a House of Commons, of which he himself had been some time a member. To the Rockingham administration, which succeeded in 1765, he was both personally and politically odious, and he accordingly lost all his appointments; but in the course of the same year, he had one conferred on him by the king's mother, the late princess dowager of Wales, which no minister could bereave him of; this was the auditorship of her Royal Highness's accounts. That circumstance, added to his close intimacy with the discarded minister, awakened the jealousy of the patriots; and, if we are to credit their suspicious, he became, in the technical language of that day, the "go-between" to the favourite, the princess-mother, and the throne. When lord Bute retired into the country in disgust, promising to relinquish public affairs, a great personage is said to have construed it into an abandonment, and to have looked out for advice elsewhere; from that moment Mr. Jenkinson was ranked as one of the leaders of the party called "the king's friends," and his majesty ever after distinguished him by a marked partiality. Honours and employments now fell thick upon him. In 1766, he was nominated a lord of the admiralty, and in 1767, a lord of the treasury, in which place he continued during the Grenville and Grafton administration. But under that of lord North, we find him aspiring to some of the higher offices of government; for in 1772, he was appointed one of the vice-treasurers of Ireland, on which occasion he was introduced into the privy council. In 1775, he purchased of Mr. Fox,

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the patent place of clerk of the pells in Ireland, which had constituted part of that gentleman's patrimony, and next year was appointed mas ter of the Mint, in the room of lord Cadogan. In 1778, he was elevated to the more important post of secretary at war, in which situation we find him in 1780, and 1781, defending the estimates of the army, in the House of Commons. The contests between the friends of Mr. Jenkinson and opposition, now became critical; the majorities which had implicitly voted with the ministry, were reduced in every division, and at last abandoned a premier, who tottered on the treasury bench. Mr. Jenkin son thought he had now ample leisure to compile his collection of treaties; but he was soon, by another change in politics, called back from his literary labours, into active life, and took a decided part in behalf of Mr. Pitt. In consequence of his exertions on this occasion, in 1786, he was nominated to the lucrative post of chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, created baron of Hawkesbury, in the county of Gloucester, and appointed president of the committee of council for the affairs of trade and plantations. For the last situation, his lordship's regular and progressive rise, added to the various offices in which he had acted, admirably qualified him. Further emoluments were, however, reserved for him, for in 1790, on the decease of his relation, the late Sir Banks Jenkinson, who held the lucrative patent place of collector of the customs inwards, he procured the grant. Nothing can more clearly demonstrate his great influence than that occurrence; for this was one of the sinecures which the premier had all

along declared his intention to abolish. To these favours in 1796, was added that of earl of Liverpool, on which creation he was authorized by his majesty to quarter the arms of that commercial city with those of his own family. As an orator, his lordship spoke but seldom, either in the House of Commons or Peers, and of late years he had attended but little to public business, in consequence of his advanced age and infirmities. Besides the works which have already been mentioned, his lordship was the author of the following: "A Collection of all Treaties of Peace, Alliance, and Commerce between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Treaty of Munster in 1648, to the Treaties signed at Paris in 1783," 3 vols. 8vo. (1785); and, "A Treatise on the Coins of England, in a Letter to the King," 4to. (1805). Whatever odium may be attached by his political enemies, to the general line of conduct adopted by this nobleman, they will not deny that he deserved great praise for the attention which he always bestowed on the trade of this country. Among other things, he drew up the treaty of commercial intercourse with America, and is also said, not only to have pointed out, but to have created the whale fishery in the South Seas. His lordship was married, for the first time, in 1769, to Miss Amelia Watts, daughter of the governor of Fort William, in Bengal, by whom he had a son, the present earl; and secondly, in 1782, to Catharine, daughter of the late Sir Cecil Bishop, bart. and widow of Sir Charles Cope, by whom he has left a son and daughter, the hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, M.P.

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for Sandwich, and lady Charlotte, married to the present viscount Grimstone. Lord Liverpool partly inherited, and partly accumulated, a large fortune during the course of a long and brilliant career. He has left to his eldest son, the present earl, 15,000l. per annum, of which only about 3,500l. per annum is in land. To his widow, the countess of Liverpool, only 700l. per annum for life, in addition to her former jointure, as lady Cope, of 1,000l. per annum. But the present earl has added 500%. more per annum to his father's bequest; and it is understood that the duchess of Dorset, her daughter, adds 300l. per annum more. To the honourable Cecil Jenkinson, his second son, he has left 1,000l. per annum, in addition to an estate of near 3,000l. per annum, of which Mr. Cecil Jenkinson is already in possession, by the death of a relation. To lady Charlotte Grimstone, now lady Forrester, he has left only the 700l. per annum, bequeathed to the countess of Liverpool, after her decease. The landed property is entailed to all the family of the Jenkinsons, in tail male, to a great

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At Teddington, viscount Aghrim, baron of Ballymore, 66. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by Frederic, viscount Aghrim. His lordship married Anne Elizabeth Christine, baroness de Tuill de Scerosberkin, by whom he has left several children.

At his seat, Wardour castle, Wiltshire, Henry lord Arundell, baron of Wardour, count of the Holy Roman Empire. His lord ship was born in 1740, and succeed ed to the honours and estates of his

father in 1758. Seven years afterwards he married Mary, daughter of Benedict Conquest, esq.bywhom he had three daughters, the eldest and youngest of whom are dead; the survivor, Eleanor Mary, in 1786, became the wife of lord Clifford. Being a Roman Catholic, his lordship never took the oaths, or his seat, in the House of Peers. A few years since, as the ancient family seat was falling into decay, lord Arundell erected a mansion in its immediate vicinity on a noble and extensive scale; but the expence incurred in this undertaking, tended not a little to embarrass his fortune. He is succeeded in his title by his first cousin, James Everard Arun dell, esq. of Irnham-hall, in the county of Lincoln.

In Tichfield-street, madame Jarry, relict of general Francis J. commandant of the royal military college, at Wycombe. She was a native of Posen, in Poland, and frequently amused her friends by re lating anecdotes of the Buonaparté family, one of whom she employed as a mantua-maker during her residence at Paris.

At his seat, Hawkestone, Shropshire, sir Richard Hill, bart. 75. This gentleman was descended from a family of considerable antiquity, in the county of Salop, which can be traced up to the time of Edward II. Rowland was the first honoured with a patent of baronetage in 1726. He afterwards represented the city of Litchfield in parliament, and had a large family, consisting of ten children, the eldest of whom Richard, was born in 1753. He was educated at Westminster school,and afterwards admitted as gentleman commoner of Magdalen college, Oxford; where he resided until he

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received the honorary degree of A. M.; when he went to an academy at Angers, in France; and after about one year's residence at that place, he made a tour of the southern parts of Europe, in company with the late earl of Elgin, and then returned to his native county. He was about twenty-four years of age before he had a religious turn of mind; when he became known to the late reverend and learned Messrs. Romaine, Talbot, Stillingfleet, H.Venn, Berridge, S. Walker, and others of the most pious and laborious clergy of the church of England; whose acquaintance was particularly beneficial to him. Desirous of being useful in his station, he published and distributed several religious tracts, visited and relieved the poor and afflicted in his neighbourhood, and exhorted them to repentance and newness of life. His controversial writings in defence of the six students expelled the university of Oxford, and in defence of the Calvinistic doctrines of the gospel, as held by and stated in the articles, homilies and liturgy of the church of England, do honour to his abilities as an able writer, and to his piety, zeal and integrity as a Christian, the polite gentleman, and scholar; but his reply to the rev. Mr. Madan, entitled, "The Blessings of Polygamy displayed," gained him more credit than any of his other publications. Sir Richard, when but a young convert, became a zealous champion for the religious party to which he had attached himself. It is well known that the great leaders of methodism, Wesley and Whitfield, adopted opposite sentiments on the extent of salvation. The former allowed that man is a free agent, and that the

satisfaction of Christ was made for all men. These points were flatly. denied by Whitfield and the Calvi nistical methodists, who made man a passive instrument till grace inspired him with divine life; and they contended that the elect only, or those who where predestinated from all eternity, shall be made partakers of the kingdom of heaven. A fierce contention arose among the methodistical leaders upon these inscrutable topics, and they almost proceeded to excommunicate one another for heterodoxy. The Calvinists were by far the most violent, and the harshness of their creed inspired them with the most intolerant sentiments. Sir Richard Hill waged war against the whole host of Arminians, and published several pamphlets upon the doctrines in dispute, which exhibited considerable knowledge of the subject, and evinced no small skill in theological controversy. About the same time, the university of Oxford began to be jealous of the progress of methodism, and finding that Edmund-hall contained some students who exercised their preaching talents before they were duly authorized, expelled them. This caused a mighty outcry among the zealots; and several pieces were published against the conduct of Dr. Durel and Dr. Noel, and other heads of houses who were engaged in that affair. Among the rest Sir Richard came forward as the champion of methodism, in a tract which was written with great shrewdness and spirit, entitled, "Pietas Oxoniensis.” Not long after this he engaged in a paper war with Dr. Adams, rector of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, on the following occasion. It was the custom of the late Mr. Romaine,

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