pressed his opinion in the House of Lords. We will now speak of Lord Carlisle as a votary of the muses. It has been already observed, that he cultivated a taste for poetry at a very early period of life. Many of his juvenile compositions stole into two publications of the day destined for the reception of fugitive pieces; the one called "The Foundling Hospital for Wit," the other "The Asylum." Four poems by his Four poems by his lordship were published in 1773, in a quarto edition; they consisted of an ode on the death of Mr Gray; two copies of verses destined for the monument of a favourite spaniel; and a translation of a passage in Dante. In 1801 appeared a splendid edition, from the press of Bulmer, of "The Tragedies and Poems of Frederic, Earl of Carlisle, Knight of the Garter, &c.” Of the poems, one of the most interesting, and certainly the best, is that addressed to Sir Joshua Reynolds, on his resignation of the president's chair, at the Royal Academy. In 1806 Lord Carlisle published some verses on the death of Lord Nelson; and in 1808 (anonymously) "Thoughts on the present condition of the Stage, and the construction of a new Theatre." -On the death of Buonaparte, understanding that he had bequeathed to Lady Holland a snuff-box, Lord Carlisle addressed to her ladyship the following stanzas: To Lady Holland, on the Legacy of a Snuff-box, left to her by Buonaparte. "Lady, reject the gift! 'tis tinged with gore! 66 Those crimson spots a dreadful tale relate; It has been grasp'd by an infernal power; And by that hand which seal'd young Enghien's fate. Lady, reject the gift: beneath its lid Discord, and slaughter, and relentless war, With every plague to wretched man, lie hid— Let not these loose to range the world afar. "Say, what congenial to his heart of stone In thy soft bosom could the tyrant trace? When does the dove the eagle's friendship own, Or the wolf hold the lamb in pure embrace? "Think of that pile to Addison so dear, Where Sully feasted, and where Rogers' song And gently leads each grace and muse along. "Pollute not, then, those scenes-the gift destroy: And screaming fiends their verdant haunts invade. "That mystic box hath magic power to raise Holland House. "And ye, who, bound in Verdun's treacherous chains, "The warning muse no idle trifler dream; Plunge the curst mischief in wide ocean's flood; The only stream he could not dye with blood." In the "Hours of Idleness," published by Lord Byron in 1808, his noble relative Lord Carlisle's works are said "to have long received the meed of public applause, to which, by their intrinsic worth, they were entitled." This forms a striking contrast to Lord Byron's subsequent asperity. On his coming of age, Lord Byron, wishing to take his seat in the House of Lords, applied to Lord Carlisle to introduce him; and being just at that time engaged in the composition of the "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," adverted to it in the following lines: "On one alone Apollo deigns to smile, And crowns a new Roscommon in Carlisle." The noble subject of this adulation, however, declining to accompany Lord Byron, the latter, for the lines just quoted, substituted this heartless sarcasm: "No more will cheer, with renovating smile, The paralytic puling of Carlisle." And in speaking of Lord Carlisle's tragedies (the worth of which he had so lately proclaimed) says: "So dull in youth, so drivelling in his age, His scenes alone might damn our sinking stage; Nor drugged their audience with the tragic stuff." That even Lord Byron himself, however, became sensible of the gross injustice of permitting personal feeling not merely to influence, but entirely to pervert critical judgment, is evident from the fine stanza in his exquisite poem, the Third Canto of Childe Harold, in which, after describing the field of Waterloo, and the gallantry of the British heroes who fell there, he thus particularly adverts to the fate of the Hon. Edward Howard, Major of the 10th Hussars, Lord Carlisle's youngest son: "Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine: And his was of the bravest, and when shower'd The death-bolts deadliest the thinn'd files along, They reach'd no nobler breast than thine, young, gallant Howard!" Lord Carlisle was distinguished as a most zealous, liberal, and discriminating patron of the fine arts. The noble earl died at Castle Howard, on the 4th of September 1825, in the seventy-eighth year of his age; leaving only two noblemen living, the Duke of Gordon and Earl Fitzwilliam, who, with himself, were in possession of their titles and estates in the reign of George the Second. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD HELY HUTCHINSON, EARL OF DoNOUGHMORE, VISCOUNT SUIRDALE, BARON DONOUGHMORE ; VISCOUNT HUTCHINSON OF KNOCKLOFTY, IN THE PEERAGE OF GREAT BRITAIN; A PRIVY COUNCILLOR IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND; A The late Earl of Donoughmore was born January 29, 1756. He received his early education at Eton; whence he went to Oxford; but he graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, as a mark of respect to his father, the provost. As soon as his age qualified him, he obtained a seat in the Irish House of GOVERNOR OF THE COUNTY OF TIP Commons; and the first occasion on PERARY; SECOND REMEMBRANCER OF THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER IN IRELAND; A LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, AND F. S. A. The late Earl of Donoughmore was the eldest son of the Right Honourable John Hely Hutchinson, who was called to the bar in 1748, returned to parliament for Lanesborough in 1759, and in 1761 for the city of Cork, (which he continued to represent until his death); appointed Prime Serjeant at Law in 1762, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1774, and Principal Secretary of State for Ireland in 1777; and who married in 1754 Christiana, daughter of Lorenzo Nixon, of Murny, county of Wicklow, Esq., and niece and heir of Richard Hutchinson, of Knocklofty, county of Tipperary, Esq., descended from an ancient family of English origin. On the 16th of October 1783, Mrs Hutchinson was created Baroness Donough more. The Right Honourable John Hely Hutchinson was the first statesman in Ireland, who, both in the cabinet and out of it, was the avowed and uncompromising advocate of Catholic emancipation, as well as a repeal of those baneful commercial restrictions, which, while they paralysed the energies of Ireland, diminished the general resources of the British empire. In his work called "Commercial Restraints," Mr Hutchinson developed all those great commercial principles which are now, after an interval of seventy years, acted upon by the enlightened policy of the Imperial government. which he addressed the House was in support of the bill introduced in 1778 by Mr Gardiner, for the purpose of permitting the Roman Catholics to take long leases of land. This speech made a great impression on the House. In the year 1781, Lord Donoughmore was appointed a commissioner of the customs in Ireland, which situation he retained till the year 1802. On the 24th of June 1788, his mother, Baroness Donoughmore, dying, he succeeded to her titles. In 1794, the noble lord raised, in an incredibly short space of time, the 94th regiment, for his distinguished brother, Lord, then Colonel, Hutchinson; and soon after, the late 112th regiment, of which, on the 21st of July 1794, he was himself appointed lieutenant-colonel commandant, receiving full pay. Early in the year 1795, Lord Donoughmore's father died, leaving him at the head of a numerous family, to whom the noble lord's conduct was ever that of a most kind and affectionate brother; and bequeathing to him that cause, the support of which had formed one of the most earnest objects of Mr Hutchinson's public life. On the 7th of November 1797, Lord Donoughmore was created a Viscount, by the title of Viscount Suirdale. The noble lord's conduct in the rebellion of 1798 was above all praise.. Intrepid and persevering in the discharge of what he felt to be his duty, while, by his presence and active exertions in Cork, he kept the riotous and rebellious of that city and neighbourhood in awe, he repressed and prevented many of those exercises of "vigour beyond the law," which the inflamed zeal of the partisans of government was then elsewhere daily exhibiting. During that reign of terror, Lord Donoughmore commanded the Cork legion; and his combined firmness and humanity gained him the admiration and esteem of all good men. On the 1st of January 1800, Lord Donoughmore received his appointment as colonel in the army. On the 29th of December in the same year, he was advanced to the dignity of an earldom, "with special remainder to the heirs male of Christiana Baroness Donoughmore," and he was also elected one of the twenty-eight representative peers of Ireland, for life. On the 30th of October 1805, he was appointed major-general. In May 1806, Lord Donoughmore was sworn a privy-councillor, and was appointed joint postmaster-general in Ireland; which situation he resigned on the accession of Mr Percival to power. In consequence of a difference of opinion which took place in 1810 between the Roman Catholics of Ireland and Lord Grenville, with respect to the nature of the proffered securities which the latter thought ought to accompany the application to parliament of the former, the Catholics determined to confide their petition to the House of Lords, and the immediate task of urging that House to a compliance with its prayer, to the care and advocacy of the Earl of Donoughmore. Accordingly, on the 12th of March 1810, Lord Donoughmore presented two petitions; the one from the general body of the Catholics of Ireland, and the other from the Catholics of the city of Cork, praying to be relieved from the degrading dis abilities under which they were suffering; and on the 6th of June, in the same year, the noble earl moved to refer the petitions to a committee of the whole House. Lord Donoughmore prefaced this latter motion by a very able and eloquent speech. The noble earl's reply at the close of the debate was equally animated. In the debate on the 18th of February 1811, on Lord Moira's motion respecting Mr Wellesley Pole's celebrated Circular, Lord Donoughmore took the opportunity of defending the Irish Catholics from various and contradictory imputations. When the subject of Mr Pole's Circular again came under discussion on the Marquis of Lansdowne's motion, 22d February 1811, Lord Donoughmore again defended the Catholic body, and remonstrated against the line of policy which his Majesty's government on both sides of the water had adopted against them. On the 18th June 1811, Lord Donoughmore again moved to refer the Catholic Petitions to a committee of the whole House. He re-stated, with great force, the arguments which, in his opinion, ought to induce their lordships to consent to his proposition. On the 1st of January 1812, Lord Donoughmore received his commission as Lieutenant-general. On the 20th of April 1812, he presented the general petition of the Ro man Catholics of Ireland; and, on the next day, concluded a most animated speech, by moving to refer the petition to the consideration of a committee of the whole House. On the 1st of July 1812, Lord Donoughmore supported the Marquis of Wellesley's motion, that the House should, early in the next session, take into its most serious consideration, the state of the laws affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland. On the 19th of March 1813, he presented petitions from the general body of the Catholics, the Catholics of the county and city of Cork, and the counties of Roscommon and Tipperary; but in consequence of the introduction, into the House of Commons, of a bill for the relief of the Catholics, which he trusted would reach the House of Lords, he felt it unnecessary to appoint any day for calling the attention of their lordships to the petitions. The expectations of the noble earl and of the Catholic body having, however, once more been disappointed, Lord Donoughmore, on the 8th of June 1814, again presented the general petition of the Catholics of Ireland, praying the removal of all existing disabilities; also similar petitions from the Catholics of the city and county of Cork, the town of Carrickon-Suir, the county of Tipperary, and the county of Roscommon; and stated, as the grounds on which he declined bringing the subject under discussion in that session, the opinion of his own parliamentary friends and the friends of the Catholic cause, "that the late proceedings of the Catholic board, (the only accredited organ for the expression of the sentiments and feelings of the Irish Catholic community,) had tended to retard rather than to advance, their own interests, and the success of their question." The noble earl added, that although he did not himself think that that cause was sufficient to induce a postponement of the discussion of the Catholic claims, yet that the manner in which the Roman Catholics of Ireland generally had received the rescript of the subprefect of the propaganda, the depository of the papal power, fully satisfied him of the propriety of the postponement. When, on the 11th of November 1814, Earl Fitzwilliam called the attention of the House of Lords to the continuance of the militia in an embodied state, notwithstanding the restoration of peace, Lord Donoughmore made some strong remarks on the vacillation which ministers had exhibited on that subject, especially in Ireland. The noble lord also took a part in the discussion originated by Earl Darnley, on the 15th of November, upon the conduct of the naval administration; as, likewise, in the conversation of the 21st of November, on the negotiations between Great Britain and America, at Ghent. On the 24th of November, Lord Donoughmore made three motions. The first, which was for "an address to the Prince Regent, for a copy of the representations which had been made to His Royal Highness on the want of protection to trade, by the merchants and ship-owners of Liverpool, Glasgow, Port Glasgow, Greenock, and London," was agreed to. The second, which was for the weekly accounts of the state of the naval force under Sir Alexander Cochrane, on the American station," was negatived. third, which was for certain communications to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland," announcing the complete, or any restoration of tranquillity, in the only barony of Ireland, (that of Middelthird, in the county of Tipperary,) to which it had been thought necessary to apply the provisions of the bill in the last session, entitled, An Act for the Preservation of the Peace," in introducing which motion, the noble lord expatiated on the severe and injurious nature of the bill in question, was also negatived. When, on the 1st of December 1814, the Earl of Liverpool moved the adjournment of the House to the 9th of February, Lord Donoughmore opposed the motion, in the existing critical conjuncture of public affairs. The On the 19th May 1815, Lord Donoughmore again presented the gene |