who, while but the minister of a day, had polled 831 votes, was able, with some difficulty, to reckon 265 suffrages.* If it be asked what could create so sudden a change in respect to the opinions of the graduates of the university of Cambridge, we can safely assert-it was not the increased property tax, or the attempt to engraft the excise laws on the comforts of domestic life or the admission of a Chief Justice to a seat in the Cabinet-but because the church was in danger!-because the long-forgotten exclamation of "No popery!" rung through the halls and colleges, and was re-echoed from every corner of the senate-house, where, as of old, it is usually the fashion to prefer the present to the future, and to repeat most cordially the interested response, in the clerico-political liturgy, of "Great is Diana of Ephesus!" * There were four candidates on this occasion, and the election commenced on Friday, May 8; 1807. At half past two o'clock the numbers were as follow: For Lord Palmerston 252 Sir Vicary Gibbs (the new Attor.-gen.) 2,50 And Lord Henry Petty 209 153 The poll recommenced at four o'clock, in consequence of the Vice Chancellor having refused to accede to the wish of Lord Henry to adjourn until Saturday, in order to afford him time to bring up his distant voters, and the numbers were finally declared at midnight to be as follows: Lord Henry, being thus excluded from representing one of the seats of learning, was obliged to retire from the classic banks of the Cam to the sons of tin, lead, and copper, to solicit the suffrages of the Freemen of the snug little borough of Camelford, which were obtained more majorum, without much difficulty, and, we believe also, without any expence; for if we are not greatly misinformed, the good genius of the House of Bedford hovered over the resident-pot-walloppers, and acted with such magic power, that while their mouths were opened, their hands were miraculously closed, so that the Exminister to the Court of Vienna, and the Ex-chancellor of the Exchequer, were enabled to pass, like Shadrach, Mechach, and Abednego of old, through the fiery furnace of a Cornish election, unscorched, and even untouched! The subject of this memoir, on the meeting of the new Parliament, accordingly once more occupied his old station on the Opposition side of the House, at the left hand of the Speaker, not as heretofore in the character of the defendant, but again as the plaintiff, or, in other words, instead of maintaining the green-sodded entrenchments of the Treasury-bench, he now took post on the opposite heights, whence the Ministry have been cannonaded in their trenches, during a whole campaign, by their opponents, who have hitherto been worsted, in consequence of the numbers rather than the valour of their foes, for the former more than once advanced sword in hand to the covered way, and were so in ured to attack in the course of last winter, that, in the language of Serjeant Kite, "they eat ravelines for breakfast, and picked their teeth with pallisadoes." But his lordship was suddenly summoned from crowded Houses, and noisy debates, and unproductive altercations, to happier scenes, and more engaging prospects, and more seductive amusements: Sparge marite nuces; tibi deserit Hesperus Oetam." In short, the fire-darting eyes of his lovely cousin, Lady Louisa Strangeways, like the interposition of the gods in ancient times, had lighted up a whole fasces of nuptial torches, at the altar of Hymen, in consequence of which the families of Lansdowne and Ilchester were once more reunited by a new alliance, commenced, and consummated, under the most auspicious circumstances. In point of fortune, Lord Henry, as a younger brother, has nothing to complain of, as his father, the late Marquis, left him the Kerry estate in Ireland, which is in a course of rapid improvement, In point of talents, he deservedly ranks high, and it is our wish, as it indeed is our hope, that he will not hold out any pledges to the public while out of place, that he is not prepared honestly to realise on his return to office. Let him be reminded that that parent, of whom he was the darling son, gave a salutary peace to the empire, that he wished to make a free, also an armed people; that he endea voured, by giving the names of the counties to the various regiments, to inspire the standing army with a devotion to the common interests and common liberties of the nation; that he was the only proprietor of boroughs in the kingdom who struggled for a more equal representation of the commons, and the sole minister since the Revolution who had ever virtue, spirit, or independence sufficient, to correspond openly and manfully with those who agitated the great question of a reform in Parliament! In the following poem, in imitation of Calisthenes, written by Sir William Jones in 1782, a high compliment was paid to his virtues, while Lord Fitzmaurice: ODE. "Verdant myrtle's branchy pride Soon shall grace each manly side, Tubes that speak, and points that breathe. "Thus, Harmodius, shone thy blade! Thus, Aristogiton, thine! Whose, when Britain sighs for aid, Whose shall now delay to shine? "Dearest youths in islands blest, You with fleet Pelides rest, And with godlike Diomed. "Verdant myrtle's branchy pride, &c. They the base Hipparchus slew, "Then, in Athens, all was peace, Nurse of arts, and eyes of Greece! "Not less glorious was thy deed, Nor less brilliant be thy meed, "High in Freedom's temple rais'd, Wisdom's voice, and Valour's hand! "Ne'er shall Fate their eye-lids close; They, in blooming regions blest, With Aristogiton rest." LORD HOLLAND, MR. ADDISON Observes, with his usual good sense and precision, that nothing is more attractive of attention, "than anecdotes or memoirs of such as begin to be the subject of public observation." Actuated by these sentiments, we have always endeavoured to introduce the biography of those who have recently become illustrious either for their exploits or their mental talents; and in short, |