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house of lords, entitled "An act for the safety and preservation of his Majesty's person and government against treasonable and seditious practices and attempts;" which, after very long and spirited debates, passed into a law. The occasion of the bill was, his Majesty was most grossly insulted by the populace in his way to the house of lords, when he went to open the session on the 29th of October 1795.

In the year 1792 his Lordship was appointed ranger. and keeper of St. James's and Hyde-parks, in the room of the Earl of Orford; which he resigned in 1794, on being appointed auditor of the exchequer for life, in the room of the Duke of Newcastle.

When the resolution of forming an union with Ireland was taken by the British ministry, in the year 1800, amongst the many negotiations for effecting this measure, there was one with the principal heads of the catholics of Ireland; and it was settled between them and the British ministry, that if the catholics gave no opposition to the plan of the Union, the ministry would promote, with all their interest and sincerity, a bill for the emancipation of the Irish catholics. When the bill for the Union had passed both in England and Ireland, the promise of the ministry was expected to be fulfilled, and Lord Castlereagh gave notice in the British house of commons that he would move for leave to bring in a bill for that purpose. At this instant a Great Person interfered: he put his velo on the intended proceedings. The ministry conceiving themselves bound in honour to perform the engagement they had made, and now finding they could 04

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not, resolved to resign; accordingly, on the 11th day. of January 1801, Mr. Pitt resigned his offices of chancellor of the exchequer and first lord of the treasury. This resignation was immediately followed by that of Lord Grenville, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Spencer, Mr. Dundas (now Lord Melville), and Mr. Windham.

No circumstance can place Lord Grenville's merits, character, and talents in a higher and more respectable estimation, than the opinion and conduct of Mr. Pitt in the months of March and April 1803; when, through the mediation of Lord Grenville, a negotiation was opened between Mr. Pitt and Mr. Addington to bring Mr. Pitt into office. After several messages and answers had passed, Mr. Pitt at length declared that he could not accept the terms offered, unless he could have the assistance of Lord Grenville in a cabinet office, This demand being refused, the negociation was broken off. This high opinion of Mr. Pitt, of Lord Grenville's political talents, requires no comment. It confirms the public opinion of his lordship's judgment and capacity.

The late Right Honourable George Grenville had four daughters. Charlotte the eldest, married in December 1771, the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynne; the next, Elizabeth, married, in April 1787, the Earl of Carysfort; Hester, married in May 1782 Earl Fortescue; Catharine, the youngest, married Lord Braybrooke in June 1780, and died in 1796. They have all issue.

RIGHT HON. LORD GLASTONBURY, &c.

His Lordship is the eldest son of the late Right Honourable James Grenville, second brother of the late Earl Temple. In 1766 he was elected member for Thirsk, in Yorkshire, and afterwards for the town. of Buckingham. In 1797 he was created a peer, with the remainder (if his Lordship has no issue) to his brother General Richard Grenville, colonel of the twenty-third regiment of foot, and ranger of Windsor Little Park. He served under Sir William Howe (now Viscount Howe) in the American war, and was at the battle of the White Plains, and other places.

The late Hon. Henry Grenville, third brother to the late Earl Temple, left a daughter, who is married to Earl Stanhope, his lordship's second countess,

In many of the accounts of this family there is a mistake, that has been frequently adopted, viz. that the Temples of Stowe, in Buckinghamshire, are the descendants of the celebrated Sir William Temple, memorable for his negotiations from 1665 to 1679; whereas the fact is, that Peter Temple, a descendant of the Temples of Shepey, did, in the reigns of Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth, purchase several manors in Warwickshire, and the manor of Stowe, in Buckinghamshire.

This Peter Temple had several children, but we shall mention only two of them; John the first son, and William the eighth son. From John was descended, in a direct line, Sir Richard Temple, of Stowe, who being bred to a military life, served with great re

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putation under the Duke of Marlborough during Queen Anne's wars, and was by George the First created Lord Viscount Cobhamn. He died without issue; but had several sisters, the eldest of whom was married to Richard Grenville, Esq. of Wotton, in the county of Buckingham, to whom and her issue the title was limited. From the issue of that marriage all the present Grenvilles are descended. Thus the elder branch of the Temples was merged in the Grenvilles.

We will now return to William, the eighth son of Peter Temple. He was also bred to arms; and was highly esteemed by the celebrated Sir Philip Sydney, who died in his arms at the battle of Zutphen, in 1586. From him was descended the famous Sir William Temple above mentioned; and from the same Sir William Temple is descended the present Lord Viscount Palmerstone, the junior branch of the Temples.

GENERAL SIR WILLIAM FAWCETT, K. B.

THE great Lord Bacon, in his Essays, most aptly says, that "the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands;" the truth of which has been often verified. As an instance, in our times, we make no apology in giving the following particulars of a good and brave officer, who rose by his merit to the confidence of his Sovereign, and the honours attending the profession of arms.

Sir William Fawcett began his military service as a

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volunteer, during the German war of 1741. He was at the battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy, and afterwards obtained an ensigncy in a regiment raised by a Colonel Johnstone, which served on the continent. At the peace of 1748 he returned to England, when the regiment was disbanded.

Being now out of employment as a military man, he entered as a clerk in a mercantile house in the city of London, and while in that situation, formed a matrimonial connexion with the daughter of a merchant, by whom he got three thousand pounds. Being attached to the profession of arms, he soon after purchased an ensigncy in the guards, and by his strict attention to duty, was noticed by his Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland, who gave him the adjutancy of the second battalion of the third foot guards, on the 1st of December, 1757. Prior to that, he had succeeded in March the same year to a lieutenancy which gave him the rank of captain.

At his leisure hours he studied the German and French languages, in which he was assisted by a foreigner who acted in a medical capacity in the Savoy. By his knowledge of the former he was enabled to translate the great Frederick of Prussia's Regulations for Infantry and Cavalry, which were published by subscription, in two volumes octavo, in 1756 and 1757. They met with great attention, and added much to our knowledge in the interior economy of troops. That excellent work, "Bland's Treatise on Military Discipline," being rendered in many particulars obsolete, by the new improvements introduced by that

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