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THE

GENTLEMAN's and LONDON

MAGAZIN E,

For

DECEMBER,

1788.

A new and correct Peerage of Ireland, compiled from the most approved Authorities, and illuftrated with the Arms of each noble Family, elegantly engraved.

TH

(Continued from our Magazine for Clober, Page 531.)

Creighton, Viscount Erne,

HE right honourable John Creighton, Lord Viscount and Baron Erne, of Crum Caffe, in the county of Fermanagh, fucceeded his father Abraham, zd June 1772, as Baron Erne; and his Majefty was pleafed to advance him by letters patent, 6th January 1781, to the dignity of Viscount Erne, of Crum Caftle, aforefaid, to him and his heirs male. He married firft in February 1761, Mifs Catharine Howard, daughter of Robert Lord Bishop of Elphin, and fifter to Ralph, the ft and prefent Lord Vilcount Wicklow, by which lady, who died 15th July 1775, he had issue, viz.

ift fon, Abraham, a Lieutenant in the 14th Dragoons.

2d. John, a Cornet in the 5th Dragoons. Ift daughter, Elizabeth, married May 20th, 1783, to James King, of Charlesfort, Efq; by whom he has iffue.

24, Patience.

3d, Catharine.

His Lordship married fecondly February 22d, 1776, the honourable lady Mary Harvey, daughter of the right honourable and right Revd. Frederick, Earl of Briftol, in England, and Bifhop of Derry, in Ireland, by whom he has illue

This noble family is of a Scoteh defcent, being a branch of the house of Frendraught, tranfplanted into Ireland, in the reign of Charles I..

Abraham Creighton, great Grand-father of th prefent Vilcount Erne, was the first Gent, Mag. Dec. 1788.

of this family who came into this country; he went early into the army and rose to the command of a regiment of foot, at the head of which he had the honour to diftinguifa himself for King William III. at the battle of Aughrim, and other battles fought in the time of the revolution in 1688; He served in parliament for the county of Fermanagh in 1692; and married Miss Mary Spotfwood, daughter of James, Lord Bishop of Clogher, by whom he had David, father of the late Lord Erne, and many other children, which David, in 1689, then about eighteen years old, acquired great reputation by his gallant defence of Crum Caftle, for feveral days with a handful of men, his father's tenants and neighbours, against an army of 6000 chofen troops of King James II. which with fome artillery, had laid fiege thereto; but upon advice being received by their general, that a body of 2000 Ennifkilleners were put in march, and were advanc ing faft towards them, in order to relieve the Cattle, they broke up the siege suddenly, after a very great lofs, and abandoned their defign. He was returned to parliament in 1692, for the borough of Enniskillen, and in the reign of George I. was promoted to the command of a regiment of foot; he died ift June, 1728, at which time he was a Major General and governor of the Royal Hofpital, near Kilmainham; he married Mif Catharine Southwell, daughter of Richard Southwell, of Caftle-Mattress, county of Limerick, Efq; by his wife Lady Elizabeth O'Brien, daughter of Murrough, Earl of Iiii

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Inchiquin, and fifter to Sir Thomas Southwell, who was created 4th September, 1717, Lord Baron Southwell, by whom he left one fon Abraham, the late Lord, and three daughters, Elizabeth, married 19th July, $735, to John Todd, Efq;-Mary, died in 1741, and Meliora, married in March 1741, to Nicholas Ward, Efq;

(ift Baron) Abraham, fucceeded his father, and his Majefty was pleased to create him a Peer of Ireland, 15th July, 1768, by the title of Baron Erne, of Crum-Castle, in the County of Fermanagh, to him and his heirs male, he married firft, Mifs Elizabeth Rogerfon, daughter of the Right Honourable John Rogerfon, Lord Chief Juftice of the Court of King's Bench, which Lady died in 1760, leaving iffus, John, the prefent Vifcount,-Abraham, one of the prefent Members of Parliament, for the Borough of Lifford,- -Meliora, and Charlotta. His Lordship married fecondly in 1764, Mifs Jane King, only daughter of John King, of Charlefort, in County of Rofcommon, Efq; by whom he had no iffue, and dying 2d June, 1772, was fucceeded by his eldeft fon,

(2d Baron and ft Vifcount) John, the 2d Baron and prefent Viscount Erne.

Creations. Baron Erne, of Crum-Caftle, in County Fermanagh, 15th July, 1768, and Viscount Erne, aforefaid, 6th January, 1781.

Arms. Quarterly, 1ft and 4th argent a Lion rampant azure, 2d and 3d argent, on a Chevron between two fprigs, as many Boars heads couped.

Creft. A Dragon's head couped, vert, fpouting fire.

Supporters. Two Lions, azure, crowned with Earls Coronets, proper.

Motto. God fend Grace.

Seat. At Crum-Caftle, in the County of Fermanagh.

Ward, Vifount Bangor.

bert Hawkins Magill, of Gilford, in Coun ty of Downe, Efq; by whom he had iffuc, viz.

Ift fon, Nicholas, the 2d and prefent Vifcount.

2d Edward, married to Mifs Whaley, daughter of the late Richard Chappel Whaley, of Whaley-Abbey, County of Wicklow, Efq; by whom he has iffue, and is one of the prefent Knights of the Shire for the County of Downe

3d Robert, married to his first coufin, the honourable lady Arabella Crosbie, daughter of William, the firft Earl of Glandore, by whom he has iffue. And his Lordship dying May 27th, 1781, was fucceeded by his eldeft fon

(2d Viscount) Nicholas, the 2d and prefent Viscount Bangor.

Creations. Baron Bangor, of Bangor, in the County of Downe, 30th May, 1770, and Viscount Bangor, as aforefaid, Icth January, 1781.

Arms. Quarterly, ift and 4th azure, a cross patonce, or 2d and 3d gules, three Cinquefoils, ermine, on a chief or, a heart, proper.

Creft. On a Wreath a Saracen's head, full faced, couped at the fhoulders, proper. Supporters. On the dexter, an ancient warrior armed, habited, his outer hand resting on a fword, charged on the breast, a mantle, with a crofs patonce, or the Shifter, an Eastern prince habited, proper, his hands in chains.

Motto.

Seat. At Caftle Ward, in the County of Downe.

The Life and Amusements of Ifaac BickerAaffe, Junior.

Book III. CHAP. II.

Converfation.

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THE right honourable Nicholas Ward, Trengthened the quarrel between Rinde THE

Lord Vilcount and Baron Bangor, fucceeded his father, Barnard, the late and firfl Lord, 28th May, 1781, is unmarried, and is a Lunatick.

(rit Viscount) Barnard Ward, of Caftle Ward, Connty of Downe, Efq; reprefented that County in feveral parliaments until his Majefty was pleafed to advance him to the Peerage of Ireland, which he did by letters Patent, dated 30th May, 1770, creating him Baron Bangor, of Bangor, in the County of Downe, to him and heirs male, and he was further advanced, 10th January, 1/81, to the fights of Vifcount Bangor, as aforefaid. He married in 1748, the honourable lady Anne Blyth, daughter of John, the aft Bart of Darnley, and widow of Ro

barb and Squash had not ceafed its operation on the pericranium of the former, who, when the company entered the parlour for fupper, was declaiming aloud on the rotten ftate of the conftitution-for Rhubarb was an anti-minifterialift- and proving to Mr. Bickerftaffe that the nation was totally undone ; words which were no fooner heard by Mr. B. as he entered the door, than he, who being an intimate acquaintance of the minifter's, and, like many other little great men, fancied himfelf known to every body, received them as a fort of political challenge; and a very warm altercation took place, in which Rhubarb, who understood more of politics than phyfic, and feemed to have the beft lungs, had the apparent advantage: for

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This converfation, though of all others the most difgufting to women, in the prefent inftance proved a seasonable relief to Mifs B who dreaded that her father would have made her the subject of remark. Politics, however, carried the fup per through; and "Church and State" having been drank, Mr. Bickerstaffe gave "A fpeedy and a happy reconciliation between Mr. and Mifs B- --!" "What!" exclaimed Rhubarb, have there been words between the young lady and her father?—I don't wonder at it: gentlemen that have no objection to encourage paffive obedience and non refiftance to their rulers, will no doubt expect a ftrict obfervance of that doctrine in their children; and that is the very fpring of difobedience in them. No! no! give the young folks a good education, and let them take their own way."-Ay," replied Mr. B -, looking at his daughter," and it will be the way of folly and of obftinacy. Sir, obedience is due to parental authority from the hour of birth to the hour of death."-" Did you ever hear fuch defpotic doctrine in your life, Bickerstaffe?" rejoined Rhubarb. "I must confefs," faid Mr. Bickerstaffe, glad to get rid of the politics," that I think on this fubject a great deal has been written and faid to very little purpose; and all from the pure error of fyftem-making. Neither unlimited, nor a total rejection of obedience is to be required. The parent who contends for the unlimited obedience of his child ought to poffels more wisdom than is, perhaps, allotted to humanity he is bound to make his child happy; and to effect that he must not only be well acquainted with its natural temper, difpofitions, propensities, and averfions; but fo frame his commands, that the attainment of one good be not fubverfive of another. And, above all, he must so rule, as the obedience of the child may seem to be the natural refult of its own inclinations. This is that sweet tyranny whofe Letters we are unwilling to relinquish, and which requires fo much grace and fkill, that it is feldom exerciled but by elevated and accomplished women. The extreme difficulty of this task induces many parents to reject the attempt; and, finding their chief happiness to refult from the unlicensed indulgence of their own inclinations, grant the liberty to their children; and thus, at a cheap rate, rid them

felves of parental duty, by renouncing its authority.-But the more general mode, continued Mr. Bickerstaffe, "is to retain, as long as poffible, the obedience of the child, without confulting its future happiness, from the abfurd idea that filial obedience is its own' reward. But we all know that there is a time when young people not only cease to be children, but, in the natural progress of education and refinement, often have more accurate ideas than their parents on the moral and focial duties; and will by no means think it criminal to rebel against thofe commands, which, independent of particular withes, would evidently prove deftructive as well of future as of present felicity: and a child is not to facrifice that to parental authority which it is the duty and the chief end of parental authority to procure. It is, indeed, a diftreffing circumftance, when the fond views of a parent are thwarted by the perverseness of a child: views, for which he has been labouring, perhaps, for many years; exerted his own powers, and excited the agency of others. Such a parent is to be pitied; but fuch a parent is not to facrifice to the accomplishment of thefe views the happinefs of his child: he is not to facrificethe end to the means; he must make his child happy if he can; and if that is to be done by the renunciation of his projects, he may, with thousands before him, lament the uncertain iflue of our beft endeavours ; but ftill it is his duty to comply. We may require the fervices of the head and hands; we may preach up duty, and command obedience; and, to effect our own happiness, all this may be well; but the heart and the happiness of others we cannot command: they are beyond all control, but by him whofe fervice we never with to reject, becaufe his " fervice is perfect freedom." He is the only Father who can difpose the hearts of his children to his will; and whose defigns, let our conduct be what it will, can never be obstructed, because they are founded in infinite wifdom, and muft eventually terminate in infinite felicity.""Why," faid Mr. B you are transferring the performance of duty from the child to the parent.""Sir," replied Mr. Bickerstaffe, they have their reciprocal duties: the duties of the parent are, indeed, more numerous than thofe of the child. But, Sir, I am fpeaking of thofe particular commands which, at a particular period of life, are to influence all the temporal, and, perhaps, the eternal happiness of the child: for I have known inftances of the utmoft depravity as well as of wretchedness to have rifen from parental severity., I am far, however, from wifhing even to weaken authority: I contend only againft its abufe. When I fay, that in fome cafes, the parent Jiiiz

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is bound to renounce his plans, for the poffible, and to fubmit to the pofitive, happiness of his child, I am not inculcating abfolute non-efiflance on his part. He is to refift: but let it be with the arms of affection and reafon; let it be the refiftance of love, and not of anger,; of gentle perfuafion, and not of tyrannic force. We well know what it is to realon against paffion; and that it is hard to give up projects that feem to promile lafling happiness, for the indulgence of a paffion that may foon terminate in indiffe rence, without the good things of this world to counterbalance the evils of that indiffeBut even here great caution must be ufed and the parent, before he exerts the leaft degree of force, fhould well know the heart of his child. And though fome daughters have been fnatched from ruin by timely severity, yet, by the fame means, numbers have been made miferable; and thefe of the moft amiable part of the fex; because it is rarely that the paffion of a truly amiable and reflecting mind ever dies: and we have many inftances of moft accomplished women pining in fecret, and rejecting every offer, however unexceptionable and ad vantageous, from this circumftance. Hence, the interference of parents cannot but prove a matter of extreme delicacy; and this very firongly fhews the neceffity of vigilant caution that children be not admitted to affociate intimately with thote whofe alliance would be deemed either difgraceful, or productive of mifery."-

Mr. Bickerstaffe was thus proceeding, greatly to the fatisfaction of his amiable wife and the charming Mifs B-, when he was interrupted by the entrance of Sufanna with little Ifaac, who, fhe said, "had been almofthrown into convulfions with ugly dreams, and could not be kept quiet."Now the method taken to quiet little Ifaac, the reader will find duly recorded in the next chapter.

To the Editor of Exfbaw's Magazine,

SIR,

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FTER fo many elegant treatifes from the advocates of your fair readers, it feems a little strange that none of them fhould have hazarded an attempt to expofe a very prevalent, but degrading, comparison of real excellence and ideal worth, and the grovelling perfuafion that every lady's merit ought to be efimated by the adventitious or naments of a glittering toy. Whatever numbers may be preoccupied with different opinions to my felf in the cafe before us, there is a fecret preafure in doing juftice to the fex which I cannot forego, and fhall pronounce the ruan, who thinks all female acAmplishments reducible to the positive good

of money, abfolutely unworthy their concern. Such a one must be ever insensible to the refined pleasures of an affectionate intercourse: and by fad experience will, perhaps, fome time difcover, that the moft accumulated gifts of fortune may, and mut be wretchedness itself, without a proportionate degree of nature's bounty. Avowing fuch principles, is to darken the brightest horizon of human pretenfions; it is levelling the moft diftinguished part of the creation below the reptile brood itself, robbing them of their natural privileges, and ftriking at the very root of all earthly felicity. A little obfervation will point out objects in the fe male world, and objects on whom nature feems to have preffed the ftamp of excellence, paffing their days without any uncommon degree of attention; their charms unnoticed, their perfons abandoned, for the weak and erratic imagery which dances before the eyes of a deluded fancy. "Ah!” favs Philaurus, "there fhe goes-the very model of perfection! But"-but what?— "here's fomething that would add a digni ty to".

For fhanie; never fuppofe that any outward decorations can be fuper added as an addition to fuch inward purity. If you would indulge a virtuous penchant, turn your eyes this way, and in fearch for a partner in life, let love be your guide, and riches but a secondary confideration. Love!” - Yes, that certainly ought to be the primary motive To those who only view the furface of things it may; but prudence fays not, and take this for an mvariable maxim, "When indigence fteps in at one door, love fteps out at the other." Such a temerity of conclufion is as dangerous as it is unjuft, and cannot, I think, he considered but as a dirty ebullition from the lowest vacuity of a very empty mind-for what attacks of fortune can weaken an affimilated union of kindred minds? Nay, he who has made the feweft researches into human nature, will eafily perceive that adverfity itself ferves but to cement more ftrongly the bonds of affection, and that a sympathy in fuffering is attended with more pleafing, however painful, fenfations, than the more extenfive participation of whatever bleffings this world can beflow. It is true, that to allure an a miable object from a comparative ftate of affluence, to a condition where there is more than a probability of fucceeding penury, is a fpecies of cruelty that wants a name. But the inquiry feems to be, whether this precaution is excited by a wish to procure a real good, or imaginary evil. Poverty, it must be owned, bears an horrid afpect, and the, anticipation of its concomitant miferies may juftiy authorife any innocent attempt to avert its approach; but it is too obiervable, that many are able to adopt the plea, who

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