The noble lord added to his collection, early in the present century, the valuable gallery of the late Mr. Agar, for which he is said to have paid a sum little short of 40,000. This extensive assortment of paintings he liberally threw open for the inspection of the public, a privilege which all connoisseurs in the art, who had the opportunity, did not fail to take advantage of.

The deceased Marquess was supposed to be the richest subject in the empire: whether this be really so or not we are unable to decide; but that he was possessed of an enormous income, and one that was constantly increasing, is beyond all question. The revenue of the Pimlico estate, on which during his Lordship's life the new squares of Belgrave and Eaton, Wilton place, Eccleston street, &c. &c. have been raised, promises to rise hereafter to an amount hitherto unexampled.

His character in private life was most exemplary, and furnished an apt illustration of the family motto attached to the house of Grosvenor, viz: "That virtue not descent is the true character of nobility," "NOBILITATIS VIRTUS NON STEMMA CHA

RACTER." We extract the following just tribute to his memory from the columns of the Chester Chronicle:-" Closely identified as the house of Eaton is, and for centuries has been, with the city of Chester, the leading members having for generations past represented it in parliament, and served also the highest municipal offices; no one member of that illustrious house has at all approached the deceased nobleman in the number and munificence of his benefactions to all the public institutions of whatever description; and his name is more prominently identified than any other with the support of every charity the object of which is to alleviate human suffering, to administer to the wants and necessities of the suffering poor, or to promote the mental culture and physical comfort of the humbler class of our fellow-citizens. In him, the cause of popular education had a warm supporter, and not only in this city, but throughout the hamlets connected with his vast estates, he established and maintained, at a considerable annual expense, public schools for the benefit of the poor." Amongst other important improvements, contributed by him to the city of Chester, he erected the beautiful fabric of the North Gate from the classical designs of Harrison, in 1810, which was a few years after he had served the office of mayor of the city.

The deceased nobleman, like his father, was much attached to the sport of horseracing, and was one of the most distinGENT. MAG. VOL. XXIII,

guished patrons the turf could boast, and at the same time one of the most successful amongst the number of its competitors. His stud, it is understood, has been bequeathed to his grandson, the present Lord Grosvenor.

Although in advanced years, he had enjoyed the most perfect health until within a week of his death, and there was every reasonable hope that he would have been spared for some time longer. During the past winter, a large circle of friends had been staying with him at Eaton, and, as usual, all the members of his family assembled there for the accustomed Christmas festivities. It was on the 9th of February that he was seized with the first alarming indications of illness, from which attack he gradually sank until the 17th, which terminated his mortal existence in the presence of the Marchioness of Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Grosvenor, and the Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor. His medical attendants from the first entertained no hope that he could rally.

The Marquess of Westminster married, April 28, 1794, Lady Eleanor Egerton, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Earl of Wilton, by whom he has left issue three surviving sons: 1. Richard, now second Marquess of Westminster. 2. Thomas, Earl of Wilton, who succeeded to that dignity by special remainder on the death of his maternal grandfather, and married, in 1821, Lady Mary Margaret Stanley, only daughter of Edward twelfth Earl of Derby, by whom he has issue Arthur-Edward-Holland-Grey Viscount Grey de Wilton, and other children; and 3. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. for the city of Chester, which he has represented since the year 1826. He was Comptroller of the Household from 1830 to 1834, and now holds the appointment of Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. He married, in 1831, the Hon. Charlotte Arbuthnot Wellesley, only daughter, by his first wife, of Lord Cowley, and has issue.

The present Marquess was born in 1795, and married in 1819 Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson- Gower, sister to the present Duke of Sutherland, and has issue Hugh Lupus, now Earl Grosvenor, and a numerous family.

The funeral of the deceased Marquess took place on the 25th February, when his remains were interred in the family mausoleum in Eccleston Church, near Chester. The day was observed in Chester, and indeed throughout the surrounding neighbourhood, as a general solemnity. The supporters of the pall were the Rev. J. Piccope, Rector of Farndon, Cheshire, the Rev. G. A. E, Marsh, 31

Rector of Bangor, county of Flint, the Rev. F. Ayckbourn, Rector of Holy Trinity, Chester, the Rev. W. B. Marsden, Vicar of St. John's, Chester, the Rev. J. R. Lyon, Rector of Pulford, Cheshire, and the Rev. Canon Eaton, Rector of St. Mary's, Chester, all of whom hold benefices in the gift of the Grosvenor family. The Dowager Marchioness has, we understand, received the kindest and most condescending letters of condolence from Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the Queen Dowager, and the Duchess of Kent-all written in the handwriting of those illustrious personages, which cannot fail to be highly appreciated as gratifying and consolatory tokens of friendship from the Royal Family.

THE EARL OF MORNINGTON. Feb. 22. In Grosvenor-square, in his 82d year, the Right Hon. William Wellesley Pole, third Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley, of Dangan Castle, co. Meath (1760,) and third Baron Mornington, of Mornington, co. Meath (1746), first Lord Maryborough, of Maryborough, Queen's County (in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1821), G.C.H. a Privy Councillor, Custos Rotulorum of Queen's County, and Constable of Maryborough Castle, younger brother to the late Marquess Wellesley, and elder brother to the Duke of Wellington and Lord Cowley.

The Earl was born at Dangan Castle, co. Meath, on the 20th May, 1763, the second son of Garrett first Earl of Mornington, by the Hon. Anne Hill Trevor, eldest daughter of Arthur first Earl of Dungannon.

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Lord Mornington has, in his day, been known by several names or titles: first he was the Hon. William Wesley; then the old orthography and pronunciation of the name were revived, and he became Mr. Wellesley; then Mr. Wellesley Pole; next he obtained the prefix of Right Honourable; this was followed by the title of Lord Maryborough; and finally, in the month of September, 1842, he became Earl of Mornington. scribing him, then, by his first designation, we may proceed to state that at a very early age the Hon. William Wesley went to Eton. All the Wellesleys went to that celebrated school; and the Duke was the only one of his father's children who did not distinguish himself there. The mental tendencies of those who became ministers or diplomatists might well lead them to delight in the models of power and government, in the productions of genius and the results of learning, which have been bequeathed to

us by the ancients. The subject of this memoir was, certainly, never celebrated at school for eloquence or Greek compo. sition, like his brother Richard; but he was long remembered amongst his contemporaries as a writer of very elegant Latin verses, and, on the whole, as a sound scholar.

While Mr. Wesley was at Eton, an event occurred which well deserves to be noticed in its exact chronological place; for it was to him one of the very highest importance. The family name of the house of Mornington was originally Cowley, or Colley. Henry Colley, of Castle Carbery, had several children, the eldest of whom was the paternal grandfather of the noble Earl just deceased; and the only daughter of this Mr. Colley married Mr. Pole, of Ballyfin, in the Queen's County, by whom she had two sons and four daughters. This gentleman was succeeded by his eldest son, Pariam, and he, dying without issue, was succeeded by his only brother, William; but William also died without issue in the year 1778, and bequeathed his ample possessions to the young Mr. Wesley, who, thus becoming the representative of that ancient family, assumed the name and arms of Pole in addition to those of Wellesley, which latter name had been assumed by his grandfather, in lieu of Colley or Cowley.

Having left Eton, Mr. Wellesley Pole entered the Navy, and three days before attaining the age of twenty-one he married one of the daughters of Admiral Forbes. The twin sister of Lady Mornington, the late dowager Countess of Clarendon, died in March 1844.

Nearly half a century has elapsed since Mr. Wellesley Pole came before the world as a public man, and during that period few men have filled a greater number of offices. For one-and-twenty years he sat in the Imperial Parliament as member for the Queen's County, having been in the Irish Parliament before the Union. Soon after that event he began to take a prominent part in the business of the Legislature.

One of his earliest speeches was delivered in 1802, when he seconded a motion made by Lord Hawkesbury, afterwards Earl of Liverpool, for an address to the King approving the definitive treaty of peace. This speech was followed by his appointment to the office of Clerk of the Ordnance, which situation he held until the 15th Feb. 1806, and again from March 31 to July 21, 1807.

When the financial condition of our East Indian possessions was brought under the consideration of Parliament in

the year 1803, he stood forward as the strenuous advocate of his brother's measures; showing a just confidence in the statesmanlike and commanding genius of the Governor-General.

He took a part in the defence of Lord Melville; and on the Roman Catholic petition being presented in 1805, he voted against its prayer.

In April 1809, Sir Arthur Wellesley (now Duke of Wellington) resigned the office of Chief Secretary to the LordLieutenant of Ireland, and was succeeded in that situation by his brother, Mr. Wellesley Pole; the late Duke of Richmond being then at the head of the Irish Government, the late Lord Manners presiding in the Court of Chancery, and Mr. Saurin filling the post of Attorney-General. This was almost the last Administration which conducted public affairs in that country upon the principle of unmitigated Protestant ascendancy. Of course on the Chief Secretary, Mr. Wellesley Pole, necessarily devolved the duty of enforcing the Convention Act-a law which the Roman Catholic party at that time appeared to set at defiance. It was upon this occasion that he issued a well-known circular to the magistrates of Ireland, which was followed up by a Government procla mation, and this in its turn was succeeded by the prosecution of the Roman Catholic delegates in the Court of King's Bench, on the result of which the Ministry of that day had no reason to congratulate themselves.

The political world of Dublin is usually in a state of violent agitation; but the historian of Ireland will point to the period when Mr. Wellesley Pole was Chief Secretary as one during which the turbulence of Irish partizanship considerably exceeded its ordinary limits. The journalists and the demagogues denounced him as a minister who not only deserved to be degraded and punished, but as a criminal for whose enormities no amount of penal infliction could be excessive, and who had no claim to be heard even in his own defence. Mr. O'Connell was at that time full of youthful energy; the Roman Catholic Board or Association were beginning to be formidable; our great contest with France was then of very doubtful issue; and the exertion of our utmost energies, as a united empire, was essential to the maintenance of our national independence. Those who had any knowledge of Mr. Wellesley Pole felt no surprise that his spirit quailed before such a crisis. When a new Ministry, therefore, was formed in 1812-though the Tories still remained in power-it was deemed expedient that a new Secretary should be sent to Ireland.

"At no period of his life did he manifest Parliamentary talents of a high order; though in the House of Commons he was accustomed to display unbounded confidence in his own judgment; and this habit, combined with other peculiarities, rendered his speeches anything but acceptable to the members of that assembly. Other speakers appeared at times to be under the influence of varied feelings, such as triumph or regret, surprise, joy, disgust, or admiration; but Mr. Wellesley Pole was simply angry-angry at all times, with every person, and about everything; his sharp, shrill, loud voice grating on the ear as if nature had never intended it should be used for the purpose of giving expression to any agreeable sentiment, or any conciliatory phrase. It may be quite true that his unpopularity in the House of Commons became somewhat aggravated by the comparisons which were unavoidably instituted between him and his illustrious brothers, the one adorning his political philosophy with finished eloquence; and the other performing "the greatest actions with unaffected simplicity." But apart from the influence of any rivalry, or the effect of any comparisons, it must be acknowledged that Mr. Wellesley Pole was an undignified, ineffective speaker, an indiscreet politician, and a man by no means skilful in the conduct of official transactions, although he was not deficient in that sort of practical activity which sometimes obtains for men in high office the reputation of being men of business."-(Times.)

The gentleman who succeeded him was Mr. (now Sir Robert) Peel, whose appointment took place upon the formation of the Liverpool Ministry, Mr. Wellesley Pole's tenure of office having been terminated by the dissolution of Mr. Perceval's Cabinet. The protracted negotiations which took place between the death of Mr. Perceval and the appointment of Lord Liverpool were carried on between the Marquess Wellesley and the parties whom he wished to co-operate with him in the formation of a cabinet; but Mr. Wellesley Pole was not again invited to enter the service of the Crown till the year 1815, when he became Master of the Mint. It was at this period that his initials w. w. P. were impressed on many thousand pieces of the new coinage. He again resigned office upon the death of Lord Londonderry.

In the year 1821, on the coronation of King George IV. he was called to the Upper House by the title of Baron Maryborough. His Lordship was nearly 60 years of age when he took his seat in the House of Peers; and it may be supposed that he did not accept that honour with

any view of entering upon a fresh political career. This inference may be drawn from the fact that he scarcely ever addressed the House of Lords. During the whole of the period that Mr. Canning was the leading Minister in the House of Commons, Lord Maryborough remained out of office; but when the Duke of Wellington became head of the Government in 1828, he conferred upon his brotherwho had then attained the ripe age of 65 -an office which is usually bestowed upon some youthful devotee of field sports, that of Master of the King's Buckhounds. His performances in the hunting field, however, would have shamed many a younger Master.

Sir Robert Peel was at the head of the Government from Nov. 1834, till April, 1835. During that period Lord Maryborough was the Postmaster-General, and, though then a septuagenarian, he went through the duties of the employment without incurring any censure, or giving rise to any serious complaint. In 1838, on the death of the late Lord Carington, he was appointed by his brother, the Duke of Wellington (the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports), Captain of Deal Castle; but his lordship resigned that honorary appointment the year before last in favour of the Earl of Dalhousie.

On the death of his elder brother, in 1842, the Marquisate of Wellesley became extinct, but the Irish Earldom of Mornington devolved upon the subject of this memoir, and has now descended to his only son, who was many years known as Mr. Long Wellesley; and who, since his uncle's death, has borne the courtesy title of Viscount Wellesley.

The Earl of Mornington married, May 17, 1784, Catharine - Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Admiral the Hon. John Forbes, (second son of George third Earl of Granard,) and by that lady, who survives him, he had issue one son and three daughters; 1. Lady Mary-CharlotteAnne, married in 1806 to the late Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, G. C. B., and died on the 2nd Feb. last, having been left a widow on the 19th May, 1843; by this daughter the Earl of Mornington was grandfather of the Countess of Winchilsea, and the Countess of Uxbridge; 2. the Right Hon. William now Earl of Mornington; 3. Lady Emily-Harriet, married in 1814, to Major-Gen. Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K. C.B. and has issue; 4. the Right Hon. Priscilla-Anne, Countess of Westmoreland, married in 1811, to Lieut.Gen. the Earl of Westmoreland, K. C.B. and has a numerous family.

The present Earl, who was for many years too well known as Mr. Long Wel lesley, and latterly as Viscount Wellesley,

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is now in the 57th year of his age. married first, in 1812, the rich heiress Miss Tylney Long, and secondly, in 1828, Mrs. Bligh, the daughter of Col. Thomas Patterson. By the former he had two sons, of whom one only, now Viscount Wellesley, born in 1815, is surviving, and one daughter.

The body of the late Earl of Mornington was removed for interment to Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street, attended by the Duke of Wellington, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley, &c. and was deposited in the same vault where the remains of his mother, the late Countess of Mornington, repose.

THE EARL OF ST. GERMANS. Jan. 19. At his seat, Port Eliot, near St. Germans, Cornwall, in his 78th year, the Right Hon. William Eliot, second Earl of St. Germans (1815), and third Baron Eliot, of St. Germans (1784).

His Lordship was born April 1, 1767, the third and youngest son of EdwardCraggs first Lord Eliot, by Catharine, only daughter and heir of Edward Elliston, esq. of South Weald, Essex.

With both his elder brothers, he was a member of Pembroke college, Cambridge, where the degree of M.A. was conferred upon him in 1786.

Mr. William Eliot directed his attention to the diplomatic branch of the public service, and at the period of his first return to Parliament in 1790 he was Secretary of Legation at the Hague, and Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of his Majesty's Ambassador there.

He was returned to Parliament, in that year, for the family borough of St. Germans, and again at the general election of 1796.

In Dec. 1796, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Elector Palatine and the Diet of Ratsbon. His Lordship was also, it is believed, for some time minister at Munich.

On the 20th Sept. 1797, his eldest brother the Hon. Edward James Eliot died, leaving by his wife the Hon. Harriett Pitt, daughter of the great Earl of Chatham, one daughter only, the Hon. Hesther Harriett, Pitt Eliot, afterwards married to the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Henry Pringle, G. C.B.

In 1802 the Hon. William Eliot was returned to Parliament for Liskeard, which borough also was in the patronage of his family, and he continued to sit for it until his accession to the peerage.

In April 1807, he was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and he continued at that board for some years.

On the 17th Nov. 1823, on the death

of his brother John, who had succeeded his father in the peerage as Lord Eliot in 1804, and been advanced to the earldom of St. Germans in 1815, he succeeded to both those dignities, the latter having been conferred with remainder to the issue of his father.

The Earl was, as a politician, a Conservative, and possessed considerable election interest in Cornwall, having previous to the Reform Bill returned four members to the House of Commons; but of late years his lordship has not interfered in the opinions of his contented tenantry, nor, indeed, at any time did he exercise his political sentiments in a way oppressive to his dependents.

The Earl of St. Germans was four times married, and four times a widower. His first alliance took place in Nov. 1797 with Lady Georgiana Augusta LevesonGower, fourth daughter of Granville first Marquess of Stafford, who died (leaving issue as below mentioned) March 24, 1806. He married secondly, Feb. 13, 1809, Letitia, eldest daughter of the late Sir William Pierce Ashe A' Court, Bart. and sister to Lord Heytesbury; who died without issue, Jan. 20, 1810. Thirdly, March 7, 1812, Charlotte, eldest dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. John Robinson, of Denston-hall, Suffolk, by the Hon. Rebecca Clive, sister to the first Earl of Powis; she died without issue, July 3, 1813. The Earl's fourth wife (and the only one who bore the title of Countess) was Susan, sixth daughter of the late Sir John Mordaunt, Bart. who died without issue on the 5th Feb. 1830.

The Earl's issue, by his first lady, were one son and three daughters: 1. the Right Hon. Edward-Granville now Earl of St. Germans; 2. Lady Carolina Georgiana Eliot; 3. Lady Susan Caroline, married in 1824 to Colonel the Hon. Henry Lygon, brother and heir-presumptive to Earl Beauchamp, and died in 1835, leaving issue two sons and two daughters; 4. Lady Charlotte-Sophia, married in 1825 to the Rev. George Martin, Canon and Chancellor of Exeter, and died in 1839.

The present Earl, who at the time of his father's death was Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant and Keeper of the Privy Seal in Ireland, and M.P. for East Cornwall, was born in 1798, and married in 1824 Lady Jemima Cornwallis, third daughter of Charles second Marquess Cornwallis, by whom he has issue one surviving daughter and five sons.

THE EARL OF EFFINGHAM, G.C.B. Feb. 13. At Brighton, aged 77, the Right Hon, Kenneth Alexander Howard,

Earl of Effinghain, and eleventh Baron Howard of Effingham (1554), a General in the army, Colonel of the 3d Foot, G.C.B., and K.T.S.

His Lordship was born Nov. 29, 1767, the only son of Henry Howard, esq. of Arundel, Captain in the army, by his second wife, the Hon. Maria Mackenzie, second daughter of Kenneth Viscount Fortrose, eldest son of William fifth Earl of Seaforth (attainted for the rebellion of 1715). His father was descended in the sixth degree from Sir William Howard, of Lingfield, the second son of William first Lord Howard of Effingham.

His Lordship had been in the army nearly sixty years, and during the war he eminently distinguished himself. He entered as Ensign in the 2nd Foot Guards the 21st April, 1786. From Feb. 1793 to May 1795, his Lordship served with the Guards in Flanders, and was present at the affair of St. Amand, where he was wounded; at the siege and capture of Valenciennes, the action of Lincelles, and siege of Dunkirk. On the 25th April 1793 he was appointed CaptainLieutenant; and on the 1st Sept. following, Adjutant of the battalion.

On the 30th Dec. 1797 he was promoted to be Captain and Lieut.. Colonel.

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During the rebellion in 1798 he served as Major of Brigade in Ireland. went in the same capacity with the expedition to Holland in 1799, and was present in all the actions of that campaign.

On the 1st July 1801 he was deputed to act as Inspector-General of Foreign Corps during the absence from England of Colonel Sir W. Clinton; and on that officer's return he was appointed, the 25th Feb. 1802, Deputy Inspector-General of Foreign Corps. On that office being abolished, he was made Commandant of the Foreign Depôt.

On the 1st Jan. 1805, he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the King, with the rank of Colonel; the 4th Aug. 1808 second Major in his regiment; and the 25th July 1810 a Major-General. In Jan. 1811 he joined the army in the Peninsula, under the Duke of Wellington. He was appointed to the command of a brigade of the 1st division, and was present with that body at the action of Fuentes d'Onor; was transferred with his brigade to the 2nd division, the command of which he held as senior officer from July, 1811 to Aug. 1812. At the action of Arroyo de Molinos he particularly attracted the notice of his commanding officer (Lord Hill) by his gallantry. He commanded on that occasion the right column, principally composed of infantry from the 50th, 71st, and 92nd regiments and a company of the 60th. In his dis♦