Arden, of Arden, in Cheshire, was educated under the tuition of Thyer, the editor of Butler's Remains, and proceeded to Trinity college, Cam. bridge, wherein he distinguished himself. He took his M.A. degree in 1769: he was called to the bar by the Middle Temple society, and was appointed solicitor-general on the 26th of December 1783, and attorney-general on the 30th of March 1784. He succeeded sir Lloyd Kenyon, as master of the rolls, in 1788. He was appointed chief justice of the common pleas in May 1801, when he was created lord Alvanley, and he died the 19th of March 1804.

61. Sir Archibald Macdonald was born in 1747, the son of sir Alexander Macdonald, of Slate, by the lady Margaret Montgomery, the daughter of the earl of Eglington, and is, of course, the brother of the late lord Macdonald. His education, however, was English : he entered Wesminster school, in 1760, at the age of thirteen, and was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1764. He was elected representative in parliament for Hindon, in 1774; and for Newcastle under Line, in 1780 and 1784 : he was appointed one of the king's counsel in 1778,

and one of the judges for Wales in 1780. In April 1784, he was appointed successor to sir Richard P. Arden, as solicitor-general; and in September 1788, he also succeeded sir Richard, as attorneygeneral. In February 1793, he was appointed chief baron of the exchequer, in the room of sir J. Eyre, who was promoted to be chief justice of the common pleas; and sir Archibald was sworn a privy councillor on the 15th. After discharging this great trust, for upwards of twenty years, with satisfaction to himself, and benefit to the public, he gave in his resignation, on account of the failure of his eyesight in October, 1813, and on the 6th of November following, he was created a baronet of the united kingdom, in consideration of his long and faithful services.

62. Sir Matthew Lamb, who succeeded Mr. Fane, as counsel to the board of trade, in 1746, and died in November, 1768.

63. Richard Jackson, who was appointed counsel to the board of trade in April 1770, and died on the 6th of May, 1787, a privy councillor, and clerk of the paperoffice, in Ireland, an office which lord Bowes had held.

64. William Kemp, barrister-at-law, who died attorney-general of New York, about the year

1793.

65. William Smith, who was a lawyer of the same province, and died chief justice of Quebec. 66. James Holyday, of Maryland.

67. William Paca, of the same province. 68. The honorable Daniel Dulany, secretary, and one of the council of the same province.

69. Sir James Marriot, doctor of laws, was born in 1731, the son of an attorney, in Hatton Garden. Choosing the civil law for his profession, he received his university education at Cambridge. He is said to have obtained his first promotion by arranging the duke of Newcastle's library, when chancellor of the university of Cambridge. He was elected master of Trinity-hall, on the death of Dr. Dickens. He distinguished himself, as a civilian, by publishing, in 1759, "The Case of the Dutch Prizes, taken in the War before the last." In July, 1764, he was appointed the king's advocate, in the room of sir George Hay, who was promoted to be judge of the arches, and the prerogative courts. In 1768, being then vice-chancellor of the

university of Cambridge, he presented the honours of that illustrious body to the king of Denmark, at Newmarket. In 1769, he published "The Rights and Privileges of both the Universities, and of the University of Cambridge in particular, defended in a Charge to the Grand Jury, at the Quarter Sessions for the Peace at Cambridge, October the 10th, 1768 :" he also published his argument, in the case of the colleges of Christ, and Emanuel. His poetry may be seen in Dodsley's Collections. He distinguished himself by the acuteness of his answers, when examined at the bar of the house of commons, on the Quebec constitution. He was appointed judge of the high court of admiralty, in the room of sir George Hay. He resigned this high office in October 1798, and, at the age of 72, he died, on the 21st of March, 1803, at two o'clock in the morning, while sitting in his chair, at Twinstead-hall, near Sudbury, which he had represented, in two parliaments. His learned, and singular judgment in the high court of admiralty, in the case of the ship Columbus, is published in the Collectanea Juridica, vol. i. p. 82.

70. Sir William Wynne, doctor of laws, seems

to have followed the tract of sir James Marriot to the top of his profession, which has been dignified by so many eminent men, who were distinguished by their talents, and probity. In October 1778, he was appointed vicar-general of the province of Canterbury, and his majesty's advocate-general. On the decease of sir J. Marriot, was elected, in his room, sir Wm. Wynne, one of his majesty's privy council, official principal of the arches court of Canterbury, master of the prerogative court of Canterbury, commissary of the deanery of the arches, and master of Trinity-hall, Cambridge. 71. A barrister.

72. John De Witt was born of a noble family in 1625; became pensionary of Dordrecht, and pensionary of Holland, intendant of the fiefs, and keeper of the seals. During troublous times, he governed Holland with great ability, though he could not always command success. He excluded William the Third, prince of Orange, from his constitutional share in the government of the States. He was thereupon attacked by four assassins. The prince of Orange was restored to the stadtholdership; but two great men could not safely exist, at