artist, whose countenance was not of the most prepossessing character, and who, although he had a firm and vigorous pencil, did not evince much taste in the selection of his subjects, Mr Fuseli said, "He paints nothing but thieves and murderers, and when he wants a model he looks in the glass." chief. I am better pleased, indeed, that he censures some things, than I should have been with unmixed commendation; for his censure (to use the new diplo matic term) will accredit his praise. In his particular remarks he is for the most part right, and I shall be the better for them; but in his general ones, I think he asserts too largely, and more than he could prove." Of his intimate knowledge of Greek, Mr Fuseli frequently availed himself for his amusement. He would compose Greek verses extemporaneously, and then pretend he could not recollect the author. "Whose are those, Porson ?" repeating four or five sonorous lines. "I really do not know," answered the learned professor, after a short pause; no doubt surprised to find that any Greek existed in the world with which he was unacquainted. "How the deuce should you," was the chuckling reply, when I wrote them myself?" Mr Fuseli understood the Latin language thoroughly, and wrote it with great elegance and power, He was likewise an excellent Greek scholar. When Cowper was preparing his translation of the Iliad for the press, Mr Fuseli, having seen the "Prospectus" of the work, made some observations upon it while sitting at Mr Johnson's table, which, having been reported to Mr Cowper, struck him so forcibly that he requested the critic's assistance in the revision of his manuscript, and received it. In Hayley's "Life of Cowper," there is a letter from Cowper to the Rev. Wm. Unwin, dated March" 13, 1786, in which the fact is mentioned at length. On the publication of Cowper's work, Mr Fuseli wrote an admirable critique upon it, in the "Analytical Review;" which publication, indeed, is enriched with a great many contributions from his pen, on subjects connected with natural history, the fine arts, and classical learning. It would be difficult to convey a more adequate notion of the soundness of Mr Fuseli's remarks, than by showing, in the following passage of a letter from Cowper to Samuel Rose, Esq. dated Feb. 17, 1793, what the author himself thought of the review : "I have read the critique of my work in the Analytical Review, and am happy to have fallen into the hands of a critic, rigorous enough indeed, but a scholar and a man of sense; and who does not deliberately intend me a mis There were few modern languages also of which Mr Fuseli did not know something; for he had great facility in acquiring languages, and used to say, that the application of six weeks was enough to enable a man to grasp the elements of any one. German was his native tongue. He was a perfect master of English, wrote French with great ease, and Italian in its purest dialect; and could read Dutch without difficul ty. His memory was singularly retentive; he was never at a loss in quoting a classic author; and could always tell the part of the work in which the quotation might be found. Shak speare, Milton, and Dante, were his favourites. With the first especially, perhaps few men ever lived who were so thoroughly conversant. Mr Fuseli wrote the "Advertisement," as it is called, but which is in fact the preface to Dr Hunter's transla For January, 1793. of "Lavater's Physiognomy." It very able and a very characteristic nposition. When Lavater published his "Aphoris on Man," it was with a view that y should be translated into English bis friend Fuseli; which they acdingly were. With this intention dedicated them to Mr Fuseli. A warm and sincere friendship subted between Mr Fuseli and Sir Thos Lawrence; commencing at a very ly period in the life of the latter, and ntinuing, not only with undiminished, t with increasing ardour, until the se of the life of the former. So impressed were the students of › Royal Academy with the kindness th which Mr Fuseli conducted himif towards them in his office of keeper, e of the principal duties of which siation is, to superintend what is called The Antique Academy," that some ars ago they presented him with a handme silver vase, executed by Messrs undell and Bridge, from a design by r Flaxman; a tribute of grateful reect which affected him sensibly. In 1817, he was honoured with the ploma of the first class of the academy St Luke, at Rome. Mr Fuseli continued to paint to the st week of his life. The picture which as on his easel at the time of his death, ad which is in a state that may fairly e called finished, was "Constance,' om King John. He was painting it or James Carrick Moore, Esq. He left, owever, above sixty pictures, most of hem finished, (the greater part, indeed, aving been exhibited,) and the rest in ifferent stages of advancement; for it vas frequently his practice, when he ad completed his composition, and imarted to it some expression and a little effect, to set it aside, and take up somehing else. Perhaps, it may not be unnteresting to mention, that he painted with his left hand. During his long life, Mr Fuseli generally enjoyed excellent health. His only complaint was an occasional tendency to water in the chest, which he always removed by the use of digitalis. "I have been a very happy man," he was accustomed to say, "for I have been always well, and always employed in doing what I liked." At the time of his death, he was on a visit to the Countess of Guildford, at Putney Hill. On the Sunday preceding the fatal event, he was engaged to dine with his early, admired, and admiring friend Mr Rogers, the poet, to meet Sir Thomas Lawrence, and his attached friend and half-pupil Mr W. Young Ottley; but having taken a short walk in the garden at Putney Hill, and feeling himself a little indisposed, Lady Guildford persuaded him to send an apology, which he rather reluctantly did. It is impossible to pay too high a tribute to Lady Guildford, and her amiable and accomplished daughters, Lady Susan and Lady Georgina North, for the uniform kindness with which they treated Mr Fuseli, and for the solicitude which they evinced on his account when he appeared to be in danger. His illness, if it might be so called, for he had no particular disorder, lasted only five days. He was attended by Sir Alexander Crichton and Dr Holland; but nature was evidently giving way, and all medical skill proved unavailing. To the last he retained the perfect possession of his faculties, and his mind was as vigorous and alert as at any former period of his life. On Mr Knowles, who had been his daily visitor from the commencement of his indisposition, calling to see him the evening previous to his decease, Mr Fuseli said to him, "My friend, I am going to that bourne whence no traveller returns." THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FREDERIC HOWARD, EARL OF CARLISLE; VISCOUNT HOWARD OF MORPETH; BARON DACRES, OF GILLIESLAND; AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. The late earl was the eldest son of Henry, fourth Earl of Carlisle, by his second wife Isabella, daughter of William, fourth Lord Byron. He was born May 28, 1748; and on the death of his father, Sept. 3, 1758, succeeded to the family estates. His lordship was sent early to Eaton College. At Eaton College he was the contemporary of many men who afterwards attained either high rank or great celebrity; of Hare, whose verses were appended to the schoolroom on account of their excellence; of Charles James Fox, whom he was fated to admire, "ere yet in manhood's bloom," to differ from at a riper age, and again to support; and of the late Duke of Leinster, with whom he always lived in habits of familiarity. But the time at length arrived when his lordship was compelled to quit this retreat of the muses, and tread the busy haunts of men. He repaired to the continent, and made the grand tour. During his travels, although he was not a peer of Scotland, he was elected one of the Knights Companions of the Order of the Thistle, and was invested with the insignia of the order, Feb. 27, 1763, at Turin; the King of Sardinia representing his Britannic Majesty on that to introduce the foreign foppery of re heels. Lord Carlisle entered on the political stage at a time when the government d his late Majesty was almost paralysed by the selfish contests of faction; and the country was engaged with bet American colonies, in an expensive and unnatural contest. The scheme of sending commissioners to America had already been tried. and proved unsuccessful. In 1776, a commission, at the head of which was Lord Howe, had in vain endeavoured to restore public tranquillity in America. In 1778, the Earl of Carlisle repaired to America, in the character of one of his Majesty's commissioners for the purpose of restoring peace. He was accompanied by Governor Johnstone, who was included in the mission, and a by Mr Eden, afterwards Lord Auck- ↑ land. It is well known that their joint efforts were ineffectual: and that all; their arguments failed to persuade the Americans to return under the govern ment of Great Britain; but it was ac knowledged by all parties, that the noble Lord at the head of the embassy executed the office intrusted to him in a manner that redounded greatly to his honour. In October 1780, the Earl of Carlisle, who had been nominated lord lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, was appointed Viceroy of Ireland. The period at which his Lordship was called upon to preside over the affairs of Ireland was peculiarly arduous and critical. Ireland having been drained of all the regular troops for the purpose of carrying on the contest in America, the inhabitants had associated for their own defence and protection; and an army of volunteers, officered by gentlemen of rank and fortune, and headed by the Earl of Charlemont, was in complete possession of the country. Yet notwithstanding these circumstances, the administration of the Earl of Carlisle was accompanied with many circumstances calculated to conciliate popular favour. It was during his Lordship's government that a national bank was established; and many excellent plans were formed and bills passed for increasing the trade of Ireland. In the meantime, Lord North, perceiving the storm that was gathering around him, wished to escape its fury by withdrawing from public affairs. The Marquis of Rockingham, the Duke of Portland, Mr Fox, Mr Burke, Mr Windham, and their political adherents, had, in fact, already hunted the minister into their toils, and were preparing to divide his spoils. About the end of March 1782, an entire change took place, and the government of Ireland fell to the share of the Duke of Portland. The Irish parliament, however, was not unmindful of the services of the late viceroy; for, after the appointment and arrival of his successor, the House of Commons, on the 15th of April 1782, passed the following vote: "That the thanks of this house be presented to the Right Honourable Frederic Earl of Carlisle, for the wisdom and prudence of his administration, and for his uniform and unremitted attention to promote the welfare of this kingdom." The demise of the Marquis of Rockingham, who was at the head of the new ministry, dissolved all the hopes and projects of his coadjutors. In con[ sequence of the subsequent changes, we find the Earl of Carlisle enjoying the honourable appointment of steward of the household; and he soon after succeeded to the still more dignified and confidential one of lord privy seal. But a variety of important alterations soon ensued. It became difficult to preserve a firm footing amidst the volcanic explosions of politics. At length the extraordinary genius of one man for a while tranquillized the tempest, until the French revolution became the prog nostic of a new and still more porten tous storm. During the discussions that took place in Parliament in 1789, relative to the regency, Lord Carlisle took an active part in favour of the claims of the heir-apparent. In 1791 we find his Lordship once more acting in opposition to Mr Pitt's administration. Upon the question relating to the occupation of Oczakow by the Russians; and, again, in the same year, upon the question of the war undertaken by the Nabob of Arcot and the Anglo-Indian government against the Sultan Tippoo Saib. On the sudden recall of Earl Fitzwilliam from the government of Ireland, he addressed a letter to his old friend the Earl of Carlisle, detailing the principal events of his administration, and explaining the motives by which he had been actuated. This letter was soon after published in Dublin; and a reply, in thirteen pages, appeared in the course of a short time in London; which rendered it evident, that the sentiments of the two noble lords were not exactly in unison with respect to Irish affairs. In this reply, Lord Carlisle laments that his noble friend" had adopted a system difficult to recede from or abandon, before he had been long enough near the source of real information confidently to take, by his own scale, the just measure of its magnitude." Both these pamphlets occasioned a considerable sensation at the time. When, after the first burst of the revolution in France, it appeared that the French, instead of employing themselves in the establishment of a free and wise system of government in their own country, were endeavouring to induce the people of other countries to rebel against their respective governments, and to subvert every existing institution, Lord Carlisle took the alarm, and, quitting the ranks of opposition, ranked himself on the side of his Ma jesty's ministers, and contributed all in his power to give efficacy to their measures. On the 26th of December, 1792, on the motion, in the House of Lords, for the third reading of the Alien Bill, Lord Carlisle said," that though not accustomed to agree with the present administration, yet he would support their measures in this instance. He had often thought a change of administration was the only thing that could be of essential service to the country, and his opinion was not altered; but at that juncture, he was afraid that a change of administration might bring about a change of measures, and that, he thought, would be of very dangerous consequence. If there was to be a change of ministers, it might naturally be supposed, that the first act of a new ministry would be to negotiate with France, and that of all things was what he never wished to hear of; because it would only tend to strengthen our enemies, and could be of no use to ourselves." Again, in the debate on the king's message for the augmentation of the forces, February 1, 1793, we find Lord Carlisle expressing "his astonishment that there should be any opposition to a measure upon which he had conceived there could be but one voice, one heart, and one mind, throughout the nation at large." For the distinguished loyalty thus exhibited by Lord Carlisle, under circumstances of so critical a nature, he was, in 1793, honoured with the Order of the Garter. In the debate on the address, January 21, 1794, Lord Carlisle repeated the sentiments which he had expressed in the preceding year, and on the 17th of February he opposed the Marquis of Lansdown's motion for treating with France. On the 22d of May 1794, in the debate on the Habeas Corpus Suspen sion Bill, Lord Carlisle asserted the cessity of the measure. On the 6th of January 1795, L Carlisle moved an adjournment, wit was carried, with a single exceptin nemine contradicente, on Lord St hope's motion against any interferen in the internal affairs of France. In 1798, the noble earl publishes for general distribution, a spirited tar. entitled" Unite, or Fall." Lord Carlisle was a great friend the Union with Ireland. On the 1% of March 1799, in the debate on th resolutions relative to that subject, lordship adverted to his former admi stration of the government of that com try, as qualifying him to speak on th subject, and remarked, "that if the Uni should produce the desirable effect ameliorating the condition of the In peasant, making him feel an interest i his existence, rescuing him from the sullen despair in which he held his mis erable being, and converting him in the child of hope and expectation, 80% to put him on a footing with every de scription of British subjects, it work be a measure the most politically ful that human invention could have de vised." In the debate of the 28th of January 1800, on the king's message respec ing an overture of peace from the Cosular government of France, Lord Cr lisle observed, that to "enter into a ne gotiation at that time would be to run the country. Still, however, he thought it would be more prudent merely to thank his Majesty for his gracious communication, and not to give any opinier upon the conduct of the executive ge vernment." When Lord Darnley, on the admini stration of Mr Pitt being superseded by that of Mr Addington, was about to move for an inquiry into the conduct of ministers respecting the management of the war, Lord Carlisle entreated the |