poor man; could have heard his expression of contrition after misconduct, and of reliance on the mercy of his Creator; could have heard his dying exhortation to one of his intimate friends, to live in future a life of peace and virtue; I think it would have made impressions on their minds, as it did on mine, not easily to be effaced.”

He lingered, free from acute pain, from Thursday till Saturday evening, about half-past eight, when a mortification having taken place, he expired, apparently without sense of suffering.

Thus died Thomas Lord Camelford, in the prime and full vigour of life. "He was a man," says the Rev. Mr. Cockburne, "whose real character was but little known to the world; his imperfections and his follies were often brought before the public, but the counterbalancing virtues he manifested were but little heard of. Though violent to those whom he imagined to have wronged him, yet to his acquaintance he was mild, affable, and courteous; a stern adversary, but the kindest and most generous of friends. Slow and cautious in determining upon any important step, while deliberating, he was most attentive to the advice of others, and easily brought over to their opinion; when, however, his resolutions. were once taken, it was almost impossible to turn him from his purpose. That warmth of disposition, which prompted him so unhappily to great improprieties, prompted him also to the most lively efforts of active benevolence. From the many prisons in the metropolis, from the various receptacles of human misery, he received numberless petitions, and no petition ever came in vain. He was often the dupe of the designing and crafty supplicant, but he was more often the reliever of real sorrow, and the soother of unmerited woe. Constantly would he make use of that influence which rank and fortune gave him with the government, to interfere

in behalf of those malefactors whose crimes had subjected them to punishment, but in whose cases appeared circumstances of alleviation. He was passionately fond of science, and though his mind, while a young seaman, had been little cultivated, yet in his later years, he had acquired a prodigious fund of information, upon almost every subject connected with literature. In early life he had gloried much in puzzling the chaplains of the ships in which he served, and to enable him to gain such triumphs, he had read all the sceptical books he could procure; and thus his mind became involuntarily tainted with infidelity. As his judgment grew more matured, he discovered of himself the fallacy of his own reasonings, he became convinced of the importance of religion, and Christianity was the constant subject of his reflections, his reading, and conversation."

On the morning after his decease, an inquest was heid on the body, and a verdict of wilful murder against "some person or persons unknown;" on which a bill of indictment was preferred against Mr. Best and his friend, which was ignored by the grand jury.

LORD ROKEBY.

MATTHEW, second Lord Rokeby, was the son of Matthew Robinson, Esq., of Edgerley, co. York, and succeeded, in 1794, to his title by the demise of the Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Rokeby, whose heir he was. Among many other singularities, Lord Rokeby suffered his beard to grow for many years, during which time it attained a most patriarchal length. He was very fond of sea-bathing, and built a hut on a beach near Hythe, about three miles from his own house, whither he repaired almost every day. He was generally accompanied in these excursions by a carriage, and a favourite servant; but his lordship always went on foot, with his hat under his arm. If it happened to rain, he would make the attendants get into the carriage, observing, that as they were gaudily dressed, and not inured to wet, the rain would spoil their clothes, and give them cold. So fond was his lordship of bathing, that he lived a considerable portion of his time in water, tempered by the rays of the sun. For this purpose, he had a bathinghouse of considerable extent, glazed in front, to a southeastern aspect, and thatched at the top. It was so large, that he could run round it and dry himself, and the floor was boarded and matted.

Lord Rokeby had a great abhorrence of fires in his rooms; and even in winter, generally sat with his

windows open. In his diet he was singular and abstemious; his principal food was beef-tea, which was always ready for him on the sideboard; he drank no wine, and had a great aversion to everything that was exotic. I being his maxim that this island produced sufficient food for the nourishment of man.

In his park he kept no deer, but had it plentify stocked with black cattle, which had full liberty to range over the domain uninterruptedly. Though no infide.. he never went to church, the path to which, from he house, was grown over, and his pew left to the same decay as his family coach, which he never entered. This circumstance once occasioned him some embarrasse

ment.

The Archbishop of Armagh, who was cousin to Led Rokeby, paid him a visit a short time before his death. at his seat, Mount Morris, in Kent. The archbishop gave him notice on the Saturday, that he would dine with him on the following Saturday. "I gave orders.” says his lordship, in relating this anecdote, " for dinner and so forth, for my cousin, the archbishop, but I never thought, till he came, that the next day was Sunday. What was I to do? Here was my cousin, the archbishop, and he must go to church, and there was no wa! to it; the chancel-door, too, had been locked up these thirty years, and my pew was certainly not fit for his grace. I sent off immediately to Hythe, for the carpetters, and the joiners, and the drapers; and into the village for the labourers, the mowers, and the grave. carters. All went to work; the path was mowed; the gravel was thrown on and rolled; a gate made for t church-yard; a new pew set up, well lined a cushioned; and the next day I walked by the side my cousin, the archbishop, to church, who found everything right and proper."

In early life Lord Rokeby represented Canterbury in Parliament. His neighbourhood to that city had naturally introduced him to some of the higher classes there; but he had no idea of a slight acquaintance with a few only of his constituents; he would know and be known to them all. His visits to Canterbury gratified himself and them. They were visits to his constituents, whom he called on at their shops and their looms, walked within their market-places, spent the evening with them at their clubs. He could do this from one of his principles, which he had studied with the greatest attention, and maintained with the utmost firmness-the natural equality of man. Hence, perhaps, there never was a representative more respected and beloved by his constituents, and his attention to the duties of Parliament entitled him to their veneration. Independent of all parties, he uttered the sentiments of his heart; he weighed the propriety of every measure, and gave his vote according to the preponderance of argument. The natural consequence of such conduct was, in the first Parliament, a disgust with the manners of the house; and he would have resigned his seat at the general election, if his father had not particularly desired him to make one more trial, and presented him, at the same time, with a purse, not such as has lately been thought necessary for the party, to pay his election expenses. Mr. Robinson was re-elected, but he conceived that a member of Parliament should carry into the House a sincere love of his country, sound knowledge, attention to business, and firm independence; that the greatest traitors, with which a country could be cursed, were such persons as would enter Parliament with a determination to support the minister or his opponents, according to his expectation or actual enjoyment of a place, pension, or emolument derived from the Administration. Even in his time he