of the Establishment; they wish to secure its per- | tenance from a national fund. It is not easy to see manence, as a comfort to themselves and a guaran- in such a case how the nation could continue to tee for the morality and happiness of their children. They are repelled by the austere Calvinism and pharisaical formality which are the tendencies of the Low Church; they have little sympathy with the imaginative mysticism and excessive veneration of ritual forms which characterize the High Church. They are prepared to rally round a devout clergy, who will inculcate, and set forth in their lives, the influence of scriptural truths, and conduct public worship with dignified and decorous forms. If disruption and disestablishment are to be the doom of the Church of England, it will be due mainly to the apathy and cowardice of the dignitaries, who shrink from placing themselves with decision at the head of this overwhelming majority of the church's members. The Bishop of Exeter's movement is dangerous because it brings more combatants into the field than have hitherto taken an active part in the controversy, and because it divides the church into two nearly equal parties. The leading Tractarians are subtle logicians, and men of refined taste; but they are book men, and their followers are too much taken up with mere externals; the party has little hold on public sympathy. Again, it is only a minority of the three hundred thousand petitioners who would go the length of enforcing a Judaical Sabbath by act of Parliament. But the Bishop of Exeter skilfully keeps crosses and candles and intonation in the background, and insists mainly on the abstract principles, that the sacraments possess in themselves a mystical supernatural efficacy, and that the clergy only are entitled to a voice in church councils, in subordination to the bishops. He thus invites many to his standard who have kept aloof from Tractarian practices, and drives into the opposite ranks many who have little sympathy with what used to be called Agnewism. The Low Church holds that the laity ought to have some voice in the appointment of the parochial clergy, and that the bishops ought to be nominated by the concurring voice of the laity and inferior clergy. The High Church holds that the bishop is the nucleus of every rightly-constituted church; that the clergy derive their authority from him; and that they, under his direction, ought to govern the laity. The irreconcilable theories of the two parties are strikingly developed in the proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge and the Colonial Church Society. Both of these bodies have been exerting themselves to extend the Church of England in the colonies; but the former uniformly begins by appointing a bishop, who may ordain and institute clergymen as the wants of the communion require; the latter, by appointing ministering clergymen, postponing episcopal appointments till there is a church numerous enough to need such a superintendence. The tactique of Bishop Phillpotts would set not merely Tractarians and Puritans, but the more numerous parties represented by the societies we have named together by the ears. The success or failure of his attempt will probably decide whether the present heats are to end in a secession from or a disruption of the church. Committed as the leading Tractarians are, one or the other seems inevitable. Both are to be deprecated, but especially the latter; for disruption would inevitably lead to disestablishment. Neither party would be sufficiently numerous to have a claim to the title of national, or to main enjoy the benefits which have unquestionably been derived from the existence of a well-educated and well-conducted clergy placed in circumstances to render them independent of outbreaks of unenlightened zeal. Something might indeed be accomplished by allowing a majority of the heads of families in each parish to elect, at each recurring vacancy, their pastor from any of the churches actually existing in the country. It is clear that an organized church (such as the Episcopalian or Presbyterian) can exist independently of endowments or territorial relations. The emoluments of the various benefices might be employed to secure the services of the best-educated and most respectable of the clergy of any of the different churches whose views were most in harmony with those of the congregations for the time being. A national clergy might thus be established composed of the élite of all the churches. There would, however, be great practical difficulties in the way of realizing such a scheme. If carried out, it would of necessity effect an entire revolution in the opinions and tone of society. The clergy would no longer be identified, to the extent they at present are, with the landed aristocracy; and secular education would require to be entirely disassociated from the church. The arrangement would at best be a pis-aller. But it would be the only possible refuge from the utter abolition of anything resembling a national religious establishment. Such is the dim and dangerous course towards which the wayward tempers of men like the Bishop of Exeter are urging us. From the Spectator. THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. 79 Pall Mall, 21st April, 1851. SIR-In the Spectator of last Saturday, you illustrate your position as to "the irreconcilable theories" of the two great parties within the Church of England, by a reference to the opposite practice of two Missionary Societies. One of them, you say, "uniformly begins by appointing a bishop, who may ordain and institute clergymen as the wants of his communion require;" the other, "by appointing ministering clergymen, postponing episcopal appointments till there is a church numerous enough to need such a superintendence." With the proceedings of the former of these Societies, that for the Propagation of the Gospel, I am intimately acquainted; and, as nothing which concerns the moral and religious wellbeing of the colonies can be out of place in the Spectator, I trust you will allow me to offer a few words of explanation. Except in a single instance, the society has hitherto contributed nothing from its general funds towards the endowment of colonial bishoprics; but the uniform experience of its history has shown how utterly impossible it is to supply any colony with an adequate number of clergymen except through the instrumentality of resident bishops. Hence the slow advance of the church in the old colonies of America previous to the date of their independence. Few well qualified missionaries could be found in this country, and there were no means of ordaining such as might have offered themselves there. But from the moment that the members of our communion in the United States were enabled to supply the deficiency of which Lord Lyndhurst and Mr. Stuart Wortley have elicited the assurance that ministers are vigilant and prepared; which implies that there is something to be watched and controlled. The Times also persists in the formidable reässurance that the commander-in-chief is " concentrating troops round London." Finally, Queen Victoria is to open the Exposition in person, but not in presence of the public. they had so long complained, by the establishment | the glass house. The questions in Parliament by of the episcopate, their church sprang forward with new life. Equally striking has been the progress of the Colonial Church, wherever a bishop's see has been founded; and I am anxious to direct your attention to this fact, as showing that the early nomination of a bishop is the most likely means to secure the requisite number of officiating clergymen. Within the last twelve years, no fewer than sixteen bishoprics have been erected in the British Colonies. In nine of these, I find, by an official report now before me, that the num-grouped only the most overt, have created some ber of the clergy has increased from 183 to 420. In some cases the progress has been most remarkable; from ten to forty-five in Newfoundland; from thirteen to thirty-eight within three years at the Cape; and within the same period of time from three to twenty in Port Philip. These striking results, which have followed the foundation of new episcopal sees, would seem to show that the appointment of a bishop, so far from being properly set in opposition to the appointment of humbler missionaries, is, in point of fact, the most efficient method of securing the requisite number of clergymen in the parishes and missions of any colony. I am, sir, your faithful servant, PLEASURES AND ERNEST HAWKINS. From the Spectator, 19 April. QUEEN VICTORIA is to open the Exposition in Hyde Park on Thursday week, in person, but not in the presence of the public! The first part of the announcement redoubled the pleased expectancy, already warmed by the tardy arrival of the sunlong supposed, this darksome April, to have been detained altogether on the Continent. The second part of the announcement has provoked disappointment, a vague apprehension of the probable reason for it, annoyance at the apprehension, and much discussion in the journals. Cumulatively, these portents, of which we have mystification if not apprehension; but in the main, we believe, the sound instinct of the public has kept tolerably near the common sense view. It is at once seen that men acting with leaders like Mazzini who aspires to stand on an equal pedestal with Rienzi, friend of the immortal Petrarch-could not engage in anything so idle and low-minded as a London riot. A Frenchman like Louis Blanc, republican and socialist as he is, must be too good an historian to fall into such a base trap of political ignorance. Arnold Ruge and Gottfried Kinkel are not men of a lower stamp. The Hungarians are not republicans at all, either in opinions, sympathies, or conduct. Ledru-Rollin, indeed, has filled two octavo volumes with a tirade about this country, unbroken and extravagant; but surely even his friends would know better than to let him revenge Whimself for the ridicule cast on his Decline and Fall of England by trying to realize it. Parisian correspondence, even when magnified to transatlantic proportions. The public has jumped to these conclusions concerning the revolutionists as a body. But the public knows also, as well as the police, that there are men in London who speak very broken English, whose sport it has been to " seek the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth," together with something more substantial, who are very short of plunder just now, and who would not at all dislike to have the Duke of Wellington and Colonel Sibthorp preoccupied in defending the Crystal Palace, while two ends of the Strand or Cheapside should be blocked up, that they might enjoy but one short hour in ransacking the portable commodities of the shops most worth visiting. There is therefore a If the English public had been timid, indeed it nucleus of sound reason for taking thoroughly effimight have been alarmed at the rumors that have cient military and police precautions, without paybeen current for several weeks, respecting a disturbing the slightest attention to the gobemoucherie of ance in the metropolis this summer; especially since a marked prominence has been given to such rumors in certain quarters. At one of the policeoffices, not long since, a Frenchman told a cock-andbull story about his being persecuted for not joining in a conspiracy among the foreign refugees, to surprise London. The Paris correspondent of the Times has reported, among his small talk, that the refugees have sent to Paris for a supply of "men of action" to come over as visitors to the Exposition. The leading journal affords space to long papers, extracted from the New York Herald, describing the state of England as being most precarious, from political effeteness, religious discord, and social disorganization among the laboring classes; and announcing an expedition of "combustibles" from the United States-Republicans, Communists, Anti-renters, &c.-in concert with "the Reds" of France, with the Chartists, Socialists, Democrats, and so forth, already in England. Various hints have been given that the 10th of April, '48 is to be transferred to midsummer '51, if not to destroy our institutions, at least to smash the newest of those institutions, by assembling in the park to throw stones at the aristocrats" in These considerations, indeed, do not altogether dispose of the fact, that although the queen should not be advised to open the Exposition with a manner of mistrust, yet an ordinary public opening might be excessively inconvenient. The announcement, however, is manifestly immature and imperfect, and it will probably be amended; as more than one journal has presumed. Without excluding the public, it would be quite possible to take ample precautions for securing the order not only so necessary to the comfort of the chief actor in the ceremony, but so suitable to the occasion. It has been suggested that the exhibitors who are in London ought to be invited to meet Queen Victoria and Prince Albert-the sovereign of the country and the chief of the commission-a most proper suggestion; but if the exhibitors were marshalled in preoccupancy of the ground, if due means were taken to maintain order within and around the building, there needs be no question of "excluding the public." If the leading journal has been engaged in "preparing the public mind" for any such inopportune over-caution, it will be quite proper to re vise the intent, and to show, as the crowning glory | ventive, and provident of the future, in devising of the peaceful rivalry, Queen Victoria safe in the needful shelter, clothing, and subsistence. As the midst of the flower of her people. [The opening was afterwards made more public.] From the Spectator, 26 April. THE CHANGE OF SEASON. nursery of a mindless race, the warm south might be most fit; but to train and elicit the nobler energies of man and make him progressive, it was essential that he should be forced northward, to grapple with the vicissitudes and urgencies of a trying and uncertain climate. From the Spectator, 26 April. PROSPECTS. THE recent stationary or pendulous swing in public affairs makes even politicians during the holiday turn with zest to the more progressive and M. GUIZOT'S ENTERPRISE, ITS OBJECTS AND lively evolutions of the natural world. Nature is never dead, she only sleepeth; and one of the most gratifying aspects of the vernal opening is the renewal of occupations. With the return of spring, many employments that had been interrupted are resumed, and every pursuit and enterprise that had languished or been deferred starts into new or more hopeful life. In the country, where the brumal quarter is more profound than in towns, the signs of vitality are proportionably more vivid and universal; inanimate creation rapidly assumes a gayer vesture; and suspended, enfeebled, or dumb existence, essays to move, feels unwonted vigor, or openly bursts into voice or song. The farm-laborers participate in the general movement, and more work and higher wages help to efface the traces of the privations of winter. AMONG the political projects of the day which teem in Paris, M. Guizot's for the restoration of the monarchy commands respect because it emanates from M. Guizot, though it is perhaps not the least romantic of the number. The Assemblée Nationale, which has passed under the direction of the distinguished professor, is the organ for this new-old scheme. The journalist who seems to have taken Monk for his model-a Guizot undeterred by the experience of a Charles !-sets about his task with characteristic phlegm. He is "convinced that the reestablishment of monarchy is necessary for the safety of France, and that the fusion of monarchical parties is necessary for the reestablishment of monarchy;" "so long as it is not attained, order, which is the security of all interests, will not be reestablished in France." But he deprecates "any fresh crisis without being reassured that it will lead to the definitive régime of which the country stands in need." "Let there be no revolutionary crisis," he repeats, "which does not lead to the real and complete reëstablishment of monarchy, the only form of government henceforth definitive and durable." He thus takes a long date for his project, which is not to be entertained until monarchical parties-Orleanists [two sections, Joinvillists and Regentists], Legitimists [two sections, Divine-right Absolutists and Constitutional Legitimists], and Imperialists—are all fused; nor even then, until success be certain. In a greater degree than the provincial towns, the metropolis experiences the welcome renovation. A remarkable, but not frequently noticed feature in the industrial economy of London, is the disproportion in the number of the sexes: according to the census of 1841, the population consisted of 876,956 males and 996,720 females; showing of the latter an excess of 119,764 persons. Employment for these mainly depends on the annual throng of visitors to the capital; in "the season," as it is significantly termed, there is little redundancy of hands -few spare needlewomen or menials to be found; they are advertised for in almost every street. It is much the same with males; and the host of artizans and laborers, shopmen, porters, waiters, helpers, grooms, and coachmen, that have been wholly or only partially employed in winter, are again in active requisition. It is full work and full pay for all. For a time the soup-kitchens, indiscriminate lodging-houses, and the tramp wards of workhouses, are discontinued or little needed. Even the ragged schools are thinned, and the frequenters open for themselves new resources, either in the wider scope for petty depredation, or more honest pursuits of errand-boys, holders of horses, and assistants to servants and trades-people. Our changeful skies are often complained of, yet they have borne wholesome fruits. Necessity is often a sharp teacher, but many will take lessons from no other master. Mankind, in the infancy of society, it is likely, were cradled in the tropics or near them. Food, raiment, and lodging, must have been the abundant and spontaneous products of the earliest inhabited regions. How else, without Has he profited by that experience? We see no knowledge or experience, could the first denizens evidence that he has. A man must be, to a great of the world have subsisted? The skilled trades extent, mastered by his own temperament; M. of agriculture, pasturing, manufacturing, and house- Guizot's aspect and the conformation of his head building, are not instinctive gifts. Perpetual sum- displays a striking shortcoming in the physical part mer and its accompanying supplies and accommoda- of human disposition; his cold, ultra-philosophical tions would alone suffice. But such ready-made writings display the same defect; his biography bounties could only conduce to animal existence, tends to confirm it; his public career corroborates not to human improvement. Changeful seasons and it; his retrospective strictures removed all doubt. wants precariously or insufficiently satisfied were But how can the coldest of historical professors be indispensable to exertion-to render men alert, in- a leader of the impulsive Frenchmen? As well What are the present prospects of such a fusion? About equal to the union of oil and water-a coalition of Disraeli, Walmsley, and Russell-of Gorham, Whately, and Phillpotts. But even if that stipulated condition were more advanced, what expectation are we to form from the self-appointed leader of the enterprise? Cold comfort indeed. M. Guizot has not shown, in the past, that he was the philosopher to retain any grasp on the mind of France: with a practical and protracted opportunity of trying his hand at statesmanship, he failed to establish any firm command over the country; nay, the practical application of his philosophy may be said positively to have helped in precipitating the crisis of 1848. M. Guizot has been tried as a political leader in France, and the test of his fitness was the greatest explosion that Europe ever witnessed garded by the aristocrats and the old bureaucracy as a political parvenu; and this party hopes that Prince Metternich will regain his ancient supremacy, and recall them to their ancient position round the throne. let him atttempt to ride a Bucephalus because he | virtual regent of the empire. Schwarzenberg is rehas studied horsemanship à priori, or induce said Bucephalus to submit because he lays before it most complete and systematic arguments. It needs an Alexander to back that sort of steed, not an Isaac Newton; a Bonaparte at least, rather than a Guizot. Among the many possibilities that await the solution of Parisian chaos, monarchy may be one, perhaps the one; but it will not be brought about by the nice calculations and prudential lectures of the Assemblée Nationale. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. THE stock, copyright, stereotype, steel plates, and wood-cuts, of" Lardner's Cyclopædia," were sold by auction. The property was put up at 30007., and after a spirited bidding was knocked down to Messrs. Longman and Co. for 95001. THE speedy return of Metternich to Vienna is expected; and most of his old officials-some of them sickly men of seventy and eighty years of age-are to be reinstalled. At Berlin the government is placed between two fires; the Junker party (the party of the landed aristocracy) assail it as inveterately as the Liberals. Throughout Germany, the active propagandism of the Ultramontane Catholics, under the patronage of Austria, is exciting great alarm and indignation among the Protestants; and in Prussia an ecclesiastical party, closely analogous to our Tractarians, patronized by the court, is giving much offence. It seems to be expected that a resolute opposition will be offered in the Diet, by the envoys of the minor governments, to the project understood to be entertained by Austria, Prussia and the four kings, to extend the mediatization of 1815 to all the other German states. Spectator, 26 April. THE Nottingham correspondent of the Times notes the first stages of one of those social revolutions following improvement in machinery, which effect great general good at the cost of intense particular evil which it is painful to contemplate A LETTER from Tiflis announces what may be regarded as an indication of progress in the Schah's dominions. An Englishman, Mr. Burgess, has received permission to publish, and has commenced publishing, a Persian journal at Teheran, and this under the protection of the prime minister, Merza Tahi Khan. The first number appeared on the 26th of January, and contained, among other articles, one upon the necessity for erecting watch-houses in Teheran; a second upon the expediency of appointing resident envoys or consuls in London and Bombay; and another upon the necessity of establishing regular post-office and postal communication throughout the Persian monarchy. A REMARKABLE escape from death has been effected by the crew and passengers of the Jenny Lind East India trader, a ship which was wrecked on Keen's reef, 400 miles off Moreton Bay, on the Australian coast. With much difficulty, every person, including three ladies and three children, was got safely to the coral reef; but all means of escape to the main land were lost. As the ship broke up they were able to rescue some provisions, some charts and instruments, and a boiler and some copper piping. Mr. Philip Beal, of Exeter, made a distilling apparatus with the boiler and piping, which enabled him, after a few days' practice, to furnish enough distilled water to serve for drinking and for the making of puddings with the rescued meal. The ship-carpenter organized the crew and some of the passengers into a gang to assist him in building a boat from the wreck. the 26th of October, in rather more than a month, the carpenter completed his boat; but when it was launched, though it floated well, it leaked, and two days were spent in making it water-tight. On the 29th of October everything was made right, and all the twenty-two persons who had been wrecked entered the boat to start on a voyage to Moreton Bay. verse winds drove them away from that point, but brought them in five days to Brisbane; where, after thirty-seven days of perilous adventure, they effected a safe landing, and met a kind reception from the inhabitants. Оп Ad As a train entered the Lime Street tunnel at Liverpool, the breakman discovered that the break was out of order and useless. He could only warn the passengers to take what care of themselves they could: the train ran down the incline with tremendous speed, and shattered two buffers which had been recently erected in the station; but these buffers prevented any further detriment to the passengers than a fright and a severe shaking. Owing to the rapidity with which roundabout frames are superseding the old-fashioned loom in the manufacture of shirts, drawers, pantaloons, &c., great numbers of workpeople are either stinted to short time or thrown out of employ entirely. These new frames, contrary to the ancient practice, are generally fitted up in factories, and are so easily worked as merely to require young people to attend them, one skilled workman only being required to superintend each establishment; whilst they are so rapid that each frame produces from 100 to 130 dozen pairs of stockings every week. This invention, it is calculated, will throw 30,000 workpeople out of employ in the counties of Nottingham, Leicester, and Derby, in a very short time. Although probably productive of much distress for a short time, the ultimate effect of this will A QUANTITY of ammoniacal water having been turned be beneficial, by driving the people to other occupa-into the river Dearne from the Barnsley gas-works, tions, in which employment will be more constant, not only that river, but also the Don, into which it and remuneration more liberal. Hitherto, take them runs, was poisoned; thousands of fish floated on the as a body, for at least two generations past, their surface dead: and the people of Doncaster found that physical condition has been considerably worse than their tea was undrinkable, or sickening. that of agricultural laborers. FROM Vienna itself there comes the statement that Prince Metternich is about to return to the capital, which he quitted, as it was thought forever, in 1848. It is supposed that his return may have considerable effect towards overthrowing the system of Prince Schwarzenberg, and of the archduchess, who is the AMONG other applications made of the photographic processes, some very satisfactory attempts have been made in this country to impress designs upon wood for the purpose of the engraver. By this means, the object will be copied at once on the block, and the labor of drawing avoided, as the wood-engraver can at once proceed with his work.-Art Journal. The LIVING AGE is published every Saturday, by E. LITTELL & Co., at the corner of Tremont and Bromfield Streets, Boston. Price 12 cents a number, or six dollars a year in advance. Remittances for any period will be thankfully received and promptly attended to. LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.-No. 369.-14 JUNE, 1851. From Chambers' Papers for the People. Ir is now fully a century and a half since Lady Mary Wortley Montagu first flashed before the admiring eyes of her contemporaries, adorning with her beauty, and enlivening with her most rare wit, the very highest platform of English aristocratic society. mother's reputation, induced the scrupulous Lady Bute to destroy before her death. Lady Mary was too satirical and formidable a person not to have made many and bitter enemies among her contemporaries. It is to be feared, moreover, that there are passages in her life ill calculated to stand the test of a very severe scrutiny. Lord Wharncliffe's work revived much discussion of her character by the periodical press of the day; and singularly candid and impartial as the biography was on all sides allowed to be, as a whole, some of the statements were controverted and cavilled at; while others were maliciously perverted, and held as admissions in corroboration of the most scandalous of the stories circulated against her. In looking back through this long vista of years, thronged though it be with many graceful forms of the good and the gifted, that social luminary seems to suffer no eclipse. We see her, in conjunction with all the notabilities of her day, almost worshipped in foreign countries, and the object of universal interest in her own. We hear her con- Without pretending to fathom the depths of all versing sagaciously with statesmen and philoso- the vexed questions involving the reputation of phers; or addressing a bon mot, sparkling as the Lady Mary, it is the purpose of this paper to give, glances of her bright eye, to some admiring poet from the most authentic sources, as full a sketch of or wit of her train; or we readily conjure up that her life, writings, and character, as its limits will peculiar smile, at once playful and recklessly mis-allow-drawing chiefly upon Lord Wharncliffe's chievous, with which she is detailing, in one of her book, and the notices to which it gave rise, for the matchless letters, some new bit of scandal, or satire, materials of the memoir-and being guided in our or double-entendre, so racy, and sharp, and spark- estimate of her character by the indications of it ling, that it must undoubtedly have too often dyed that appear in her own works, and the testimony of the cheeks of the alarmed yet amused correspondent. numerous contemporary writers-making due alBut whatever the circumstance, mood, attitude, or lowance always for the boldness and freedom which occupation, in it we are at once able to recognize universally characterized the modes of expression her as she stands prominently out in the high in her day. No one who has been endowed by the relief of her singular individuality. And we are Creator with large faculties, whether they have as little apt to confound her, in the intellectual been used for evil or for good, will be found, when beauty of her prime, with the Eastern houris of properly viewed, to have lived altogether in vain. Constantinople, as we are with anybody else in the His outward manifestation may only arrest the eye, world, while we picture her in her old age and as a beacon to deter; or it may sound gratefully on mysterious exile, expatiating, with the keen epicu- the ear like a friendly cheer from the gained shore, rean relish which never deserts her among her reviving the sinking heart of the still tossed mariviolets and nightingales, her bees and her silk- ner; but of such a one it may be confidently worms, her fifteen bowers, with different views, affirmed, that he has fulfilled his destiny in the and dining-room of verdure; at the same time that ever-progressing development of the species. It she tells us she has not glanced into a looking-glass cannot, then, be either an uninteresting or an uninfor eleven years, because the last look was not a structive task for our readers to glance briefly with pleasant one. us over the life and conversation of one who played so important a part in the great world-drama of her own day; who, besides leaving behind her in her writings many monuments of her genius, has a strong claim on the gratitude of posterity for having saved the lives of thousands by the introduction into England of the Turkish method of modifying the dreadful scourge of smallpox-showing both moral and maternal courage in trying the experiment on her own son; of one, above all, who was so strong, and yet so weak; so flattered, and so reviled; so beloved, and so hated. It will not, therefore, be matter of wonder, that much should have been both spoken and written about so remarkable a personage. Several notices of her life have been long before the world. In 1803 Dr. Dallaway published, from original documents, her correspondence, poems, and essays, prefaced by a memoir, in five volumes. In 1836, her great-grandson, the late Lord Wharncliffe, republished the works in a much more complete form, in three large octavo volumes, still prefixing Dr. Dallaway's memoir, but with notes in explanation and correction, and supplying the interesting addition of an ample introduction in the form of biographical anecdotes, well known to be from the pen of Lady Louisa Stuart, the only surviving daughter of Lord and Lady Bute. This lady, though only five years old at the death of her celebrated grandmother, could remember having seen her; having had many conversations about her with Lady Bute; and having been shown by her part of a journal kept by Lady Mary throughout her whole life, but which delicacy towards people still alive, and probably a prudent regard for her CCCLXIX. LIVING AGE. VOL. XXIX. 31 Lady Mary Pierrepont, eldest daughter of Evelyn, first Duke of Kingston, by the Lady Mary Fielding, daughter of William, Earl of Denbigh, was born at Thoresby in Nottinghamshire, in the year 1690. She had two sisters by the same parents, (for the duke had two more daughters by a second wife,) and an only brother, who died of smallpox during his father's lifetime, and whose son became the second and last Duke of Kingston.. The elder of her two sisters, Lady Frances-to whom some of her best letters were addressed |