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    in the common prayer of " our most religious king . ' * His regal descent the Duke of Richmond appears at least during one period of his life , to have esteemed but lightly . Me is reported to bave declared in the House of Lords 3 with reference to the anniversary of the " everblessed martyr , ' that he would not join in the solemnities of that clay , as he " believed that his ancestor suffered

    most justly . " The Duke thus differed wideiy from the late learned Bishop Horsley , whom we remember to have heard , when preaching to the lords on a 30 th of Jan . he described that day , with his deep-toned elocution , as << never to be sufficiently deplored , though some

    had dared to call it a proud day for England , " alluding , we apprehend , to an expression then lately dropt by the celebrated Admiral Lord Keppel , and perhaps , also to a passage in Priestley ' s ** Essay on the First Principles of Government . "

    The Duke of Richmond succeeded to the peerage on the demise of his father in 1750 . He entered on public life in * t military capacity , and served as a volunteer in the battle pf IVIinden , but as a politician he will be chiefly known in the history of his time . He had the high honour of associating with the late

    Dr . John Jebb , Sir George Saville , and Mr . Fox , ( who was his nephew , ) Major Cartwright , Rev . C . Wyviil , &c . in various patriotic , though unsuccessful , attempts to reform the public expenditure , by giving the people that voice in the legislature for which the unpopular American war supplied so powerful an argument . To that war he was uniformly hostile , opposing in 1778 a superior but less consLtent statesman , who after rejoicing that America had resisted ,

    raised his almost expiring voice against the acknowledgment of her independence , the necessary result of a successful resistance . "In life ' s last scene what prodigies surprize , Pears of the brave and follies of the wise !" " Who will dare , said Lord Chatham , to disinherit the Prince of Wales and the Bishop of Osnaburg ?"—a truly conclusive reason why " toiling millions should resign their weal und all the lioncy of their search , * 'in the prosecution of a hopeless contest * The late

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    Marquis or Lansdown shared thit weakness with Lord Chatham , though he lived to conclude the peace of 1782 , on the terms of the Independence of America , happily finding that «< the sun of Britain' * was not then , as he had predicted , set for ever . ' *—To return to the Duke of Richmond . In 1780 , he

    gave notice in the House of Lords of a bill for annual parliaments and a more equ ^ . 1 representation of the people in the House of Commons . ' The day for introducing this subject , the disgraceful 2 d of June , proved most unfavourable to a discussion of popular claims . While he was speaking the intolerant protestant

    association were besieging the doors of parliament , and insulting the members as they passed to and from the house . The Duke ' s parliamentary career he had continued with great activity for several years , displaying mere of plain good sense than of shining talent . It appears to have closed in 3782 , on the following occasion . He then brought before the House of Lords the case of Colonel Hayncs , an American officer , who had been exe 4 ccited by the orders of Lord Rawdon , ( the present Earl Moira ) on whose con - duct he animadverted in terms of great

    severity . A challenge was the con - sequence , and the Duke made an apology . He certainly proved himselfCi the wiser of the two ' ' in refusing a submission of their differences to the Gothic arbitration of a duel . Yet he probably felt the degradation of an acknowledgment which he was enjoined to make publicly in the House of Lords , " that he did not intend any personal attack on the justice or humanity of Lord Rawdon . ' ' From this time he never took

    any part in political discussions , though the period was so eventful , and seldom , if ever attended the House : " - * When the Marquis of Rockingham succeeded Lord North , in 178 a , the Duke of Richmond became Makter-general of the Ordnance , a post which , excepting the short interval oi the coalition administration , he filled till 1792 ,

    giving a too rare example of minute personal attention to the duties of his cilice , and the strictest punctuality towards the persons under his employment : a laudable system on which he appears to have regulated his private concerns . In 1786 his plan for raising fortifications on different , parts of the coa . v » t was rejected in the House of Cem-

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    * 2 Obituary *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/42/