rican loyalists, which is dedicated to the King. It was commenced at a period when an expectation existed that the war with the United States was about to terminate, and this happy event occurred soon after its publication. The conspicuous part acted by the author on this occasion, enabled him to communicate a variety of curious, interesting, and authentic particulars known to no other individual in the kingdom.

It is accompanied with an engraved sketch of an allegorical picture, painted by the President of the Royal Academy, expressive of the reception of the American loyalists by Great Britain, after the peace of 1783. Religion and Justice typified by two females, one bearing a cross, the other a balance, hold the protecting mantle of Britannia, while she appears in the act of extending her arm and shield to receive the loyalists, who surround her crown. At the head of this group are seen Sir William Pepperell, Bart. and Governor Franklin, of New Jersey, the son of the celebrated philosopher of America. Mr. West and his lady, both natives of Philadelphia, are placed on the right, and the emblems of his profession are not forgotten; to the left is an Indian chief, claiming succour for widows and orphans, while a negro and children look up with gratitude in remembrance of their emancipation from slavery. Above all, in an opening glory, are beheld the genii of Britain and America binding up a bundle of rods, resembling the fasces carried before the Roman consuls, by way of exhibiting an emblematical resemblance of the treaty of peace, between two nations, so lately acting in hostility to each other, but now united by new ties of concord and friendship.

This work contains a variety of important facts and documents, to which allusion has been frequently made in the course of this memoir. Among other valuable papers is the copy of a very interesting letter, dated Passy, near Paris, August 16, 1784, from Benjamin Franklin, while Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Versailles, from the new commonwealth of America, to his only son, William Franklin, formerly governor of New Jersey. The letter is a most singular production, and but for the present publication in all pro

bability would have been consigned to oblivion. It appears here for the purpose of proving that no family collusion had taken place, and that the loyalty of the son in behalf of the British monarchy was to the full as steady, uniform, and conspicuous, as the zeal of the father, for the independence, and republican institutions of his native country.

Towards the latter part of his life Mr. Wilmot was subject to paralytic affections. On his recovery from a bilious attack, he however repaired for the last time to his paternal mansion at Berkswell in Warwickshire, for the express purpose of taking leave of his son and grandchildren, settled there. From this long journey he derived much satisfaction, but little advantage in point of health, for soon after his return he was attacked by a third disease still more fatal than any of the former; this was water in the chest, of which he died June 23, 1815, in the 67th year of his age, at his seat of Bruce Castle, This occurred in the evening, during the act of stepping into bed, without an accompanying sigh or any previous symptom of dissolution.

Mr. Wilmot was twice married. His first wife was the only daughter of S. Sainthill, Esq. by whom he had five children, four daughters and a son, all of whom survive him. To Miss Haslam, his widow, he was united in 1793, and by her he has no issue now alive, two of their children having died in their infancy. This lady resides at Tottenham, in the county of Middlesex.

List of the works of the late John Eardley Wilmot, Esq.

1. The Life of the Rev. John Hough, D.D. successively Bishop of Oxford, Lichfield and Coventry, and Worcester; formerly President of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, in the reign of James II.; containing many of his Letters and Biographical Notices of several Persons, with whom he was connected, 4to.

2. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Knt. late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and one of his Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Coun

cil, with some Original Letters. By John Wilmot, Esq. 8vo. 2 editions (thin 4to.)

3. A Short Defence of the Opposition, in answer to "A Short History of the Opposition," 1779. Anon.

4. Historical View of the Commission for enquiring into the Losses, Services, and Claims, of the American Loyalists, at the close of the War between Great Britain and her Colonies, in 1783, with an Account of the Compensation granted to them by Parliament, in 1785 and 1788. 8vo. 1815.

[Accompanied with Original Documents; and an Analysis of his Parliamentary Labours.]

A free state may be created by a sudden revolution; but it

is to be consolidated, confirmed, and preserved by a succession of zealous patriots alone. Such a race of men can have no other object than the prosperity and happiness of their country; and while on one hand, they display a laudable jealousy in respect to the opinions and the actions of those who govern; on the other, they cordially detest such factious citizens as connect their own petty interests and enmities, with the distresses and degradation of their country. To the heroes who were no other than the patriots of antiquity, their applauding country presented garlands and decreed statues.

Let us endeavour to emulate them, in respect to those, whose lives have been dedicated to our service. To strew their graves with flowers; to embalm their memory with grateful odours; and to consecrate their fame by recording their actions; is to stimulate private worth; to encourage public virtue; and to engender a noble spirit of emulation, which cannot fail to produce able legislators, independent statesmen, and incorrupt senators.

In recording the lives of remarkable men, it is customary to vaunt their lineage, and reflect a borrowed lustre from times and actions, with which they are but remotely, if at all connected. Such is not the object here aimed at; it is unnecessary to recur to the glitter of tinsel ornaments, when the precious metals themselves court both the eye and the hand of the most unskilful artist.

The elder Samuel Whitbread, the architect of his own fortune, and the founder of a new family, was a man singular and extraordinary in every point of view. One of our provincial historians attempts to deduce his origin from ancestors of some little note; and for this purpose, gravely refers to some tomb-stones in a country church-yard in Bedfordshire, bearing the date of 1650. It is known from other and better sources, that his forefathers were simple yeomanry: that like those of the same class, they possessed some little property; and that in respect to religion, they were Presbyterians, without however, being so narrow in their principles, as to object to occasional conformity to the Church of England. Thus, for illustration, we are not to recur to remote antiquity: it is to be found where it is of most avail; in the prosperous industry of one man; in the disinterested patriotism of another; and in the peculiar talents, abilities, and integrity of both.

As an object of curiosity, however, it may not be wholly uninteresting to contemplate the great outline of a fortune, which rivals that of many of our first nobility in point of extent; and learn by what means it grew into size, shape, and consistency, under the creative genius of a single individual.