times with his wife to Holland House, and

looked about the grounds with a melancholy tenderness.

But, notwithstanding the celebrity of Charles Fox, and that of Addison himself, the man who has drawn the greatest attention to Holland House, if not in his own person, yet certainly by the effect of his personal qualities and attainments upon other people, was Fox's nephew, the late Lord Holland, Henry Richard, third of the title. He succeeded to the title before he was a year old; rescued the old mansion from ruin, as before noticed; and with allowance for visits to the continent, and occasional residence in town, may be said to have passed his whole life in it, between enjoyments of his books, and hospitalities to wits and worthies of all parties.

Lord Holland was a man of elegant litera

ture, of liberal politics, of great benevolence. Travelling like other young noblemen on the continent, but extending his acquaintance with it beyond most of them, and going into Spain, his inclinations became directed to the writers of that country, and his feelings deeply interested in their political struggles. The consequence was a work in two volumes, containing the Lives of Lope de Vega and Guillen de Castro, a translation of three Spanish comedies, and the most hospitable and generous services to the patriots who suffered exile in the cause of their country's freedom. The comedies we have never seen. The lives, though not profound (for his lordship was educated in a school of criticism anterior to that of Coleridge and the Germans), are excellent as far as they go, written with classical correctness, and full of the most pleasing and judicious remarks. The friendly inter

course to which he invited all who were distinguished on the liberal side of politics or wit, had, in the mean time, constituted, him a kind of representative of theirs in the great world. The Edinburgh Review was said, (though erroneously) to be concocted at Holland House, owing to the residence with him of his friend Mr. Allen, who was one of its principal contributors; and the reputation thus publicly acquired was maintained at his hospitable table by a conversation which, though full of his personal good-nature, was remarkable for its exaction of the severest reasoning, and the most scrupulous attention to facts. How he reconciled this nicety, or his liberal principles in general, with that unbounded admiration for Bonaparte, which has lately transpired in his posthumous "Recollections of Foreign Courts," it is difficult to say. The admiration, we have no doubt,

was driven into the inconsistency by the hypocrisy and broken promises of Bonaparte's enemies, the kings and ministers, who pretended to oppose him in behalf of freedom. The same disgust at hypocrisy, sharpened by personal experience of the inconsistency of those customs in his own country which will discountenance at court what they consecrate at the altar, led him to speak freely of this habits of courts in general; and offence was taken at the moment, both at his Napoleon predilections and his old-world aversions. The cloud on the memory of so warm a heart was not calculated to last. Privately he will be remembered only for his benevolence, and for the great increase of pleasant associations which he has given to Holland House; and there is a reigning circumstance in his career, which will procure him a niche in the parliamentary history of his times, equally unique

and beautiful-and that is, that whenever a measure was carried through the House of Lords which was not of a just or generous nature, Lord Holland's "Protest" against it was sure to be found upon the records. He might have been called, in a new sense of the word, the Protestant Peer. There is a book of his also, which will live, the other posthumous work, entitled, "Reminiscences of the Whig Party." It is written not only with correctness and elegance, but with a charming mixture of acuteness and goodnature of the sharp and the sweet, the "true pine-apple flavour," and contains some masterly portraitures of character.

It is a pity that the lives of such men are not always as long as they might be. Lord Holland had a constitutional tendency to gout which, till he was married, he kept under by hard riding and hunting, of which, up to that