ford, in the Senate House of Cambridge, of which university the duke had been chancellor for more than sixty years. The following are the inscriptions on the pedestal, in which, in indifferent Latin, the ladies inform us that their father was a munificent patron of the university, at the same time that they vaunt their own accomplishments and their pious devotion to his memory.

"Carolo

Duci Somersetensi

Strenuo juris academici defensori
Acerrimo libertatis publicæ vindici
Statuam

Lectissimarum matronarum munus
L. M. ponendam decrevit
Academia Cantrabrigiensis
Quam præsidio suo munivit
Auxit munificentia
Per annos plus sexaginta
Cancellarius."

On the reverse:

"Hanc statuam

Suæ in parentem pietatis

In academiam studii
Monumentum

Ornatissimæ feminæ

Francissa Marchionis de Granby conjux

Charlotta Baronis de Guernsey

S. P. faciendam curaverunt

M.DCC.LVI."

On the death of the "proud duke" the dukedom of Somerset, as we have already stated, reverted to the elder branch of the house of Seymour, while the titles of Earl of Egremont and Baron of Cockermouth, with the splendid mansion of Petworth, descended to the duke's grandson, Sir Charles Wyndham, by right of his mother, Lady Catherine, the eldest surviving daughter of the deceased duke, by his first wife.

CHAPTER XII.

PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON.

Pope's Sketch of His Character His Birth in 1700 - His Father, the Marquis of Wharton, and His Mother, the Daughter of Lord Lismore-Comparison between the Father and Son - Brief Sketch of the Former's Public Career - His Pride in the Precocious Genius of His Son - His Ambition to Make Him an Orator - The Duke's Secret Marriage to the Daughter of General Holmes - His Father's Death, in 1715, from Grief and Disappointment at His Son's Connection - His Mother's Death in the Following Year — The Duke Travels on the Continent - Separates in Disgust from His Tutor - Arrives at Lyons, and Addresses a Complimentary Letter to the Exiled Son of James the SecondInvited by the Latter to Avignon, and Accepts from Him the Title of Duke of Northumberland - Goes to Paris - Drinks the Pretender's Health at the House of the English Ambassador Anecdote of His Ready Sarcasm - Takes His Seat in the Irish House of Lords, as Earl of Rathfernham - Sup. ports Government, and Is Created Duke of Wharton in 1718 - Takes His Seat in the English House of Lords - His Oratorical Powers - Opposes the Ministry - Fatal Effects of His Invective against Earl Stanhope - Extract from Lady M. W. Montagu's Letters - Anecdote of Swift-The Duke's Masterly Defence of Bishop Atterbury in the House of Lords Anecdote Related by Horace Walpole - Doctor King's Character of the Duke - The Latter's Gross Profligacy.

WHARTON! the scorn and wonder of our days,
Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise;

Born with whate'er could win it from the wise,
Women and fools must like him, or he dies.
Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke,
The club must hail him master of the joke,
Shall parts so various aim at nothing new?-
He'll shine a Tully and a Wilmot too :
Then turns repentant, and his God adores
With the same spirit that he drinks and whores;
Enough, if all around him but admire,

And now the punk applaud, and now the friar.
Thus, with each gift of nature and of art,
And wanting nothing but an honest heart;
Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt,
And most contemptible, to shun contempt;
His passion still, to covet general praise;
His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways;
A constant bounty, which no friend has made;
An angel tongue, which no man can persuade;
A fool, with more of wit than half mankind;
Too rash for thought, for action too refined;
A tyrant to the wife his heart approves;
A rebel to the very king he loves;

He dies, sad outcast of each church and state,
And, harder still, flagitious, yet not great.
Ask you, why Wharton broke through every rule?
'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.

Such is the admirable sketch bequeathed to us by the first of poetical portrait painters, of the character of the handsome, witty, and dissipated Duke of Wharton. Melancholy, or rather offensive, as is this famous portrait, there is every reason to believe that the likeness is as correct as the verse is inimitable. Endowed with genius, elo

quence, and wit, exalted in rank, handsome in his person, and fascinating in his manners; such was the brilliant assemblage of advantages and accomplishments which distinguished the Duke of Wharton on his entry into the world. How striking a contrast is afforded by the reverse to the picture! With the ambition to render himself illustrious, he contrived to make himself despised; with talents which might have raised him to the head of any party, he became a traitor to all parties; and foolishly fancying himself an Alcibiades, he descended to be a Catiline. In the history of those gifted profligates, who have wasted their health and prostituted their genius in the vain pursuit of pleasure and the practice of witty buffooneries, there is no example more striking or more lamentable than that of this mercurial and unprincipled

man.

Philip, the first and last Duke of Wharton, was born about the year 1700. He was the only son of Thomas, Marquis of Wharton (the celebrated promoter of the revolution of 1688), by Lucy, daughter of Adam Loftus, Lord Lismore, in Ireland.' Though the career of no two persons could be more different than that of the father

'There is a portrait of this lady by Lely, engraved by Thompson. She brought her husband the estate of Rathfernham, which her son, the Duke of Wharton, afterward sold to William Conolly, Esq., Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, for sixtytwo thousand pounds.