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be admired. He consoled himself for the loss of an affectionate wife by writing a long poem to her memory, full of grief and plaintive sorrow; but sought a different kind of solace at the expiration of two years, by a second marriage with Elizabeth daughter of Sir Robert Rich; and had not the like cause or opportunity to lament her decease. Perhaps, mindful how seldom true character can be found graven on the tomb, he was interred at Hagley, by the side of his Lady, with this plain inscription on his monument:

"This unadorned stone was placed here by the particular desire and express directions of the Right Honourable GEORGE Lord LYTTELTON, who died August 22d, 1773, aged 64."

Lucy first Countess of Lyttelton, daughter of Hugh Fortescue, of Filleigh in Devonshire, the subject of Lord Lyttelton's elaborate elegy. Of such public declarations of mental anguish it may be remarked, that their foundation is vanity, and their superstructure is affectation. The seriousness which embraces the heart, it has been well observed, is not the offspring of volition but of instinct. It is not a purpose, but a frame, The sorrow that is sorrow indeed, asks for no prompting; it comes without a call; it courts not admiration; it presses not on the general eye, but hastens under covert, and wails

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its widowhood alone; its strong hold is the heart; there it remains close curtained-unseeing, unseen. Delicacy and taste recoil at the publication of internal griefs. They prophane the hallowedness of secret sadness; and suppose selected and decorated expression compatible with the prostration of the soul. No man will give Lord Lyttelton credit for those feelings towards his first love, which the polished lines of his elegy breathe, who adverts to the circumstances and character of his second. But this composition was not the only poetical tribute to the memory of Lucy from the pen of his Lordship. The following Latin and English epitaphs upon her monument in Hagley church are succeeded by some laudatory lines in the highest strain of eulogium:

"M. S.

LUCIE LYTTELTON,

Ex antiquissimorum Fortescutorum genere ortæ
Quæ annos nata viginti novem,

Formæ eximiæ, indolis optimæ,
Ingenii maximi,

Omnibus bonis artibus literisque

humanioribus supra ætatem et sexum exculti, sine superbia laude florens, morte immatura, vitam pie, pudice, sancte actam; in tertio puerperio clausit, decimo nono die Januarii, anno Domini 1746-7; fleta etiam ab ignotis. Uxori dilectissimo quinquennio felicissimo conjugii nondum absoluti, immensi amoris ac desiderii hoc qualicumque monumentum posuit GEORGIUS LYTTELTON, adhue

cheu superstes, et in eodem sepulchro ipse olim sepeliendus. At per Jesum Christum salvatorem suum, ad vitæ melioris diuturniora guadia, lachrymis in æternum abstrusis, se cum illa resurrecturum confidens."

The English Epitaph is as follows:

"To the memory of LUCY LYTTELTON, daughter of Hugh Fortescue, of Filleigh in the county of Devon, esq; father to the present Earl of Clinton, by Lucy his wife, the daughter of Matthew Lord Aylmer, who departed this life the 19th of January 1746-7, aged 29; having employed the short time assigned to her here in the uniform practice of religion and virtue.

"Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes;
Though meek, magnanimous; though witty, wise;
Polite, as all her life in courts had been,
Yet good, as she the world had never seen;
The noble fire of an exalted mind,
With gentlest female tenderness combin'd;
Her speech was the melodious voice of love,
Her song the warbling of the vernal grove.
Her eloquence was sweeter than her song,
Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong.
Her form each beauty of her mind exprest,
Her mind was Virtue by the Graces drest."

In the Gallery, (a fine room, but low in proportion to its length, though this aukward effect is judiciously attempted to be counteracted by pillars at either end) we find a Virgin and Infant Christ, by Old Stone; the child natural and easy, its head thrown back, and laughing face.

Two antique busts, without drapery.

Frances Duchess of Richmond, by Lely. A distinguished character in the memoirs of the lively Count Grammont, by her maiden name of Stuart. Her portrait is amongst the beauties at Windsor, and she was generally considered the brightest gem in the court of Charles II. who would gladly have divorced his queen, and raised her to his throne. She had the art of fascinating all classes; insomuch that Rotier the engraver was so passionately enamoured with her, as to display her face on various medals in the character of Britannia, and the resemblance is easily recognized.

Sir William Fairfax, of Steton in Yorkshire, knt. father of

Catherine first wife of Sir Charles Lyttelton, by Lely. She died in Jamaica, and was buried in the church at Spanish-Town, 1662, aged 26.

Sir Charles Lyttelton in armour, with a black boy, by Le Fevre; a steady adherent to the House of Stuart, and serving in the garrison at Colchester, when so severely besieged by Cromwell's forces. On its surrender, he escaped into France, but returned on Sir George Booth declaring in Cheshire for the King. The design failing, Lyttelton was imprisoned at the Gatehouse, Westminster, from whence he again repaired to Charles on being liberated, and was highly serviceable as a

negociator with his partizans in England. On the Restoration, he was appointed Governor of Jamaica, and built Port-Royal. Returning home, he was made governor of Sheerness and Landguardfort, with various other employments, which he enjoyed till the Revolution, when he relinquished them, and died at Hagley 1716.

Mary Duchess of Buckingham, by Vandyck; daughter of Thomas Lord Fairfax, and wife of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham.

1705. Et. 66.

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John Lyttelton, by Zucchero; married to Bridget daughter and coheiress of his guardian Sir John Packington, with whose fortune he rebuilt his seat at Frankley; which was afterwards destroyed by Prince Rupert, to prevent its falling into the hands of the Parliament forces. He was in equal estimation with Mary and Elizabeth, though a catholic. Ob. 1590. Æt. 69. The motto on this portrait is

"Heu mihi cui nec vicisci

"Nec tantum queri licet."

Countess of Exeter, by Vandyck.

William Lord Brouncker, by Lely, stiled by Bishop Burnet "a profound mathematician," was Chancellor to Queen Catherine, and in the commission of Lord High-Admiral. On the first institution of the Royal Society, he was appointed president, and

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