tion of "Lavater's Physiognomy." It is a very able and a very characteristic composition.

When Lavater published his "Aphorisms on Man," it was with a view that they should be translated into English by his friend Fuseli; which they accordingly were. With this intention he dedicated them to Mr Fuseli.

A warm and sincere friendship subsisted between Mr Fuseli and Sir Thomas Lawrence; commencing at a very early period in the life of the latter, and continuing, not only with undiminished, but with increasing ardour, until the close of the life of the former.

So impressed were the students of the Royal Academy with the kindness with which Mr Fuseli conducted himself towards them in his office of keeper, one of the principal duties of which situation is, to superintend what is called "The Antique Academy," that some years ago they presented him with a handsome silver vase, executed by Messrs Rundell and Bridge, from a design by Mr Flaxman; a tribute of grateful re spect which affected him sensibly.

In 1817, he was honoured with the diploma of the first class of the academy of St Luke, at Rome.

Mr Fuseli continued to paint to the last week of his life. The picture which was on his easel at the time of his death, and which is in a state that may fairly be called finished, was "Constance," from King John. He was painting it for James Carrick Moore, Esq. He left, however, above sixty pictures, most of them finished, (the greater part, indeed, having been exhibited,) and the rest in different stages of advancement; for it was frequently his practice, when he had completed his composition, and imparted to it some expression and a little effect, to set it aside, and take up something else. Perhaps, it may not be uninteresting to mention, that he painted with his left hand.

During his long life, Mr Fuseli generally enjoyed excellent health. His only complaint was an occasional tendency to water in the chest, which he always removed by the use of digitalis. "I have been a very happy man," he was accustomed to say, "for I have been always well, and always employed in doing what I liked."

At the time of his death, he was on a visit to the Countess of Guildford, at Putney Hill. On the Sunday preceding the fatal event, he was engaged to dine with his early, admired, and admiring friend Mr Rogers, the poet, to meet Sir Thomas Lawrence, and his attached friend and half-pupil Mr W. Young Ottley; but having taken a short walk in the garden at Putney Hill, and feeling himself a little indisposed, Lady Guildford persuaded him to send an apology, which he rather reluctantly did. It is impossible to pay too high a tribute to Lady Guildford, and her amiable and accomplished daughters, Lady Susan and Lady Georgina North, for the uniform kindness with which they treated Mr Fuseli, and for the solicitude which they evinced on his account when he appeared to be in danger. His illness, if it might be so called, for he had no particular disorder, lasted only five days. He was attended by Sir Alexander Crichton and Dr Holland; but nature was evidently giving way, and all medical skill proved unavailing. To the last he retained the perfect possession of his faculties, and his mind was as vigorous and alert as at any former period of his life. Mr Knowles, who had been his daily visitor from the commencement of his indisposition, calling to see him the evening previous to his decease, Mr Fuseli said to him, " My friend, I am going to that bourne whence no traveller returns."

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FREDERIC HOWARD, EARL of CARLISLE;

VISCOUNT HOWARD OF MORPETH; BARON DACRES, OF GILLIESLAND; AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER.

The late earl was the eldest son of Henry, fourth Earl of Carlisle, by his second wife Isabella, daughter of William, fourth Lord Byron. He was born May 28, 1748; and on the death of his father, Sept. 3, 1758, succeeded to the family estates. His lordship was sent early to Eaton College. At Eaton College he was the contemporary of many men who afterwards attained either high rank or great celebrity; of Hare, whose verses were appended to the schoolroom on account of their excellence; of Charles James Fox, whom he was fated to admire, "ere yet in manhood's bloom," to differ from at a riper age, and again to support; and of the late Duke of Leinster, with whom he always lived in habits of familiarity.

But the time at length arrived when his lordship was compelled to quit this retreat of the muses, and tread the busy haunts of men. He repaired to the continent, and made the grand tour. During his travels, although he was not a peer of Scotland, he was elected one of the Knights Companions of the Order of the Thistle, and was invested with the insignia of the order, Feb. 27, 1763, at Turin; the King of Sardinia representing his Britannic Majesty on that occasion.

On the expiration of his minority, Lord Carlisle returned to England, and took his seat in the House of Peers. He presently became one of the gayest noblemen in the capital.

It is no less singular than true, that at that period Mr Fox and Lord Carlisle were the two greatest beaux of their day; and among other juvenilities, endeavoured strenuously, but ineffectually,

to introduce the foreign foppery of red heels.

Lord Carlisle entered on the political stage at a time when the government of his late Majesty was almost paralysed by the selfish contests of faction; and the country was engaged with her American colonies, in an expensive and unnatural contest.

The scheme of sending commissioners to America had already been tried, and proved unsuccessful. In 1776, a commission, at the head of which was Lord Howe, had in vain endeavoured to restore public tranquillity in America. In 1778, the Earl of Carlisle repaired to America, in the character of one of his Majesty's commissioners for the purpose of restoring peace. He was accompanied by Governor Johnstone, who was included in the mission, and by Mr Eden, afterwards Lord Auckland. It is well known that their joint efforts were ineffectual: and that all their arguments failed to persuade the Americans to return under the government of Great Britain; but it was acknowledged by all parties, that the noble Lord at the head of the embassy executed the office intrusted to him in a manner that redounded greatly to his honour.

In October 1780, the Earl of Carlisle, who had been nominated lord lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, was appointed Viceroy of Ireland.

The period at which his Lordship was called upon to preside over the affairs of Ireland was peculiarly arduous and critical. Ireland having been drained of all the regular troops for the purpose of carrying on the contest in America, the inhabitants had associated for their own defence and protection; and an army of volunteers, officered by gentlemen of rank and fortune, and headed by the Earl of Charlemont, was in complete possession of the country. Yet notwithstanding these circumstances, the administration of the Earl of

Carlisle was accompanied with many circumstances calculated to conciliate popular favour. It was during his Lordship's government that a national bank was established; and many excellent plans were formed and bills passed for increasing the trade of Ireland.

In the meantime, Lord North, perceiving the storm that was gathering around him, wished to escape its fury by withdrawing from public affairs. The Marquis of Rockingham, the Duke of Portland, Mr Fox, Mr Burke, Mr Windham, and their political adherents, had, in fact, already hunted the minister into their toils, and were preparing to divide his spoils. About the end of March 1782, an entire change took place, and the government of Ireland fell to the share of the Duke of Portland.

The Irish parliament, however, was not unmindful of the services of the late viceroy; for, after the appointment and arrival of his successor, the House of Commons, on the 15th of April 1782, passed the following vote: "That the thanks of this house be presented to the Right Honourable Frederic Earl of Carlisle, for the wisdom and prudence of his administration, and for his uniform and unremitted attention to promote the welfare of this kingdom."

The demise of the Marquis of Rockingham, who was at the head of the new ministry, dissolved all the hopes and projects of his coadjutors. In consequence of the subsequent changes, we find the Earl of Carlisle enjoying the honourable appointment of steward of the household; and he soon after succeeded to the still more dignified and confidential one of lord privy seal. But a variety of important alterations soon ensued. It became difficult to preserve a firm footing amidst the volcanic explosions of politics. At length the extraordinary genius of one man for a while tranquillized the tempest, until the French revolution became the prog

nostic of a new and still more portentous storm.

During the discussions that took place in Parliament in 1789, relative to the regency, Lord Carlisle took an active part in favour of the claims of the heir-apparent.

In 1791 we find his Lordship once more acting in opposition to Mr Pitt's administration. Upon the question relating to the occupation of Oczakow by the Russians; and, again, in the same year, upon the question of the war undertaken by the Nabob of Arcot and the Anglo-Indian government against the Sultan Tippoo Saib.

On the sudden recall of Earl Fitzwilliam from the government of Ireland, he addressed a letter to his old friend the Earl of Carlisle, detailing the principal events of his administration, and explaining the motives by which he had been actuated. This letter was soon after published in Dublin; and a reply, in thirteen pages, appeared in the course of a short time in London; which rendered it evident, that the sentiments of the two noble lords were not exactly in unison with respect to Irish affairs.

In this reply, Lord Carlisle laments that his noble friend" had adopted a system difficult to recede from or abandon, before he had been long enough near the source of real information confidently to take, by his own scale, the just measure of its magnitude." Both these pamphlets occasioned a considerable sensation at the time.

When, after the first burst of the revolution in France, it appeared that the French, instead of employing themselves in the establishment of a free and wise system of government in their own country, were endeavouring to induce the people of other countries to rebel against their respective governments, and to subvert every existing institution, Lord Carlisle took the alarm, and, quitting the ranks of opposition, ranked himself on the side of his Ma

jesty's ministers, and contributed all in his power to give efficacy to their measures. On the 26th of December, 1792, on the motion, in the House of Lords, for the third reading of the Alien Bill, Lord Carlisle said, "that though not accustomed to agree with the present administration, yet he would support their measures in this instance. He had often thought a change of administration was the only thing that could be of essential service to the country, and his opinion was not altered; but at that juncture, he was afraid that a change of administration might bring about a change of measures, and that, he thought, would be of very dangerous consequence. If there was to be a change of ministers, it might naturally be supposed, that the first act of a new ministry would be to negotiate with France, and that of all things was what he never wished to hear of; because it would only tend to strengthen our enemies, and could be of no use to ourselves."

Again, in the debate on the king's message for the augmentation of the forces, February 1, 1793, we find Lord Carlisle expressing "his astonishment that there should be any opposition to a measure upon which he had conceived there could be but one voice, one heart, and one mind, throughout the nation at large."

For the distinguished loyalty thus exhibited by Lord Carlisle, under circumstances of so critical a nature, he was, in 1793, honoured with the Order of the Garter.

In the debate on the address, January 21, 1794, Lord Carlisle repeated the sentiments which he had expressed in the preceding year, and on the 17th of February he opposed the Marquis of Lansdown's motion for treating with France.

On the 22d of May 1794, in the debate on the Habeas Corpus Suspen

sion Bill, Lord Carlisle asserted the necessity of the measure.

On the 6th of January 1795, Lord Carlisle moved an adjournment, which was carried, with a single exception, nemine contradicente, on Lord Stanhope's motion against any interference in the internal affairs of France.

In 1798, the noble earl published, for general distribution, a spirited tract, entitled " Unite, or Fall.”

Lord Carlisle was a great friend to the Union with Ireland. On the 19th of March 1799, in the debate on the resolutions relative to that subject, his lordship adverted to his former administration of the government of that country, as qualifying him to speak on the subject, and remarked, "that if the Union should produce the desirable effect of ameliorating the condition of the Irish peasant, making him feel an interest in his existence, rescuing him from the sullen despair in which he held his miserable being, and converting him into the child of hope and expectation, so as to put him on a footing with every description of British subjects, it would be a measure the most politically useful that human invention could have devised."

In the debate of the 28th of January 1800, on the king's message respecting an overture of peace from the Consular government of France, Lord Carlisle observed, that to "enter into a negotiation at that time would be to ruin the country. Still, however, he thought it would be more prudent merely to thank his Majesty for his gracious communication, and not to give any opinion upon the conduct of the executive government."

When Lord Darnley, on the administration of Mr Pitt being superseded by that of Mr Addington, was about to move for an inquiry into the conduct of ministers respecting the management of the war, Lord Carlisle entreated the

noble lord not to press his motion at that moment, as premature and ungenerous." He allowed that the situation of the country was such as to call for the ablest heads and hands to direct its affairs; but he denied that any expectation of salvation could be rationally entertained from the exertions of such a ricketty administration as that which was about to take the helm of the state." Lord Darnley having consented to postpone his motion to the 20th of February 1801, Lord Carlisle then again declared the little confidence that he entertained in the new administration, and expressed his wish that some light should be thrown on the causes which had broken down the late strong ministry.

In the debate on the address, November 22, 1802, Lord Carlisle again declared his disapprobation of the peace, and his conviction of the imbecility of the administration by which it had been concluded.

On the 19th of April 1804, Lord Carlisle obtained a majority against ministers, 31 to 30, on a motion for “an humble address to his Majesty, praying his Majesty to give directions that there be laid before the House an account of the date of instructions sent to the officer commanding the naval force in the East Indies, previous to his Majesty's message to Parliament on the rupture with France."

When his old friend Mr Fox came into power, he was warmly supported by Lord Carlisle. The first opportunity which the noble earl took of expressing his approbation of the new government was on 3d March 1806, on the Earl' of Bristol's motion respecting Lord Ellenborough's having a seat in the cabinet council. Lord Carlisle observed, that "the unfounded alarm which existed on the subject of the motion appeared to have been excited in order to lower the new administration in the eyes of the people, to disturb that pub

lic confidence which was placed in men of such great talents and integrity as those respectable characters who composed the present administration, and to banish the joy with which all ranks of men witnessed the paternal care of his Majesty, in calling forth persons of the most exalted talents to direct the affairs of the country."

When the illness of his late Majesty, in the latter end of the year 1810, occasioned the assembling of parliament, and resolutions respecting the Regency were moved by the Earl of Liverpool, on the 4th of January 1811, Lord Carlisle strongly opposed that resolution in particular which restricted the regent for a certain time from creating peers, as from it "the country could draw only the conclusion, that there was a suspicion that the Prince of Wales would make an improper use of his power."

Lord Carlisle took a decided part in the discussions on the Corn Bill, in 1815. When the Earl of Liverpool moved the second reading of the bill, on the 15th of March of that year, Lord Carlisle contended, "that the greater part of the argument, by which the noble earl had supported the measure was fallacious. There could be no doubt, that to the lowest rank of the labouring classes of the communityto the individuals who work by taska high price of corn would be productive of infinite misery, as it would not be attended by any circumstance of alleviation; and he was far from thinking that legislative interference was demanded by the great mass of the agricultural interest of the country." On the motion for the third reading of the bill, five days after, Lord Carlisle "objected to the bill, as being calculated to excite great discontent, without its having been shown that any advantage could be derived from it."-This, we believe, was the last important public question on which the noble earl ex