through fubfequent life; and who are bound by good-nature to overlook the failings of her who loves them, and who always esteem those the objects of their love and pity, who came into their arms the objects of joy and pleasure. Your's, &c. JULIUS. DESCRIPTION O F DRAYTON HOUSE. [With an elegant Engraving.] DR without this effential ingredient. This ftate confifts in love, mutually connected with love, love the most pure as in itself can be; to cherish and admire the object that is the promoter of that real affection which arifes in the breaft of man, in loving the fair one he has chofen. It is, certainly, in my opinion, a deviation from this ftate, not to love her whom affection and regard has firm. ly united in one. It is a cruelty unparelleled, to marry one, far diftant from our affection, merely for the defire of enriching ourselves, and to let the fair object lead a miferable life; the fair one by whom we received the defired gold. O, the bafenefs of human hearts! Thus fhalt a child be torn from its parents, and be connected with one from whom he will receive, in a very fhort time, this pledge of his fondnefs, the joy lefs hour of mifery. It certainly may be looked upon as an undeniable axiom, that unless a man marries for love, the union will not continue as one body long; but when true love unites with true love, the union will certainly be a feries of happiness and pleafure, both to themlives and their con-deceafe of Edward her fon and heir nections. A virtuous difpofition, a without iffae, it devolved to the good temper, and an eafy fortune, Veres, by the marriage of Ifabel, are three things to be prized in fifter and fole heiress of the above this ftate. There are many men in, Henry Green, to Henry Vere, efq. the world who would make very who afterwards received the honour bad husbands, men funk in the bru- of knighthood; but he dying withtal gratifications of fenfe, who would out iflue, Elizabeth, his daughter marry any woman, merely for pof- and co-heirefs was married to John, feffion, and afterwards look out for first lord Mordaunt, earl of Petermore changes of beauty. Keep borough, whofe only daughter Mary, guard, then, my fair readers, from married Henry, duke of Norfolk thefe deteftable enemis to your fex; and he dying without iffue, she they must be conftantly whirled married fir John Germain, bart. round in fucceffica of pleafures to There are now but little remains of keep them alive, but quickly whirl the old Castle, the greatest part being themfelves out of this world. "But rebuilt; fo that at prefent it is a there are others who think them-very beautiful ftructure, the archifelves bound by love and affesion tecture and turrets of which have a to render her happy who is the ob- very fine effect. Our view of it will ject of their love and affection, be found very correct. RAYTON Houfe lies to the north-weft of Thrapfton, in Northamptonshire. It was formerly a castle, and defcended to Henry Green, a gentleman of great wealth, in the reign of king Henry the Sixth. His only daughter Conftance, by marrying John Stafford, earl of Wiltshire, brought this house and manor into that family; but, on the THE THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN ELWES, Efq. (Concluded from p. 80). HE national rage turned out their addrefs to the king, on the fubject of the American war-old Thomas (for that was the name of the fellow) who had never feen his mafter do any thing but ride on his moft important occafions, imagined he was to ride up to his majefly at St. James's, and fpeak to him or horfeback. Accordingly, he cleaned up the old faddles, gave the horses a TMr. Hartley as well as Mr. feed of corn at his own expence, Elwes, from the reprefentation of and at his own expence too, had a Berkshire. Mr. Hartley refigned picce of new ribbon in front, put his hopes not without reluctance: upon one of the bridles: and all this Mr. Elwes was terrified at once by that his mafter might do things the expence; and I am perfuaded, handfomely, and like a "parliament if giving one dinner could have nan!" But when he found out how brought him in a fecond time, he his mafter was to go; faw the car. would with all ceremony have beg-riage of colonel Timms at the door ged to be excused. This unfortu nate parfimony was certainly the chief caufe of his quitting parliament-for fuch was the opinion his conftituents entertained of his integrity, that a very small expence would again have reftored him to his feat. who by borrowing for Mr. Elwes a bag wig-lending him a fhirt with laced rules, and new furbishing his everlafting coat, had made him look very differently from what he usually did, and in truth, much like a gentleman: old Thomas returning all his own zeal and finery back into the Nearly at the fame time that Mr. ftables, obferved with regret, that Elwes loft his feat, he loft that fa-" mayhap his mafter might look a mous fervant" of all work"-com- bit of a gentleman-but he was fo pared to whom, Scrub was indolence altered nobody would know him." tfelf. He died, as he was following his mafter, upon a hard trotting horse, into Berkshire, and he died empty and poor: for his yearly wages were not above four pounds, and he had fafted the whole day on which he expired. The life of this extraordinary domeftic, certainly verified a faying which Mr. Elwes often used, and the faying was this "If you keep one fervant, your work is done, if you keep two, it is half done; but if you keep three you may do it yourself." That there were very few kinds of work which this fervant could not do, may be eftimated by what he did. But that his knowledge of how fome things were done was not very extenfive, may be taken from the following circumstance. When the lower houfe carried up During the ftand which Mr. Pitt made with the houfe of commons, formed by another minifter, Mr. Elwes voted occafionally on each fide; and he fometimes voted in a way, of which he afterwards saw the error. As an inftance of this, he fupported the India bill of Mr. Fox, and in a very short time afterwards he confeffed he had been much deceived in the principles of that bill and recanted his former opinion of it. Such accidents will not happen to thofe gentlemen who have cpitomized parliamentary opinions up every fubject, and who might with to vote firft, and then hear what is faid afterwards; but it may happen to that confcientious reprefentative, who too haftily may give his affent at the time, and when he better understood the fubject, hold a R different opinion. In this number, I he thus vefted in other people's Mr. Elwes was always to be reckoned. Amongst the finaller memorials of the parliamentary life of Mr. Elwes, may be noted, that he did not follow the cuftom of members in general, by fitting on any particular fide of the house-but fat, as occafion prefented itself, on either, indifcriminately-and he voted much in the fame manner. During the whole time he was in the house of commons, he never once rofe to fpeak-or delivered his fentiments further, than by his vote. In his attendance at the house, he was always early and late, and he never left it for dinner-as he had accustomed himself to fafting, fometimes for twenty-four hours in continuance. hands, fome stray, forlorn inftances of feeling may be remembered; of which the following is an inftance. When his fon was in the guards, he was frequently in the habit of dining at the officers' table there. The politeness of his manners rendered him agreeable to every one, and, in time, he became acquainted with every officer in the corps; amongst the reft, with a gentleman of the name of Tempeft, whofe good humour was almost proverbial. A vacancy happening in a majority, it fell to this gentleman to purchafe; but as money is not always to be got upon landed property immediately, it was imagined fome officer would have been obliged to purchase over his head. Old Mr. Elwes heard of the circumstance, and fent him the money next morning. He afked no fecurity-he had feen captain Tempeft, and liked his manners; and he never afterwards talked to him about the payment of it. On the death of captain Tempest) which happened When Mr. Elwes retired from par. liament, no man ever retired from the houfe of commons. leaving it more loaded with obligations than he did; and they were obligations that were never cancelled. If I might judge from the multitude of bonds Ifhortly after the money was rehave feen, I fhould be led to think fome members imagined he was a great public money-lender, appointed by government, to come down into the house of commons, and oblige the gentlemen" who might be in want of his aid. When application was afterwards made for the payment of them—on moving that queftion, Mr. Elwes ftood as fingle as did the refpected Mr. Strutt, member for Malden, on the fubject of admiral Keppel, aye!"-and not a member faid " Mr. Elwes died poffeffed of proofs most undeniable, that, fomehow or other, every man must pay for coming into parliament. In thefe fpeculations upon lending money, Mr. Elwes was, at one time, most unbounded; but the temptation of one per cent. more than the funds, or landed property would give, was irrefiftible. But among the fums placed. Thats Mr. Elwes was no lofer by the event, does not take away from the merit of the deed. And it ftands amongst those fingular records of his character, that reafon has to reconcile, or philofophy to account for, that the fame man, at one and the fame moment, could be prodigal of thousands, and yet almoft to deny himself the neceffaries of life! An anecdote, exemplifying the truth of this, I will add at this mo ment. It comes to me on the very refpected authority of Mr. Spu:ling, of Dynes-hall, a very active and intelligent magiftrate for the county of Effex. It feems Mr. Elwes had requested Mr. Spurling to accom. pany him to Newmarket. It was a day in one of the fpring meetings, which was remarkably filled with races; and they were out from fix in the morning till eight o'clock in the evening, |