nature, rendered him an universal favourite; but, like his friend Fox, and the rest of that party, Fitzpatrick appears to have been sadly deficient in the principle of moderation, the power of regulating his passions and habits, and the steadiness of character and industry which tended so much to the success of their opponents, and to command for them the respect in which they were held, even by those who differed from their political views. Long indulgence in the pleasures of the table impaired, in later life, his bodily as well as mental faculties, and Wraxall gives a painful account of the shattered state of both, shortly before his death. This took place on the 25th April 1813, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.

Lord Upper Ossory, General Fitzpatrick's elder brother, though not so witty or so popular, was a man of much more temperate habits, and highly and deservedly esteemed. Horace Walpole, in .writing from Paris to George Selwyn, in 1765, mentions him in favourable terms :-"We have swarms of English; but most of them know not Joseph, and Joseph desires not to know them. I live with none of them but Crawford and Lord Ossory; the latter of whom I am extremely sorry is returning to England; I recommend him to Mr. Williams as one of the properest and most amiable young men I ever knew." At this time Lord Ossory was only twenty years of age, and Walpole seems to have valued his acquaintance, as he was for many years after a frequent visitor at Ampthill.

His Lordship, who was educated at Eton and Oxford, had a poetical turn as well as his brother; and, to judge by the lines addressed to Lady Tyrconnel, now given, this talent was usefully and kindly employed the warning, however, that his poetry conveyed on this occasion was unheeded; or, if it caused a temporary check in her thoughtless career, she did not eventually profit by it. This lady, who was a daughter of the famous Marquis of Granby, married George, second Earl of Tyrconnel, and was divorced from him in 1777, being then in her twenty-fourth year she subsequently married the Honourable Philip Anstruther, according to the Peerage; but the Gentleman's Magazine, in mentioning her death in 1792, says P. Leslie, Esq., once a wine-merchant in France, and second son of Lord Newark of Scotland.

This discrepancy in this gentleman's identity arose from the following circumstances: David Leslie, second Lord Newark, a staunch friend of Charles the First, died in 1694, leaving an only daughter, who married Sir A. Anstruther, Bart.: his son claimed the barony of Newark, after his mother's death, when the House of Lords gave a decision in his favour; but they afterwards retracted their verdict. Philip Anstruther, Esq., would therefore have been his proper denomination, in 1792, though the metre of the lines. seems to indicate Leslie, as the name used by Lord Ossory.

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ADDRESSED TO LADY TYRCONNEL.
LORD UPPER Ossory.

Envy, that loves not merit, ne'er will spare
A form so perfect, and a face so fair;

Let prudence, then, o'er all your steps preside,
And sage discretion every action guide.
For know (but first I must demand excuse
For the plain bluntness of an honest muse),
Know and reflect, ere yet it is too late,

You stand this moment on the brink of fate.
By fashion blinded, and by folly led,
The path of ruin and of vice you tread ;
Reflect-long years of sorrow must repay
The short-lived pleasures of one fleeting day;
Lovely and young, and in Tyrconnel blest,
By strangers honour'd and by friends caress'd,
How will they mourn to hear cursed envy tell
From what a glorious height of bliss you fell!
What charms can you in empty Leslie find,
To shake your virtue, or your judgment blind?
Shun him—not only him, but all the rest
That would plant daggers in thy youthful breast;
Guard from their arts thy yet unspotted fame,
And spare thy honour'd father's glorious name."

This is a singular subject for Lord Ossory to have touched upon; as, about seven years before these lines were written, he had married the wife of Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, who had been previously divorced from that notorious libertine. The Duke's profligate amours, and more especially his liaison with Nancy Parsons, a once beautiful, but then superannuated courtesan, led to his estrangement from his accomplished and injured Duchess; and it