HENRY, second Lord Paget, a Knight of the Bath, whose brother and successor in 1571,

THOMAS, third Lord Paget, was a zealous Catholic and adherent of Mary Stuart. In consequence of the interception of some of his letters, which betrayed his good feelings towards that unfortunate Princess, his lordship was compelled to withdraw privately, with Charles Arundel, into France. He was soon after attainted, and his property confiscated. He was succeeded at his decease in 1589 by his only son,

WILLIAM, fourth Lord Paget, who was restored to his rank and honours by the first Parliament of James 1. His eldest son and successor, in 1629,

WILLIAM, fifth Lord Paget, wedded the Lady Frances Rich, daughter of Henry, Earl of Holland, and had with other issue,

William, his successor.

Henry, who settled in Ireland, and left at his decease by his wife Anne, daughter of Robert Sandford, Esq. of Sandford, Shropshire, a son THOMAS, whose only daughter and heiress, CAROLINE, was married to Sir Nicholas Bayly, Bart., of Plas-Newydd, son and successor of Sir Edward Bayly, created a Baronet of Ireland in 1730, and had a son, HENRY BAYLY, who inherited as ninth Lord Paget.

Lord Paget, who was appointed in 1642, by the Parliament, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, returned soon afterwards to his allegiance, and commanded one of the king's regiments at the battle of Edgehill. His lordship died the 19th of October 1678, leaving his honours to his eldest surviving son,

William, sixth Lord Paget, whose son and successor in 1713,

WILLIAM, Seventh Lord Paget, who had been created in 1712, during the lifetime of his father, Baron Burton, of Burton, in the county of Stafford, was advanced to the Earldom of Uxbridge, 19th October 1714. This nobleman dying in 1743, was succeeded by his grandson,

HENRY, Second Earl of Uxbridge, who died unmarried 17th November 1769. The titles of Earl of Uxbridge and Baron Burton became extinct, but the barony of Paget, being a barony in fee, devolved, as above stated, on the great-great-grandson of William, fifth lord,

The

HENRY Bayly, ninth Lord Paget, who thereupon assumed the surname and arms of Paget alone. family of this nobleman, that of Bayly, was of the royal blood of Baliol, and sprung, through his only daughter, from the hero, Wallace. Lord Paget married 11th April 1767, Jane, eldest daughter of the Very Rev. Arthur Champagne, Dean of Clonmacnoise in Ireland. His lordship was created EARL OF UXBRIDGE 19th May 1784, and dying the 13th March 1812, was succeeded by his eldest son,

HENRY WILLIAM, second Earl of Uxbridge. This distinguished nobleman, who rose to the highest reputation as a military commander during the late war, and whose gallant conduct mainly contributed to the glorious result of Waterloo, was on the 23rd June 1815 created Marquis of Anglesey. His Lordship has been twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He married first the Lady Caroline Elizabeth Villiers, third daughter of George, fourth Earl of Jersey, by whom he has issue,

HENRY, Earl of Uxbridge, summoned to the Upper House as Baron Paget of Beaudesert in 1832William, a captain in the army-Caroline, of whom presently-Jane, Marchioness Conyngham-Georgiana, Lady Crofton-Augusta, Lady Templemore-Agnes, married to the Right Hon. George Stephens Byng.

The Marquis's marriage having been dissolved by the laws of Scotland (her ladyship being subsequently married to the Duke of Argyll), he wedded, secondly, Charlotte, daughter of Charles, first Earl Cadogan, and has issue,

Alfred Henry, an officer in the Horse Guards, born 29th June 1816-George Augustus Frederick, an officer in the Life Guards, born 16th March 1818 Emily Caroline, Lady Sydney — Mary –

Adelaide.

His lordship's eldest daughter, the Lady CAROLINE PAGET, was married 10th April 1817, to CHARLES, present DUKE OF RICHMOND, and has issue, Charles, Earl of March and Darnley, born 27th February 1818 Fitzroy, born 11th June 1820-Henry, born 2nd November 1821-Alexander, born 14th June 1825-George, born 22nd October 1829-Caroline-Augusta-LucyAmelia.

AMERICAN LITERATURE.

CULLEN BRYANT.

JOEL BARLOWE was rather an unfortunate name for the author of an Epic Poem, and the choice of subject of Joshua's Conquest of the Promised Land (wherein was typified General Washington and the war of American independence), was not a happy one, as regarded poetry, and very unpalatable to the taste and political feelings of Englishmen. When this first specimen of American poetry was received in this country, loud was the laughter, and pungent the ridicule, at the muse of honest Jonathan; not that after all the general run of our own poetry was much better at the time, or that we lacked dry, dull, allegorical epics of home manufacture, which now sleep in that "tomb of all the Capulets," where our transatlantic brethren are by this time content to leave their Joel Barlowe. But it was decided in those days of exacerbation, on most illiberal and unjust grounds, that there was an incompatibility between poetry and all elegant literature, and the character and institutions of the American people; and, strange as it may appear, in spite of a general advance in liberality, and of proofs to the contrary which individuals in the United States have from time to time given in their writings, we still occasionally detect a lingering of the same opinion.

That in America, as a new country, where much remains to be done, and where every man's hands are full of business, the useful should take the lead of the ornamental; and that the mechanical arts, with the sciences that suggest and perfectionate them, should leave little time for the cultivation of the graces of the belles lettres, we can readily admit. But the little the Americans have done of late years is good; and instead of wondering they have not done more, we are surprised, under the circumstances, they have done so much; and we insist that they have done enough to prove that the incompatibility spoken of only existed in prejudice and spleen.

The birth of a first-rate genius, like a Scott, or a Byron, is not to be looked for in every age; and if America has produced none such, no more has France or Italy, or any other of the old countries of Europe,if we except Germany with her Goethe and her Schiller, since the period at which American literature may be said to have commenced. In this time, however, she has responded with a pleasant echo to the inspirations on this side of the Atlantic; and in what she has done, has respectably kept pace with the general career of English authors. In this time, only to mention a few that are best known, she has produced Brown (the Godwin of America), and Washington Irving, and Cooper, and Cullen Bryant. In this time she has established a most respectable periodical literature; and more than one of her Reviews might be models, both in feeling and taste, to some of the mother country. At this moment she can boast of a considerable list of living authors, and (we are happy to make this addition) of authoresses, who write with purity and elegance, and occasionally with much