The Original Letter from COLLEY CIBBER is received, and shall be inferted in our next. We are greatly obliged to our Correfpondent who fent it, and shall be glad if he or any other will favour us with more of the like kind. G. P. in our next. We shall be glad to fee the Tale he speaks of. Alcander-L. P. R.-Honeftus-T. Clio Rickman J. B.-John Gifford, and W. H. Reid, are received. Some one piece by the laft fhall be inferted in our next. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from Feb. 11, to Feb. 16, 1788. COUNTIES upon the COAST. Wheat Rye | Barl. Oats Beans 33 02 51 110 5 5.4 02 9,1 103 7 02 81 103 0,2 61 113 10. WALES, Feb. 4, 1 2 Bucks 81 112 11 to Feb. 9, 1788. North Wales 5 914 33 1195 1014 South Wales 5 313 512 569 THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, For FEBRUARY, 1788. 67 ACCOUNT of GRANVILLE LEVISON GOWER, MARQUIS of STAFFORD, [ With a PORTRAIT of Him. ] THE Nobleman whofe portrait ornaments the present Magazine is one whofe weight in the Senate and impor. tance in the State have been long known and acknowledged. To confiderable talents he has united application; to great connections no small thare of perfonal ability. In the fervice of Government he has been active, firm, and perfevering; in oppofition, fedulous and determined. Head of a confiderable party, his confequence is known, and must be always courted. Where fo much influence refides, power and favour cannot but be expected. Granville Levifon Gower is the third fon of John Earl Gower; a noble man who, during a great part of the late reign, was esteemed one of the principal fupporters of the Tory intereft, whofe favour he loft by his acceptance of the office of Lord Privy Seal, in the famous change in the year 1742. The prefent subject of our attention was born, as we conjecture, about the year 1720. After an education from which he received fuch improvements as might be looked for from the advantages bestowed upon him by nature, he early entered on the line of public life, in which courfe he has ever ince continued; and in 1744 was elected to parliament for the borough of Bishop's Cattle in Shropshire. In the next parlia ment, in 1747, be was unanimously chofen for Weftminster; but in November 1749 having accepted a place at the board of Admiralty, he again declared himself a candidate, At this crifis those who ftiled themselves the independent electors of Westminster, being now incenfed to an K 2 been Though fuccefsful in this conteft, Lord Trentham, from whatever caufe, was not a candidate for Weftminster at the next General Election in 1754. In that parliament he was chofen for Litchfield, but fat only a fhort time, as by the death of his father, Dec. 24, 1754, he fucceeded to his title, and removed into the House of Lords. On this event he was conftituted Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rótulorum of the County of Stafford. On Dec. 19, 1755, he was appointed Lord Privy Scal, and in January following was. fworn of the Privy-Council. Refigning the Privy-Seal, he was on July 2, 1757, conftituted Matter of the Horfe. He continued in office during the remainder of the late King's reign; and on the 25th of November 1760, foon after his prefent Majefty's acceffion, he was nominated Keeper of the Great Wardrobe. On April 23, 1763, he was declared Lord Chamber lain of the Household, and in that quas lity food proxy for the Duke of SaxeGotha, on the baptifm of the present Duke of York. In the year 1765, on the change of the Miniftry, he was removed from his poft, and during the Rockingham administration was in oppofition to the Miniftry. During this period he voted against the repeal of the Stamp-Act, and other ftatutes relative to America. Another change foon afterwards happening, he was on Dec. 23, 1767, appointed Prefident of the Council. On the 11th of February 1771 he was elected one of the Knights Companions of the Order of the Garter, and was inftalled July 25, in the fame year. His Lordship has been fince advanced to the dignity of Marquis of Stafford. He has been married three times, viz. 1. In 1744, to Elizabeth, who died in 1745, daughter of Nicholas Fazakerly, of Pref cot, in Lancashire. zdly, In 1748, to Lady Louifa Egerton, who died in 1761, daughter of Scroop, Duke of Bridgewater. And 3dly, to Lady Sufanna Stewart, daughter of John Earl of Galloway. TRAITS for the LIFE of the late ATHENIAN STUART. AMES STUART, Efq. was the fon of a mariner of an inferior station, at whofe death his wife and four children, of whom Mr. Stuart was the eldest, were totally unprovided for: he exhibited, at a very early period of life, the feeds of a ftrong imagination, brilliant talents, and a general thirft of knowledge: drawing and painting were his earlieft occupations; and these he pursued with such unabated perfeverance and induftry, that, while yet a boy, he contributed very effentially to the fupport of his widowed mother and her little family, by designing and painting fans for the late Goupee of the Strand. Some time after, he placed one of his fifters under the care of this perfon as his fhop-woman, and for many years continued to purfue the fame mode of maintaining the rest of his family. Notwithstanding the extreme preffure of fuch a charge, and notwithstanding the many inducements which conftantly attract a young man of lively genius and extenfive talents, he employed the greatest part of his time in thofe ftudies which tended to the perfecting himself in the art he loved. He attained a very ac J curate knowledge of anatomy; he became a correct draftfiman, and rendered himfelf a mafter of geometry and all the branches of the mathematics, fo neceffary to form the mind of a good painter: and it is no lefs extraordinary than true, that neceffity and application were his only inftructors; he has often confeffed that he was first led into the obligation of ftudying the Latin Janguage, by the defire of understanding what was written under prints published after pictures of the ancient mafters. As his years increased, fo his information accompanied their progrefs; he acquired a great proficiency in the Greek language, and his unparalleled ftrength of mind carried him into the familiar affociation with most of the fciences, and chiefly that of architecture. His ftature was of the middle fize, but athletic; of robust constitution, and a natural courage invincible by terror; and a bold perfeverance, unfhaken by the moft poignant difficulties. The following fact may serve as a proof of his fortitude: A wen had grown to an inconvenient fze upon the front of his forehead; one day |