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LADY ANNE AMELIA COKE is the eldest surviving daughter of the present Earl of Albemarle, and the wife of Thomas William Coke, Esq., of Holkham Hall, in the county of Norfolk.

The family of Lady Anne Coke is of Dutch origin. ARNOLD JOOST VAN KEPPEL, Lord of Voorst, was a younger son of Bernard Van Pallant, Lord of Keppel, the representative of a noble house in Guelderland. Like his rival the Earl of Portland, Arnold Van Keppel rose to eminence from being a Page to William III. He came to England with that monarch at the Revolution, and his manners and person being prepossessing, he soon rose high in favour with his master through the aid of Lord Sunderland and Mrs. Villiers, who wished to destroy the influence of Lord Portland. On the 10th of February, 1696, he was created Baron Ashford, of Ashford in Kent, Viscount Bury in Lancashire, and EARL OF ALBEMARLE, in Normandy, a title hitherto, either royal or ducal, having been borne at one time by princes of the house of Plantagenet, and at another by General Monk, who restored Charles II. Nor did the king's favour stop here: the new peer was enriched as well as ennobled, having been promoted to the rank of general in the army, and entrusted with the command of the Horse Guards, and the Swiss in Holland: the monarch also bequeathed to him the lordship of Beevost in the Netherlands, together with a legacy of 200,000 guilders. The Earl's good fortune did not end with the life of William; he held places of great profit and dignity under Queen Anne and George I. His VOL. X.-NO. III.-MARCH, 1837.

lordship, who was a Knight of the Garter, married in 1701, Gertrude, daughter of Adam Vander Duin, lord of St. Gravemear, in Holland, and had two children, William Anne his successor, for whom Queen Anne stood godmother in person, and Sophia, who was married to John Thomas, Esq., brother of Sir Edward Thomas, Baronet, of Wenvoe Castle. The Earl of Albemarle died the 30th May, 1718. Of all the Dutch followers of King William, the Earl of Albemarle was the most popular with the English, who scarcely considered him a foreigner: he had none of that cold and stiff manner, that made so many foes for the Earl of Portland; he was a complete courtier, gracious to all; and thus, in a great measure, may be accounted for his continual prosperity. "The Earl of Albemarle," says Mackey in his Memoirs, was King William's constant companion in all his diversions and pleasures, and was entrusted at last with affairs of the greatest consequence: he had much influence over the king, was handsome in person, open and free in his conversation, and very expensive in his manner of living." The Earl was succeeded by his only son,

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WILLIAM ANNE, second Earl, K. G. This nobleman married 21st February 1723, Anne, daughter of Charles, first Duke of Richmond, and had, to survive, seven children, of whom the gallant Admiral Keppel was the second son. His lordship, who was a general officer in the army, and had been British ambassador at the court of Versailles, died the 22nd December 1754, and was succeeded by his eldest son

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GEORGE, third Earl, K.G. This nobleman served as aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Fontenoy, and the next year, being with his royal highness at Culloden, was bearer of the despatches to London announcing the victory. He subsequently attained the rank of lieutenantgeneral, and was commander-in-chief at the reduction of Havannah, where he acquired increase of fame and fortune. He married 20th April 1770, Anne, youngest daughter of Sir John Miller, Bart., of Chichester, in the county of Sussex, by whom he left at his decease 13th October 1772, an only son and successor,

WILLIAM CHARLES KEPPEL, fourth and present Earl, born 14th May 1772. His lordship, who holds the high station of Master of the Horse, married first the 9th April 1792, the Hon. Elizabeth Southwell, fourth daughter of Edward, Lord de Clifford, by whom (who died 14th November 1817,) he had issue

Augustus Frederick, Viscount Bury,
born 2nd June 1794; married 4th
May 1816, Frances, daughter of
Steer, Esq., of Chichester.
George Thomas, an officer in the
army, M. P., born 13th June 1799;
married in 1831, Susan, daughter
of Sir Coutts Trotter, Baronet, and
has a son.
Edward Southwell, in Holy Orders,
born 16th Aug. 1800; married 24th
July 1828, Lady Maria Clements,
eldest daughter of the Earl of
Leitrim.

Henry, R.N., born 14th June 1809.
Thomas Robert, R. N., born 3rd Feb.
1811; married in 1833, Frances,
daughter of Sir Thomas Barret
Lennard, Bart., and has issue.
Sophia, married in 1819, to Sir James
Macdonald, Bart., and died in Sept.

1824. ANNE AMELIA.

Mary, married in 1826, to Henry Frederick Stephenson, Esq. Georgiana Charlotte, married 31st

March 1827, to Edward Eustace Hill, Esq., a field officer in the

army.

Caroline Elizabeth.

The Earl married, secondly, the 11th Feb. 1822, Charlotte Susannah, daughter of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart.

The Earl's eldest surviving daughter, the LADY ANNE AMELIA, whose portrait forms this month's illustration, was married 26th Feb. 1822, to Thomas William Coke, Esq., of Holkham in Norfolk, formerly M.P. for that county. By this lady, who is his second wife, Mr. Coke has issue,

Thomas William, born 26th Dec.,
1822.

Edward Keppel, born 20th Aug. 1824.
Henry John, born 3rd June 1827.
Wenman Clarence Walpole, born 13th
July 1828.
Margaret Sophia.

The family of Coke, from which Mr. Coke derives through female descent, and which he now represents, is one of the most eminent in the kingdom. In its proud line, it boasts the name of the great Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England in the reign of James I.

EDWARD COKE, Esq., who inherited the estates in 1679, married Carey, daughter of Sir John Newton, Bart., and had, with other issue,

THOMAS, his successor.

Anne, married to Philip Roberts, Esq., a major in the army; this lady had, with other issue, a son Wenman, of whom presently.

Mr. Coke died 13th April 1707, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

THOMAS COKE, Esq., of Holkham, who was created Earl of Leicester, but dying without surviving issue the title became extinct, and the estates devolved upon his nephew,

WENMAN ROBERTS, Esq., who assumed thereupon the surname and arms of Coke only. He married Miss Elizabeth Chamberlayne, and was father of the present Mr. Coke.

THE OPINIONS OF CHRISTOPHER HASTY, ESQ.

"De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis."

The Influenza.-What says the poet the epidemy, that there remained hardly Burns?

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"Folks maun do something for their bread,
And so maun Death;"

—and hard indeed does Death work for his bread, under his new title of Influenza —so hard that the sexton and the undertaker can hardly keep pace with his exertions. In England, no county, except Herefordshire, has escaped the sweep of his scythe, though it is difficult to divine why that particular spot should be exempted from his visits. But, indeed, he seems just now to be not a little capricious, as well as greedy, in his appetite. For the good people of Paris he appears to have a peculiar relish, and munches up the judge and the thief, the actor and the spectator, with indiscriminate voracity. One would almost fancy he had taken a leaf out of Napoleon's book of Conscription, and was resolved to visit all classes with equal severity. "The Chambers," says a Parisian correspondent, "that of the Deputies in particular, are comparatively deserted, notwithstanding the importance of the business before them. Trials before the tribunals are postponed because of the indisposition of the judges, advocates, jurors, or accused, or, in some cases, of all together. Theatrical performances are changed at the hour when the curtain should draw up, because that one or other principal performer happens to fall sick. In some instances (at the Porte St. Martin, for example) audiences have been dismissed because the actors had en masse been visited by the disease. At the Académie Royale de Musique the Huguenots had been announced for representation on Wednesday night. Early in the evening Mademoiselle Dorus-Gras, who enacts the heroine, became ill. Robert le Diable was substituted for it in the affiches, but Adolphe Nourrit was attacked by the same disease (la grippe) just when the audience was assembling, and the idea of a performance of any kind that night was given up. National guards, municipal guards, sergensde-ville, police agents, and troops of the line, had been so extensively affected by

enough of them capable of performing the necessary duty of the capital."

What a comfort must all this be to the disciples of Malthus and Harriet Martineau ! Notwithstanding the parson's geometrical and arithmetical ratios, there is no danger now of our eating up each other from default of better food. Miss Harriet may hang up her "preventive check," like Shakspeare's "rusty mail in monumental mockery." So much for your would-be philosophers, men,-though in this case a woman is particeps criminis,— who attempt to reason upon organized life as if it were subject to the same few simple rules that govern inert matter.

Newspaper Miracles. - I know not whether it be that the state of the weather stupifies them, but certainly some of our brother journalists have been of late more than usually busy in finding out mare's nests for the benefit of their readers. Ecce signum :—

“A singular circumstance has occurred in the death of a man and his wife at Southmoulton. John Sampson, a labourer, who had been in a declining state of health some time, died on Friday last in that town; and Susan, his wife, who, it appears, expressed a wish not to survive her husband five hours, actually expired about an hour and a half after. Each of them was about 60. They were buried in the same grave on Wednesday."

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Certes, it is very wonderful that John Sampson, and Susan Sampson, his wife, should die at the very youthful age of sixty. The same paper informs us that "considerable excitement prevailed in Cambridge, in consequence of two aged females being found dead in their beds." Where, in the name of common sense, should they have been found dead? did these wise Gothamites expect the poor old souls to have chosen a well or a ditch for their dying moments?

The Examiner favours us with the yet more important information, that "Miss Shirreff has left Drury Lane Theatre, in

consequence of not being cast for the leading part in Barnett's new opera of Fair Rosamond," and that Mr. Bulwer is ill at Brussels. "Why, here be truths!" as the clown says-alarming truths; Mr. Bulwer has got a pain, we do not exactly know where, and Miss Shirreff fancies herself a prima donna !

"Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer's cloud
Without our special wonder?"

But the most precious mare's nest of all, has been discovered by our, otherwise able, contemporary, the Globe. It seems that a young Jew,- -one of our peoples,-by some odd accident, was high on a mathematical tripos, at Cambridge, but was refused the degree of B.A., because he was an Israelite. Great, hereat, is the fuss and fidget of our contemporary; he cannot understand why the wealth of a University, founded by Christians, and for Christian purposes, should not be bestowed on an "unbelieving Jew," or, as he delicately terms it, a "dissenting plebeian." Then, too, he goes on to tell us that the Duke of Norfolk's son may take a degree to be sure he may; and what then? The Duke's son is not a Jew, is he? There is something dishonest in thus blinking the real question, and making it appear one of rank, and not, as it truly is, of religion. This, miscalled liberal, system is neither more nor less than a system of fraud and robbery, and which, if once admitted, would utterly subvert the intention of those, by whose endowments, this glorious institution is principally supported. What is to become of the various scholarships, appropriated by their original founders, as they had good right to do, to particular schools, counties, and classes? by a parity of reasoning, all these distinctions must at once be broken down, or, in other words, the wall of the temple must be demolished, in order that a Jew may be enabled to seat himself in the sanctuary-a pretty work of devastation, truly, and for a goodly purpose!

Morrison the pill-vendor and the Weekly Dispatch. A mighty war has broken out between Morrison-or Dr. Morrison, as he styles himself, and that sour radical, the editor of the Weekly Dispatch. By dint of uncommon assurance, the doctor had persuaded nine-tenths of the gullible British public, that it was exceedingly profitable for the health, to swallow a hundred pills per diem; if you were ill, they were to

make you well, and if you were well, they were to make you better; but if the patient died-and that did sometimes happenthen the fault was in the not having taken a sufficient quantum of the Hygeian medicine. Nothing could be more simple than the doctor's directions, except indeed, it was the simplicity of his patients. Thus ran his advice:- 66 go on, and cram yourself with pills till you are perfectly recovered," pills-pills-nothing but pills, morning, noon, and night-breakfast, dinner, and supper-superseding the use of bread and beef. In fact, the doctor's patients were so many pill-boxes, if not to their own advantage, at least to the advantage of the Great Hygeist, as he modestly wrote beneath his own effigies, which he exhibited to the admiring gaze of his followers.

All Clare Market was in despair: half the bakers became bankrupts, and the fishmongers were compelled to eat up their own goods. Indeed, it has been conjectured by many, that the influenza in a great measure arose from the putrefaction of the viands that had thus become useless. Great was the fame, and great was the gain, of the mighty doctor;

"but as one England

could not brook the reign of Harry Hotspur, and the Prince of Wales," so the radical could not tolerate any quackery but his own. He himself was weekly drenching our body politic with his filthy drugs, but he had no idea of any one taking a similar liberty with the stomachs of the people. Great was his ire at the success of the doctor's pills, and forthwith he began to apply the same sort of language to him that he was in the habit of using towards kings, lords, and commons. The doctor, who lived by his notoriety, forthwith brought an action against the radical, and twelve jurymen were actually wise enough to trounce the latter with heavy damages. Now I do not call the self-dubbed doctor a quack-heaven forbid I should, with such an example of legal equity before my eyes! -but there is no libel, I hope, in objecting to the verdict of the jury. Most heartily do I wish that every one of the notable twelve were obliged to take a hundred of the vegetable pills in the course of the day, which, as I understand, the doctor is far from considering an excessive allowance. But, no; on second thoughts, let me recal my wish, as bringing with it too heavy a punishment. Only imagine the looks of the poor devils after having swallowed a

hundred pills! I do not know though, if there would be any great harm, if the lawyer who pleaded for the Vegetable Pills were put into the doctor's hands, and obliged to go through a course of the Hygeian medicines; it would be a barbarous mode of punishment, I allow, but who would feel compassion, when the victim of it is a lawyer?

Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt.-The whigs have brought in a bill under this captivating title, but let not the poor debtor for a moment imagine that it is intended for his relief; it is neither more nor less than a Bill of Pains and Penalties, and, if ever it should pass into an act, it will strip three parts of the landholders of their property. A more frightful bill was never yet brought into parliament by whig or radical. It does not even abolish that imprisonment for debt which is avowedly its main object; for by one clause, the creditor may at any time fling his debtor into prison, if he can only find it in his conscience to swear that his victim intends to leave the country*. And how many shopkeepers will hesitate to take such an oath? not one in a hundred, for, as all know, though few like to own the truth, fraud and falsehood are the very essence of trade, from the dealer in rotten muslins to the baker who poisons us with adulterated bread. The thing has been proved over and over again; yet still the bed is to be taken from under the debtor, and his family forsooth are to be driven to the workhouse, to protect the "honest trader." Yes, the phrase is "honest ;" and a pretty phrase it is, as applied to this class of men, to whom the best interests of society have been foolishly and wantonly sacrificed. After all, what is the effect of credit? let us not be led aside by interested clamour, or oldfashioned dogmas, but examine the thing coolly and dispassionately, for ourselves. Credit, within certain reasonable limits, is no doubt one of the means by which a nation is rendered rich and powerful, but pushed, as it now is, beyond its natural and proper limits, is nothing but a bait to lure avidity and deceive thoughtlessness. When, as in the time of Elizabeth, the laws of creditor and debtor were yet more rigid, credit was in consequence yet more un

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bounded, and temporary laws were found requisite to restrain the extravagance it occasioned. Even now, the general result of credit is, to tempt men into indulgence beyond their means. Why should the shopkeeper have this power? why should he not sell, as his customer buys, on his own proper risk and peril? If the buyer is defrauded in his purchase-as is generally the case he has no remedy, or at least no remedy but what is ten times worse than the disease; why then should the advantage be all on one side? even the thief is not so severely punished as the debtor.

But would I destroy credit altogether? Certainly not; it is the abuse of credit, and not the principle itself, to which I am objecting. It is very easy to understand that the farmer cannot pay his landlord till his crops have grown, and, that the tradesman is equally unable to requite the manufacturer, till he has sold his goods. Going yet a step farther, when the crops are grown and the goods are sold, it is equally just that the landlord and the manufacturer should be able to compel their covenanted portion of the profits. But between the retailer and the purchaser there is no necessity for credit, except as a means of tempting the latter into the emption of that which is beyond his present means. To say that shopkeepers cannot sell their goods without credit, is only saying that, without such means of temptation, men would be too prudent to yield to the suggestions of extravagance. Well; and is not this a most desirable end? the Whigs think otherwise; they are for breaking down doors, seizing every description of property, turning whole families into the streets, and converting England into one huge workhouse, of which the tradesmen are to be the overseers. Thank Heaven, we have yet a House of Lords! and it is to be hoped that the Tories will not only oppose this grinding and oppressive measure, but will give their attention to the state of the law in regard to bills of exchange. By the passing of a bill into the hands of a third person, the innocent holder, as he is called,- -a man may be compelled to pay the full amount of a bill of which he has received but one third of the value. I copy from a Sunday paper without any comment, and without any reference to what has been said, the following trial; for the present law of libel, though it leaves the good and

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