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LADY CHARLEVILLE is the daughter of the late Colonel John Campbell, and wife of Charles William, present Earl of Charleville.

The Earl of Charleville derives maternally from the extinct house of Moore, Barons Tullamore and Earls Charleville, which sprung from a common ancestor with the Moores, Earls and Marquesses of Drogheda. THOMAS MOORE, Esq., of Benenden, had an eldest son JOHN MOORE, Esq., who married Margaret, daughter and heir of John Brent, Esq., and widow of John Dering, Esq., of Lurrenden, by whom he had, with other issue, Sir Edward Moore, who, settling in Ireland, was founder of the house of Drogheda; and

Sir THOMAS MOORE, who also took up his abode in Ireland, in the reign of Elizabeth, and obtained by grant from the crown, 5th December, 1577, the castle of Castletown, with seven hundred and fifty-eight acres of land thereunto adjoining, in the King's County, being styled in the said grant "Thomas Moore of Croghan." He was subsequently knighted, but was eventually slain in his castle by the insurgent Irish, against whom he had served with much vigour. He was succeeded by his son,

Sir JOHN MOORE of Croghan Castle, who with other extensive possessions had a grant from the crown, 23rd April, 1622, of the town and lands of Tullamore, in the King's County, to the extent of eleven hundred and forty-seven acres. He married Dorothy, fifth daughter of Dr. Adam Loftus, ArchNO. II.-VOL. X.-FEBRUARY, 1837.

bishop of Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and, dying 26th April, 1633, was succeeded by his eldest son,

THOMAS MOORE, Esq., of Croghan, M.P. for Phillipstown. This gentleman married Margaret, daughter of Sir Ambrose Forth, of Catrach, near Dublin, Judge of the Prerogative Court in Ireland, and was succeeded at his decease by his eldest son,

JOHN MOORE, Esq., of Croghan, who married a daughter of Sir William Sambach, Attorney-General for Ireland, but by that lady had no surviving issue. He married, secondly, in 1669, Ellen, second daughter of Dudley Colley, Esq., of Castle Carberry, in the county Kildare, and was succeeded by his elder son,

The Right Honourable JOHN MOORE, of Croghan, M.P. for King's County, who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland, 22nd October 1715, as Baron Moore of Tullamore, and obtained a reversionary grant of the office of Master General of Ireland. His Lordship married first, in 1697, Mary, daughter of Elorathan Lunn, Esq., and had issue

CHARLES, his successor.

Jane, who was married, in 1724, to Wm. Bury, Esq., of Shannon Grove, in the county of Limerick, and had with other issue JOHN BURY, of whom presently.

Lord Tullamore married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of John Sankey, Esq., of Tenelick, in the county Longford, widow of Sir John King, Bart. His Lord

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ship died 8th September, 1752, and was succeeded by his only son

CHARLES, Second Lord Tullamore, born in 1712, a Privy Councillor, and Governor of the King's County. His Lordship was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Charleville, 16th Sept. 1758. He married 13th October, 1737, Hester, only daughter and heiress of James Coghill, Esq., but died without issue, 17th February, 1764, when his honours became extinct, and his estates passed to his nephew, John Bury, Esq., who married Catherine, second daughter and co-heiress of Francis Sadler, Esq., of Sopwell Hall, in the county of Tipperary, and died 4th Aug. 1764, leaving an only son,

CHARLES WILLIAM BURY, Esq., of Charleville Forest, in the King's County, who was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Tullamore, 7th November, 1797, created Viscount Charleville, 29th December, 1800, and Earl of Charleville, 16th February, 1806. He married, 4th June 1798, Catherine Maria, widow of James Tisdall, Esq., and daughter and heir of Thomas Townley Dawson, Esq., by whom he left, at his decease in October 1835, an only son,

CHARLES WILLIAM, present Earl of Charleville, born 29th April 1801. This nobleman espoused, 26th February 1821, Beaujolois Harriet Charlotte, third daughter of the late Colonel John Campbell, the lady whose portrait forms this month's illustration, and has issue

Charles William George, born 8th
March, 1822.

John James, born 22nd October, 1827. Alfred, born 19th February, 1829. Beaujolois Eleanora Katherine. The CAMPBELLS of Shawfield descend from a younger son of the noble house of Argyle, and are connected by marriage with almost all the families of note in Scotland. The island of Islay, forming part of their possessions, is one of the Western Isles, and the most fertile of all the Hebrides. extent is considerable, being on an average twenty-seven miles long and seventeen broad. It contains a population of nearly seventeen thousand inhabitants, and was the ancient seat of government of the Lords of

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the Isles. The most ancient estate, however, of this branch of the Campbells is Skipness Castle, situated in the district of Kintyre, and county of Argyle.

JOHN CAMPBELL, Esq., of Skipness Castle, an early ancestor of the family, married the Lady Harriet, daughter of the Earl of Buchan, and was grandfather of

DANIEL CAMPBELL, of Skipness Castle, who espoused Harriet, daughter of the Earl of Glencairn, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

DANIEL CAMPBELL, Esq., of Islay, &c., who died unmarried, and was succeeded by his brother,

WALTER CAMPBELL, of Islay and Shawfield, who married first, Ellinor, daughter of Lord Mark Kerr, and, secondly, Mary, daughter of Nisbet, of Dirlton. He died in October, 1816, having had issue— JOHN, his heir.

Robert, of Skipness Castle, died without issue.

The elder son,

JOHN CAMPBELL, Esq., pre-deceased his father in 1808, having wedded in 1796 the beautiful and accomplished Lady Charlotte Campbell*, youngest daughter of John, Duke of Argyle, by whom he had two sons and six daughters, viz.

WALTER FREDERICK, now of Shawfield and Islay, who married, 2d February, 1820, Lady Ellinor Charteris, eldest daughter of Francis, Earl of Wemyss and March, and has issue.

John George, who married, 6th August 1830, Ellen, daughter of Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington, Bart., and died in 1830, leaving a son and a daughter. Eliza Maria, married to Sir Wm. Gordon Cumming, Bart.

Eleanora, married to Henry Earl of
Uxbridge.

BEAUJOLOIS, Countess of CHARLEVILLE.
Emma, married to William Russell, Esq.,
youngest son of Lord William Russell.
Adelaide.

Julia, married to Peter Langford Brooke,
Esq., of Mere, in Cheshire.

decease, the Rev. Mr. Bury, and has been, as Lady

*Her Ladyship married, after Colonel Campbell's

Charlotte Bury, highly distinguished in the literary world.

THE VICTIM OF POWER.

FOR Some weeks Miriam and I enjoyed uninterrupted felicity in the halls of Ghizeh, but the feelings of satiety are inseparable from enjoyment, and she who had been from infancy accustomed to the excitement of a city, grew weary of the solitude of Ghizeh. I tried to reconcile her to the spiritual intelligences that obeyed my spell, but she had inherited from her father a perfect horror of magical arts, and shrunk from all contact with the elementary spirits. I loved power for its own sake; though I could command luxuries unknown in the palaces of kings, I lived abstemiously; with heaps of untold gold at my disposal, I remained poor; and I preferred my plain student's robe to the richest produce of the looms of Cashmere. Slowly and sadly the conviction dawned upon me that Miriam was discontented with her lot; she began to express anxiety about her family, and at length reminded me that I had promised to join her father at Bagdad. My minor informed me that Al Kahman had reached that city in safety, and purchased a protection from the Father of the Faithful, but it had added the unwelcome intelligence of his having taken unto himself a young wife, in whose arms his son and his daughter-in-law were forgotten. This piece of news, so far from abating Miriam's desire to visit her father, roused her impatience to the highest pitch; she was ambitious of competing with her mother-in-law, and testing the strength of her influence with Al Kahman. In an evil hour I promised to gratify her wishes; the slaves of my will prepared a train of camels laden with the richest productions of Yemen, they brought a splendid litter that might have excited the envy of a Sultana, and having arranged this caravan on the banks of the Tigris, they transported Miriam and myself to that noble stream.

We were within a few miles of Bagdad, and the sun was just rising upon the earth, when, in the guise of a wealthy merchant, I presented myself before the gates of that noble city. Although it had lost some of the splendours that adorned it during the flourishing days of the Abasside dynasty, Bagdad had much to charm the sense and

gratify the imagination. The rays of the morning sun glented back from the gilded cupolas and tapering minarets of the mosques; awnings of rich silk excluded the scorching heat from the houses of its powerful princes and rich traders; all the treasures of the remotest part of the East were displayed in its extensive bazaars, merchants of every hue and variety of costume, between the snowy mountains of Kaf and the distant island of Serendib, crowded its streets; and the scene was further enlivened by groups of mercenary soldiers, collected from remote and wild regions, whose arms and dress showed the solicitude that uncivilised tribes always display for the trappings of war. The Tartar courier galloped by with the speed of the whirlwind, his lofty yellow cap decorated with a single feather, his short felt cloak streaming from his left shoulder, his light lance, with a flag at its head, thrown into every variety of graceful position that could display the taste and activity of its owner. A squadron of Turks wheeled into line; men steady in their saddles, that horse and man seemed but one animal; their fazzes fitting close to the head were void of ornament, their spears were motionless as the cedars of Lebanon when all the winds are hushed into stillness. Forming a strong contrast to the Turkish gravity came a party of Kuzzilbashes, the Persians of the red turban; they had all the wild and frolicsome gaiety of youth, their steeds frisked, curveted, and caracolled, the horsemen gave vent to their exuberant spirits in loud cries of joy, in feats of sportive dexterity, in racing and chasing scarcely consistent with discipline, but which it would be as impossible to check as to stay the flow of the Tigris. Why need I mention the savage Kurd or the hardy Arab? why describe the light boats that shot with arrow speed over the bright waters of the river? Thy glory has for ever departed, proud mistress of Asia! the bat hovers round thy gilded ceilings, and the chakal howls in thy desolated halls!

Miriam gazed on the brilliant scene with intense delight, and I listened to her exclamations of almost childish joy, with a sad

conviction that she would never consent to our return to the solitary caves of Ghizeh. Having paid the numerous tolls which the increasing evils of misgovernment caused to be exacted at the gates of the city, I proceeded with my train to the house of Al Kahman, having first sent forward a messenger to announce my approach. We were wealthy and we were welcome; how far one was the consequence of the other, it needs little experience in the ways of the world to discover. Emina, my father-inlaw's young spouse, received Miriam with expressions of friendship so outrageously extravagant, that they would have excited suspicion in any one whose knowledge of mankind was not derived from books alone. Al Kahman almost worshipped a son-inlaw, whose train of camels seemed rather to belong to a caravan than to a private merchant. He offered to become my factor; ignorant of business and reckless of wealth, I told him that he should be my partner, provided that he would undertake the managemeut of my stock. His professions of gratitude were unbounded; the deserted palace of a vizier was purchased as a residence for both families, and a splendid shop hired in one of the largest bazaars.

Bagdad was at this period the scene of unparalleled luxury and debauchery; the Khaliph, secluded in his palace, entrusted the government to his ministers, who, opposed to each other in every possible way but one, showed wondrous unanimity in robbing the poor, selling privileges to the rich, and making the success of a suit depend on the length of the purse. Emina had a natural love for ostentatious display; the rules of Islám, that confined women to the seclusion of the harem, had been greatly relaxed in the licentious capital, and the fluctuating nature of the population of Bagdad, where tens of thousands arrived and whence as many departed every day, prevented the existence of any public opinion that could control the scandal. My poor Miriam speedily acquired a taste for dissipation; she joined Emina in excursions on the river, visits to the bazaars, and parties of pleasure to the rich gardens on the Upper Tigris; by what at first seemed to be mere accident, they were always sure to meet some of the most dissipated officers of the Khaliph's guards whenever they went abroad; and as a consequence flower-messages and even amatory letters persecuted them at home. I heard

ghazals (odes) recited under my window in praise of Miriam and Emina,-and-fool that I was !-it gave me pleasure to find that the world was not insensible to her charms, and that many envied me the possession of such a treasure.

Al Kahman's age should have rendered him wiser, but he had become the most dissipated of the whole family. His wife herself encouraged him to purchase beautiful slaves, his acquaintances taught him to love the wines of Shiraz, and his old Coptic habits gave him an inveterate love of gambling. Every night riot and debauchery reigned in our palace; Al Kahman feasted his depraved associates in one apartment; Emina and Miriam had their coterie in another. I, to whom crowds were odious and noise disgusting, sought shelter in a remote pavilion, and devoted myself earnestly to my favourite studies.

In Bagdad I was soon known by the nickname of the Silent Merchant; I frequented its bazaars to search for books, which had been collected in that city by the earlier Khaliphs, and subsequently dispersed abroad by the carelessness of their successors. As I never sought an abatement of price, I was a welcome purchaser; and whenever I appeared, I was followed by the possessors of the most beautiful manuscripts, each chanting the excellence of his wares with a zeal and pertinacity that never grew weary. Sometimes I went into the courts of law, and by liberal donations procured justice for the poor and unprotected; but I hated all expressions of gratitude, and my cold refusals of thanks, so mortifying to human pride, more than counterbalanced my generosity; every benefit I conferred made me a new enemy, for though I often averted I always wounded self-love. One day, while passing near the tribunal of the Cadi, I heard the shrieks of a wretch suffering under the tortures of the bastinado. I hurried to the spot, and at my urgent intreaty the punishment was suspended. I inquired his crime, and was told that he was suspected of a robbery, and had defrauded justice of its due, by refusing to share his plunder with its ministers. A large bribe induced the Cadi to give the case a new hearing, and a second donation made such a change in the balance of evidence, that the robber was declared innocent and ordered to be set at liberty. The wretch was unable to stand from the blows he had received; I had

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