From a

drawing in the Coll" of Alex Hendras Sutherland Ejq?

Pub May 20 1805 by S 412 Strand.

from his Journal: and he intended to have employed me in carrying it on. She was bred to great strictness in religion, and practised secret confession. She was generous and friendly; but was too severe an enemy 3.” The same reputable writer has given a particular account of her grace's death, and of the circumstances attending it; and concludes by saying, that she died very little beloved or lamented; the change of her religion having made her friends reckon her death rather a blessing than a loss at that time to them all. Her father was more troubled at her religious defection than at all his own misfortunes; and wrote her a very long and grave letter upon it, enclosed in one to the duke of York: but she was dead before it came to England 4.

Waller addressed a poem to the princess of Orange, on this lady's having "written her portrait," while she was her maid of honour, which concludes with these high-flown lines:

"While some your beauty, some your bounty sing,
Your native isle does with your praises ring:
But above all, a nymph of your own train,
Gives us your character in such a strain,
As none but she, who in that court did dwell
Could know such worth; or worth describe so well :
So, while we mortals here at heav'n do guess,
And more our weakness, than the place express;
Some angel, a domestic there, comes down

And tells the wonders he hath seen and known."]

* Hist. of the Reign of Charles the Second, vol. i. p. 238.

4

• Burnet's Hist. ib. p. 433.

* Lady Anne Hyde. See Fenton's Waller, p. 141.

CHARLES STANLEY,

EARL OF DERBY,

A PEER of whom extremely little is known. His father lost his head, and he his liberty, for Charles the second. The grateful king rewarded the son with the lord-lieutenancies of two counties". He has written a piece of controversy, the title of which is,

"The Protestant Religion is a sure Foundation of a true Christian, and a good Subject, a great Friend to human Society, and a grand Promoter of all Virtues, both Christian and moral. By Charles Earl of Derby, Lord of Man and the Isles." Lond. 1671, the second edition; a very thin quarto3.

This piece contains a dedication "To all supreme powers, by what titles soever dignified or distinguished; i. e. to emperors, kings, sovereign princes, republics, &c." an epistle to the reader; another longer on the second edition; and the work itself, which is a dialogue between Orthodox, a royalist, and Cacodæmon, one po

2

[Lancashire and Cheshire.]

* [The first edition is said to have been printed in 1669, without the author's name in the title-page.]