or White Hall, of the Palace being then fitted up for the House of Lords.

Walpole sarcastically alludes to this picture, when writing to the Countess of Ossory, in 1795, he excuses himself for not going to the House and making a speech, at the threshold of fourscore, saying: "As I have none of the great abilities and renown of the late Lord Chatham, so I have none of the ambition of aping his death and tumbling down in the House of Lords, which I fear would scarce obtain for me a sixpenny print in a magazine from Mr. Copley."

The painter, it need scarcely be added, was the father of Lord Lyndhurst; upon which circumstance, and the subject of the picture, Lord Mahon has this well-graced apostrophe:

"Who that reads of this soul-stirring scene-who that has seen it portrayed by that painter, whose son has since raised himself by his genius to be a principal light and ornament of the same assembly-who does not feel, that were the choice before him, he would rather live that one triumphant hour of pain and suffering than through the longest career of thriving and successful selfishness ?" (Hist. England, vol. iii.)

Walpole relates the following bon mot: "A man, I forget his name, has made a drawing, which he says is for a companion to Copley's 'Death of Lord Chatham.' As the latter exhibits all the great Men of Britain, this is to record the Beauties: but what do you think is the subject he has pitched upon? The Daughter of Pharaoh saving Moses. The Princess Royal is the Egyptian Infanta, accompanied by the Duchess of Gloucester, Cumberland, Devonshire, Rutland, Lady Duncannon, &c., not all Beauties. Well, this sketch is to be seen over against Brooks's. George Selwyn says he could recommend a better companion for this piece, which should be the Sons of Pharaoh (faro) at the opposite house.

THE FUNERAL OF LORD CHATHAM.

Although men of all parties had concurred in decreeing posthumous honours to Chatham, his corpse was attended to the grave almost exclusively by opponents of the Government.

Nor were the arrangements for the Funeral made with unanimity befitting the sad event.

On May 13, Lord Shelburne moved that the Lords should attend Lord Chatham's funeral, and there was, on a division, a majority of one vote for it; but proxies being called for, the numbers were equal, which, in the Lords, is reckoned a negative.

There appears to have been much unseemly squabbling as to the place of interment. The Common Council having resolved to bury Lord Chatham at St. Paul's, the Sheriffs acquainted the House of Commons with that desire; when Dunning, T. Townshend, Barré, and Burke recommended compliance. Rigby made a most indiscreet speech against the Common Council, expressing the utmost contempt for them, which was answered severely by Barré, who told Rigby he ought to prefer St. Paul's, as there would be room enough for his person (which was very corpulent). The motion was ordered to lie on the table. The King told Lord Hertford he would not meddle with it-they might do what they would with the corpse, but he would not let the Guards go into the City.

On May 21, Walpole writes to the Rev. William Cole: "The City wants to bury Lord Chatham in St. Paul's, which, as a person said to me this morning, would literally be 'robbing Peter to pay Paul."" And on May 31, Walpole again writes to his reverend correspondent: "I shall certainly not go to the funeral. I go to no puppet-shows, nor want to see Lord Chatham's water-gull, Lord Temple, hobble chief mourner."

The remains of Lord Chatham were brought from Hayes, and lay in state at the Painted Chamber, at Westminster, on the 7th and 8th of June. On the following day, the funeral procession moved from the Painted Chamber, through Westminster Hall, New Palace-yard, part of Parliament-street, Bridge-street, and King-street, and the Broad Sanctuary, to the great western door of Westminster Abbey. The banner of the Lordship of Chatham was borne by Colonel Barré, attended by the Duke of Richmond and Lord Rockingham,

Burke, Savile, and Dunning upheld the pall. Lord Camden was conspicuous in the procession. "The chief mourner was young William Pitt. After the lapse of more than twenty years, in a season as dark and perilous, his own shattered frame and broken heart were laid, amid the same pomp, in the same consecrated mould, about twenty yards from the north entrance to the Abbey."

Walpole notes: "Not one of the Court attended the funeral but Lord Townshend and Lord Amherst. Thus, the Court made its behaviour completely ridiculous, by showing, after showering such honours and rewards on him and his family, how much it had acted against its inclination." The Diarist has, however, this still stronger condemnation of its conduct: "Garrick, the celebrated actor, died on the 19th (Jan. 1779), and a most extravagant pomp being exhibited for his funeral, in Westminster Abbey, Edmund Burke, who would not leave the trial (of Admiral Keppel), to attend his duty in Parliament, came post to town to attend the player's funeral, and returned to Portsmouth that very night. Yet even in that zeal he acted injudiciously, for the Court was delighted to see a more noble and splendid appearance at the interment of a comedian than had waited on the remains of the great Earl of Chatham, though his funeral was appointed by the order of the House of Commons."

Writing to Sir Horace Mann, Walpole says: "Fanaticism in a nation is no novelty; but you must know that, though the effects were so solid, the late appearance of enthusiasm about Lord Chatham was nothing but a general affectation of enthusiasm. It was a contention of hypocrisy between the Opposition and the Court, which did not last even to his burial. Not three of the Court attended it, and not a dozen of the Minority of any note. He himself said, between his fall in the House of Lords and his death, that, when he came to himself, not one of his old acquaintances of the Court, but Lord Despencer, so much as asked him how he did. Do you imagine people are struck with the death of a man, who were not struck with the sudden appearance of his death?

We do not counterfeit so easily on a surprise, as coolly; and when we are cool on surprise, we do not grow agitated on reflection."

A few days after, "a great secret came out, which Lord Temple diligently published. But a little before Lord Chatham's death, Lord Bute had sent Eden (Lord Suffolk's deputy, and one of the three Commissioners to America) to him with offers of making him Prime Minister, and of a Dukedom, and that Lord Bute would come in with him as Secretary of State. Lord Chatham treated the message and the messenger with the utmost contempt, and said, ‘Tell the fellow, that if he dares to come out I will impeach him.' He had even intended on the day he had his fit to have divulged the message to the House of Lords. He spoke of it at his own table with ridicule, laughed at a Dukedom without an estate, said he should be Duke and no Duke, and ironically called Lady Chatham, Your Grace."-(Walpole's Last Journals.)

Chatham, at the time of his decease, had not, in both Houses of Parliament, ten personal adherents. But death restored him to his old place in the affections of his country. Who could hear unmoved of the fall of that which had been so great, and that which had stood so long? The circumstances, too, seemed rather to belong to the tragic stage than to real life. A great Statesman, full of years and honours, led forth to the Senate-house by a son of rare hopes, and stricken down in full council while straining his feeble voice to rouse the drooping spirit of his country, could not but be remembered with peculiar veneration and tenderness. The few detractors who ventured to murmur were silenced by the indignant clamours of a nation which remembered only the lofty genius, the unsullied probity, the undisputed services of him who was no more.

MEMORIALS TO LORD CHATHAM.

The national Monument voted by Parliament is placed on the west side of the north transept of Westminster Abbey, within a few yards of the grave of Chatham. It is principally