which he more valued,-his self-estimation, and the high consciousness of acting uprightly. From certain peculiarities however in his character he was never fortunate enough to obtain this popularity. Even his style of eloquence concurred to raise a popular prejudice against him, inasmuch, as in combating popular delusions, and more particularly those mistaken principles of philanthropy, which appeal more to the heart than the reason, he was in the habit of employing metaphors and images, which by the very nature of humour and and ridicule were necessarily extravagant, therefore seemed to be unmerited by the subject, and in some degree an outrage upon general feeling. It was a kind of paradoxical, epigrammatic imagery, which, however just when thoroughly understood, had a kind of moral discordia concors, an apparent contradiction to reason and feeling.

As to the moral character of Mr. Wind- || degraded himself by secking it at an expence, ham nothing could be fairer, and it was more admirable, because his morality had the ease of an ordinary domestic habit.-He wore it as loosely as his dress: he had nothing of the entward appearance of his real virtue beyond what he knew to be necessary for public example-Aud principle, as we have above said, was always so uppermost in his mind, that almost all his actions may be said to have been regulated by it. But to crown all, to the utmost profundity of human learning, polished to the utmost of grace and elegance, he united that, without which human learning is vain and frivolous-He applied his learning to a right purpose: he searched into the grounds of religiou, and satisfied himself of the truth, and having so done, lived and died in its faith.-We believe that he likewise owed much on this score to Mr. Burke, whose example and exhortations seem to have led ali his disciples and friends to what is alone necessary to render the wise and good perfect Christians an examination into the grounds of our faith, the nature of its evidence, and the certainty of its authority.

No man however, as a Patriot at core, more truly loved both his country aud his countrymen-His feelings were at home with them every where: be triumphed with them in the camp, and took the cudgel and fiddle with them in their merry-makings.

The main defect in the character of Mr. Windham was connected with what, iu general, was one of its excellencies. His intrepidity, both personal and mental, occasionally

which there was no bending, and with which there was no dealing. For a practical man, as Mr. Windham was, this was a great singularity in his character.

We have purposely abstained from saying any thing of the political conduct of Mr. Windham; but so much we will say; that be received the Palladium of the British Constitution from Mr. Burke ; and through fire and smoke, through a burning city, per flagrantia mania mundi, he kept it.

We had resolved to say nothing respecting the political character of Mr. Windham, but it would be injustice to omit giving him that praise which rarely falls to the lot of modern statesmen; a praise more eminently deserved | by Mr. Windham, because, in the class of pub-verged into obstinacy; into a kind of defiance lic men with whom he was through life associated, it was exclusive and peculiar to himself. The peculiar line of his politics brought him into the society of the most ambitious, indigent, and selfish of men; of men, whose traffic was a prostitution of public priuciples, the object of which was to seat and maintain themselves in place and power-With such examples Mr. Windham was nowise corrupted. He had frequently been in office; but when he retired from office, be at the same time retired from place he had no pension or sinecure at- But to sum up all, he was at once the schotaching to him. The independence and gene-lar and the Christian, or to say every thing in rosity of his public services were not soiled one simple term, he was the perfect ENGLISH F. L. H. by any selfish motive-Being above all induce- GENTLEMAN. ments to serve his country, he disdained to acknowledge upon leaving employment, that the compensation, which he consented to take as an appendage to office could be justly retained by him as a reward. He would have deemed it an undue affectation to have served the public gratuitously; but when he resigned their service, he resigned their pay.

No man more esteemed the good opinion of|| the public, and no man better understood its real value, than Mr. Windham; but he never

The origin of the complaint which ended in Mr. Windham's death was a contusion received in rescuing the most valuable part of the library of his friend, Mr. Frederick North, from the fire which consumed the latter's house, in Conduit-street, about twelve months since. Mr. North, at his going abroad, recom. mended to the particular care and personal custody of Mr. Windham several tin boxes, containing some very rare manuscripts; add.

LIFE OF MR. WINDHAM.

ing, that his fibrary, though very valuable, į left no issue; and was in The 63d year of his age. could be replaced, and was insured; but that. During the Viceroyalty of Lord Northing

the manuscripts would be an irréparable loss." Mr. Windham had, it is said, deferred the removal of the boxes to his own house; and this was the reason why, at the imminent hazard of his life, and with the certainty of great personal injury, he rushed into the midst of the flames to rescue them. He succeeded; but at the same time received the contusion which, after such a length of time, has terminated so fatally.

Mr. Windham cousuited the most eminent Surgeons, separately at first, and afterwards collectively. So many different statements are given of the concordant or contradictory opinions of the medical Gentlemen, that we deem it more prudent to insert nothing on this subject. The result, however, was a determination to submit to the knife. Mr. Windham's ardent temper led him to insist on the performance of the operation without the usual course of preparatory medicine. He settled his worldly affairs; and with the piety of a sincere Christian performed all the religious duties appropriate to so solema an occasion, taking the sacrament at the Chapel of the Charter-bonse. His fortitude was such, that he engaged the operator to perform his duty, without the usual precaution of tying down the patient; and even when it was found recessary to cut deeper than was at first expected (the tumour not being insulated as was supposed, but having a cancerous root on the bone, which it was absolutely necessary to scrape), he said repeatedly, “I can bear it;" but when they reached the bone, he said, "Now, indeed, you may feel for me." It is said, that the tumour itself, judging from the appearances that rendered it necessary to carry the operation so far beyond what was at first intended, must, if left to take its course, kave necessarily proved fatal whenever it should break (which would have been probably in a mouth or two), as the system would be incapable of supporting the discharge that would come from it. It was discovered, very soon after the operation, that the event was likely to be fatal: an ichorous matter flowed from the wound, which prevented adhesion, and the flesh did not granulate, so as to afford the prospect of approximation.

and

He was attended in his last moments by Mr. William Elliot. He expired without a struggle or a groan. He had slept, the preceding night, from eleven to eight o'clock, it was thought that if any thing could have given a favourable turn to his wound, it would be rest; but his powers were consumed. He has No. VI. Vol. I.-N S.

ten, in Ireland, Mr. Wadham was his Secretary. It was on his appointment to this situation, that expressing doubts of his ability to do justice to the office, or to adopt the prac tices supposed to be necessary to his friend, Dr. Johnson, (as mentioned in Mr. Boswell's work), the Doctor said, with a pleasant smile, "Don't be afraid, Sir, you will soon make a very pretty rascal."-Dr. Johnson had the highest opinion of his integrity and intellec tual powers, and in a letter to Dr. Brocklesby, recorded in the same work, written at Ashbourne, in the year 1784, he says, " Mr. Windham has been here to see mc-he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half-perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature, and there Windham is inter stellas luna minores."

Mr. Windham was married about fifteen years ago to Miss Forrester, of Biufield, a lady of small fortune, but of a most amiable character, and with a mind congenial in knowledge and attainments with his own. Nothing could be more happy and harmonious than his domestic life; and therefore, it may naturally be conceived, that the loss of such a man must be deeply affecting. It is said that he had a strong presentiment that his death would happen on Monday. He declared this opinion immediately after the operation was performed, and repeated it on Sunday, observing to his medical attendants, that it was the last time he should trouble them, as he should certainly die the next day.

Mr. Windham has left several manuscript volumes, one of which is a complete mathematical work. It appears that Mr. Windham excelled in that science. It was his custom to write his thoughts on the several subjects that engaged his attention in large books, and he generally filled one every month. It was probably by this methodical arrangement of the matters that came within the range of his extensive research, that Mr. Windham obtained the command of that vast variety of arguments and illustrations, which enabled him to present his opinions to the minds of his auditors in more numerous and more striking forms than any other man of the present time. He was a pupil, a follower, and ardent friend of Mr. Burke; from that great and good man, who has left so much instruction to his country in his works, Mr. Windham derived the leading principles of his politics, and the most admired characteristics of his eloquence.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE "RIVAL PRINCES;"

BY MARY ANNE CLARKE.

would be some satisfaction, however, to the public, if Colonel Wardle would repel this accusation in the manner in which it ought to be repelled.

The passage to which we allude is as follows-We give it complete, as the extraneous matter may enable the reader to form a judgment as to the credit due to the main point:

"But now to the fact, as I received it, from unquestionable authority. A short time after Colonel Wardle's election at Oakhampton, he made a journey into Wales, with his Chere

Ir is peculiarly unpleasant to a mind of any candour to have any thing to say to such a work as this,-a miracle of profligate impudence, and of manifest indifference to right or wrong, truth or falshood, which is almost unnatural to a reasonable creature. No proverb was ever more true than the trite remark, that nothing is so abandoned as a shameless woman,-that she is never wicked by halves,-that with her modesty she puts off her humanity, and realizes that idea of mischief, seduction, deceit, and remorseless treachery, which the ancients embodied in their Syrens audamie and her young family; and on their reHarpies. The art of this wretched woman is so to mingle up truth and falshood as to render it almost impossible to distinguish them. She has the cunning to anticipate and thereby to elude all the niceties of evidence,—to give to the deepest art the appearance of the most perfect carelessness, -to confirm her falsehood by designed accidents and contrived conjunctures.

After these observations, it would be a loss of time to enter into any examination of the alledged facts she produces-To give them their due weight, we must keep in view the ends at which she is aiming-She is endeavouring to return into favour with the man whom (as far as respects merely him and herself) she betrayed-She is endeavouring to make up a book out of nothing, and she is endeavouring to avenge herself on Colonel Wardie for not having paid her according to the liberality she expected.-Let the public keep these points in view, and they will have no difficulty in estimating her assertions at their just worth.

The first assertion is important indeed, if any credit can be attached to it-The Public have here to choose between Mrs. Clarke's credibility and the honour of Colonel Wardle-One or the other of them must be infamous beyond a common measure-For our own part, we have no hesitation in attaching his infamy to a woman, whose whole course of life has been one scene of infamy, and who has now crowned it by this most infamous publication. It

turn to London, resided at the above coffeehouse at Chelsea, under the name of Brown.

During their stay at this place, a gentle

man, who had given his vote in favour of Col.

Wardle at Oakhampton, said to the tavern

keeper-I find, Sir, you have got Colonel Wardle and family here as your guests:''Col. Wardle,' replied the host with surprise, 'Oh no, Sir! the gentleman you just now saw pass, is a Mr. Brown.'-Observed the gentleman, 'I know better-his name is Wardle-and what is more, I gave him my vote for Oakhampton, and have since dined with him.'

"This information produced an enquiry, which in a few hours reached the ears of the correct family man, Col. Wardle, who immediately ordering his carriage, left the house, and I am informed, the draft which he gave the tavern keeper for the amount of his bill, was not paid in the most regular way.

"When Colonel Wardle was in the habit of

visiting Westborne Place, I used to indulge in a little railery on his fair mistress, which naturally enough produced observations from him with respect to her,

"On one of these occasions of mirth, he burst into a paroxysm of amatory passion, and exclaimed—that bis mistress was so fair and young, that he did not suffer the air of heaven to blow on her!!!-If she be the same lady who now calls herself Miss Davis, of Gloncester-street, Queen-square, Colonel Wardle is not so particular as to the purity of the air that has lately blown upon her. This delicate creature has, upon a late occasion, been run

* "Colonel Wardle has also children by his wife, which obliges him to keep up two establishments."

ning into every dirty place, with Ellis the Attorney, in order to purchase whatever kind of evidence could be picked up, to support Col. Wardle's late prosecution.

"Major Dodd did not suffer Col. Wardle's angelic creature to live undisturbed by the gentle air of heaven without participating with me in a desire to see her, and accordingly urged me to press the Colonel to introduce us to his favourite lady, which I did; but Col. Wardle would not comply with my request, from (I believe) motives of jealousy, and a conviction of the superiority of Major Dodd's person; which might have produced a strange alteration in the lady's mind as to the personal beauty of her happy Colonel.

"Colonel Wardle told me, that the father of this fair lady had applied to him to make a regular provision for his daughter, who had been the victim of his improper passion; but he desired to acquaint her father of his real character and situation in life, and that his whole dependance rested on his wife's fortune, which would not admit of any burthens being affixed to it, by way of annuity to this young lady.

"As, therefore, nothing but secrecy could benefit the old man's daughter, he of course has remained quiet for the sake of all the parties concerned.

"Mark, reader! what a return for a fortune to an amiable and affectionate wife, and a mother of seven children!!! Pause, and ask yourself, whether Colonel Wardle be quite that immaculate character which he has laboured so much to make the public believe him eutitled.

"Ah! deluded woman, was it for this you loved and married a beggar?-Was it for this you have virtuously cherished and reared a numerous offspring?-Was it for this you have encountered many sleepless nights to further your husband's political views?-Was it for this you risked your character and personal safety, by going in a barouche* to a certain tavern, and leaving that celebrated letter which astonished the whole kingdom?-Was it for this you attended the Court of King's

"Major Hogan's Pamphlet shews the proceedings of a supposed female friend of the Duke of York's who went to Frank's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, in a barouche, and left a letter for Major Hogan, in which he found a five hundred pound bank note. This barouchelady, Col. Wardle acknowledged to me, was no other person than his dear wife. But there was no harm in such an act, it was merely a little generalship, which sheds a lustre on modern patriotism."

Bench, in anxious expectation that your supposed faithful busband would triumph in his black deeds, and that perjury would obtain him the laurel with which his friend Sir Richard Phillips and his other associates had prepared to entwine his brow on that memorable day, when a British jury shewed that it was not to be duped by a jacobinical faction.

"Was it for all this I say, Mrs. Wardle, that your husband had made you such an unkind return, as to divide that love and tenderness, of which, your good qualities and fortune ought to have made you sole mistress. But, madam, be not any longer deceived; Colonel Wardle has returned to you that which he has returned to others, namely, EVIL for GOOD"

The following passage contains some particulars relative to Major Dødd,-we again, however, subjoin the caution, if they may be believed :

"Though Major Dodd acknowledged, in the Court of King's Bench, that he was concerned with Colonel Wardle in proceedings against the Commander in Chief (on patriotic principles of course) yet it may be necessary to produce a few of his notes to me, in order to shew how far he was interested in the investi

"It is unnecessary for me to enter into a description of the disgraceful riot and disturbance which took place in Westminster Hall, on the day of my trial, as the interruptiou Lord Ellenborough met with, in the administration of justice is now pretty generally known to the public, as well as the spirited instructions of his Lordship to the under Sheriff upon that occasion. But I cannot avoid giving publicity to the private information I have since received of the grand procession which was prepared to attend Col. Wardle if I had been convicted on that day. The plaintiff's respectable and numerous friends, who disturbed the public peace, and insulted the sacred tribunal of justice, were, I am informed, to have chaired the victorious Colonel, and carried him amidst the shouts of a mob and the din of butchers' music, to the house of Sir Richard Phillips, from the drawing-room window of which, he was to have made a flaming speech to the friends of freedom. This would have afforded a most delectable treat to Sir Richard Phillips, who is considered the most vain-glorious character in the kingdom. I forbear using the words of the AttorneyGeneral on the trial of Sir John Carr versus Vernor and Hood, who said the Knight" was the greatest fool in the kingdom," but, I may be pardoned, I hope, if I join in opinion with Lord Ellenborough, who corrected Sir V. Gibbs on that occasion, and said, "No, no, Mr. Attorney-General, YoU MEAN THE

WEAKEST MAN.

"Bring the papers from Bedford-place- || I informed him, that I would send them down French's."

frait of Major Dodd, to shew him in false co-me, had nothing to do with the business of