impatient rival: what was before a dull and laborious routine of unproductive duties, has now become the pleasing and lucrative employment of laudable competition. Canals have been projected, and were already in progress, under the auspices of this great man; and there can be little doubt of his intention to have intersected the whole country, and improved the advantages which nature has bestowed with a bountiful liberality. While thus employed in laying the basis for an elegant superstructure, he has been diligent in adopting the necessary precautions to secure it from the grasp of omni-voracious ambition. The various fortifications which border its threshhold already bid defiance to the most determined aggressor; and, while happiness is smiling within, she enjoys the peaceful repose of conscious security. His benevolence was an object of general admiration, and his amiable endowments and conciliating manners had endeared him to his family and friends.

measures.

"In public life he was steady, firm, and decisive in his He was accessible to all who chose to prefer their complaints to him; and, when he was compelled to refuse their prayers, he anxiously studied to convey that refusal in terms the least unpleasing to the feelings of the applicant. In private life, his affable condescension was gratifying to all around him; and, although he could descend to the social intercourse of the domestic circle, he never lost sight of that native dignity which repelled improper liberties, and checked the forward. In early life, devoted from choice to the profession of arms, he evinced that most valuable of all qualities in an officer, the power of securing the attachment of those under him. And when he afterwards came to be employed in the more difficult and complex duties of a ruler, he performed the office so as to secure him the esteem and confidence of his sovereign, and the ardent attachment of those people over whom he was placed. A striking instance of this was evinced in his appointment as Lord-lieutenant of Ireland. At a time when contending parties, and discontented individuals, dis

soon produced the happiest result. His affable condescension pleased all parties; his confidence gained their esteem; and they soon discovered, that the chief aim of his administration was to relieve their distresses and promote their happiness. At the present time, though twelve years have elapsed since his appointment to that office, the anniversary of the arrival of the Duke of Richmond in Ireland still continues to be celebrated in that country, with the warmest enthusiasm, and most gratifying recollection of the event. And this we consider a higher tribute to his memory than storied urns or monu

mental epitaph' can ever perpetuate. "It was resolved by the magistrates at Montreal, in consequence of the death of this lamented nobleman, that the public should be requested to wear mourning thirty days."

His Grace's title, as Duke of Aubigny, in France, had been disputed, and, we believe, cancelled during the Revolution; while the estate to which it had been annexed, was seized and confiscated.

In 1816, the subject of this memoir visited France, in company with his son and successor, then Lord March. They were received with great attention by Louis XVIII., who immediately ordered the chateau and lands to be restored; while his Grace was, at the same time, admitted to the honours of the Louvre. Soon after this, they set out to visit their newlyacquired possessions, with which they seemed greatly delighted, and then returned to England; whence the Duke of Richmond, soon after, took his departure for America, where he was destined to close his career.

No. XI.

RIGHT HON. CHAS. WM. SCOTT DOUGLAS,

DUKE OF BUCCLEUGH AND QUEENSBERRY IN SCOTLAND, AND EARL OF DONCASTER IN ENGLAND.

THE

HE Dukes of Buccleugh are descended, in the male line, from that very unfortunate nobleman James Duke of Monmouth, a natural son of Charles II. by the celebrated Mrs. Lucy Walters. Having opposed his uncle, James II., he was taken prisoner, tried, condemned, and beheaded on Tower-hill, July 15. 1685, in the 37th year of his age. Both himself and descendants were enriched by his marriage with a great Scottish heiress, Lady Anne, daughter and heir of Francis Earl of Buccleugh; on which occasion he assumed the surname of Scott; and he and his lady were created Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh, by his royal father, in 1673.

Notwithstanding the attainder of her husband, this highbred dame retained her princely possessions near Edinburgh, and attained the age of 81. Her younger son, Lord Henry Scott, was created Earl of Deloraine, in Scotland; Francis, the third earl and duke, was, by act of parliament, restored to the earldom of Doncaster, which had been forfeited by the attainder of his ancestor, and died in 1743, leaving behind him, by Lady Caroline Campbell, daughter and co-heir of John Duke of Argyle, Henry, Duke of Buccleugh, father of the subject of the present memoir.

The late William Scott Douglas, Duke of Buccleugh and Queensberry, of whom we now treat, was born in 1772, and called up to the house of peers, in his father's life-time, in 1807.

which he reminded her that a favourite dog, belonging to the household, being in a room at the castle of St. Louis, at a time (five months before,) when the Duke, shaving, cut his chin, the dog was lifted up to lick the wound, when the animal bit his Grace's chin. The recollection of this circumstance gave his Grace but too sure a presentiment (the dog having subsequently run mad) of his approaching fate; and his Grace, therefore, in his letter to Lady Mary, expressed his conviction, (which, indeed, appears an irresistible conclusion,) that his disorder was hydrophobia. His Grace recommended the line of conduct to be observed by his children, in the painful situation in which they would be placed at his death; and, it is said, requested to be buried in Quebec, on the ramparts, like a soldier, there to remain. His Grace's sufferings were extreme; yet his mind soared above agony. He directed Colonel Cockburne not to attend to his orders any longer; For you see,' said the great man, the state I am reduced to: and, during a paroxysm of pain, he exclaimed, For shame, Richmond! Shame, Charles Lennox! Bear your sufferings like a man !"

The Duke died August 27th, 1819, in the 55th year of his age. The corpse was conveyed, first to Montreal, and then to Quebec by water. From the 2d to the 4th of September, the body lay in state at the Chateau de St. Louis, on which last day it was interred in the cathedral church.

"The death of his Grace," observes a Canadian, "was felt by the inhabitants of Canada as a sensible calamity; for his Grace's benevolent and ingenuous disposition had endeared him to the people, and the general tone and character of his administration met with the cordial concurrence of those who were best capable of appreciating its effects.

"From the system which his Grace has pursued since his arrival, there can be no doubt of his ardent desire to elevate these colonies to a rank worthy his great ambition. To agriculture he has given an additional impulse by his liberal patronage and co-operation with existing societies.

impatient rival: what was before a dull and laborious routine of unproductive duties, has now become the pleasing and lucrative employment of laudable competition. Canals have been projected, and were already in progress, under the auspices of this great man; and there can be little doubt of his intention to have intersected the whole country, and improved the advantages which nature has bestowed with a bountiful liberality. While thus employed in laying the basis for an elegant superstructure, he has been diligent in adopting the necessary precautions to secure it from the grasp of omni-voracious ambition. The various fortifications which border its threshhold already bid defiance to the most determined aggressor; and, while happiness is smiling within, she enjoys the peaceful repose of conscious security. His benevolence was an object of general admiration, and his amiable endowments and conciliating manners had endeared him to his family and friends.

"In public life he was steady, firm, and decisive in his measures. He was accessible to all who chose to prefer their complaints to him; and, when he was compelled to refuse their prayers, he anxiously studied to convey that refusal in terms the least unpleasing to the feelings of the applicant. In private life, his affable condescension was gratifying to all around him; and, although he could descend to the social intercourse of the domestic circle, he never lost sight of that native dignity which repelled improper liberties, and checked the forward. In early life, devoted from choice to the profession of arms, he evinced that most valuable of all qualities in an officer, the power of securing the attachment of those under him. And when he afterwards came to be employed in the more difficult and complex duties of a ruler, he performed the office so as to secure him the esteem and confidence of his sovereign, and the ardent attachment of those people over whom he was placed. A striking instance of this was evinced in his appointment as Lord-lieutenant of Ireland. At a time when contending parties, and discontented individuals, dis