superiority to defiance. The warehouses of Seve, have indeed flourished by means of regal protection before and imperial patronage after the period here alluded to; but during the short-lived and disastrous epoch of the French commonwealth, this elegant art was left to individual competition alone; and it was an Englishman who proved the most successful candidate for fame.

There is every reason to suppose that Mr. Potter, previously to his death, which occurred in 1817, had relinquished this, in order to engage in some other pursuit: for he was both speculative and eccentric, and with these qualities, which are sufficiently common, he united a gift that but rarely accompanies them; for he could calculate by memory alone with a promptitude that astonished the beholder, and at the same time with a degree of precision, that could only be equalled by the slow and painful operations of the countinghouse!

No. XXXIV.

SIR JOSEPH MAWBEY, BART.

THE Mawbeys claim their descent from the village of Mawtby, in the county of Norfolk; but they owe their wealth and title to the manufactories of this great and opulent island. Mr. Joseph Mawbey, was for many years engaged in a large and profitable distillery at Vauxhall; and by the conversion of malt into British spirits and vinegar, realised a considerable fortune; which was encreased by a marriage in 1760, with his cousin, Miss Pratt, who finally succeeded to the joint fortunes of both her father and brother. As a multitude of hogs were fattened at his, like all other distilleries near town; this afforded ample scope for jests and puns, when he became a member of parliament.

Both in 1761, and 1768, this gentleman served as a burgess for Southwark; in 1765, he was created a Baronet. On the death of Sir Francis Vincent he was elected knight of the shire for the county of Surrey, as well as in 1780 and 1784; and on all these occasions his conduct was exemplary and correct, He was also distinguished as a chairman of the quarter sessions.

The late Sir Joseph, was one of the nine children by the heiress just alluded to, who died in 1790. He was born about the year 1763, and succeeded his father in 1798. Two years anterior to this (Aug. 9, 1796), he married Miss Charlotte Catherine Mary Henchman, daughter of Thomas Henchman, Esq., of Littleton, in the county of Middlesex, by whom he had issue two daughters; so that the baronetcy is extinct for want of a male heir.

This gentleman resided at Bottley's, near St. Anne's-hill, in Surrey, and once presented himself as a candidate for that county.

The remains of Sir Joseph were interred at Chertsey: the attempt to render his obsequies simple and without pomp was frustrated by the numerous applications from persons desirous of showing their last testimony of regard. The poor in him have lost a friend, as he performed his duties as a magistrate with unbiassed rectitude, and by living on his estate conduced to the benefit of all around him.

No. XXXV.

THE REV. WILLIAM BELOE, B.D. F.S.A.

RECTOR OF ALL-HALLOWS, LONDON-WALL; PREBENDARY of ST. PANCRAS, IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL; AND PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN.

MR. BELOE, was born in 1756-7, and died in 1817, at his house in Kensington Square. He was a man of very extensive erudition; he possessed great loyalty and zeal; and at one period, was laborious in the extreme. He first distinguished himself by his translation of Herodotus; and acquired a certain degree of literary eminence, in consequence of his various publications.

We have been promised a biographical memoir of this gentleman, and hope to be able to insert it, if not in the appendix to the present, at least in our next volume.

No. XXXVI.

THE RIGHT HON. THE COUNTESS OF ALBEMARLE.

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HIS much lamented lady was the fourth daughter of the late Edward Lord Southwell, Baron de Clifford, Westmoreland, and Vesci, by Sophia, third daughter of Samuel Campbell, of Mount Campbell, in the county of Leitrim, Esq. The Hon. Elizabeth Southwell was born June 11th, 1776, and educated in a manner suitable to her rank and pretensions, under the immediate care of an accomplished and most exemplary mother, who, indeed, afterwards acquired so high and exalted a character in England, as to have a Princess, at once the hope and ornament of the nation, committed to her charge.

At a very early age, (on April the 9th, 1792,) this young lady became the wife of the Right Hon. William-Charles Keppel, seventh Earl of Albemarle, by whom she had no fewer than fifteen children. Of these, eleven, including Lord Bury, her eldest son, still survive, to deplore the loss of a fond and affectionate parent!

In consequence of the Dowager Lady de Clifford's official connection with, and, still more, her friendship and uninterrupted attachment to the late Princess Charlotte of Wales, her daughter, the Countess of Albemarle, had frequent opportunities of visiting at Warwick-House. This intercourse soon produced a reciprocal regard; and Her Royal Highness, among many marks of her affection, a few years since presented Her Ladyship with a bust of Mr. Fox, cut by the chisel of Nollekens, which is preserved, with religious veneration, at Elvedon in Suffolk. It was accompanied with a letter, replete with affection, regard, and esteem. Indeed, the demise of this estimable Countess, is supposed to have arisen purely

from sympathy, at the sudden, mournful, and unexpected fate of the amiable Princess, just alluded to. The account this event was disclosed to her, with every possible preparation, that delicacy could suggest, or tenderness ́ anticipate, more especially as Her Ladyship was then in the family way. Happening to be at that period at Holkham-Hall, in Norfolk, the seat of Mr. Coke, with whom the Earl of Albemarle her husband has always lived in terms of the most unrestricted intimacy, preparations were made for their return to Suffolk, although the accouchement was not expected until the lapse of a few weeks: but on the 13th of November, exactly seven days after the demise of her illustrious friend; and but three or four after the communication of the fatal intelligence, Her Ladyship was seized with the pains of premature labour! On this, recurrence was instantly had to the best medical advice that could be procured; but in seventeen hours after experiencing the first throes, this estimable woman was corpse.

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The latter portion of this time was truly affecting: for, being fully conscious of her fate, the Countess called for the Earl to approach her bed, and pressing his hand in her own, so long as life afforded the least muscular energy, with her latest breath she invoked all the blessings of heaven on the head of her dear husband and children, and then immediately expired!

Thus died like a heroine, in the 42d year of her age, Elizabeth Countess of Albemarle, who, as a daughter, a wife, a mother, and a friend, is fully entitled to unmixed praise. It is to be hoped, that so bright an exemplar of all that is good, amiable, and estimable, will not pass away without producing a due effect on the age and country in which she lived and