Regent, with the rank of Colonel; and in 1814, he was made Major-General by brevet.

On the new arrangement and extension of the military order of the Bath, at the beginning of 1815, Sir Henry Torrens was enrolled in the honourable list of Grand Commanders. In November of the same year he was appointed Colonel of the Royal African corps, from which, in September 1818, he was removed to the second West India regiment; and in August 1822, he was transferred to the second (or the Queen's Royal) regiment of Foot.

In March, 1820, Sir Henry Torrens was appointed to the situation of Adjutant-General, and his health, which had suffered very much from excessive exertion, and too close confinement while military-secretary, was speedily restored. The last important work which he undertook, was the revision of the army regulations. The experience of the campaign, and particularly of the new and more rapid mode of warfare adopted by the Duke of Wellington, rendered it expedient to revise the old regulations, which were founded upon the slow German system, and to embody into them, with great labour and zeal, the quick movements of the present practice. This work met with the warm approbation of the Commanderin-chief, and it has been generally admired for the clear and masterly method of the arrangements.

The death of this truly excellent man was awfully sudden. On Friday the 22d of August, 1828, Sir Henry was riding with his lady and two daughters, from his seat in Hertfordshire, on a visit to Mr. Blake, at Danesbury. Sir Henry was on horseback, when Mr. Knight, who rode by his side, perceiving an alteration in his countenance, dismounted, to prevent his falling. Medical assistance was instantly procured, but paralysis and apoplexy had seized him, and in less than three hours he expired, at the house of Mr. Blake, having never spoken a word from his first attack. On the following Thursday his remains were consigned very privately to the grave, in the parish church of Welwyn.

THOMAS-PHILIP WEDDELL ROBINSON,

LORD GRANTHAM.

THIS amiable and highly respected nobleman, who is scarcely known to have interfered in public affairs, should nevertheless be hereditarily a statesman, being brother, son, and grandson of ministers who have successively acted distinguished parts in the political arena, and great-grandson, maternally, of that celebrated lawyer, the Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. His Lordship is possessed of great property in Yorkshire, his paternal ancestors having by intermarriages united the inheritances of many considerable families in that county, to the original patrimony of the Robinsons. William Robinson was Lord Mayor of York in the time of Queen Elizabeth, as was his son William in that of James the First; and William his grandson was High Sheriff for the county in the reign of Charles the First. Sir Metcalfe Robinson, eldest son of the latter, was created a Baronet after the Restoration, and three times represented the city of York in Parliament. Sir William, his nephew and heir, was of the Convention Parliament-High Sheriff of the county at the Revolutionand member for the city of York in eight successive Parliaments. Sir Tancred, his son, was twice Lord Mayor of York, and a Rear Admiral; he left posterity, but the Baronetcy, on the death of his grandson, Sir Norton Robinson, devolved on Lord Grantham.

With Thomas, the younger brother of Sir Tancred, the family, which had hitherto existed only as independent country gentlemen of rank and influence in their own neighbourhood, rose to political consideration. He commenced his diplomatic services in 1723, as Secretary of Embassy to the French Court under Horace Walpole, afterwards Lord Walpole, of Wolterton, and brother of Sir Robert, then Prime Minister. In 1730 he was himself appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna, where he

resided during eighteen years marked by difficult and important events, and obtained in this period the order of the Bath, with which he was invested through the medium of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, husband of the Queen of Hungary, and afterwards the Emperor Francis the First. After his return to England, he was, in 1754, appointed a Secretary of State, and in 1755 one of the Lords Justices for administering the regal authority during the absence of the King. This participation in ministerial power was not, however, an enviable station: Sir Thomas had been appointed through the interest of the Duke of Newcastle; and the rival talents of Pitt and Fox, afterwards Lords Chatham and Holland, were united in opposition to his measures. Though personally agreeable to the King, and eminently qualified for fulfilling the duties of his office-though conducting the parliamentary business of Government with judgment and information-he had not influence enough to resist the opposition thus excited against him, nor strength enough to support the increasing difficulties of his situation; he therefore resigned his seals in November 1755, and was appointed Master of the Wardrobe, which office he continued to fill till the death of King George the Second, and was created Baron Grantham soon after the accession of George the Third.

This nobleman died in 1770, and was succeeded by his son, Thomas the second Lord Grantham, who was born at Vienna during the embassy of his father, and in his ministerial career followed nearly the same course. He was nominated in 1761 Secretary of the Embassy to Augsburg, and in 1771 Ambassador to the Court of Madrid; he returned to England in 1779, and was appointed First Commissioner of the Board of Trade, and in July 1782, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he concluded the prelimininaries of peace in January 1783, and resigned his office in the following March. He married the Lady Mary Jemima Yorke, second daughter of Philip second Earl of Hardwicke, by the Lady Jemima Campbell Marchioness Grey, representative of that branch of the ancient and noble family of Grey, which through