Character of Lord North's Administration. Colonel de la Motte, the French Spy. Manners in England at the beginning of the French European Discoveries in Science. 414212 Bons-mots of Hare, Fox, Sir John Doyle, Curran, Flood, Grattan. Character of Irish Eloquence. Character of Sheridan's Wit and Eloquence. Burke as a Parliamentary Speaker. Colonel Fitzpatrick's Poetry. Junius and Sir Philip Francis. 134 Death of the Duke of Lauzun. Dutchesses of Devonshire, Gordon, and Rutland. Ode to the Dutchess of Rutland. The Deaths of Burke, Pitt, and Fox. Lord Erskine's Character of Fox. Lord Grenville's Auditorship of the Exchequer. Lord Ellenborough in the Cabinet. Character of George the Third. The Prince's Letter on the Regency. Speeches of Messrs. Peel, Dawson, &c. Protestant Defence of Idolatry. Containing Anecdotes of George IV., his present Majesty A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF GEORGE THE FOURTH. CHAPTER I. The Brunswick Line. THE origin of the Brunswick Family is lost in the fabulous ages of the north. The first occurrence of the name has been dimly traced by the German antiquaries to the invasion of the Roman empire under Attila, in the middle of the fifth century. Among the tribes which that almost universal chieftain poured down upon Italy, the Scyrri (Hirri or Heruli) are found, whose king, Eddico, was sent as one of Attila's ambassadors to the court of Theodosius. The native country of the Scyrri was, like that of the principal invaders, in the north of Europe; and they are supposed, on Pliny's authority, to have possessed the marshes of Swedish Pomerania, and some of the islands near the mouth of the Baltic. On the sudden death of Attila and the dismemberment of his conquests, the Scyrri seized upon a large tract bordering on the Danube. But the possession was either too tempting or too carelessly held, to be relinquished without a struggle by the fierce chieftains, who, in returning from Italy, had seen the fertility of Pomerania. The Scyrri were involved in |