74 Obituary.[1799: by marrying her, if a divorce from her huſband could have been ob- tained.

Early in Auguſt, at his houſe in Dublin, the Right honorable James Caulficld, Earl of Charlemont, and Baron Caulfiéld. His Lordſhip was born in 1728, and was a nobleman of ſound patriotiſm, and the ſtrie ſt integrity; the early part of his life he ſpent in Italy, but travelled to molt of the principal courts of Europe, where he was univerſally reſpeéted, and formed ſo many connedtions that he had a much larger acquainiance among foreigners than his own countrymen,

He returned home about the year 1757, inan 11 fate of health, from a diſorder ſuppoſed to have been brought on by poiſon. By the(kill of the celebrated Dr, Lucas, of Dalton, he was reſtored to health, which by a Érié attention to regimen he was enabled to preſerve to a good age. He married in his fortieth year, a Miſs Hickman, daughter of a clergyman, by whom he had ſeveral children, but one of whom only ſurvives, Francis Lord Caulfield,who ſucceeds him; a young nobleman who had an'‘excellent education, ar the univerſity of Dublin, under the eye of his father.— The circumſtances of his country drew Lord Charlemont into public life, and he has invariably acted for the beſt intereſts of his country. He had 2 controuling power over the borough from whence he took his title; yet, although, his fortune was by no means opulent, he never ſold his ſeats, but generouſly nominated ſuch menas were recommended by their talents or charader; among theſe muſt be claſſed Mr. Gratton, whom Lord Charlemont introduced into the Houſe of Commons.

During the late war, when the Iriſh found it neceſſary to arm, not only to defend their country from a foreign enemy, but to call for, and inſiſt upon, what they juſtly called their rights; when an army of thircy thouſand volunteers ſtood forth, all freemen, and among them moſt of the Iriſh nobility and generality of the iſland, Lord Charlemont wa unanimouſly ele&ed their commander in chief, and was returned to that high ſtation for ſeveral years. While he enjoyed it he had the happineſs to ſee the a of the Britiſh parliament paſs, giving freedom to the trade of Ireland; and likewiſe to behold all the legiſlative power aſſumed by Britain, over Ireland, renounced. Unfortunately a difference of opinion on the queſtion of Catholic emancipation, firſt mentioned to Lord Charle- montin an addreſs from the volunteers af Ulſter, cauſed a diſagreement, which induced LordCharlemont to reſign the command of the volunteers, and in a ſhort time that glorious bulwark of Iriſh liberty ſunk into ho- thing. This event ſhould teach al) futare political parties, how very dangerous it is to put too much reliance on any one man; no deubtLord Charlemont thought he ated right, but certainly his wiſh to continue political incapacities was highly blameable. Lord Charlemont was how- ever always a friend to a parliamentary reform, and when the queſtion was agitated in Ireland he generouſly offered a ſurrender of his boroz2gh intereſt for the public good. His conduét on the buſineſs of the regency» when he voted to offer the place of regent to the Prince, gaye(0 much offence to the preſent miniſter, that his Lordſhip was diſmiiſe@ from the government of the county of Armagh, which had been in his family for many ages: whether this made an alteration in his conduét or not, we cannot iay, but he has ſince changed his opinion with reſped to the Cathols, and was lately an advocate for their emancipation. To the late meaſures in Ireland he has been a determined opponent, but has how- ever ſupported the miniſtry in the preſent war. He has lately from grow- ing age and infirmities, lived retired and reſpected, and whatever Tay be his fate, he ought ever to be held in remembrence by his country,