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This brave and worthy experienced General, after having distinguished himself in the military life of the great Frederick of Prussia, was killed in the service of his Majesty, in the unfortunate affair of Hohkerchen, and died in the field of glory in 1758.

JAMES HARRIS, ESQ.

THIS English gentleman, of great merit, talents, and learning, was the son of James Harris, Esq. by a sister of Lord Shaftesbury, author of " The Characteristics," whose literary taste and talents Mr. Harris seems to have inherited.

He was

born at the Close, at Salisbury, in 1709. He was educated at Oxford, at Wadham College, after having received an excellent education at the grammar school at Salisbury.

He became early a member of the House of Commons, where he represented Christ Church, in Hampshire, for three successive Parliaments. In 1763 he was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and was soon after removed to the Board of Treasury. In 1774 he

made Secretary and Comptroller to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte, which post he held till his death. He died, December 21, 1780, in his seventy-second year, after a long illness, which he bore with piety and calm resignation to the will of God. Mr. Harris was the author of valuable works 1st. Three Treatises, concerning Art, Music, Painting, Poetry, and Happiness. 2ndly, Hermes, or a Philosophical Enquiry concerning

Universal Grammar. 3rdly, Philosophical arrangements. And 4thly, Philosophical Enquiries, two volumes, printed after his death.

His eldest son, Sir James Harris, was early introduced into diplomatic life, and was minister plenipotentiary to the Empress Catharine of Russia for several years; he was every where highly respected for great integrity and distinguished abilities. He married Miss Amesand, the daughter of an eminent Russia merchant, and was created Earl of Malmsbury. His kindness of heart was not less remarkable in private friendship than his public talents and unblemished honour. The kindness and attachment which the Earl of Malmsbury manifested to William Porter, Esq. of St. Petersburgh (and afterwards of London) can never be forgotten by the Editor.

His lordship left one son, the present Earl of Malmsbury, and two daughters, Lady Catherine Harris, who married Colonel Bell, Colonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope, and Lady Frances Harris, who married Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

JUDGE JEFFREY S.

Ir biography is rendered interesting by true memorials of the virtues and talents of eminent characters, of whom the next generation ought to be informed; it is no less important when it gives true portraits of the wicked men who have existed in the world. If virtue and wisdom are recollected with pleasure, so should vice, and the awful punishment of vice and gross iniquity, be recorded as a warning to posterity.

Lord George Jeffreys (Baron Wem) commonly known by the name of " Judge Jeffreys," was the son of John Jeffreys, Esq. of Acton in Denbighshire. He was educated in Westminster School, and was a good proficient in the learned languages. He was next removed to the Inner Temple, where he studied the law; his father had a large family, and did not give proper attention to the moral culture of his son, who was pre-eminent in vice and wickedness. He had got to the Bar, but it was said that he had never been legally called there, but had, by some artifice, appeared as a barrister. He was at the assizes at Kingston, in 1666, when the plague was raging there, which prevented many counsellors from appearing in Court; Jeffreys

availed himself of this, and put on the gown of another person, and the Judge allowed him to plead. He got forward by impudence and address, and continued the practice of law till he reached the highest employments, by artifice and appear

ance.

Alderman Jeffreys (a namesake) introduced him to the citizens in London; he was a jolly bottle companion, and boasted of his skill in wine; so that in a short time he got much of city business, and was chosen their Recorder. He proceeded by adopting any measures whatever which could advance himself, all parties were alike to him if they brought him money. He got himself

introduced at Court as Solicitor to the Duke of York, and by flattery and falsehood he was more and more advanced. He was active to serve the Duke, and carried for him a cause by which the revenue of his Royal Highness was greatly increased it was for the right of the penny-post office, not so great an emolument as at the present day; but very important to the Duke of York at that period. To reward Jeffreys for this service he was knighted, and made a Judge, in his native country Wales, and soon after, in 1680, he was made Chief Justice of the city of Chester, and afterwards, through the same flattery and falsehood, he was made Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Soon after the death of King Charles the Second, King James appointed him to be Lord High Chancellor of England. He now laid aside

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