Poems
, ed. 1898, vol. i. p. 301,
note
I). A clever amateur actor, his comic opera
Whistle for It
was produced at Covent Garden, April 10, 1807, and he was afterwards on the Drury Lane Committee of Management. His translation of the
Poems of Catullus
was published in 1821. In 1819, as the representative of the official Whigs, he was elected for Westminster against Hobhouse; but was defeated at the next election (1820).