[4] A pauper who, being nearly past his labour, is employed by different masters, for a length of time proportioned to their occupations.
[5] Some apology is due for the insertion of a circumstance by no means common: That it has been a subject for complaint in any place, is a sufficient reason for its being reckoned among the evils which may happen to the Poor, and which must happen to them exclusively; nevertheless, it is just to remark, that such neglect is very rare in any part of the kingdom, and in many parts is totally unknown.
[6] Lord Robert Manners, the youngest son of the Marquis of Granby and the Lady Frances Seymour, daughter of Charles Duke of Somerset, was born the 5th of February, 1758; and was placed with his brother, the late Duke of Rutland, at Eton-School, where he acquired, and ever after retained, a considerable knowledge of the classical authors.
Lord Robert, after going through the duties of his profession on-board different ships, was made Captain of the Resolution, and commanded her in nine different actions, besides that last memorable one on the 2d of April, 1782, when, in breaking the French Line of Battle, he received the wounds which terminated his life, in the 24th year of his age.
See the Annual Register, printed for Mr. Dodsley.
[7] Allusions of this kind are to be found in the Fairy-Queen. See the end of the first book, and other places.
[8] Clarissa, vol. vii. Lovelace’s Letter.
[9] Spencer.