No[254]—’tis that gentleness of mind, that love

So kindly answering my desire;

That grace with which you look, and speak, and move,

That thus has set my soul on fire.

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The elegy alluded to was probably the effusion of some Jacobite royalist. That faction could not forgive the Duke of Cumberland his excesses, or successes, in Scotland; and not content with branding the Parliamentary Government of the House of Brunswick as usurpation, indulged in frequent, unfeeling, and scurrilous personalities on every branch of the reigning family.

Here lies Fred,

Who was alive, and is dead;