"that kingdom in those bleffed times," Swift, writing to Pope under his lordship's cover, mentions that "lord Orrery has 3,000 a year about Corke, and the "neighbourhood, and has more than "three years rent unpaid +."

On the death of his amiable relation, that most promifing youth, Edmund duke of Buckingham, (which happened at Rome, October 31, 1735,) he paid to his memory the just tribute of an elegiac poem ‡. In the winter of 1735, the duke of Dor fet being then lord lieutenant of Ireland; the earl of Orrery, it appears, "most extremely obliging to him for "the whole feffion, and neglected no op"portunity to endeavour to make his "administration eafy || ."

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In April, 1737, lord Orrery (then at Corke) earnestly preffed Dr. Swift to accompany him to England: "In the mid"dle of June (fays he) I will hope to

fet fail with you. Hector will fawn ἐσ upon you; Mr. Pope will come

+ Pope's works, vol. x. p. 251.

1 Printed for Brindley, 1737

See a letter from lady Betty Germaine to Dr. Swift, in Swift's letters, vol. iii. p. 186. b

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" out beyond the fhore to meet you "you will exchange Cyclops for men,' &c. But in vain: Swift never faw Marfton; his laft vifit to England was in 1.727.

Pope being at that time very anxious. about his letters, his lordship took over with him all that Swift had preferved [or could find] which were not above twenty-five. "Pray, (fays the dean, in one of his laft letters to Pope) let my lord "Orrery fee you often: next to yourself, "I love no man so well ‡.

About this time, that his fons might be educated under his own eye, and alfo have the benefit of attending Westminster school, he took a small house in Dukestreet, Westminster.

After being a widower fix years, lord

↑ Pope's works, vol. x. p. 263. To fhew how much the dean's memory was at that time impaired, in this letter, which is dated July 23, 1737, he says, "Lord Orvery goes over, as he

hopes, in about ten days, and will take with. "him all the letters, &c." Though among Swift's letters, (vol. vi. p. 140.) is one from lord Orrery to the dean, dated from London, the fame day, informing him that "Mr. Pope has his. "letters."

Orrery,

Orrery married in Ireland, June 30, 1738, Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, only daughter and heiress of John Hamilton, Efq. of Caledon in the county of Tyrone, granddaughter of Dr. Dopping, bishop of Meath, and niece of Dr. Dopping, bifhop of Offory. In a letter to this lady, on her intended nuptials, dated June 8, Swift, after pretending a prior claim, "as fhe had made fo many advances "to him, and confeffed herself to be

nobody's goddess but his," archly waves it, and politely" permits lord "Orrery to make himself the hap

piest man in the world; as I know "not (he adds) any lady in this king"dom of fo good fenfe, or fo many ac"complishments." The fame character he also gives her in his laft (printed) letter to Pope. And lord Orrery, in a letter written the day before his marriage, humorously triumphs over his rival," on "feeing the day when toupets, coxcomi"cal lords, powdered 'fquires, and awk"ward beaux join with the dean of St. "Patrick's in the lofs of one and the "fame object."

In the fucceeding feffion of the British

parliament his lordship was one of the peers who figned two protests relating to the Spanish convention, the one dated March 1, 1738-9, the other June 4, 1739.

In the fame year he published a new edition, in two volumes octavo, of the Dramatic works of his great-grandfather Roger the first earl of Orrery. In the fecond volume was printed, for the first time, a comedy by his father, called As you find it, which had been acted with great applaufe, and whofe "only fault," Mr. Budgell fays, "was its having too

"much wit."

The State-letters of the first earl were also published by his defcendant, in one volume folio, in 1742. In this year lord Orrery was deprived of his old dramatic friend Tom Southberne, the laft furviving wit of Charles II's reign, the evening of whose days had been cheared and enlivened by the notice of our author. On May 25, 1742, his lordship (with other peers) figned a proteft on rejecting the indemnifying bill; as he did alfo, Janu∙ary 31, 1743-4, in relation to the Hanover troops.

Lord Orrery was prefented to the ho

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norary degree of doctor of civil law, by the university of Oxford, August 25, 1742. He was alfo a fellow of the royal fociety. In 1746, lord Boyle being fettled at Oxford *, and Mr. Boyle in the college at Westminster, their father quitted London, and fixed his refidence at Caledon in Ireland. The masterly manner in which Mr. Boyle acted the part of Ig noramus, (the reverse of his real character) and spoke the epilogue †, in the Dormitory at Westminster, in December, 1747, did great credit to his genius, and will long be remembered by his friends and contemporaries. For want of fuch actors, that play has not been performed fince.

The fecond volume of Biographia Britannica being published in 1748, lord Orrery thanked Dr. Campbell," in the "name of all the Boyles, for the honour "he had done to them, and to his own

judgment, by placing the family in "fuch a light as to give a spirit of

* His lordship was admitted of St. Mary Hall May 23, 1745.

+ See this epilogue in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1748, p. 36.

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