lesley, sharing alike his counsels and his triumphs. He also executed the commission of the East India Company to annex the rich and fertile region of the Carnatic to the British possessions already acquired in India.

On his return home from his distinguished and successful career in that peninsula, the thanks of both Houses of Parliament were voted May 3, 1804, to his lordship for his eminent services during the Mahratta war, and on the 12th of the same month he was advanced to the vacant earldom of Powis.

Having shown undoubted proofs of a capacity for government he was nominated Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1805; but the death of Mr. Pitt before his departure for the sister island frustrated the appointment, and denied him the opportunity of a further display of administrative ability in an arduous and responsible sphere.

His Lordship was Lord Lieutenant of the county of Salop, and had been Recorder of Shrewsbury and Ludlow. He took an active part in the formation of excellent turnpike roads in the neighbourhood of his seat at Walcot, and, having completed one over the lofty range of the Longmynd, inaugurated the project by driving in his carriage, drawn by four horses, down the steep declivities of that mountain. His conservatory was large, and well-planned, and for the production of fruits and flowers was unrivalled in England. The earl was remarkable for physical vigour, and might have been seen, on the verge of eighty years, digging in his garden at six o'clock in the morning in his shirt sleeves.

He had kept up for many years very intimate relations with the corporation of Shrewsbury, and the local historians of that town give the following description of the munificent presentations of plate, which Colonel Robert Clive, formerly its representative in Parliament, and afterwards the first Lord Clive, and his son, the Earl of Powis, made to the mayor and corporation of that ancient borough.

The most costly and valuable part of the corporation

ornaments are the magnificent tankard and salver, which adorn the mayor's table, and presented by the macebearer to the judges of assize-the one well stored with cakes, and the other with negus-when the mayor meets their lordships on their arrival. The former was given by Robert Lord Clive, the latter by his son, the Earl of Powis, as an appropriate appendage to his father's present. The tankard is a massive and highly beautiful piece of plate. On the side are figures in high relief, representing commerce, agriculture, and manufactures, and are finely executed. On the lid, with a highly embossed border, is a boy brandishing the child's toy called a mill-reel, the purport of which in such a place is not very apparent. The handle and base are in the same rich style of decoration. The chased work is raised on a frosted ground, and the inside, handle, base, and border are double gilt. Around the upper part is inscribed "The gift of Colonel Robert Clive to the Hon. the Mayor and Corporation of Shrewsbury, Sept. 17, 1760." This fine civic cup will contain somewhat more than three quarts, is ten inches in height, and weighs one hundred and seven ounces.

The salver is extremely splendid. It is raised on eight silver claws, and enclosed by an elevated margin, enchased with Bacchanalian masks, connected with wreaths of vine leaves and fruit. In the centre are the arms of Shrewsbury, on a frosted ground within a foliated border, on the outside of which is engraved "The gift of Edward, the Earl of Powis, son of Colonel Robert Clive, to the Honorable the Mayor and Corporation of Shrewsbury, Sept. 1820. The Rev. Hugh Owen, Mayor." The remaining portion is overspread with fine enchasing of vine leaves, grapes, cornucopias, etc. The diameter of this gorgeous piece of plate is twenty-four inches, and its weight one hundred and eighty-eight ounces nine pennyweights.

1 It is also worthy of record that in 1769, when a subscription was raised for the erection of the English bridge at Shrewsbury, at a cost of £15,000, Colonel Robert Clive contributed the munificent sum of £1,500, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., £700, and Henry Arthur, Earl of Powis, £400.

His Lordship died May 16, 1839, having been apparently well on the previous day. The Countess had died June 3, 1830.

They had issue Edward, second earl, Robert Henry of Oakley Park, county Salop, colonel in the army, M.P. for South Shropshire, born 15th Jan. 1789, married 19th June, 1819, Harriet, subsequently Baroness Windsor, daughter of Other Hickman, fifth Earl of Plymouth, and co-heir with her sister, the Marchioness of Downshire, of the Barony of Windsor. The abeyance of the Barony terminated in favour of Lady Harriet in 1855. The Hon. Robert Clive succeeded to the Oakley Park estate, which had been the patrimony of his grandfather, the Earl of Powis. Henrietta Antonia married in 1817, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., M.P., Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire and Merionethshire, and died in 1835. Charlotte Florentia married, in 1817, Hugh, third Duke of Northumberland, K.G. She was the governess of Her present Majesty, and died 1847.

EDWARD HERBERT, SECOND EARL OF POWIS OF THE PRESENT CREATION.

Edward, second Earl of Powis, was born 22nd March, 1785, and married, 9th February, 1818, Lucy, third daughter of James, third Duke of Montrose, and a lineal descendant of the Great Marquess, James Graham, the ablest champion of the cause of Charles I in Scotland.

By the wish of his maternal uncle, George Edward Henry Arthur, Earl of Powis, and probably from his own choice, he resigned the illustrious surname of Clive, which had been borne for many centuries, since the reign of Henry II, by his ancestors, resident at Styche, near Market Drayton, in Shropshire, and attained to its culminating point of glory in the brilliant victories of the great Lord Clive, "the heaven-born general," who won a kingdom in India by his irresistible sword. He adopted, March 9th, 1807, the surname and arms of Herbert, as much venerated in Montgo

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meryshire for the public services of his kinsmen, as beloved for their private worth and benevolence, and succeeded to the chief estates of his ancestors at Powis Castle, Lymore, and Llyssin.

He displayed a great anxiety to improve the appearance of the parish church of Montgomery, where several of his ancestors were interred, and in which he was interested, as a proprietor in the neighbourhood. The following inscription is over the door leading to the steeple of Montgomery Church :

"This Tower was erected in the year of our Lord 1816 at the sole cost of the Right Hon. Edward Herbert Viscount Clive, of Lymore. By his munificence the parish of Montgomery was exonerated of a charge of seventeen hundred pounds. In commemoration of which splendid act the rector and landowners ordered this public testimonial of their gratitude and respect for the noble donor.

"MAURICE EDWARD LLOYD, Rector. "WILLIAM DAVIES

"EDMUND READ

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Churchwardens."

His lordship displayed similar liberality in the enlargement of the town-hall of Montgomery in 1828. The upper part of the building, which rested on arches, enclosing a sheltered area for the use of the market, being inadequate to the purpose of holding the quarter sessions, was taken down, and two handsome and convenient rooms (one of which was 67 feet in length, and 20 feet in width) were commodiously arranged for the business of the sessions, and for assemblies and public meetings, at the sole expense of his lordship.

In 1823, he repaired and enlarged the beautiful seat of his ancestors, Powis Castle, preserving and extending the characteristic features of the venerable structure, and exhibiting admirable taste and munificence in the requisite alterations.

In the recently published Memoirs of the celebrated statesman, Lord Palmerston, by Lord Dalling (Vol. iii), there is a letter, commenting on the recent alterations at Powis Castle, which we think it will be interesting to insert :

Beaudesert, Nov. 26th, 1841.

TO HON. WILLIAM TEMPLE.

DEAR WILLIAM, From Liverpool we drove round the coast of North Wales by Conway, the Menai Bridge, and Carnarvon. The hills were covered with snow, which gave the country an Alpine character, though it did not add to the rapidity of our progress-and certainly our speed was not that of railroads. We passed a day at Powis Castle, where we found Powis in high force. Powis has improved his castle, sensibly, and slowly; but he has yet a great deal to do to make it as comfortable as it is capable of being made.

Yours affectionately,

PALMERSTON.

On coming of age, he entered Parliament for the borough of Ludlow in 1806, and he continued one of the members of that borough in Parliament for eleven successive Parliaments, until his accession to the peerage in 1839. The chief electioneering contest occurred in 1832, after the passing of the Reform Act, when two Whig candidates appeared, and succeeded in displacing the Hon. R. H. Clive, the brother of his lordship, the respective numbers being, Viscount Clive, 198; Edward Romilly, 185; Hon. R. H. Clive, 169; William Davies, 115.

In a critical period of political conflict, he was accredited by his friend, the Duke of Wellington, who had served in early life in the Madras Presidency, under the governorship of the second Lord Clive, to negotiate, if possible, the introduction of Lord Palmerston into the cabinet, and we have an account of the transaction in the autobiography of the noble lord, dated September, 1830.1

"Huskisson died September, 1830. At the end of September, I received a letter from Lord Clive, dated from Powis Castle, saying he had been requested by the Duke of Wellington to propose to me to return to the cabinet, and that he (Lord Clive) was coming purposely to speak to me on the subject, and would come either to Broadlands, or London, according to a letter, which he begged me to write to him to Salisbury.

"I was just starting for London, when I received the letter,

1 Lord Dalling's Life of Lord Palmerston, vol. i, p. 362.