Blest with your parent's wit, and her first blooming face ;

Born with our liberties in William's reign,

Your eyes alone that liberty restrain.

DUCHESS OF RICHMOND.

Of two fair Richmonds different ages boast,
Theirs was the first, and ours the brightest toast.
Th' adorer's offering proves who's most divine,
They sacrificed in water, we in wine.

LADY SUNDERLAND.

All nature's charms in Sunderland appear,
Bright as her eyes, and as her reason clear;
Yet still their force, to men not safely known,
Seems undiscovered to herself alone.

MADEMOISELLE SPANHEIME.
Admired in Germany, adored in France,
Your charms to brighter glory here advance ;
The stubborn Britons own your beauty's claim,
And with their native toasts enroll your name.

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XXXIV.

James Stanhope,

EARL STANHOPE.

AMES STANHOPE, Earl Stanhope, eldest son of the Honourable Alexander Stanhope, the founder of this family (who was employed for sixteen years as envoy to the States General), was introduced to the public by his father at an early age.

At eighteen years of age he left the University in order to accompany his father to Spain, and, after some stay there, travelling into Italy, served as a volunteer under the Duke of Savoy, afterwards King of Sicily and Sardinia. In 1694 he was made a captain by King William, with the additional rank of lieutenant-colonel in his regiment of foot-guards. At the siege of Namur, in 1695, though not on duty, he went a volunteer on the attack of the counterscarp, and giving extraordinary proofs of his courage and conduct, was wounded and utterly disabled.

11. Philip, afterwards second Earl of Stanhope; 2. George; 3. James.

1. Lady Gertrude; 2. Lady Jane.