Lord HENLEY'S Life of his maternal grandfather, the Chancellor, Lord
NORTHINGTON, is a neat and well-drawn-up publication : it is such a work as the descendants of all remarkable men ought to make a point of leaving behind them, to perpetuate the memory and record the characteristics of their ancestors. Lord NORTH- INGTON was Lord Keeper during the latter part of the reign of GEORGE the Second, and Lord Chancellor in the earlier years of GEORGE the Third. He succeeded Lord R ARDWICKE, and was followed on the woolsack by Lord CAMDEN. Coming between such great men, he yet maintained a high character for ability, straightforwardness, and activity : his decisions were sound, his learning great, and his integrity unimpeached. He was a man of little form or ceremony, his manners appear to have been familiar, his temper was jovial, and his wit lively. He was a prototype of Lord THURLOW, but was a more amiable man. In his youth, he had indulged freely in the vice of the time—drinking ; and this brought on a premature infirmity. He suffered much from the gout ; and once, after some painful waddling between the wool- sack and the bar in the House of Lords, he was heard to mutter, "If I had known that these legs were one day to carry a Chan- cellor, I'd have taken better care of them when I was a lad."
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