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29. The Agricultural, Commercial, and Manu- facturing Interests of the United Kingdom. ,30. The Liberty of the Press.

31. Capt. Coulson and the Navy of Great Britain.

32. The Militia of Great Britain.

33. The Volunteers of the United Kingdom.

34. Trial by Jury and Lord Erskine.

35. The Vice-President, William Loraine, the staunch and conscientious Pittite.

36. Conscientious Christians of every Sect.

37. The Duchess of Northumberland and the House of Percy.

38. William Wilberforce and the Abolition of Slavery all the World over.

39. Robert Pearson, Esq. [an absent member].

40. Lord Castlereagh.

41. The Lord High Chancellor, Lord Eldon.

42. The Right Hon. Geo. Canning, the eloquent advocate of practical freedom, and the intrepid opposer of chimerical innovations.

43. The Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool.

44. Prosperity to Ireland.

45. Lord Sidmouth.

46. Mrs. Brandling.

47. The Constitution as by Law established, and may every Reformer begin with reforming himself.

48. The Land we live in, and may those who don't like it leave it.

49. Capt. Barnard and the 1st Regiment of Grenadier Guards.

50. Mrs. W. Brandling.

51. Mrs. Mayoress and the Family at the Mansion House.

52. Lord Grenville.

53. The Vice-Presidents of the Club.

54. May the liberties of Spain be settled without bloodshed.

55. Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart., and success to him in his Election.

56. John Rawling Wilson.

57. May the Principles which guided the late Mr. Brandling flourish unimpaired in his Family for ever.

58. The Dignity of the Crown and the Just Rights of the People.

59. The President's good health and many thanks for his services.

Fifty-nine toasts in one evening, every one of them duly honoured, and most of them followed by appropriate songs and music ! Such, at least, was the way in which one of the clubs helped to perpetuate ** The Immortal Memory of William Pitt " !

RICHARD WELFORD.

Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

PITTITE should refer to 7 th S. v. 187, 357 ; vi. 89; 8 th S. viii. 108, 193; ix. 13, 116; x. 461 ; xi. 15. G. F. R. B.

Not only in London, but in many large towns, and even in country places, Pitt Clubs were founded, commemorative of the great statesman who died in 1806, and is said to have been killed by the news of the battle of Austerlitz in the previous year. In Man- chester there was a very important one, and I remember to have seen in that city a medallion in plaster of paris of Pitt, and pro-

bably there were others in metal struck off. Canning wrote the song used at their con- vivial meetings, the refrain of which is : The pilot that weathered the storm.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. [MR. H. J. BEARUSHAW and MR. E. H. COLEMAN also thanked for references.]

DUCHESS SARAH (10 th S. ii. 149). The par- ticulars asked for by MR. WALTER J. KAYE were given by me so recently as last De- cember (9 th S. xii. 471) in a paper on the mother of the Duchess of Marlborough. As this article seems to have escaped the eye of the editorial Lyriceus, I venture to repeat the information. Richard Jennings, by his wife Frances Thornhurst, had two sons and four daughters. The two sons, John and Ralph, both died unmarried at an early age. Susanna, the eldest daughter, also died young. Frances, the second, was born in 1648, and married first, in 1665, Count George Hamil- ton, the brother of Count Anthony of the 'Memoirs,' who was killed at Zebernstieg, in Alsace, in June, 1676 ; and secondly, in 1679, Col. Richard Talbot, who was created Earl of Tyrconnel by James II. in 1685, and Duke of Tyrconnel in 1689. He died on 14 Aug., 1691, and his widow, who was re- duced to great poverty, survived him nearly forty years, dying in Dublin on 6 March, 1730/31. Barbara, the third daughter, was born in 1652, and married Col. Edward Griffith, secretary to Prince George of Den- mark, and afterwards one of the clerks-comp- trollers of the Green Cloth, who died 11 Feb., 1710/11. His wife, who had died 22 March, 1678/9, was buried in St. Albans Abbey Church, where her two brothers and her sister Susanna had been interred. Sarah, the great duchess, the youngest of the family, was born 29 May, 1660, married Col. John Churchill in 1678, and died in 1744.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Richard Jennings, of Sandridge, Herts, by his wife Frances Thornhurst, daughter of Sir Giffard Thornhurst, of Agnes Court, Kent, had issue :

1. Frances, known as " a Belle Jennings, ' married, as his second wife, Richard, Earl and Duke of Tyrconnel, eighth son of Sir William Talbot, of Carton, who was created a baronet 4 Feb., 1622, and had issue two daughters, the elder of whom, Lady Char- lotte, married Prince Vintimiglia and had issue two daughters (the elder married Count de Verac, and died s.;>., and the younger Prince Belmont, and also died s.j).). Frances died aged ninety-two, and was interred in