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r mention of the bill 4 Nov., 1772, and a like o nission affects Wewitzer's own first appear- a ace, which, from Winston's MS., took place f< >r the joint benefit of Miss Twist and Miss A r ewitzer 12 May, 1773. Reference to an eirly peerage may clear up the mystery of lady Tyrawley. Poor Wewitzer died sud- denly, under miserable circumstances, in Wild Court, Drury Lane. He was, in his prime, specially happy in the delineation of Jews and Frenchmen. One of his best parts was Bagatelle in O'Keefe's musical farce 'The Poor Soldier.'

There were two distinct baronies of Tyraw- loy, that of the O'Hara family and that of Tyrawley of Ballinrobe. Of the earlier barony there were two representatives Sir Charles O'Hara, created first baron, who died 1724, and James O'Hara, second baron, pre- viously Baron Kilmaine, 1721, who was ambassador to Portugal and Russia, and who died in 1773 s.p. legitimate, when the title became extinct. This baron was the putative father of George Ann Bellamy. He is reported to have been a man of notoriously licentious habits, and to have returned from one of his embassies with three wives and fourteen children. There can be little doubt that the Baron (there was no earldom) Tyraw- ley with whom Miss Wewitzer's name was associated was the Right Hon. James Cuffe, of Castle Lacken, co. Mayo, who was born in 1748, and created Baron Tyrawley in 1797. In 1778 he married Mary, daughter of Richard Levinge, of Calverstown, co. Kildare. She died in 1808 s.p., and he in 1821. ' The Complete Peerage,' by G. E. C., from which this information is extracted, has the follow- ing note (e) : "In private life he (Baron Tyraw- ley) was very immoral," in this respect sharing his namesake's notoriety. It is possible, but not probable, that he may have privately married Wewitzer's sister after his wife's death. ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Priory.

GENERAL WADE (9 th S. i. 129, 209). The author and the original editor of the poem 'Albania' are both unknown; and of the poem itself only one copy was known to be in existence in 1803. This copy was at one time in the possession of Lord Pitsligo, and afterwards belonged to Dr. Beattie. It was written by a Scotch clergyman, who from the following passage appears to have been twenty-four years of age at the time of its composition :

Shall I forget thy tenderness ? Shall I Ihy bounty, thy parental cares forget, Hissing with viper's tongue ? who, born of thee Now twice twelve years, have drawn thy vital air.

From Aaron Hill's address to the editor of ' Albania ' it seems that the dedication to General Wade was the editor's own com- position.

In the following lines Hill declares the editor, as well as the author, of ' Albania ' to be a Scotchman :

More just thy mind, more gen'rous is thy Muse ! Albanian born, this English theme to choose : No partial flattery need thy verse invade, That in the ear of Scotland sounds a Wade.

The author of ' Albania ' is not the only poet who has celebrated the exertions of General Wade in a measure which was ex- pected to promote the civilization of the Highlands. In February, 1726, Leonard Welsted published "An Ode to the Right Honourable Lieutenant-General Wade, on his disarming the Highlands ; imitated from Horace."

The Right Hon. George Wade, son of William Wade, was born in 1668. He entered the army on 26 Dec., 1690, from which time he rose under four succeeding princes to the highest honours of his profession. In 1704 he was made adjutant-general with a brevet of colonel by Lord Gallway. Five years after he was honoured with a letter from the emperor, and a commission of major-general. In 1724 he commanded in Scotland, and made the military highways through the High- lands, whicn proceed in a straight line, up and down hill, like a Roman roaoT.

The following inscription was placed on a bridge built by Marshal Wade in 1733, when these roads were formed by the army under his command :

Mi rare

Hanc viam militarem

Ultra Romanos terminos

M. Passuum CCL. hac iliac

Extensam,

Tesquis et paludibus insultantem,

Per montes rupesque patefactam,

Et indignanti Tavo

Ut cernis instratam.

Opus hoc arduum, sua solertia

Et decennati militum opera

A. JEr. Xnse. 1733, posuit G. Wade

Copiarum in Scotise Prsefectus.

Ecce quantum valeant, Regis Georgii II. Auspicia.

But the most singular poetical effusion on this subject is said to have been composed by a Mr. Caulfield, who was employed in the business by the marshal :

Had you but seen these roads, before they were made, You 'd lift up your hands, and bless Marshal Wade.

On 24 June, 1742, Wade was made a Privy Councillor, and in the same year a Lieutenant- General. On 14 Dec., 1743, he was made a Field Marshal. In 1744 he commanded the