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 The Monthly Mirror followed its first notice of Stanley by a further reference to him when reviewing Pye and Spencer, in July, 1796:

Before dismissing Mr. Stanley and his translation of Bürger, a word further on the man himself. He never published anything after the Leonora, except Letters on his resigning his commission and some reports on farming. He gave up his parliamentary seat at the close of the session in 1796, not caring to stand for the new parliament. He continued major of the Cheshire militia until the latter part of 1797 when he settled at Alderley Park, his home to the death of his father and his accession to the baronetcy. That occurred in 1807 when he became Sir John Stanley. A little more than twenty years later he was made first Lord Stanley of Alderley, doubtless a reward for his long profession of liberal principles.

Mr. Stanley thus separated himself wholly from the making of literature, though there are many evidences that he continued to enjoy it. More important are the proofs that he again sometimes tried translation from the German, though not for publication. In another letter of "Serena" to Maria Josepha, then Mrs. Stanley, she says:

This refers to a little one-act drama of Kotzebue, Die edle Lüge,