LOVES OF THE LORDS AND LADIES.

BY T. HAYNES BAYLY, ESQ.

No. IV.

ROMANTIC LOVE.

THEY err who say romantic love
Is now gone out of fashion;
That modern hearts are much too tough
To feel the tender passion!

For when fair LADIES frown upon
Their offerings of marriage,
LORDS always take a lover's leap,
Into a travelling carriage!

And more than all they err, who say
That woman lacks discretion,
Indulging with devoted zeal
Each tender prepossession:
I think it quite astonishing
How easily she smothers
Her fondest partialities ;—

That is for younger brothers.

Love rules mankind at ev'ry age!

One vows he loves sincerely,

And then puts on his spectacles

To see the object clearly.

And canst thou scorn thy "gallant Gray,"

No youthful swain is brisker,

Alas! he'll die for love of thee,

He'll dye-his hair and whisker.

And see again the stripling Lord,

His Grace's youngest brother, Woos Lady Mary Pettingale,

Who looks just like his mother Her lord and master, Major P. May just as well resign her; The Major key is out of tune, Her love songs suit the Minor.

Throughout the world, by ev'ry class, And in all situations,

The self-same amorous song is sung, Though set with variations: 'Tis warbled 'neath the torrid sun,

'Tis whispered where deep shade is ;

And rural lads and lasses mock

The loves of Lords and Ladies!

THE MOST NOBLE THE DOWAGER

DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND.

THE lady whose portrait, from the pencil of Lawrence, graces this article is the widow of an English Duke, and the heiress and representative of an ancient race of Scottish earls.

The Earldom of Sutherland, according to the traditionary details of some of the northern writers, is the most ancient in Scotland, and gives way to few, if to any, in all Europe beside.

The Countess of Sutherland was married, by special licence, in London, on the 4th of September, 1785, to the Right Honourable George-Granville Leveson-Gower, then Viscount Trentham, afterwards DUKE OF SUTHERLAND; Marquess of Stafford, K.G.; Earl Gower; Viscount Trentham, of Trentham, in the county of Stafford; Baron Gower, of Stittenham, in the county of York; a Baronet; Recorder of the borough of Stafford ; and (in right of his Marchioness) High Sheriff of the county of Sutherland.

As Viscount Trentham, his Lordship, so soon as he had attained his majority (about the year 1779) was, through his father's interest, returned to parliament as one of the representatives of the borough of Newcastleunder-Lyme. In the parliament of 1784, he was elected one of the members for the county of Stafford. Upon his father's advancement to the Marquisate of Stafford, in 1786, he became Earl Gower. In 1790, he was sent as Ambassador Extraordinary to Paris, where he re