" The spirit in which she bore the first overwhelming passion of grief may be best seen in the letters written by her to Doctor Fitzwilliam, who had been chaplain at Woburn, and who afterwards returned them to Mr. Solwood, the librarian there, by whom they were published.

In the third week of her visit Mr. Darcy and his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, came down to see their aunt, and thusto Elizabeth's indifferencean acquaintance was renewed which Darcy soon seemed to show a real desire to take up again.

Mrs. Collins began to hope for her friend; but Elizabeth, who had received from Colonel Fitzwilliam ample confirmation of her suspicion that it was Darcy who had persuaded Bingley to give up Jane, was now only more incensed against the man who had broken her sister's peace of mind.

A protest against Pitt's refusal to dismiss the Lord-lieutenant, Lord Camden, the Chancellor Fitzgibbon, and the Commander-in-chief, Lord Carhampton, was signed by the Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire, and Leinster; Lords Fitzwilliam, Moira, and Ponsonby, "two of them Irish absentees, who were discharging thus their duties to the poor country which supported their idle magnificence.

Meetings were held to denounce the conduct of the ministers, one being even promoted by Lord Fitzwilliam, as Lord-lieutenant of Yorkshire, a dignity of which he was instantly deprived; while, on the other hand, the grand-juries of Cheshire and Lancashire made reports of the condition of those counties to the Secretary of State, which showed that a most alarming spirit prevailed over the greater part of the district.

467. FITZWILLIAM, Lord, iv. 367, n. 3. FLAGEOLET, iii. 242.

STARKIE, WALTER FITZWILLIAM. Raggle-taggle; adventures with a fiddle in Hungary and Roumania.

Walter Fitzwilliam Starkie (A); 21Aug61; R280522.

STARKIE, WALTER FITZWILLIAM. Raggle-taggle; adventures with a fiddle in Hungary and Roumania.

Walter Fitzwilliam Starkie (A); 21Aug61; R280522.

THE FITZWILLIAM DISAPPOINTMENT General desire for Catholic EmancipationLord Sheffield's evidenceThe Catholic delegates received by the kingLord Fitzwilliam sent as Lord-LieutenantPopular enthusiasmRecalledResult of his recall.

THE FITZWILLIAM DISAPPOINTMENT General desire for Catholic EmancipationLord Sheffield's evidenceThe Catholic delegates received by the kingLord Fitzwilliam sent as Lord-LieutenantPopular enthusiasmRecalledResult of his recall.

Upon the arrival of Lord Fitzwilliam as Viceroy in 1795, it was fervently believed that full emancipation was at last about to be granted, and Grattan brought in a Bill to that effect.

Lord Fitzwilliam was recalled, and from that moment Grattan was doomed to stand helplessly by and watch the destruction of that edifice which he had spent his whole life to erect and strengthen.

THE FITZWILLIAM DISAPPOINTMENT.

In 1794, several of the more moderate Whigs, including Edmund Burke and Lord Fitzwilliam, left Fox, and joined Pitt.

To this Pitt at first demurred, but in the end agreed to grant it subject to certain stipulations, and Lord Fitzwilliam was accordingly appointed Lord-Lieutenant, and arrived in Ireland in January, 1795.

On February 9th, a letter reached Lord Fitzwilliam from Pitt, which showed that some changes had taken place in the intentions of the Government, but no suspicion of the extent of those changes was as yet entertained.

On February 23rd, however, the Duke of Portland wrote, "by the king's command," authorizing Lord Fitzwilliam to resign.

Two of the officials whom Fitzwilliam had dismissed, Cooke, the Under Secretary of State, and Beresford, the Chief Commissioner of Customs, were men of no little influence, and Beresford, immediately upon his arrival in England had had a personal interview with the king.

Lord Fitzwilliam's departure was regarded by Protestants and Catholics alike as a national calamity.

There is another example, by one of the Caracci, in the Fitzwilliam Collection at Cambridge.

Lord Fitzwilliam, who, I suppose, is one of your latest acquaintance, is going to marry Lady Charlotte Ponsonby, Lord Besborough's second daughter, a pretty, sensible, and very amiable girl.

Lord Albemarle, you know, has disappointed all his brothers and my niece; and Lord Fitzwilliam is declared sposo to Lady Charlotte Ponsonby.

FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM, EARL, a politician of George the Third's time; the excesses of the French Revolution caused him to come over from the Whigs and support Pitt; favoured Catholic emancipation during his Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, but was recalled; held office under Grenville in 1806, and took some part in the Reform Bill agitation of the day (1748-1833).