tinued to perform his duties there as long as he lived. The period of his death is nowhere recorded, but it admits of no doubt that he survived his predecessor at least several years. ELLICE, The Right Hon. EDWARD, M.P., claimed no pedigree beyond his descent from several generations of freeholders in the county of Aberdeen, believed to be descendants of one original settler of their surname who crossed the borders from the southern part of the island during the civil wars. His own family, we believe, in the middle of the last century generally followed agricultural pursuits, till his grandfather engaged in business in the Transatlantic States on the American war of independence. Mr Ellice's father, a man of good commercial business in the state of New York, being a loyalist, removed to Montreal, in Canada. The father there founded the great mercantile house of Inglis, Ellice, & Co., and before the end of the last century the firm established a house in the city of London. The father had a large family of sons and daughters, of whom Edward, the subject of our present memoir, was the third son. He was born in Golden Square, London, in 1782. At an early age he was placed at Winchester College. How long he remained there, or what rank he gained in competition with his schoolfellows, is unknown; but the instruction of such a public school was obviously a great advantage to him. He was then sent to the Scottish University of St Andrews, where he remained a considerable time. Mr Ellice never claimed any great proficiency in the dead languages, but he used to say that at least he had acquired his own living tongue, and a love of ancient history and classical biography. He also attended lectures on Logic, Moral Philosophy, and Belles Lettres. For a youth designed for commerce and the office of a city merchant such an education was of itself a good capital; and he ever expressed a deep gratitude to his father for the superior education afforded him. From St Andrews Mr Ellice passed to the city house as a clerk; and there he formed his business habits, his unwearying power of application, and his respect for punctuality. The exact duration of his city clerkship is not known, but he was early sent to Canada on business of the firm, who were then among the largest shipowners in the world. He has stated that his first visit to the United States was in 1803, more than half a century since. Mr Ellice at that time formed the acquaintance of many of the families of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and, we need scarcely say, of the principal merchants and capitalists of the States. He made several voyages to the New World, and lastly, in 1850, he again visited the Northern continent, purely from the interest of a traveller desiring to see with his own eyes the social progress since his previous visit, an interval of some years; and if he had not been restrained by his He friends he would have re-crossed the Atlantic last year from interest in the causes and probable consequences of the deplorable civil war now raging in the States. He had for years said that he had outlived the American race of statesinen-that Calhoun, Webster, and Clay were the last of that class. said the old Anglo-Saxon material was still left in sufficient abundance for a fresh supply; but that the intelligent, instructed, and wealthy classes had thrown away the staff from their hands by the concession of universal suffrage, and an equal vote to every foreigner who had landed twelve months on the shores of America. This fatal political mistake, he said, was aggravated by the weakness of the Executive in a Federal Union which separate States' rights. For years he had openly said in society, and written to every correspondent at home and abroad, that a political crisis was impending, which could only involve an internecine civil war-that a contest between Protection and Free Trade, between slave and free labour, and between the gentry of the South and the men of the North, must ensue, terminating in a mortal strife. He was at Nice when the first blood was shed, and he wrote his opinion home that the contest would be of considerable duration; that it was one practically for "boundaries" between the two classes of States; that in its earlier courses it would necessitate an inconvertible paper currency, ending virtually in national bankruptcy and grievious suffering; and that the war must be fought out until it ended in the complete independence of the Southerners, or in their temporary conquest and social ruin. The latter result, through good and evil report, he disbelieved; but he held that if the North succeeded by their naval supremacy in subjugating or destroying the South, it would have eventually the worst results for the Confederation. Indeed, he viewed the civil war as a "fact" as proof positive that such a vast extent of territory and increasing population never could many years longer hold together in one nationality; that conflicting interests had and would early rend the States in twain, and that certainly their Federal form of government was the least calculated to keep together such dissonant interests; and that the "Rebellion" was a precedent of revolu tion, which would probably end in three or four distinct governments. Mr Ellice, in uttering these far-sighted views, declared that for a quarter of a century past some of the most able public men of the States had expressed to him their conviction that the growing and boundless extension of the States had altogether revolutionised the representative system, and would render it unmanageable. Ex-Presidents confessed to him that they had not in truth been successors of Washington, Jefferson, and Maddison. Mr Ellice was therefore of opinion that the success of the North against the South would be the most fatal consequence of the civil war, and would only hasten the ultimate dissolution of the original Federal | the clause of the English act enfranchising Union. Mr Ellice's publie life became at the metropolitan burghs. Mr Ellice has the his death the principal subject of interest. credit of the principal agency in the liberal His early political opinions were certainly addition Lord Grey, by consent of William those half a century ago contemptuously IV., made to the grades and number of the designated as "Radical," and they clung to peerage, after the Reform Bill became law; him, more or less, throughout his public some of those titles were notoriously comcareer. He was the early friend and con- pensations for the sacrifice of disfranchised stant companion of Burdett, Lord King, rotten burghs. But when the great national Lord Radnor, Lord Althorp, and Sir John contest was happily and peacefully ended, Cam Hobhouse (Lord Broughton), and the Mr Ellice was thoroughly tired of his vocaoccasional companion of some of Lord tion. After the new election he resigned Byron's earliest "Hours of Idleness" in the Secretaryship of the Treasury, and London. On the 3d of June, 1809, he was desired no other office in the State. Indeed proposed by Lord Jersey, and elected a he had pressing affairs in the Canadas and in member of Brookes' Club. In the latter the United States requiring his personal society, and as the brother-in-law of the attention. He had taken his passage for late Earl Grey, he was of course the asso- another voyage across the Atlantic, when ciate of all the leading Whigs of the past he reluctantly yielded to Lord Grey's presgeneration. Desiring a seat in the Lower sure in accepting the Secretaryship at War, House of Parliament, in 1818 he first suc- with a seat in the Cabinet. This office he cessfully contested Coventry, defeating Mr held till the sudden dismissal of the MelButterworth, the London law publisher, a bourne Ministry in November 1834. On native of that city. Mr Ellice's colleague that event he went abroad, and was rewas Mr Peter Moore. In 1830 he regained elected for Coventry in his absence-his his seat. Perhaps no representative of a brother, Mr Russell Ellice, representing large town was ever so long a popular him. From this period his official public member, or was allowed such independent life ceased, and no inducement could tempt action in the House of Commons. The him again to take office. Such was his truth was, that the member and his consti- singular public character. He was a polituents thoroughly understood and trusted tician "sui generis," and one who cannot be each other. Yet he often had to bear the re-placed in this generation. Mr Ellice was growl of a mob, always soothing them by at least disinterested. Public life cost him a his John Bull defiance, urbanity of manner, a fortune. It is well known to his intimate and ability of speech. In the Opposition friends that the Secretary of the Treasury minorities of the first three Parliaments, of inflicted on him a heavy loss, as he preferred which he was a member, he commonly to keep promises he had made in 1831-32, voted in Mr Hume's divisions, but now and which the party funds could not clear. A then dividing with the majority when he peerage was within his reach, and yet undeemed Mr Hume's motions "Penny wise sought, because he preferred the station of a and pound foolish." On Lord Grey's ad- commoner. He was at least no courtier in vent to office in November 1830, Mr the vulgar sense of the term; but he was a Ellice was appointed Joint Secretary of the loyal subject of his Sovereign, and a firm Treasury, having the political department believer in the superiority of a constitutional and Whip" of the House of Commons. monarchy. Not many days before his death, At no period of time was that position at the Inverness public meeting, he expressed more arduous; and he was opposed by that loyalty in plain eloquent words. The his friend Mr Holmes, who always said late Prince Consort much appreciated his that Mr Ellice was the most fair, yet fight- judgment on military questions, and yet Mr ing, opponent he had met in the field of Ellice had the manliness in the House of politics. They continued friends till the Commons to condemn an appointment in death of the latter. On the dissolution of favour of the Prince which he thought was 1831, Mr Ellice, "virtute officii," was the the right of old officers of long and hard principal manager of the general election. service. On the first levee afterwards he His strong common sense and moral courage made a point of presenting himself, and he were of signal service to the Reform interest; was gratified by a frank and cordial recepand his relations, public and private, to tion. He ever retained his friendships, notLord Grey were of great service to the withstanding political differences. He preLiberal interest and to the Whig party. He served his intercourse with Lord Derby, and had also a large provincial connection among his friend the late Sir James Graham, and the local leaders of the Liberal party, which with others of the old Tory and new Conserinfluence he exercised to the further advan-vative party. For many years he had an tage of the Government, and really on the side of law and order. He was not a member of the Committee of Four, who prepared the first scheme of Reform for the approval of Lord Grey's Cabinet; but he was the life and soul of the question among the Prime Minister's best friends, and with Lord Durham, and others, he stood fast by occasional difference with Lord Palmerston on points of foreign policy; but on his Lordship's accession to the Premiership, Mr Ellice promptly and consistently sup ported his Ministry. He said, "in the state of parties and our foreign relations, Lord Palmerston, like Chatham, was the man for the times." He did not always days before his decease he remarked that at the age of eighty he could not expect to last much longer-that he had lived a long and very happy life-that he was thankful for such blessings-and was quite prepared to relinquish them whenever the final summons should come. And thus, happy in his death as in his life, one of the best, the kindest, and most generous of men closed his honourable career, and passed swiftly and silently into the eternal world. ELLICE, EDWARD, Esq. of Glenquoich, in the county of Inverness, M.P. for the St Andrews district of Fife burghs. is the only son of the late Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P. for Coventry. In 1834 he married Katharine Jane, second daughter of an extensive landed proprietor in Fife-namely, the late General Balfour of Balbirnie. Mrs Ellice died in 1864. Mr Ellice, jun., sat for Huddersfield from May to July 1837, and has represented the St Andrews burghs since the general election of July 1837. As a politician, he has been a consistent Liberal. Inclination and opportunity brought him into close contact with the most intelligent and influential members of the Liberal party; and, for the last quarter of a century aud upwards, he may be said to have taken a lead in every measure of reform which has met the approval of moderate Liberals, and has particularly distinguished himself by his cordial and indefatigable attention to the affairs of the county of Fife in general, and especially of the burghs of Cupar and St Andrews, Anstruther, and the other four coast burghs, which he has so long and faithfully represented. Throughout his whole Parliamentary career, Mr Ellice has been a consistent and uniform supporter of every practicable measure of social reform, especially of an extended and unsectarian system of education, and has always been an opponent to all kinds of intolerance. agree with Earl Russell, but he ever did justice to that noble lord's services to the Liberal cause. Mr Ellice was strongly opposed to the agitation of further Reform in our representative system during the Cabinets of Lord Aberdeen and Lord John Russell, because he thought the measures then proposed inopportune, and that they would prove abortive in the state of parties. He predicted that neither would be read a second time, and such was their still-born fate. No man knew better by experience the difficulty and danger of a Government in proposing organic reforms not supported by the feeling of a nation. Mr Ellice received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of St Andrews, and he was a Deputy-Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. He was the original chairman of the Reform Club, mainly established in 1834-5 by his influence. He was the intimate friend of many French statesmen of the Orleans dynasty, and of M. Thiers in particular. With many foreigners he maintained to the hour of his death confidential correspondence. He was true to old friends, alike in adversity and in prosperity. Such a man is no common loss to his country and to his many devoted friends. The funeral of the late lamented gentleman took place on Wednesday, 30th September 1863, and was strictly of a private nature. The place of interment is a wooded eminence, near Ardochy Lodge, at the west end of Loch Garry-a retired and beautiful spot, to which the deceased used occasionally to repair in order to admire the varied and magnificent scenery which the situation commands. The son of the deceased, Mr Edward Ellice, M.P., was the chief mourner, and a few other relatives and friends were present. The burial service was read by the Rev. Mr Swinburne of St John's Chapel, Inverness. Mr Ellice died intestate, leaving only a memorandum desiring that he might be ELLIOT, THE FAMILY OF.- Gilbert buried at the least possible expense near the Elliot, Esq., grandson of Gilbert Elliot of place where he might happen to die; and no Stobbs (who was ancestor of the celebrated invitations to attend the funeral were issued General Elliot, created Baron Heathfield except to those immediately connected with for his gallant and successful defence of the family. The death of this eminent Gibraltar), was constituted one of the Lords and truly estimable man was strikingly and of Session in Scotland, when he assumed awfully sudden. He had for some years suf- the honorary designation of Lord Minto. fered severely from attacks of gout, and on He was subsequently appointed Lord Justhe last day of his existence he complained of tice-Clerk, and created a baronet of Nova touches of acute pain, but these were merely Scotia in 1700. Sir Gilbert married Jane, flying symptoms which speedily passed off, daughter of Sir Andrew Carre, Knight of and when he retired to rest about eleven Cavers, county Roxburgh, and was suco'clock on Wednesday night, the 23d of Sep-ceeded by his son-Sir Gilbert, second tember above-mentioned, he was as cheerful and apparently as well as he had been for years. Next morning, about seven o'clock, his servant entering his bed-room found him lifeless, one hand lying across his chest, his eyes closed, and neither his countenance nor position exhibiting the least trace of pain or conflict. He had always prayed for such a peaceful exit, and it is worthy of remark that both his father and his brother, Captain Ellice, died in the same sudden manner, without premonition or struggle. A few baronet, who being also bred to the bar, was appointed Lord Justice-Clerk, and assumed the title formerly borne by his father, that of Minto. He married Helen, daughter of Sir Robert Stuart, Bart. of Allanbank, and had issue-Sir Gilbert, third baronet. This gentleman filled several high official situations, and was at one time a candidate for the Speaker's chair. He was a man of considerable political talents, and possessed, likewise, poetical abilities of no common order, as the celebrated song, "My sheep I neglected, I broke my sheephook," of which he was the author, sufficiently evinces. He married Agnes Murray Kynynmound, heir of Melgund, county Forfar, and of Kynynmound, Fifeshire, by whom he had issue-Sir Gilbert, fourth baronet, born 23d April 1751, first Earl of Minto, of whom we presently give an independent memoir. He married, 3d January 1777, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir George Amyand, Bart., by whom (who died 8th March 1829) he had-Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, P. C., G. C. B., county Roxburgh, second Earl, Viscount Melgund of Melgund, county Forfar, Baron Minto of Minto, county Roxburgh, and a baronet of Nova Scotia, born 16th Nov. 1782; succeeded his father, 21st June 1814; married, in 1806, Mary, eldest daughter of Patrick Brydone, Esq., and has issueWilliam Hugh, Viscount Melgund, M.P., born March 19, 1814; married, 20th May 1844, Emma Eleanor Elizabeth, only daughter of the late General Sir T. Hislop, Bart., G.C.B., and has-Gilbert John, born 9th July 1845; Arthur Ralph Douglas, born 17th Dec. 1846; Hugh Frederick Hislop, born 23d February 1848; and another son, born 14th September 1849. which a code of laws, modelled on the constitution of Great Britain, was adopted. The French had still a strong party in the island, who, encouraged by the successes of the French armies in Italy, at last rose in arms against the British authority. The insurrection at Bastia, the capital of the island, was suppressed in June 1796; but the French party gradually acquiring strength, while sickness and diversity of opinion rendered the situation of the British very precarious, it was resolved in September following to abandon the island. Sir Gilbert returned to England early in 1794, and in the subsequent October was raised to the peerage as Baron Minto, with the special distinction accorded him of bearing with his family arms in chief the arms of Corsica. In July 1799 his Lordship was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenopotentiary to Vienna, where he remained till the end of 1801. On the brief occupation of office by the Whigs in 1806, he was appointed President of the Board of Control. He was soon after nominated Governor-General of India, and embarked for Bengal in February 1807. Under his administration many highly important conquests were made by the British arms. He accompanied in person the successful expedition against Java in 1811. For his services in India he received the thanks of Parliament; and in February 1813 was created Earl of Minto and Viscount Melgund. He returned to England in May 1814, and died on 21st June at Stevenage, on his way to Scotland. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Gilbert. ELLIOT MURRAY KYNYNMOUND, GILBERT, first Earl of Minto, a distinguished statesman, eldest son of Sir Gilbert, by Mrs Agnes Murray Kynynmound, heiress of Melgund, in Forfarshire, and of Kynynmound, in Fifeshire, was born April 23, 1751. After receiving part of his education at a school in England, in 1768 he was sent to Christ Church, Oxford. He subsequently entered at Lincoln's Inn, and ELPHINSTONE, THE FAMILY OF.was in due time called to the bar. He after- Robert, third Baron Elphinstone, married wards visited the Continent, and on his re- Margaret, daughter of Sir John Drummond, turn was, in 1774, elected M.P. for Mor- and had issue-Alexander, who succeeded as peth. At first he supported the Admini-fourth lord; John of Baberton (of whom stration; but towards the close of the American war, he joined himself to the Opposition, and was twice proposed by his party as Speaker, and was both times defeated by the Ministerial candidate. In January 1777, he had married Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir George Amyand, Bart., and soon after he succeeded his father as baronet. At the breaking out of the French Revolution, he and many of his friends became the supporters of Government. In July 1793 he was created by the University of Oxford Doctor of Civil Laws. The same year he acted as a Commissioner for the protection of the Royalists of Toulon, in France. The people of Corsica having sought to place themselves under the protection of Great Britain, Sir Gilbert Elliot was appointed Governor of that island, and in the end of September 1793 was sworn in a member of the Privy Council. Early in 1794 the principal strongholds of Corsica were surrendered by the French to the British arms; the King accepted the sovereignty of the island; and on June 19, 1794, Sir Gilbert, as Viceroy, presided in a General Convention of Corsican Deputies, at presently); Sir James of Ennymochty, we Elphinstone, left a son, Ronald Elphinstone, who settled in Orkney, and had two sons, Harry Elphinstone, a captain in the Danish Guards, slain in battle; and Robert Elphinstone, page to Prince Henry, eldest son of James VI. He left an only surviving son, John Elphinstone, of Lochness Waas, who left, with other issue, Robert, of Lochness, Stuart justiciary, high admiral, and chamberlain of the isles of Orkney and Zetland, and a colonel of militia, and John Elphinstone, whose son, John Elphinstone, of the Royal Navy, married Anne, daughter of Williams, Esq., and left a son, John Elphinstone, a captain in the British navy, and admiral in the Russian service. Admiral Elphinstone commanded the fleet of the Czar at the battle of Tchesme, and succeeded in destroying his infidel opponents. He married Amelia, daughter of John Warburton, Esq., and died in 1785, leaving issue, Alexander, a grandson, a captain in the British navy, and a noble of Livonia, claiming to be heir to the title of Balmerino, were the attainder removed. He married Amelia Lowback. John Elphinstone's sixth son was born on the 4th March 1773. He was major-general in the army, and colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers, C.B., having eminently distinguished himself at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope, in Egypt, and during the whole of the Peninsular War. He was created a baronet on the 3d April 1815, and married, in 1803, Frances, eldest daughter of John Warburton, Esq., by whom he had issue, Louisa, married, 1st October 1832, to Robert Anstruther, Esq. of Thirdpart, a major in the 73d Foot, and Sir Howard Elphinstone, of Sourby, in the county of Cumberland, who succeeded his father as second baronet on the 28th April 1846. land, and was present with the corps de reserve at the battle of Falkirk. He succeeded his brother as Lord Balmerino on the 5th January 1746, and a few weeks thereafter was taken prisoner at the decisive battle of Culloden. Being conducted to London, he was committed to the Tower, and brought to trial in Westminster Hall, July 29, 1746, along with the Earls of Kilmarnock and Cromarty, both of whom pleaded guilty. Lord Balmerino, pleading not guilty, was remanded to the Tower, and brought back next day, when he was found guilty of high treason; and on August 1, sentence of death was passed upon the two Earls and his Lordship. The Earl of Cromarty obtained a pardon, but the other two suffered decapitation on Tower Hill, August 18, 1746. Lord Balmerino's behaviour at his execution was marked with unusual firmness and intrepidity. His last words were "Oh, Lord! reward my friends, forgive my enemies, bless King James, and receive my soul!" He had no issue by his wife Margaret, daughter of Captain Chalmers, who died at Restalrig, August 24, 1765; and at his death the male line of this branch of the Elphinstone family became extinct. Her ERSKINE of Mar. THE FAMILY OF.-Of the title of Mar, Lord Hailes says"This is one of the earldoms whose origin is lost in its antiquity. It existed before our records, and before the period of genuine history." Martacus, Earl of Mar, is witness to a charter of donation by Malcolm Canmore, to the Culdees of Lochleven, of the manor of Kilgad-Earnoch, in 1065. From this nobleman we pass to his descendant, Isabel, Countess of Mar. ladyship married, first, Sir Malcolm Drummond of Drummond, who died without ELPHINSTONE, ARTHUR, sixth and issue; and, secondly, Alexander Stewart, last Lord Balmerino, was born in 1688. He natural son of Alexander, Earl of Buchan, had the command of a company of foot in fourth son of Robert II. The first appearLord Shannon's regiment in the reign of ance of this person in life was at the head of Queen Anne; but at the accession of George a formidable band of robbers, in the HighJ. resigned his commission, and joined the lands of Scotland, when, storming the Earl of Mar, under whom he fought at Countess of Mar's castle of Kildrummie, he Sheriffmuir. After that engagement, he obtained her ladyship in marriage, either by escaped out of Scotland, and entered into violence or persuasion. The Countess subthe French service, in which he continued sequently made a grant free of all her till the death of his brother Alexander in bonours and inheritance to her second hus1733. His father, anxious to have him band; and dying, without issue, in 1419, settled at home, obtained for him a free he- Alexander Stewart, designed, in right pardon from Government, of which he sent of the deceased Countess, Earl of Mar and notice to his son, then residing at Berne in Lord of Garioch-resigned those honours to Switzerland. He thereupon, having ob- the Crown, when they were re-granted to tained the Pretender's perinission, returned him, 28th May 1426, in remainder to his home, after an exile of nearly twenty years, natural son, Sir Thomas Stewart, to revert, and was joyfully received by his aged father. in case of failure of male issue to the latter, When the young Chevalier arrived in Scot- to the Crown. His Lordship was ambasland in 1744, Mr Arthur Elphinstone was sador to England in 1406, and again in one of the first who repaired to his standard, 1407, when he engaged in a tournament when he was appointed colonel and captain with the Earl of Kent. The following year of the second troop of Life Guards attending he went to France and Flanders, with a his person. He was at Carlisle when it noble company, and eminently distinguished surrendered to the Highlanders, marched himself in the service of the Duke of Burwith them as far as Derby, from whence he gundy, who employed him to assist in quelaccompanied them in their retreat to Scot-ling a rebellion of the people of Liege against |