Retrospect—Broughton—Strangeways Park.
And gave the warrior's for the poet's name.
Beneath this pine, screened from this solar beam,
Bid memory make her former joys the theme:
When rich in friends, by Broughton's dells I stray'd,
Or shun'd the heats, in Ducie's favourite shade.
Tell how by love of books and learning lead,
Wisdom I sought from the immortal dead.
Tell how my flute, from echoing Irwell's streams,
In softer murmurs sooth'd my nightly dreams.
the passage of Hudson's river, and particularly after the affair at Bennington, that he was under the painful necessity of agreeing to a convention with General Gates at Saratoga, on the 16th. October, 1777. In his "State of the Expedition from Canada," he complains very heavily of the intrigues of Lord George Germaine. After his return from America, he came down to Chadderton, and seems to have relaxed his mind by the use of the pen. He wrote the Heiress, one of the most beautiful of our sentimental Comedies; and was the author of several other lighter compositions. He married Charlotte, daughter of the Earl of Derby and died in London, August 4th. 1792. He had the character of an accomplished gentleman, and scholar; of a fine writer; brave and enterprising; benevolent and liberal; and of a strong and vigorous mind, unimpaired by injuries or misfortune.
