you will allow is very agreeable flattering.”  In the Royal collection of miniatures at Windsor, are three charmingly executed ivories of her by Cosway.  Lawrence, too, made a chalk drawing of her, which now hangs at Chiswick House, in the room in which Charles Fox died.  This is an interesting work from being a very early effort of the after-time President of the Academy, and showing that then he had not attained the trick of flattering his sitters, even when they were noted beauties.  Angelica Kauffman painted her, and John Downman also made a portrait replete with elegance and picturesqueness.  In fact, the comely Duchess pervaded the art of the period.  Of her Grace of Gordon, we have, as our ideal presentment of her, the portrait by Sir Joshua.  In it her hair is done up high, and two rows of pearls are intertwined therein.  The dress is of the Charles the First period, and shows the sweetly modulated shoulders leading up to—­

   “The pillared throat, clear chiselled cheek,
   High arching brows, nose purely Greek,
   Set lips,—­too firm for a coquette.”

We have also an interesting portrait of her by Romney.

Of her Grace of Rutland, we have also several pictures by Sir Joshua.  There is a whole-length with a decorative head-dress, and a landscape background.  The original of this was destroyed by fire at Belvoir Castle.  Another, a half-length, in the same costume, and a three-quarter face, is mostly pervaded by a serene sense of pride.  There is a drawing of her done by the Hon. Mrs. O’Neil, which is interesting from the picturesque head-dress shown.  Her Grace of Gordon was as great a power in the political world as she of Devonshire,—­probably greater, for her alliance and principles were with the ruling power.  This lady was to Pitt’s party what Fair Devon was to Fox’s.  In fact, it was asserted she endeavored to marry her daughter, Lady Charlotte, afterwards Duchess of Richmond, to the premier.  When Georgiana made her famous canvass in favor of Fox, the Tories opposed to her the Scotch Duchess.

She lived and entertained then in a splendid mansion in Pall Mall; and there assembled the adherents of the Administration.

Jane was the daughter of Sir William Maxwell, of Monreith, and in her youth, even, was noted for beauty.  A ballad, “Jenny of Monreith,” written in her honor, was often chivalrously sung by her son George, the last Duke of Gordon.  “Jenny” married the fourth Duke, Alexander, in 1767.  The career of the Duke’s youngest brother George, identified with the “Gordon Riot,” caused the family much embarrassment, and even threatened to derogate from the Duchess’s dominance with the ruling party.

Her Grace was of somewhat stronger fibre than she of Devon; more masculinity, ay, even more principle, characterized her.  Thrift was a visible virtue, in contrast to Georgiana’s improvidence.  Command, rather than cajolery, was her political method.  Her later life was devoted to securing sons-in-law; three dukes, a marquis, and a knight were of her garnering.  She was on good terms with the Regent, and endeavored to aid him in his differences with his Princess Caroline.  She is remembered, too, as a patron and friend of Dr. Beattie, the poet, who has eulogized her in these lines “To a Pen":—­