TO SUBSCRIBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

THE SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER to Vol. I. of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE (New Series) published this day, contains a Title-Page and Index to the Volume;-an Address to Subscribers ;—a Summary of Fashions for the last Half-year;—and a Sketch of the Progress and State of Literature for the first Six Months of the Year 1825; comprising Reviews (with Extracts) and Critical Notices of the following Publications:—

Works of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Vol. IX. ;-Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S.;-Sydney Papers ;-Memorials of the Public Life and Character of the Right Hon. James Oswald, of Dunikier ;-M'Crie's Memoirs of Mr. William Veitch and George Brysson;-Brenton's Naval History ;-Bayley's History and Antiquities of the Tower of London ;-Collection de Mémoires relatifs à Révolution Française ;-Mémoires de Madame du Hausset ;-Boaden's Life of Kemble;-The Life, Writings, &c. of Lord Byron;-Gray's Travels in Western Africa :-Bowdich's Excursions in Madeira;-Bell's Observations on Italy;-Lays of the Minnesingers ;-Babington, a Tragedy;-Reine Canziani ;-Tales of the Crusaders ;-The Forresters ;-Ambition ;— Massenburg;-The Adventurers, or Scenes in Ireland;-Lochandhu ;-Italian Novelists;-Traditions of Edinburgh ;-Londres, la Cour, et les Provinces d'Angleterre, &c.

"Fountains and Jets d'Eau!" The idea is admirable, and shall be attended to in our next. Our regret is, that the communication from Portman Square did not arrive sufficiently early for its insertion in the present No. ; as, during the heats of summer, in particular, there is something delightfully refreshing to the ear, as well as to the eye, independently of its effect upon the temperature of the air, in the graceful play of water.

"The Heroic Daughter," from the hasty peep which we have taken at her physiognomy, seems likely to produce a favourable impression. Her literary parent, " L. M. R.,” may be assured that we are at all times glad to hear from her.

We must beg leave to decline acceptance of the numerous poetical communications bearing the signature of "C. S. S."

L. B.," or S. B.," or "I. B.," we are not certain which, must, we are sorry to say, be also laid upon the shelf.

We cordially wish health and happiness to our young friend, "W. H. L." His desires shall at all times be met to the extent of our power.

Thanks to our good friend, "B. G.," for the "Weird Beauty."

"The Translation of an Elegy, written originally in the Irish Language, by Edmond Ryan, or Edmond of the Hill," shall very shortly appear.

fit

"The Lady's Album" is a little too severe. We are quite sure that the cap will not

any of our fair friends. The sketch, however, is amusing, and shall appear.

The Nose" will, we doubt not, by some, be deemed an agreeable feature.

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ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

HENRIETTA FRANCES, LADY GRANTHAM.

HENRIETTA FRANCES, LADY GRANTHAM, is the youngest daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Earl of Enniskillen. Her Ladyship, on the 20th of July, 1805, married Thomas Philip Weddell, Baron Grantham, of Grantham, in the county of Lincoln, a Baronet, F.S.A., Lord Lieutenant, and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Bedford.

The Cole family, ancestors of her Ladyship, is of high antiquity. Preserved in a very curious family pedigree, which continues the descents, lineal and collateral, to the year 1630, we find a deed of King William the Conqueror's, written in the Saxon tongue, A.D. 1070, and translated into English, A.D. 1587; which deed thus

commences:

"William King, greets Walkesellin, bishop: and Hugan de Port; and Edward Knight, Steward; and Algesine; and Allfus, Porveiour; and Cole; and Arderni; and all the Barons, in Hampshierr, and Wilkeshire, freindly. And, know ye," &c.

William Cole, of Huntersleigh, in the county of Devon, and Richard Cole, of the same county, were living in the reign of Henry III. The latter, A.D. 1240, was in the suite of Richard Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans;

"which Earl Richard bore a bordure of Cornwall about his coat, being in a shield argent, a lion rampant, gules, crowned, and it is evident he gave the same bordure to this, or one of the ancestors of this family of Cole, as an augmentation for serving in the wars."

John, the third in descent from William, "had free warren, in Tanner, Liddeston, Hokesbere, and Huntersleigh, in Devon; and it appears by a fine (15 Edward III.) that he was possessed of the manors of Respnel, in the county of Cornwall, Launceston, and Stokley, and of the manor of Uptamun; Nythway; and Huntersleigh; the third part of the manor of No. 8.-Vol. II.

Winston; and divers other lands in the county of Devon.”

His son and heir, Sir John Cole, Knt., of Nythway, married Anne, daughter and heir to Sir Nicholas Bodrugan, Knt.; by which marriage the present Earl of Enniskillen "traces his descent from Henry III. King of England, through John, Duke of Lancaster, and the Earls of Westmorland, Salisbury, Arundel, Warren, Surrey, and Oxford.”

Sir William, the only son of Emanuel Cole, was the first of the family who settled in Ireland.. Early in the reign of James I. he fixed his residence in the county of Fermanagh.. On the 10th of September, 1607,

"he was made Captain of the long-boats and barges at Ballyshannon and Loughearne by patent, pursuant to privy signet 15 May preceding, with the fee of 3s. 4d. a day for himself, and 8d. a-piece for ten men: And becoming an undertaker in the Northern Plantation, he had an assignment, 16 November, 1611, of the small proportion of Dromskeah, containing a thousand acres of the escheated lands in the county of Fermanagh, at the rent of £8 English: to which, May 28, 1612, were added 320 escheated acres in the said county, at the rate of twenty shillings, Irish, 80 whereof were assigned for the town of Enniskillen, and for the burgesses' close and common, for the said town, with an exception of the castle and the other two third parts of the island of Enniskillen, together with covenants for planting, building, and inhabiting the said town, according to a plan, set down by the L.D. for Sir Ralph Bingley, and Captain Basil Brook, with the grant of a market, and a fair, the clerkship of the market, and keeping of a toll-booth within the said town, and a prohibition that none should sell by retail within these rules of the town, but such as Captain Cole should plant there, or be resident; for performance of which covenants he entered into bonds to the crown, and, having fulfilled his engagements, the town

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of Enniskillen was incorporated by charter, consisting of a provost and twelve burgesses, he himself being the first provost. In 1617 he was knighted by the L. D. St. John, and 15 June 1618, received the grant of a pension of 6s. English, by the day, on the surrender thereof by Captain Roger Atkinson."

In the year 1623, Sir William Cole received, by royal patent,

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Earl of Enniskillen; and John,* father of
Sir Arthur, created Lord Ranelagh.

Michael, the eldest son of Sir William Cole, received the honour of knighthood, and was M.P. for Enniskillen in 1661. Sir Michael, his son and successor, married his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cole, Bart., by whom he had sixteen children.

His eldest son and successor, John Cole, “a grant to him, his heirs and assignes, of the of Florence Court, Esq., M.P. for Ennisaforesaid excepted castle, fort and bawne of killen, sheriff of the county of Fermanagh, Enniskillen, and two third parts of the island of || &c., married, first, Florence, only daughter Enniskillen, together with two small islands, of Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bart., K.B.; secondly, called Enniskillen Islands, all lying within the daughter of Robert Saunderson, of Loughearne, at the yearly rent of 5s. Irish. Castle Saunderson, county of Cavan, Esq. And, in virtue of the commission, dated 13 By his first lady he had five sons and two August, 1628, for granting anew of all lately daughters; of whom the eldest, escheated lands in the province of Ulster, also in recompense of his good services, and for the fine of £33. 12s. English, K. Charles, 6 May,

1629, confirmed to him and his heirs, the

John Cole, Esq., born in 1709, was, on the 8th of September, 1760, advanced to the peerage of Ireland by the title of Baron Mount Florence, of Florence Court, in the county of Fermanagh. He married, in 1728, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Hugh Willoughby Montgomery, of Carrow, Esq., by whom he had :

1. William Willoughby, his successor;-2. Arthur, married Letitia, daughter and heiress of Claudius Hamilton; of Mounterlony, Esq.;3. Mary Ann, died in 1793;-4. Flora Carolina, married William Irvine, of Castle Irvine, Esq. ;-5. Catherine, married Richard Brown, Esq.;-6. Mary, died in 1755;—7. Elizabeth. His Lordship died in 1767, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

whole small proportion of Dromskeagh, with all the hereditaments thereof, containing 1000 acres, by survey, in the baronies of Maghariboy and Clenawly, in the county of Fermanagh, with free liberty of fishing in Loughearne, and 120 acres of concealed lands in the former barony, to hold by fealty only, and the yearly rent of £10. 13s. 4d. English, for Dromskeagh, and £1. 6s. 8d. for the other, the whole being created into the name of Portdorie, with an assignment of 400 acres for a demesne, 300 for a park, with free warren, and chase, and other|| privileges of courts, &c., subject to the conditions of plantation: on which he had built, in the reign of K. James I. a good stone castle, three stories high, strongly wrought, within a bawne of lime and stone, 68 feet square, and 13 high, with four flankers. And by virtue of the commission for remedy of defective titles, he had a further confirmation, 18 July 1638, for the fine of £73. 18s. 9d. English, and the rent 1736, made the tour of Europe in 1756 of £53. 16s. 6d. English, of all his estate in the and 1757; and, in 1761, he was elected county of Fermanagh, with the creation thereof || M.P. for Enniskillen, which he continued into the manors of Cormegradie and Portdorie, a demesne of 400 acres, in each, liberty to impark 600 more, and other usual privileges."

Sir William Cole represented the county of Fermanagh, in the Parliament of 1639; and, on the irruption of the rebellion of 1641, he received a commission under the King's privy signet, to be Colonel of 500 foot for suppressing the rebels.

By his second wife, Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir Laurence Parsons, of Birr in King's County, Sir William Cole left two sons:-Michael, his heir, ancestor to the

William Willoughby, the second Baron; created Viscount Enniskillen, on the 20th of July, 1766, and advanced to the dignity of Earl of Enniskillen on the 18th of His Lordship, born in August, 1789.

• This gentleman was seated at Newland, in the county of Dublin. He was very active, under his father, during the rebellion, particularly in the relief of Enniskillen. Having been instrumental in promoting the restoration of Charles II., he was, on the 23d of January, 1660,

created a baronet; and, some time afterwards, he was

appointed colonel of a regiment of foot, and constituted one of the commissioners for the settlement of the kingdom. He was M.P. and Custos Rotulorum for the county of Fermanagh. His eldest son, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Chichester, of Dungannon, Esq., second brother to Arthur, Earl of Donegall, was created (March 1,

1714) Baron Ranelagh, of Ranelagh. His lordship mar

ried, first, Catherine, eldest surviving daughter of William, third Lord Byron; secondly, Selima, eldest daughter of Peter Bathurst, of Clarendon Park, Wilts, Esq.; but, dying without issue in 1754, the title became extinct.