TO SUBSCRIBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. OUR next Number-to be published June 1-will be a double Number, and will contain, in addition to the usual Portrait, and coloured Engravings of the Fashions, an Historical Retrospect of Polite Literature for the last Six Months;—A Summary of Fashions for the last Half-Year ;-A Title-Page and Index to the Volume, &c. We have the pleasure of announcing the receipt and acceptance of several novelties for our succeeding numbers. "Helena of Altenberg, Part III.," positively in our next. Thanks for the offer of "Extracts from an Unpublished Journal of a Tour on the Continent in 1826 and 1827." They are, however, of too juvenile a character to answer the intended purpose. "A Dream," by "S. S.," shall receive the earliest attention of our waking moments. "The April Story," by "D. G. D.," would now be deemed out of season. "The Trial by Fire, a Historical Tale," by "S. S.," will form one of the earliest attractions of our ensuing volume. Obliged by the attention of " AN OLD SUBSCRIBER," we regret that we cannot avail ourselves of her kind offer. We are satisfied with the first portion of an article entitled "Some Account of the Life of the Mother Teresa, of Jesus." Will the writer favour us with the conclusion, previously to our insertion of the commencement? To "Fairy Mythology, No. II.," the compositor has accidentally omitted to affix the initials of its author, "W. C. S." No. III. has been received. "The Old Ash Tree," by "S. S.," shall appear the earliest practicable opportunity. "The Peasant Countess; a Tale of France," by "C. W.," is high upon our list. "Sketches from the Country, No. IV., Old Hannah, or the Charm," are not forgotten. "All right," respecting "The Son of the Bard." Agreeably to the request of our obliging friend, " MRS. H.," we have had the pleasure of forwarding her packet to the Editor of the Cypress Wreath.—We were on the point of despatching her communication intended for another provincial Annual, when we received an intimation that the project had been suspended, if not abandoned. For the present, therefore, awaiting the instructions of " MRS. H," it remains in the hands of the Editor of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, who has been much gratified by its perusal. The returns from our friend at York have been duly received and disposed of. PRINTED BY SHACKELL AND BAYLIS, JOHNSON'S COURT, FLEET STREET. MAY, 1828. Published by G.R.Whittaker for La Belle Assemblée (now serus) NL for M The proofs by M.Chaghi Ceckspur S LA BELLE ASSEMBLÉ E, FOR MAY, 1828. ILLUSTRATIVE MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Famars, and at the siege of Valenciennes, where he was wounded. He rejoined his regiment in July, 1794; but came home, on his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, on the 15th of October following. THIS lady, whose portrait, from the || and, in 1793, he served in Holland, at masterly pencil of Robertson, we have here the honour of introducing, is the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Warde, K.C.B., Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Island of Barbados. Her mother, Molina, is the daugh-In May, 1798, he went to Ostend; in ter of John Thomas, of Hereford, Esq., || son of Evan Thomas, of Llandillo, in Wales, Esq. She was married to the Right Honourable and Rev. Francis North, sixth and present Earl of Guilford, at Kilminston, near Alresford, in Hampshire, in the month of May, 1826. Sir Henry Warde, father of the Countess of Guilford, is the fourth son of the late John Warde, of Squerries, near Westerham, in the county of Kent, Esq. The elder branch of the family of Warde, seated at Hutton Pagnel, in Yorkshire, is said to be lineally descended from Robert De Warde, who came into England with William the Conqueror. Amongst his ancestors may be mentioned Sir Patience Warde, Commissioner of the Customs, knighted in the year 1675; and Sir John Warde, M.P. for the city of London, one of the Governors of the Bank of England, and of the Merchant Taylors' Company, knighted in 1714. Sir Henry Warde has been honourably and extensively engaged in the military service of his country. He entered the army as an ensign in the 1st regiment of Foot Guards, on the 2d of April, 1783; he attained the rank of Captain in the same regiment on the 6th of July, 1790; No. 41.-Vol. VII. 1799, he accompanied the expedition to the Helder, and was in the respective actions of that unfortunate campaign. He was made Colonel and Brigadier of the same regiment (1st Foot Guards) on the 1st of January, 1801. In the attack upon Copenhagen, in August, 1807, he commanded a brigade of the 28th and 79th battalions. Advanced to the rank of Major General, on the 25th of April, 1808, he went to Spain in the month of October following; and, at the battle of Corunna, on the 16th of January, 1809, he commanded the first brigade of Guards. For his services upon that occasion, he was presented with a gold medal. He went to India, in April, 1809, as second in command of the forces at the Mauritius; for a short time, he exercised the functions of acting Governor there; after which, in May, 1812, he returned to England.—On the 4th of June, 1813, he was made Lieutenant General in the 68th Foot. Having thus briefly traced the professional career of Sir Henry Warde, the father of Lady Guilford, we proceed to a somewhat more extended notice of the ancient and honourable family of which her Ladyship is now a distinguished member. 2 C The family of North is traced to Robert North, Esq., who died in the year 1470. His great great grandson, Edward, first Lord, North, was born about the year 1496. Educated for the law, he attained extraordinary proficiency; and, being much in favour with the King, Henry VIII., he was constituted Clerk of Parliament, one of the King's Serjeants, Treasurer, and afterwards Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, &c. With his first wife, he obtained a large increase of fortune, which enabled him to purchase | the manor of Kirtling. He was knighted in 1541, and elected M.P. for the county of Cambridge. He was a Privy Councillor, and had frequent grants of land from the King; was constituted one of his executors-appointed of council to his son and successor—and had a legacy of £300 by his will. In the reign of Edward VI., and also in that of Mary, he was of the Privy Council; and, on the 17th of February, 1553-4, he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this realm, by summons to Parliament. In the following year, he waited upon Philip, Prince of Spain, on his landing at Southampton, and accompanied him to Winchester, where his marriage with the Queen was solemnized. On the accession of Elizabeth, Lord North was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners to consider and allow of the claims to be made by those who were to perform service by tenure at the coronation; and he was also made Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Fearful of the extravagance of his two sons, Roger and Thomas, he entailed his estate, to prevent alienation, as strongly as the law of those times would bear, with a remainder to his kin- || dred, the Norths of Walkringham. These sons were by his first wife, who had previously had two husbands: of his second wife, as appears by her epitaph, in the chancel of St. Lawrence Jury Church, London, Lord North was the fourth husband. Lo here the Lady Margaret North Was third. But be that passed all, and was in number fourth, And for his virtue made a Lord, was call'd Sir Edward North. These altogether do I wish a joyful rising day: That of the Lord, and of his Christ, Obiit 2 die Junii, An. Dom. 1575. Edward, Lord North, died on the last day of the year 1564, and was buried in a vault under the chancel at Kirtling, now called Catlage, in Cambridgeshire, where there is a monument to his memory. Under his portrait, at Peter-House (to which he was a considerable benefactor) Cambridge, appears the following distich: : Nobilis hic vere fuerat, si nobilis ullus, This man was noble, if so any be, For he began his own nobility. His Lordship's eldest son and successor, Sir Roger, second Lord North, had, in the life-time of his father, repeatedly sat in Parliament as one of the representatives of the county of Cambridge. He was one of the Peers who sat on the trial of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, in 1572. In 1578, Queen Elizabeth honoured him with a visit at his seat in Cambridgeshire; where she was received, as Hollinshed relates, "not in the least behind any of the best for a frank house, a noble heart, and a well-ordered entertainment." Having accompanied the Earl of Leicester, General of the forces sent to the assistance of the States, in 1585, he was, for his valour, made a Knight Banneret. In the engagement at Zutphen, in 1586, and upon other occasions, he also behaved with the greatest bravery. His intimacy with the Earl of Leicester is evident from his deposition-an exceedingly curious statement-on his examination to prove the marriage of the Earl with the Lady Lettice, Countess of Essex, and from a bequest to him, in the Earl's will, of a bason and ewer of £40 value.-His Lordship Ambassador Extraordinary from Queen Elizabeth to Charles IX. of France -was of the Privy Council to the Queenand Treasurer of the Household in 1596. Of this nobleman, Camden says " He was a person of great briskness and vivacity, with an head and heart fit for service." By his lady, Winifrid, daughter of Robert, Lord Rich (Chancellor of Eng was |