WALKENSEE, a town of Bavaria, on a le fo named, 18 miles SE. of Weilhaim. (1) * WALKER. », /, [from walk.] One that walks. I am reputed the best qualker in this town, Swift.-May no fuch vicious walkers crowd the street. Gay. legs of a fide, one after the other, beginning with the hind leg firft: as, fuppofe that he leads with the legs on his right fide, then he lifts his far hind foot firft; and in the time that he is setting it down, which in a step is always fhort of the tread of his fore foot upon the fame fide, he lifts his far fore foot, and fets it down before his near foot; and juft as be lifts up his near hind foot, and fets it down again juft fhort of his near fore foot, and juft as he is fetting it down, he lifts his near fore foot, and fets it down juft before his far fore foot. F. Di8. (2.) WALK, in gardening. See GARDENING, Sect. II. p. 232. (1.) * To WALK. v. a. [walen, German; seal can, Saxon, to roll.] 1. To move by leifurely fteps, fo that one foot is fet down before the other is taken up. Walking before the door very compofedly. Clarendon.— The felf-fame fun Doth run the day and walk the year. Copley 2. It is used in the ceremonious language of invitation, for come or go. Sir, walk in. Shak. 3. To move for exercife or amusement.-What mean you, Cæfar? think you to walk forth? Shak. Thefe bow'rs as wide as we need walk. Milt. 4. To move the floweft pace. Not to trot, gallop, or amble. Applied to a horfe. 5. To appear as a spectre, The spirits of the dead-May walk again. Shak. It then draws near the season Wherein the spirit is wont to walk. Shak. -There were walking spirits of the house of York, as well in Ireland as in England. Davies. Some fay no evil thing that walks by night Hath hurtful pow'r o'er true virginity. Milt. -She walks at noon, and blafts the bloom of day. Young. 6. To act on any occafion-Do you think I'd walk in any plot? Ben Jonf. 7. To be in motion. Applied to a clamorous or abufive female tongue; and is ftill in low language retained, As the went, her tongue did walk. Spenf. 8. To a& in fleep. When was it the laft walk'd?-L have seen her rife from her bed, unlock her closet, &c. in a most fast fleep. Shak. 9. To range; to be firring. Affairs that walk, As they fay fpirits do at midnight, have Shak. 1o. To move off; to depart. He will make their cows and garrans to qualk, if he doth no other harm. Spenf. 11. To act in any particular manner-Walk humbly with thy God. Micah I'll love with fear the only God, and walk As in his prefence. Milton. 12. To travel. The Lord knoweth thy walking through this wilderness. Deut. (2.)* TO WALK. v. a, 1. To pass through. I do not without danger walk thefe ftreet. Shak. -Shall qualk the world in credit to his grave. Pope. 2. To lead out, for the fake of air or exer cife: as, he walked his horfe in the meadow. WALKENRIED, a town of Upper Saxony, in Thuringia, on the Sorge, 20 miles SW. of Halberftadt, & NW. of Nordhaufen, and 44 NW. of Erfurt. Loo. 21.5. E. Lat. 51. 53. N, (2.) WALKER, Clement, Efq, a celebrated English hiftorian, born at Cliffe in Darfet (bire, and educated at Chrift's Church, Oxford, after which he retired to his eftate in Somersetshire. Under Charles I. he was usher of the exchequer, and M. P. for Wells, He was a zealous Prefbyterian, and fo great an enemy to Cromwell and the Inde pendents, that he was fent to the Tower, where he died in 1651. He wrote, 1. The Hiftory of t dependency, which contains many curious particu lars nowhere elfe to be found: 2. The High Coars of Juftice, or Cromwell's Slaughterhouft, 4tp, and other works. (3.) WALKER, Sir Edward, an English hikorian, born in Somerset fhire. In 1639 he was made fecretary at war; and was prefent in the royal army at the battle of Edgehill. (See Exc LAND, $ 46.) In 1643 he was appointed garter king at arms, and knighted. After 1660 he be came a clerk of the privy-council. He wrote, 1. Hiftorical Difcourfes, folio: 2 Order of the Coremonies at the Celebration of St George's Feat at Windfor, in 1674: 3 Acts of the Knights of the Garter in the Civil Ware, &c. He died fud. denly in 1676. (4.) WALKER, George, a celebrated Irish Pro teftant divine, who bravely defended Londonderry, in 1689, against the troops of James II. till it was effectually relieved. He was flain at the battle of the Boyne, in 1690. (5.) WALKER, John, D. D. an English divine, born in Devonshire. He became rector of St Mary's, Exeter. He wrote An Attempt towards recovering an Account of the Sufferings of the Clergy in the Great Rebellion, folio, 1714; for which the univerfity of Oxford made him . D. He died in 1725. (6.) WALKER, Obadiah, an English divine, born in Yorkshire, and educated at Oxford, where he was fellow; but was deprived by the parliament in 1648. He recovered his place in 1660, and in 1676 was chofen mafter. But in 1685 he turned Papift, and published a virulent invective again Luther; for which, in 1689, he was deprived of his place. He went to London, lived with his old pupil Dr Radcliffe, and died in 1698. () WALKER, Robert, D. D. a late eminer: clergyman of the church of Scotland, who was many years minifter of the High Church at Edi burgh, and colleague of the celebrated Dr Bla He published 4 vols. of fermons, and several trad on theology. He died in 1788. (8.) WALKER, Robert, chief painter to Oliver Cromwell, whofe portrait be painted oftener than once. He lived in Arundel house. Walker desi in 1670. (9.) WALKER, William, a learned grammarian and divine, born in 1625, who, was fucceffive mafter of Lowth and Grantham fchools. Sir lia NEWTON was his pupil, He became rector of Collingworth in Lincolnshire, where he died 1684, aged 61. He published feveral tracts of Gramm Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic but his chief * WALKUEFA, in botany. See ETHIOPIA, § 68. (1.), WALL, Martin, M. D. a learned phyfician, born at Powick, in Worceftershire, in 1708. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, of which he became fellow. He fettled at Worces ter; wrote on the virtues of Mineral Waters, and other fubjects. He died at Bath in 1776. the medical mallum, hats, wall, Saxon; walle, Dutch.] 1. A feries of brick or ftone, or other, materials carried upwards, and cemented with, mortar; the fide of a build. ing-Yet ev'n thefe gentle cualls allow my moan Wotton.-Part rife in cryftal wall or ridge direct, Mil 2 Fortification; works built for defence. In this fenfe it is commonly used plurally-With love's light wings did Io'erperch thefe walls. Shak. -General, the walls are thine. Shak. To that proud city, whofe high walls thou faw'ft. Milt, -I rush undaunted to defend the walls. Dryd 3. To take the wall. To take the upper place¦. not to give place.—I will take the wall of any man. or maid of Montague's. Shak. Makes Louis take the wall of Jove, Prior. (3) WALL, in architecture, the principal party of a building, as ferving both to inclose it, and to fupport the roof, floors, &c. Walls are distinguished into various kinds, from the matter where of they confit;, as plattered or mud walls, brick walls, ftone walls, flint or boulder-walls, and boarded-walls, See ARCHITECTURE. (4) WALLS, COB, or MUD. In thofe parts of England where ftone is fcarce, it is ufual to make: walls and houses of mud, or, as it is called in De, vonshire, cob; which is a compofition of earth and ftraw, wet up fomewhat like mortar, but well beat and trod together. When a wall is ma king, after being railed to a certain height, it is allowed time to pitch or settle before the work is refumed. Some value themselves on their skill in building with this compofition; the price, when materials are found, is generally in Devonshire 38 per perch of 16 feet, but aftone foundation: cofts more. Houses built with this, being covered with thatch, are very dry and warm; a cob wall, if in a good fituation, will last above 50 years. When pulled down, they are used as manure. To WALL, vas [from, the noun.] To inclofe with walls. From the bull's hide they firft inclosed and, walled Dryden, 21 To defend by walls.-The walled towns do work my great woen Sporfen.-Make himself master of fome good wall. ed town, Bacon,Their strongest ships walling in the rest. Bacon.-The terror of his name, that walls us, in. Denham, (L)WALLACE, Sir Williams, one of the moft public-fpirited and difinterested patriots, that any . (3.) WALLACE, a river of Scotland, in Ayrshire. WALLACE'S LEAP, a precipitous rock and cave, under the Corra Lin, a cataract of the CLYDE, where Sir William Wallace, after remaining hid for feveral days from the purfuit of his English teak a dangerous, fuccefsful to the banks of the Clyde. See CORRA, No 2. WALLE, a town of Verden, 4 m. N. of Verden. WALLEBERGA, a town of Sweden, in Scho nem, 38 miles S. of Chriftianstadt. WALLENBURG, a town of Switzerland, ins the canton of Bafil, 12 m. S. of Bafil, and 15 NNE. of Soleure. Lon. 7. 35. E. Lat: 47. 22. N. WALLENSEN, a town of Lower Saxony, in Calenberg, 14 miles SE. of Hameln, belonging to K. Gebrge:IIL () WALLENSTADT, a lake of Switzerland,“ in the county of Sargans, 9 miles long, 2 broad, and 9 S. of Utfnach. The furrounding hills, rocks, woode, and cataracts, exhibit a beautiful and ro mantic scenery. (2.) WALLENSTADT, a town of Switzerland, at the E. end of the lake (N° 1.) in the canton of Appenzel; a great thoroughfare to Italy, 8 miles W..of Sargans, 15 NW. of Coire, and 35 SE. of Zurich. Lon: 9% 14. E. Eat 47 N. (1.) WALLER, Edmund, a celebrated English poet, the font of Robert Waller, Efq; of Agmondelhiam in Buckinghamshire, by Anne the fifter of the great HAMDEN. He was born in 1605; and fent firft to Eton, afterwards to King's college, Cambridge, where, at 17 years of age, he was chofen into the laft parliament of James I. as burgefs for Agmondefham. He began to exercise his poetical talent fo early as 16235 as appears from his verfes upon the danger his majefty (then prince) escaped in the road of St Andero;" where, returning from Spain, he was nearly caft away. He married the daughter and heiress of a rich citizen, against a rival whofe intereft was elpoused by the court. But he became a widower before (1.)* WALLFLOWER, n. f. [parietaria, Lat.] A fpecies of ftock-gilliflower. (2.) WALL-FLOWER, in botany. See CHIIRANTHUS, No 2. *WALLFRUIT. n. f. Fruit, which to be ripened must be planted against a wall. To wallfruit and garden-plants, there cannot be a worse enemy than fnails. Mortimer's Husbandry. WALLIA. See WALLEY. (1.) WALLINGFORD, a borough of England, in Berkshire, on the Thames, over which it has a handsome stone bridge. It was a borough in the reign of Edward the Confeffor, and had formerly a caftle, ftrong walls, and 4 churches; only 2 of which remain; the town having been moftly demolished during the civil wars. It has a free school, market-house, and markets on Thurf. and Sat. It is 14 miles NW. of Reading, and 46 W. of London. Lon. 1. 1. W. Lat. 51. 36. N. he was 25, when he began to have a paffion for Sachariffa, a fictitious name he gave the lady Dorothy Sidney, daughter to the earl of Leicefter, afterwards wife to the earl of Sunderland. He was now known at court, careffed by all who had any relish for wit and humour; and was one of the famous club of which Lord Falkland, Mr Chillingworth, &c. were members. He was elected M. P. in 1640. An intermiffion of parliaments having difgufted the nation, and raifed jealoufies against the defigns of the court, he was one of the first who condemned these measures. He made a fpeech in the house on this occafion, in oppofition to the court. But he voted against the abolition of Episcopacy. He opposed the court alfo in the long parliament, and was chosen to impeach Judge Crawley, which he did in a warm and eloquent fpeech, July 16th, 1641. This fpeech was fo highly applauded, that 20,000 copies of it were fold in one day. In 1642, he was a commiffioner⠀⠀・(2.) WALLINGFORD, a town of Connecticut, în appointed by the parliament to present their pro- Newhaven county, 13 miles from Newhaven, and politions of peace to the king at Oxford. In 1643, 196 from Philadelphia. he was deeply engaged in a defign to deliver up the city of London and the tower to the king; for which he was tried and condemned, together with Mr Tomkins his brother-in-law, and Mr Chaloner. These two suffered death; but he obtained a reprieve: he, however, fuffered a year's imprisonment, and paid a fine of 10,000l. After this, he became particularly attached to Oliver Cromwell, upon whom he wrote a very handsome panegyric. He alfo wrote a noble poem on the death of that great man. At the restoration, he was treated with great civility by Charles II. who always made him one of the party in his diverfions at the D. of Buckingham's, &c. He wrote a panegyric upon his reftoration. He fat in feveral parliaments after the Reftoration, and enlivened their debates much with his wit, his natural vivacity making his company agreeable to the laft. He died of a dropfy in 1687, and was interred in Beaconsfield, where a monument is erected to his memory. He is efteemed the moft elegant and har monious verfifier of his time, and a great refiner of the English language. The beft edition of his works, containing poems, fpeeches, letters, &c. is that published in 4to. by Mr Fenton, in 1730. (3.) WALLINGFORD, Richard of, a learned Eng. lifh mechanician of the 14th century, who was abbot of St Alban's in 1326, and invented a clock. See WATCH-WORK. WALLIS, Dr John, a celebrated mathematician, educated at Cambridge; where he became fellow of Queen's college, till, by his marriage, be vacated it. In 1640, he received holy orders, and became chaplain to lady Vere. While he lived in this family, he cultivated the art of deciphering. In 1643 he published, “Truth tried ; `or, Ânimad. verfions on the lord Brooke's treatife, called The Nature of Truth, &c. In 1644, he was chofen one of the fecretaries to the affembly of divines at Westminster. Dr Peter Turner, Savilian profeffor of geometry in Oxford, being ejected by the parliament's vifitors in 1649, Mr Wallis was appointed to fucceed him in that place. In 1653 he published at Oxford a Grammar of the English Tongue, in Latin. In 1655 he entered the lifts with Mr Hobbes; and their controversy lafted a confiderable time. In 1657 the Doctor published his Mathematical Works. Upon the death of Dr Langbaine, he was chosen cuftos archivorum of the univerfity. After the Restoration he met with great refpect, the king himself entertaining a favourable opinion of him on account of some services he had done both to his royal father and himself. He was therefore confirmed in his places, admitted one of the king's chaplains in ordinary, and appointed one of the divines empowered to review the book of common prayer. He continued a fteady conformift till his death, in 1703. He was one of the firft members of the Royal Society. Besides the works above-mentioned, he published many others. WALLIS'S BAY, a bay in Magellan's Straits. WALLIS'S ISLAND, an ifle in the South Sea. WALLIS'S ISLANDS, 2 iflands in the South Sea. (1.) WALLKILL, a town of New York, 50 miles N. of New York. 1 rifing from 3 head-waters in Glaftenbury; Woodford, and Bennington county, thence running NW. into New York, it joins the Houfack, and running W. falls into the Hudfon. WALLOONS, a name given the inhabitants of a confiderable part of the Netherlands, viz. Ar. tois, Hainault, Namur, Luxemburg, and part of Flanders and Brabant, all now annexed to the French empire. *To WALLOP. v. n. [wealan, to boil, Sax.] To boil. WALLOP'S ISLAND, an island on the coaft of Virginia. *WALLOUSE. R. f. [crimex, Lat.] An infect; a bug. Ainsworth. *WALLOW. n. f. [from the verb.] A kind of rolling walk.-One taught the tofs, and one 7the French new wallow. Dryden. M *To WALLOW. v. n. (walugan, Gothick; salwian, Saxon.] 1. To move heavily and clum fily-Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milt. 2. To roll himself in mire, or any thing fil. thy-Gird thee with fackcloth, and wallow thy. felf in ashes. Jer. vi.-Dead bodies, wallowed in their own blood. Knolles.-A boar was wallowing in the water. L'Eftr. 3. To live in any state of filth or grofs vice.-A man wallowing in impurity. South. (1.) * WALLRUE. H. f. [adiantum album, Lat.] An herb. Ainforth. (2.) WALL RUE, in botany, is a fpecies of ASPLENIUM, or SPLEENWORT. (1.) WALLS And Flota, 2 united parishes of Orkney, comprehending a part of the ifle of Hoy the ille of FLOTA, and the iflets of FARA, Cava, and Granfey. Millsetter the feat of Mr Moodie is in Walls. The population, in 1794, was 971; the decrease 9, fince 1755. (2.) WALLS AND SANDNESS, 2 united parishes of Shetland, containing the parishes so named, and the islands of FoULA and PAPASTOUR. See FoU. LA, PAPA, No 3; and SANDNESS. The 2 for mer lie on the W. coaft of the mainland, and are of a triangular figure 11 miles long by 9 broad, much interfected by arms of the fea, and diverified by many eminences. In 1797, the population was 723; the increase 273, fince 1755. WALLSEY, one of the SHETLAND ifland, ly. ing on the E. coaft, 6 miles long and 3 broad. Lon. 2. 8. E. of Edin. Lat. 60. 35. N. (1.) *WALLWORT. n. S. [ebulum, Lat.] A plant, the fame with dwarf-elder, or danewort. (3.) WALL-WORT, in botany. See SAMBUCUS. WALMIRSTADT, a town of Magdeburg, on the Ohra, 10 miles N. of Magdeburg. WALNEY, an island in the Irish fea, feparated from the coaft of Lancaster, by a narrow channel, 9 miles long and hardly I broad. It has a chapel and Tome villages. The S. end is 16 miles WNW. of the mouth of the Lune. (1.) * WALNUT. n. f. [walth thnuta, Saxon; nux juglans, Lat.] The characters are; it hath male flowers, or catkins, which are produced at remote distances from the fruit on the fame tree; the outer cover of the fruit is very thick and green, under which is a rough hard shell, in which the fruit is inclosed, furrounded with a thin fkin: the kernel is deeply divided into four lobes; and the leaves of the tree are pinnated or winged. The fpecies are, 1. The common walnut. a. The large French walnut. 3. The thin-fhell'd walnut. 4. The double walnut. 5. The late ripe walnut. 6. The hard shell'd walnut. 7. The Virginian black walnut. 8. Virginian black walnut, with a long furrowed fruit. 9. The bickery, or white Virginian walnut. 10. The small hickery, or white Virginian walnut. Miller Tis a cockle, or wal nut-fhell. Shak.— A hollow walnut, Shak.—Some woods have the veins smooth, as fir and walnut, Bacon. " (2.) WALNUT, in botany. See JUGLANS. (3.) WALNUT, JAMAICA, See HURA. WALO, a town of Sweden, in Upland. WALPACK, a town of New Jersey, 25 miles WNW. of Morristown. (1.) * WALPEPPER. n.. Houseleek. (2.) WALPEPPER, or rather Wall PEPPER, See SEDUM. WALPERSDORF, a town of Auftria, on the Trafen, 4 miles N. of St Polten WALPING See, a lake of Pruffia, in Ermeland, 4 miles SW. of Allenstein. WALPIT, a town of the French empire, in the dep. of the Lys, and ci-devant prov. of Austrian Flanders, 9 miles NNE. of Courtray. (1, 2.) WALPO, a town of Sclavonia, capital of a county fo named, with an ancient caftle, 20 miles W. of Efzek. In 1543, it was taken by the Turks; but retaken in 1687. It is 110 miles S. of Buda. Lon. 19. 22. E. Lat. 45. 35. Nog (3.) WALPO, a river of Sclavonia, which runs into the Drave at WALPO (1.) WALPOLE, Sir; Robert, earl. of Orford, was born at Houghton in Norfolk, Sept. 6th, 1674, and educated at Eton. Thence he was elected to King's College, Cambridge; but fucceeding to the family eftate by the death of his elder brother, he refigned his fellowship. In 1790, he was chofen M. P. for King's Lynn, and reprefented that borough in several succeeding parliaments. In 1705, he was nominated one of the council to prince George of Denmark, lord high admiral of England; in 1707, appointed fecretary at war; and, in 1709, treasurer of the navy. In 1710, upon the change of the miniftry, he was removed from all his pofts, and held no place afterwards during the queen's reign. In 1711 he was expelled from the house of commons for what they called notorious corruption in his office as fecretary at war. The borough of Lynn, however, re-elected him; and, though the house declared the election void, yet they perfifted in the choice. In the well-known debate relating to STEELE for publishing the Crifis, he greatly diftinguished himfelf in behalf of liberty, and added to the popula rity he had before acquired. On the death of the queen, a revolution of politics took place, and the WHIG party prevailed both at court and in the fenate. Walpole had before recommended him. felf to the houfe of Hanover by his zeal for its caufe, when the commons confidered the ftate of the nation with regard to the Proteftant fucceffion : and he had now the honour to procure the a.Turance of the house to the new king, (which attended the addrefs of condolence and congratulation), "That the commons would ma good all parlia mentary age. He has been severely, and not unjustly, cerfured for that fyftem of corruption by which he almoft avowed that he governed the nation; but the objects which he had in view are now acknowledged to have been in a high degree praife-worthy. Burke fays his only defect as a minifter was the want of fufficient firmness to treat with contempt that popular clamour, which, by his yielding to it, hurried the nation into an expensive and unjukt war. But his rancorous prosecution of Atterbury bishop of Rochefter (fee ATTERBURY), may be confidered as fomething worfe than a defect: it was a fault for which no apology can be made; because, whether that prelate was innocent or guilty, of his guilt no legal proof ever appeared. To whatever objections bis minifterial conduct may be liable, in his private character he is univerfally allowed to have had amiable and benevolent qualities. That he was a tender parent, a kind maf ter, a beneficent patron, a firm friend, an agreeable companion, are points that have been feldom difputed; and so calm and equal was his temper, that Pulteney, his great rival and opponent, faid, he was fure that Sir Robert Walpole never felt the bittereft invectives against him for half an hour. About the end of queen Anne's reign, and the be ginning of George I.'s, he wrote the following pamphlets, 1. The Sovereign's Answer to the Gloucefterfhire Address. The Sovereign meant Charles duke of Somerset, so nicknamed by the Whigs. 2. Answer to the Representation of the House of Lords on the State of the Navy, 1709. 3. The Debts of the Nation stated and confidered, in four Papers, 1710. 4. The thirty-five Millions accounted for, 1710. 3. A letter from a foreign Minifter in England to Monfieur Pettecum, 1910. 6. Four Letters to a Friend in Scotland upon Sacheverell's Trial; falfely attributed in the Ge neral Dictionary to Mr Maynwaring. 7. A fhort Hiftory of the Parliament. It is an account of the laft Seffion of the queen. 8. The South-Sea Scheme confidered. 9. A Pamphlet against the Peerage Bill, 1719. 10. The Report of the Se cret Committee, June 9th, 1715. mentary funds." It is therefore not to be won dered at, that his promotion foon took place after the king's arrival; and that in a few days he was appointed receiver and pay-mafter general of all the guards and garrifons, and of all other the land forces in Great Britain, paymaster of the royal hofpital at Chelsea, and likewife a privy counsellor. On the opening of the new parliament, a committee of fecrecy was chofen to inquire into the conduct of the tate miniftry, of which Walpole was appointed chairman; and, by his management, articles of impeachment were read against the earl of Oxford, lord Bolingbroke, the duke of Ormond, and the earl of Strafford. The eminent service he was thought to have done the crown, by the vigorous profecution of those minifters who were deemed the chief inftruments of the peace, was foon rewarded by the extraordinary promotions to the offices of first commiffioner of the treasury, and chancellor and under treafurer of the exchequer. In two years be refigned all his offices on account of a mifunderftanding which took place between him and the reft of the miniftry about certain fupplies deman ded for the fupport of his majesty's German dominions. On the day of his refignation he brought in the famous finking fund bill. In the next fef. fion of parliament, Walpole opposed the ministry in every thing. But early in 1720 he was again appointed paymatter of the forces, and feveral of his friends were found foon after in the lift of promotions. It was not long before he acquired full ministerial power, being appointed firft lord commiffioner of the treasury, and chancellor of the exchequer; and, when the king went abroad in 1723, he was nominated one of the lords juftices for the administration of government, and was fworn fole secretary of state. About this time his eldest fon was created a peer, by the title of baron Walpole of Walpole. In 1725 he was made knight of the Bath, and in 1726, knight of the Garter. He was an enemy to war, and the friend of commerce; and because he did not refent fome petty infults of the court of Spain fo fuddenly as the fie ry part of the nation thought he should have done, a formidable oppofition was formed against him in the houfe, which had influence enough to employ in its caufe almost all the wit of the nation. The oppofition prevailed, and the nation was in dulged in a war, of which it furely had no caufe to boast of the fuccefs. To encourage commerce and improve the revenue, Sir Robert projected a scheme for an extenfion of the EXCISE, as the onby means of putting a stop to the frauds of merchants and illicit traders. This was another ground of clamour to the orators within, and the wits without doors. The minifter was therefore obliged to abandon the scheme, which was referved for a fucceeding adminiftration to carry into execution. In 1742 the oppofition prevailed; and Sir Robert being no longer able to carry a majority in the houfe of commons, refigned all his places and fled for fhelter behind the throne. He was foon afterwards created earl of Orford; and the king, in confideration of his long and faithful fervices, granted him a penfion of 4000 1. per annum. The remainder of his life he spent in tranquillity and retirement, and did, in 1745, the zift year of his (2.) WALPOLE, Horace, Earl of Orford, was the youngest fon of Sir Robert by his first wife, Catharine, daughter of Robert Shorter, Efq; of Bybrook in Kent. He was born 1716; and was educated, firft at Eton, and afterwards at Cam bridge. At Eton he formed an intimate acquaintance with the celebrated poet Gray; and they went together on the tour of Europe in 1739 1746, and 1741. Unhappily they had a difpute in the courfe of their travels, which produced a fe paration. Mr Walpole was nominated to repre fent the city of Norwich, when his father visited it July 38, 1733, having acquired confequence, not only as the fon of the minifter, but as having attended the Prince of Orange to England that year. He was chofen member for Collington, in Cornwall, in the parliament which met June 25th, 1741; was a 2d time in parliament as representative for Cattle Rifing, in Norfolk, in 1747; and for King's Lynn in 1754, and 1761; and, at the expiration of that parliament, he finally retired from the ftage of politics, and confined himself wholly to literary pursuits. He held to his death the of fice of usher of his Majefty's exchequer, comptrol |