“Whose turn is next? This monitory Stone Replies, vain Passenger, perhaps thy own. If, idly curious, thou wilt seek to know Whose relics mingle with the dust below, Enough to tell thee, that his destin’d span On Earth he dwelt,—and, like thyself, a Man. Nor distant far th’ inevitable day When thou, poor mortal, shalt like him be clay. Through life he walk’d unemulous of fame, Nor wish’d beyond it to preserve a name. Content, if Friendship, o’er his humble bier, Drop but the heartfelt tribute of a tear; Though countless ages should unconscious glide, Nor learn that ever he had liv’d, or died. “R. F.” Such is the epitaph placed on a stone sarcophagus in the usual form, in the churchyard at Sunninghill, close to the house where Gen. Fitzpatrick’s friend, G. Ellis, died.—Nichols, _Lit. Illustr._, vol. vii., pp. 633–4.—ED.] Footnote 51: Line 19.—[Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND, the second son of the first Marquis Townshend. He represented Cambridge till ousted by PITT at the general election in 1784. In 1788 he became the colleague of FOX for Westminster. He afterwards represented Knaresborough for twenty-five years: his colleague in 1797 was HARE. He had great powers of wit and satire. In the _Political Eclogues_ (subjoined to _The Rolliad_), he wrote the one entitled “Jekyll”. To the _Probationary Odes for the Laureatship_ he contributed No. xii., in ridicule of Warren Hastings’s agent, Major John Scott, M.P. Also, the “Dialogue between a certain personage and his Minister,” in imitation of the Ninth Ode of Horace, Book III.—ED.] Footnote 52: Line 20.—[Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, then M.P. for Boroughbridge.—ED.] Footnote 53: Line 23.—[JOHN RICHARDSON, M.P. for Newport, Cornwall, and one of the proprietors of Drury Lane Theatre. In the _Rolliad_ he was the author, in Part I., of Nos. iv., x., and xi.; and in Part II. of Nos. iii. and iv. He wrote No. iv. of _Probationary Odes_, in ridicule of Sir R. Hill, Bart.; No. xix. on Viscount Mountmorres, and the concluding prose portion. To the _Political Miscellanies_ he contributed, “This is the House that George Built,” and in conjunction with Tickell, the “Epigrams by Sir Cecil Wray,” “Pretymaniana,” and “Foreign Epigrams”. In the latter Dr. Laurence assisted them. Also “A Tale: At Brookes’s once it so fell out”. “Theatrical Intelligence Extraordinary.” “Epigram: Who shall Expect the Country’s Friend?” “A new Ballad: Billy Eden,” in conjunction with Tickell. “Proclamation.” He died in 1803.—ED.] Footnote 54: