iscellaur o us.
Earl Powis, who died on Thursday, in his eighty-sixth year, was Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, Recorder of Shrewsbury and of Lud- low, and one of the most powerful supporters of the Tory interest in the West of England. He was remarkable for physical vigour ; and though be spent some years of his life in India, (he was son of the celebrated Lord Clive,) and indulged freely in a life of pleasure, he might have been seen, when almost eighty, digging in his garden at six o'clock in the morning, in his shirt-sleeves. He married the sister and heiress of Earl Powis, who was descended from Lord Herbert of Cherbury. By his marriage settlement, a large portion of the Clive property was settled on the second son, Mr. Robert Clive, while the Powis estates descended to the eldest ; who resides at Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire, one of the finest old mansions in the country.
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