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The Earl of Liverpool.--Many persons have supposed Lord Liverpool to be much older than he really is, having confounded him with his father. The first Lord Liverpool (father of the present) then Charles Jenkinson, was, at the commencement of the late king's reign, secretary to Lord Bute, and was subsequently promoted to the Lord of the Treasury. He was a friend of Mr. Pitt, and distinguished himself, among other things, by his act for the consolidation of the customs. He was created Baron Hawkesbury in 1786, and made Earl of Liverpool in 1796. The present Earl was born in 1770. When his father was created an Earl, in 1796, he was called, according to usage in such cases, by his father's second title, to wit: Lord Hawkesbury, until the death of his father in 1808, when he of course succeeded to the earldom. He was secretary of state for foreign affairs at the early age of thirty; signed the preliminary treaty of peace with France in October, 1801, and negotiated the convention with Mr. Rufus King, between England and the United States in Jan. 1802, respecting British debts, by which the sum of 600,000 pounds was paid to England, in full discharge for such debts, and a substitute for the provisions on that subject in the treaty of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four. On the death of Mr. Pitt, in January, 1806, it was proposed to him to form an administration, so as to be himself at the head of it, but which offer he declined, and retired from office: upon which the opposition came into power, and he was succeeded, as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, by Mr. Fox. In 1807 he was called to the House of Peers. (his father being still living) and in 1807, on the dissolution of the Grenville administration, was appointed a Secretary of State. In 1812, soon after the assassination of Mr. Perceval, Lord Liverpool became first Lord of the Treasury, and has remained in that situation to the present time.--He is properly considered, we believe, as Prime Minister; although he does not hold, and has never held, in conjunction, those two offices, which, according to our impression, entitle the holder to be called Premier, or the Minister, by way of eminence and distinction; the offices of first Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. As far as we recollect these two offices, for the last forty years, have only been united in the cases of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Perceval. Lord Liverpool is now married to his second wife, but has no children.