ALTHOUGH the Earl of Cork (born January 2d, 1707) devoted his life to literature, he is remembered chiefly by the few essays he contributed to the Connoisseur when it was being published by Colman and Thornton. He wrote “A Life of Swift” and “Memoirs of Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth.” His translation of the “Letters of Pliny the Younger” was published in 1751. His “Letters from Italy,” edited by Rev. J. Duncombe, were not published until after his death, which occurred November 16th, 1762. His essays in the Connoisseur are chiefly valuable for the side light they throw on English habits in what was certainly an age of bad manners.